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Stories of people firing their bosses are real. It can be done - this thing you’ve dreamed about while staring into the bland walls of your ever-shrinking cubicle. At first, thinking about opening a franchise can be very intimidating; all of the figures, the responsibility, the contacts, etc. Triumphing over your worries and doubts can mean the key to real success. You can do it. Dusty did.

She was tired of being laid off. Cutbacks in the wake of 9/11, and the subsequent decline in the economy prompted her to look in to buying a franchise. When her boss told her that they were thinking about outsourcing her position as a contract specialist, she officially had heard enough, and made the move to franchise.

“I needed something that was not necessarily inflation proof, but where I was a little more in charge of what was happening and what was going on,” she said. “So we looked around for something that I could run myself, and found PostNet.”

Her boss, who was not too keen on American business culture, and “had a problem with women in management positions,” offered to send her to Maryland; take it or leave it.

“I kind of went ‘Well. Okay. Thank-you. Bye’,” she remembered. As she stood up, she extended her hand for a final handshake. He “just about backed through the Plexiglas window,” she remembered. “He thought I was coming over his desk to kill him. The look on his face was hysterical. When I shook his hand, he was like ‘what?’.”

Today, Dusty still runs into quite a few of her previous co-workers. Soon after opening her PostNet, she ran into a colleague who has now been a customer of hers for four years. When asked if she thinks that some of her past co-workers are jealous, Dusty said, “Probably. They’re like ‘I wish I had the courage to do that.’”

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