Ann Johnson - How a $250,000 Employee Theft Changed One Business Forever

So tell me, what was your first business? My first business, I started a company called Waste Tech Services in 1992.

And I started it because I wanted to be, I was married at the time and I wanted to be self-sufficient.

And so I started this and I had been an employee of waste management for seven years.

And I learned so much that the garbage industry is really a racket.

It doesn't matter what company you're with.

And so garbage is negotiated by a three-digit figure, a cubic yardage rate.

And once I learned how to do that, I was set.

And I've been doing it ever since.

And I'm pretty much retired now.

I hired a CEO to run my company.

Her name is Patti Polk.

And she does a fabulous job.

She is very smart.

She catches on really quickly.

And she's been with me almost eight years.

So tell me, what was your first business? My first business, I started a company called Waste Tech Services in 1992.

And I started it because I wanted to be, I was married at the time and I wanted to be self-sufficient.

And so I started this and I had been an employee of waste management for seven years.

And I learned so much that the garbage industry is really a racket.

It doesn't matter what company you're with.

And so garbage is negotiated by a three-digit figure, a cubic yardage rate.

And once I learned how to do that, I was set.

And I've been doing it ever since.

And I'm pretty much retired now.

I hired a CEO to run my company.

Her name is Patti Polk.

And she does a fabulous job.

She is very smart.

She catches on really quickly.

And she's been with me almost eight years.