I hope that you people understand that Marcus is accustomed to working with the best and brightest business people. His mission is to help business owners of all stripes, and he is not a rude or berating tyrant. Quite the opposite. He does not mean to throw people under the bus, but he did not get to the position that he has by condoning incompetence in managers or by glossing over employees' deficiencies with flowery excuses.
Marcus gave Ewell plenty of opportunity to belong to the Shuler's business, even offering to him the post of general manager. It was Ewell that abandoned what little responsibility that he took on to help and left town in a huff, never to show his face again. He did not even contact Marcus about his decision except by the chickenshhht email that was read on the program.
Look, Ewell needed to kick Ewell's leeching, bloodsucking, money-hungry behind back to the backwoods where he learnt "post stuff on facebook" marketing. Seriously, Ewell wanted 200K / year (probably includes his wife on the payroll) to "post stuff on facebook"?? Marcus was kind by calmly stating that a 13-year-old could do the same. At the time, the Shuler's BBQ was only making 40K a year profit! That slimy shark drawing 200K annually would have sunk the business.
Marcus had it right to console the Shuler's that their family and business is better off without Ewell and his wife. I was happy to see the worthless lout piss off.
