Bob Badger hit pretty close to home, he does his part and the employer should do theirs. It is very much a two way street; good leaders understand this and good men respect it.
One thing you little guys will learn when you start hiring help is your most valuable resource, the one thing you can never get enough of when times are good and your number one limiting factor in a boom market is your labor and more specifically your foremen. So why would you consider them a liability just because the market has slowed down?
If you are ever lucky enough to have any heavy hitters working for you, it will change how you look at this. You don?t just throw them away because there is no profit in the current market, if you can make overhead, its enough. Just take the long view and later when the market picks up you will be glad you kept your good help and will end up making more money in the long run.
Yes but you still pay unemployment. I would rather just take cheap work and keep them working. Besides I worked hard finding the good ones, why would I send the back?
(note I do trim out the fat in lean times, but the keepers stay)
They have a pool alright but to call it a ?skilled labor pool? is a stretch. If all I had to do was call the hall and say, ?Send me 10 first class foremen to run big jobs? and got what I asked for, I would probably die of shock. It is what it is and not all Electricians are created equal, and not all good electricians are leaders.
One thing you little guys will learn when you start hiring help is your most valuable resource, the one thing you can never get enough of when times are good and your number one limiting factor in a boom market is your labor and more specifically your foremen. So why would you consider them a liability just because the market has slowed down?
If you are ever lucky enough to have any heavy hitters working for you, it will change how you look at this. You don?t just throw them away because there is no profit in the current market, if you can make overhead, its enough. Just take the long view and later when the market picks up you will be glad you kept your good help and will end up making more money in the long run.
Yes but you still pay unemployment. I would rather just take cheap work and keep them working. Besides I worked hard finding the good ones, why would I send the back?
(note I do trim out the fat in lean times, but the keepers stay)
They have a pool alright but to call it a ?skilled labor pool? is a stretch. If all I had to do was call the hall and say, ?Send me 10 first class foremen to run big jobs? and got what I asked for, I would probably die of shock. It is what it is and not all Electricians are created equal, and not all good electricians are leaders.
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