Who owns 143vinyl?

 143vinyl is 100% owned by a guy named Mike White.  How do I know?  I was in management there for 3 years but I will not say what level.  We had team leads, supervisors, and managers and I was one of them.  They have three companies and Starcraft and Bright Star Kids that were all doing good until Troy left.  Mike used to own part of Brilliant Vinyl but the other owner worked out some deal to get away.  They still own part of My Craft Source together so if you're going to buy anything youre better off buying it from Brilliant or Troy's company.

Hardly any of the employees even know why Troy left but i'm pretty sure it had to do with Mike's greedy toxic ass.  While I worked there the company was not perfect but it was getting there.  We were all proud of what we had built and won the fastest growing company award and were so happy for Troy and Tammy.  Then *poof*, it was all over one day.  Someone in the meeting when it happened told me Tammy was asking Mike why he was spending so much money without anyone else knowing and he fired her then Troy left the next day and never came back.  Troy told me problems started like over a year before and mike was just out of control.

Some people don't think Troy was really an owner but he was, he owed part of all three companies and Tammy owned part Bright Star Kids, too.  After the companies got big Mike's ego came out and did crazy stuff like opening a cleaning business and starting a new vinyl company called Crafters pantry in Columbus Ohio to compete that Troy and Tammy had no part of and it eventually failed.

When I worked there Troy ran the show about 98% I never saw Mike except he would stop in sometimes and bitch about how something was being done and leave.  Most employees could not stand him and he did stupid shit like hiring people to be managers just because they said they wanted to be a manger.  He liked to hire couples because if one did not comply both suffered when he fired them.  He likes to control people with money.  Mike thought he was smarter than everyone and when it came to writing a program he was good but in the business he didnt hold a candle to what Troy did and how much he knew.

This is how crazy the guy is.  His daughter was staying with her girlfriend and he went to her parent's house and demanded to see her.  Her parent's would not let him and his daughter drove one of his cars so he cut all four tires on the car.  His live-in "wife" has basically been fried with drugs so she's a bumbling idiot that constantly tells him he's doing the right thing.

While I was there we went from doing less than $1 million in sales per month to over $2 million and we shipped liked 40000 orders a month.  When Troy left Mike had to try to get rid of everything he did and fired anyone that was loyal  to Troy.  He ripped out all the processes and how we picked orders and totally screwed the place up.  The last time I talked to an employee that knew anything I heard sales were down like 75%.  

I'll never forget the crazy day he lost his mind and made every employee sit in the break room for hours and not work. We just sat there and he watched us on cameras and it was so weird we were literally scared of him.  After what he put a lot of people thru he should go to jail and probably will.  I heard he paid for one employee to get a boob job and then she eventually had to quit because he hounded her to about wanting to see them.  Its hard to tell what he's done to some of the employees.  Hopefully they will speak out and sue him and he gets what he deserves.


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