jeff kushner
Well-Known Member
In private industry, we are often in a situation where one of the Owners kids, will come to work in the office or in the field. When I was a young field foreman, I solved it by working the guy like a rented mule till he cried to daddy at the dinner table. I do NOT work with owners kids as I don't need a pimp on my jobs.
In the office, things must be handled more delicately. Brandon was tasked a year and a half ago with making an Estimator out of a Brick that happened to be an "owners kid". This particular kid is 25 and unfortunately, is a bit toasted in his head. He wasn't born that way, he did it to himself. Frankly, while a Union plumber, he has a job only because he's an owners kid. He will not be able to compete in the real world.
Brandon has been struggling for a year trying to get productivity and consistency from the kid, w/o success while at the same time trying not to tell the kids dad, that the kid is a bust. Friday, it came to a head finally and he let his thoughts known to the other owner, not the parent of the kid.
As is always the case though, life changes
This morning Brandon got a call from the Dad-owner, saying the boy had "something" happen over the weekend and won't be coming back in.
So guess whose office Brandon comes waltzing into this morning looking for help?
So like a good mentor, I asked him;
"What are you going to do now that you've arranged for all your help to be fired?
"You are going to save me, by giving me some of your guys, right?"
LOL....
In the office, things must be handled more delicately. Brandon was tasked a year and a half ago with making an Estimator out of a Brick that happened to be an "owners kid". This particular kid is 25 and unfortunately, is a bit toasted in his head. He wasn't born that way, he did it to himself. Frankly, while a Union plumber, he has a job only because he's an owners kid. He will not be able to compete in the real world.
Brandon has been struggling for a year trying to get productivity and consistency from the kid, w/o success while at the same time trying not to tell the kids dad, that the kid is a bust. Friday, it came to a head finally and he let his thoughts known to the other owner, not the parent of the kid.
As is always the case though, life changes
This morning Brandon got a call from the Dad-owner, saying the boy had "something" happen over the weekend and won't be coming back in.
So guess whose office Brandon comes waltzing into this morning looking for help?
So like a good mentor, I asked him;
"What are you going to do now that you've arranged for all your help to be fired?
"You are going to save me, by giving me some of your guys, right?"
LOL....