There's fast and there's productive.
I've seen many fast workers. They leave the job with cover missing, straps missing, they put in 5-6 orders a day, and their job was NEVER neat. AND NEVER DONE.
If someone would watch me do a job, they'd see me standing around for couple hours doing nothing. But then I do it in 6 hrs and one trip to the supply house VS 10hrs and 10 trips to the supply house, and the job is DONE, DONE. Not "done except".
Most of the people I worked with have been conditioned under the "busy body syndrome" by their previous employers. Heaven forbid they look at a job for 5 minutes and plan it. YES, even running 100' of conduit and one box takes a little planning:"what fasteners I need here, what straps, what is the most efficient way to run this? should I put an LB here or make a bend? Is it worth making 10000 saddles if I could make it a straight run just by using unistruts?"
Heaven forbid that happens. Most EC's I've seen would rather see their worker go 100 times to get a strap, to get a tap con, to get a box then to see them standing around for 10 minutes making a list of what they need. BUT HEY, it looks like they're working.
That's why I call it the busy body syndrome.
I always tell people this analogy:"I need to move a 100lbs rock from here 100 miles away" I have two options:
1: Put the rock on my back and take it there. It'd take about 30 hrs of hard work.
2: Spend an hr to rent a truck, spend another hr to go pick up the truck, drive 4 hrs, spend another hr to return the truck. BUT....BUT...BUT, you only "really worked" for 10 minutes, how do you expect me to pay you for 7 or 8 hrs? Does it matter? Which scenario is more productive?
How do you deal with slow employees? I have one but He is very compitent and reliable but slow. I do not know what to do. Do I charge less? I am starting to feel like I need to.
Thanks.