posted 8 years ago
This is a chief bugbear of mine. I feel I operate at “level 7” in my business, so I expect other people who I deal with to operate in the same fashion. This of course rarely occurs and I get frustrated time and time again. I find myself saying to my wife “why the fuck can’t these people just do their god damn job?”
I find people who are on their own time/work for themselves will often put in the harder yards and be more productive and get things done.
“Employees” are typically like, “well I really can’t be bothered today, I’ll get my pay cheque tomorrow and I might get around to finishing that thing next week….maybe”. Meanwhile they’re screwing their client as every day in delay costs money.
We’ve had all number of trades on our place in the past 6 months. The two standout examples of the above:
- The guys who put our water tanks in – above ground, steel, massive sheets of material (260,000L capacity each). They installed the two tanks in a day and a half in near gale force winds. They told us it’d take a week. Big tick
- At the same time, we had the shed builder saying “gee it’s really not very nice working in this wind, we’re going home”…….FFS
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