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Title: cleaning out my email.
Post by: TAB on March 23, 2024, 08:30:25 AM
so my gmail was full.


so i figured i should clean out some of my old ones I no longer need.

normal stuff right.  I have had this email since 2012

well here is something shocking!

I had 4381 online Police reports that i fined.   let me say that again  four thousand three hundred eighty one police reports.

all but 3 were for work related stuff.  ( i flagged my personal ones)

yet people wonder why things cost so much.
Title: Re: cleaning out my email.
Post by: alfsauve on April 23, 2024, 10:46:55 AM
Wow, just wow.  As I got older I realized I didn't like working with people.  They bring so much drama and overhead with them. I expect people to do their part, keep their word, play their role, return a fair value, and to be truthful.  In looking back on my careers the managers and employees, I butted heads with were the ones who let me down, or failed to keep their word.   
Title: Re: cleaning out my email.
Post by: TAB on April 24, 2024, 07:44:49 AM
During that time I had between 7- 141 employees.

Lots of job site thefts, trucks getting broken into etc etc.

Lots of jobs I expected to lose  about 10% of tools/ materials to theft, so I would add it to the bid.   
Title: Re: cleaning out my email.
Post by: Jim Kennedy-ar154me on April 24, 2024, 07:47:01 AM
Lots of jobs I expected to lose  about 10% of tools/ materials to theft, so I would add it to the bid.

It's a real shame that honest employees are so hard to find. Have you noticed any trend in the pattern? Is it getting worse as time passes?
Title: Re: cleaning out my email.
Post by: Diamondback on April 24, 2024, 10:25:24 AM
Wow, just wow.  As I got older I realized I didn't like working with people.  They bring so much drama and overhead with them. I expect people to do their part, keep their word, play their role, return a fair value, and to be truthful.  In looking back on my careers the managers and employees, I butted heads with were the ones who let me down, or failed to keep their word.

So much this. There is a reason my doormat says "Squirrels Welcome, People Tolerated... WHEN NECESSARY."
Title: Re: cleaning out my email.
Post by: Big Frank on April 25, 2024, 01:15:26 AM
Wow, just wow.  As I got older I realized I didn't like working with people.  They bring so much drama and overhead with them. I expect people to do their part, keep their word, play their role, return a fair value, and to be truthful.  In looking back on my careers the managers and employees, I butted heads with were the ones who let me down, or failed to keep their word.

You EXPECT that form people, or you WANT that form them?
Title: Re: cleaning out my email.
Post by: alfsauve on April 25, 2024, 08:59:58 AM
You EXPECT that from people, or you WANT that from them?
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Sadly, it should be the norm.   When I got to pick vendors for A/V projects the CFO asked me how I made my selection.  I told him I went with the vendor that I felt I could trust.  My projects always cost a little more than management would have liked, but they came in on  time and beyond expectations in quality, appearance and performance.   
Title: Re: cleaning out my email.
Post by: TAB on April 25, 2024, 03:22:13 PM
It's a real shame that honest employees are so hard to find. Have you noticed any trend in the pattern? Is it getting worse as time passes?
was very rarely  employees
Title: Re: cleaning out my email.
Post by: Big Frank on April 26, 2024, 12:19:31 AM
was very rarely  employees

Well, that's good. The ones who are the type to steal probably didn't last long working for you. 
Title: Re: cleaning out my email.
Post by: Jim Kennedy-ar154me on April 26, 2024, 08:21:08 AM
was very rarely  employees

That is good. I work for a "Public Defender" office and I have noticed a LOT of new attorneys simply do not want to work these days and it has been getting worse over the past years.