People with good vocabularies on average earn 20 percent more. In the course of a lifetime that is huge.
How you speak and write will take you places.
How you speak and write will take you places.
Signs you don’t need to be working construction
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On another note, some of these guys quit school in 8th grade or so. Sometimes I’ll struggle with a guy and realize he is illiterate.
I have another guy who has a severe learning, disability and information processing limitations.
It’s my fault for letting it affect me, but it drives me out of my ever loving mind- you can’t ask him to turn on the light switch without a question.
I hate the “do u need 2 hire any help?” style.
Got a paragraph like that once.
My reasoning is if you’ll take shortcuts on English, you’ll probably take shortcuts on my jobs.
Got a paragraph like that once.
My reasoning is if you’ll take shortcuts on English, you’ll probably take shortcuts on my jobs.
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I would not respond if somebody asked me that in that format — tells me everything I need to know.
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Shoot, I can’t, mines been missing for years.
Then some days it all works out great - me and the gang killing a deck.
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I can understand if someone quit school and actually has difficulty reading/writing.
I had to correct one of our student employees who wrote "k lemme kno if u need help" as a response to a faculty member in a help desk ticketing system. I told her "you aren't texting your friends at a party, you are providing a response to a support request as an employee representing our department".
This particular student is into her second year of college as a science major. Intelligence isn't the issue, but laziness appears to be.
Good on you.
As Dilbert said, casual day has gone too far.
I don’t even like the word “gonna” but my phone converts things however it chooses-
Here is some simple career advice for young people-
Be Professional.
Show up on time dressed appropriately prepared to do what you’re hired to do.
I know of a kid who has really struggled to find employment, and we gave him every opportunity in the world-
He simply was not going to come to work on time.
He got a job with a commercial electrical contractor later and showed up the first day two hours late wearing flip-flops.
I’m going to go on a little bit of a soapbox…
I don’t understand the mentality of being a bad worker.
Because first of all how you apply yourself is 100% a personal choice.
To me it seems natural because you’re acting in your own best interest.
I don’t understand coming to work and not being able to keep busy.
I don’t understand saying it’s not my job.
Really you have whatever work the company is trying to get done and then the real job is learning everything you can about how to do that.
If you get a job washing cars…. You can organize the equipment and find ways to keep the hose from scratching the car and endless small things you can do to make yourself more valuable to the company and the customer.
usually, in the process you’ll get better and faster. And money loves speed.
I don’t mean rushing your work, but if you know how to do something really well you won’t take forever doing it.
You show me somebody in construction who is a slow as Christmas and most of the time they’ll tell you they are a perfectionist. Most of the time, the truth is, they don’t know when something is good enough or not… a lot of these guys have enough self-respect to try to do a good job, but they are figuring it out the entire time so they doubt themselves and there is constant hesitancy.
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I had endless issues with an employee regarding this . He couldn't comprehend that every job has an expected completion time with a little +/- comp. time.
At first I thought he was trying to screw with me , however I realized he actually didn't have the ability for self evaluation. This was in a county facilities maintenance job , which typically has more latitude than a contractor. My lead guy was from the Navy Sea Bees , I could ask him to do a perfect job or a good enough job and he could take the ball and run with it. Hang tough Andy .
You’re getting close to something that’s very very important and really it’s the difference between the top people and everybody else…
The top people know what will fly.
How do you describe that?
Well, it’s situational. And the exact same thing that will be great on one job can create a nightmare on another.
It is sort of like what a judge said about pornography way back in the day… I don’t know how to define it, but I know it when I see it.
When this worker began being assigned his own responsibilities, we had a job and a Cabinet needed modified… It took them four hours to do something that should’ve been done in about 25 minutes
The entire cabinet was built from scratch in less than an hour.
Like yourself, I’ve seen some situations where I could not believe the amount of time somebody invested and I was more upset that they were actually trying, than if they were goofing off because at least I would’ve understood.
And just to give you a baseline, I don’t even consider holding my guys responsible for performing top level speed. Doing things like a custom, Wainscot and entire bathroom of custom millwork in less than a full day.
Every now and then we’ll get somebody who is a little bit disillusioned about their value to the company and I’ll get them out on a job site and show them what it looks like to really be able to run with the ball. Some of them will quit the next day.
A lot of these guys don't understand It actually makes the day go faster when you apply yourself. Then they aren't bored and might learn something to improve their situation.
Still building my shop by myself. Not paying $20 plus an hour for unskilled and unmotivated labor.
Couldn't get my monster lift around my two post lift to get in a decent position to screw off this 4x12 sheetrock.
So I lifted the lift to the same height as the loft, threw five 2x4s across, slid an extra piece of 1 1/8" and got to work.
Making a few mistakes here and there but they're my mistakes.
-Mac
Couldn't get my monster lift around my two post lift to get in a decent position to screw off this 4x12 sheetrock.
So I lifted the lift to the same height as the loft, threw five 2x4s across, slid an extra piece of 1 1/8" and got to work.
Making a few mistakes here and there but they're my mistakes.
-Mac
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