- Location
- Simi Valley, CA
The boss is not always right but he is always the boss.
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You sign my paycheck with enough zeros on it and I'll even help you bury the bodies.:angel:
The boss is not always right but he is always the boss.
picture of a tombstone on the back of that check?:thumbsup:
You sign my paycheck with enough zeros on it and I'll even help you bury the bodies.:angel:
The conduit will tell you where it wants to go! That was his reply.
Mine was "the bender in my hand says otherwise"
Turns out he did not own a level either. Box offsets? Not in the feng shui installation practices.
When I bring this all up I'm the bird dog and he knows what he's doing. I'm open minded enough to let someone run with the ball so to speak whether it be on a tight leash or not, but this guy had no decision capabilities in my opinion.
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You sign my paycheck with enough zeros on it and I'll even help you bury the bodies.:angel:
picture of a tombstone on the back of that check?
When you're just being thorough, I have found it very helpful to start off by saying "I'm sure you already know this, but it makes me feel better if I repeat it." Then they're amused, and are happy to listen. Or. in a specific situation, you can correct someone with 'what you're doing is usually fine, but we prefer to do it this way ..."
Well this particular worker from the op came in the first night preaching about the feng shui of conduit installation. What is that?
The conduit will tell you where it wants to go! That was his reply.
Mine was "the bender in my hand says otherwise"
Turns out he did not own a level either. Box offsets? Not in the feng shui installation practices.
When I bring this all up I'm the bird dog and he knows what he's doing. I'm open minded enough to let someone run with the ball so to speak whether it be on a tight leash or not, but this guy had no decision capabilities in my opinion.
What did his work look like? Some oddball people can do good work, others oddballs do oddball work.
His work was mediocre at best. Had to plumb one pipe that was leaning 2" over 4'. Rest of his pipe work were no box offsets on boxes straps at like 3'6" from boxes. Slow moving.
I could go on. Now I know I'm not any where near the greatest thing since sliced bread but my work looks neat, runs level and plumb, and is code compliant ay minimum.
Final straw was him telling me he could not install a 1 1/4 flex into a rtu because he needed a reducer washer, "which I would have known if I'd have looked at the unit and planned properly so why didn't I have one?"
Ok no problem I says since I did look at it once day before and thought it was fine. O order the reducers the night he quit. I git them the next night and go to install said flex, did not need them at all. Was an inch and a quarter hole to begin with. Now if I screw up and you don't have a part I have no problem admitting it and you will get your part. Don't however tell me its my fault that a journeyman cant put an inch and a quarter flex connector into an inch and a quarter hole.
Btw I meant that with all due respect which I'm sure is deserved.....