- Location
- Windsor, CO NEC: 2017
- Occupation
- Service Manager
This is really hard. When I started I know I was really bad for at least a month, and IMO, at least six months, and for some reason I held onto my job.Southernboys wrote in another thread:
Jim if I had the option I would not have hired this kid. However I do not own the company. So therefore Im doing everything I can to teach him but some guys you just cant teach. My pm is aware of this and I hope to see a new heloer today. Ill put it to you like this. I told him bend me a loop in the wire to go into a fan box. Staple it so I can pull slack in. He does that just fine however he leaves the wire out of the box. Whereas I was green when I first started out I was never complacent or lazy. So in youalls opinion what is the easiest way to deal with a situation like this one, Hate to threadfjack
If somebody is lazy, that's a clue right there. If they don't care enough to try to impress on the first day, they should be history.
The chink in my armor is, if a guy has been around for a while, doesn't understand the job, but pulls rope in a decent time. When a guy is friendly, talks about their 2 kids with one on the way, how the wife had to quit her job in the third trimester, it gets difficult for me to send him to the shop and tell the boss, "This guy does not understand this job."
After six months (actually, more than that), if an apprentice turns to you and says, "The black from the two-wire is the common, right?" for the fourth time this week, he needs to go, IMO.
But I have a soft side that I really need to work on.