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No memory - I needed a gopher for some short term help and made the mistake of hiring a kid from the neighborhood that I didn't know very well that hit me up for some work to help me with a bathroom remodel. On his first day I would give him measurements for cuts and he couldn't remember them by the time he walked about 20 feet to the pile of materials. I told him to bring a notebook the next day. He forgot. :laughing:
Practically blind - I hired a tenant of mine living in a rental near my house since it was convenient to pick him up on a casual basis for some gopher stuff again on a remodel. I asked him to cut some drywall and it came back as squirrelly as I have ever seen. I gave him some tips and said try again. Next one just as bad. So I give him some more tips and I say this time I will watch you. I see him put his face about four inches from the board. I ask what the hell are you doing and he just stares at me and then goes back to doing it again. I realize dude can't see 12 inches in front of his face without the glasses he had lost. He didn't dare tell me he couldn't afford to replace his glasses. I loaned him some cash and he spent it on diapers for his kid. :clap:
House plant - We were going to be traveling so I wanted to get done as fast as possible so I hired a gopher temp for the trip for the summer that my wife knew from the high school she teaches at. We were at the hotel heading for breakfast and this kid forgot his wallet and has to head back to the room. In the process of going back to the room, this young kid got lost in the hallways and couldn't find his way back and was too timid to ask anyone for help. He calls his mom, who called my wife, who called me and we sent out a search party and found him on the wrong floor in a different wing of the hotel.
Pot head - One of my carpenters talked me into giving his older bother a chance to prove himself. I was putting fascia on the back of an addition we were building and I smell weed burning. I start down the ladder and look thru the back window thru the side window and see this clown hitting his pipe. I walk around the corner to confront him and startled him. He throws the glass pipe over his head behind him and it lands on the sidewalk about thirty feet away and shatters. I say, hey bud, I think you dropped something. Go sweep it up and I will take you home. Your all done today. :no:
Gone fishen' - I hired a guy to run a new crew I was trying to establish that was number two man on a crew that won national builder of the year for a pre-engineered building manufacturer that came very highly recommended. He was looking for a bigger place to live and his wife was looking for work. I had just bought a small motel and offered to move him and his mom into the managers quarters to run the motel with his wife. He started off beautiful and he was amazing with production levels, high quality work and excellent communication. About a month into it, I called the motel to spot check and no answer about five times in a row. I call his cell and ask what's up. His says his mom is there. I stop over to find her passed out drunk at 10 in the morning. We talked it over and he supposedly got her out of there and we make a plan to move forward without her. About a week later I get a call from my customer asking where the crew is. Eventually I track them down. He had fallen off the wagon (alcohol) with his mom and took my crew fishing in my company vehicle because nobody felt like working that day. :thumbsup:
Practically blind - I hired a tenant of mine living in a rental near my house since it was convenient to pick him up on a casual basis for some gopher stuff again on a remodel. I asked him to cut some drywall and it came back as squirrelly as I have ever seen. I gave him some tips and said try again. Next one just as bad. So I give him some more tips and I say this time I will watch you. I see him put his face about four inches from the board. I ask what the hell are you doing and he just stares at me and then goes back to doing it again. I realize dude can't see 12 inches in front of his face without the glasses he had lost. He didn't dare tell me he couldn't afford to replace his glasses. I loaned him some cash and he spent it on diapers for his kid. :clap:
House plant - We were going to be traveling so I wanted to get done as fast as possible so I hired a gopher temp for the trip for the summer that my wife knew from the high school she teaches at. We were at the hotel heading for breakfast and this kid forgot his wallet and has to head back to the room. In the process of going back to the room, this young kid got lost in the hallways and couldn't find his way back and was too timid to ask anyone for help. He calls his mom, who called my wife, who called me and we sent out a search party and found him on the wrong floor in a different wing of the hotel.
Pot head - One of my carpenters talked me into giving his older bother a chance to prove himself. I was putting fascia on the back of an addition we were building and I smell weed burning. I start down the ladder and look thru the back window thru the side window and see this clown hitting his pipe. I walk around the corner to confront him and startled him. He throws the glass pipe over his head behind him and it lands on the sidewalk about thirty feet away and shatters. I say, hey bud, I think you dropped something. Go sweep it up and I will take you home. Your all done today. :no:
Gone fishen' - I hired a guy to run a new crew I was trying to establish that was number two man on a crew that won national builder of the year for a pre-engineered building manufacturer that came very highly recommended. He was looking for a bigger place to live and his wife was looking for work. I had just bought a small motel and offered to move him and his mom into the managers quarters to run the motel with his wife. He started off beautiful and he was amazing with production levels, high quality work and excellent communication. About a month into it, I called the motel to spot check and no answer about five times in a row. I call his cell and ask what's up. His says his mom is there. I stop over to find her passed out drunk at 10 in the morning. We talked it over and he supposedly got her out of there and we make a plan to move forward without her. About a week later I get a call from my customer asking where the crew is. Eventually I track them down. He had fallen off the wagon (alcohol) with his mom and took my crew fishing in my company vehicle because nobody felt like working that day. :thumbsup:
