managing people is a bitch. I used to hire a new helper every week. Fucking guys cant show up every day and when they do they think its a right to get high before work. On two different occasions some asshole wanted to fight me because I wouldnt let them get high in my van! Another guy got pissed because I drove right by his dealers house on the way home and wouldnt stop. I told him to score drugs in his car on his time.
Holy shit, how did they not get fired from shit like that?
I got a call last week from one of the other trade's foreman who told me he went into a unit and it stank like weed. He's cool and didn't bring it up to anyone else. Called the little bastards up to my office trailer and sure as shit they smelled like a Cypress Hill concert. Tell them to go home and one is so stoned he thinks I'm firing him. I explained that I'm not firing them but they aren't welcome on site like that. They've been super productive, apologetic and thankful since.
It's like the late ones that keep pushing it, about once a month I randomly pick a day and send everyone home who's even 1 minute late. Little fuckers always confuse kindness with weakness.
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