Posted by TonyIN on February 18, 2012 at 07:09:30 from (74.215.182.169):
Didn"t want to hijack Lyle"s post, but something someone posted about older people outworking those half their age reminded me of a similar, but opposite experience...
When times were better and I had employees... I had a lazy kid (college age) working for me few years back as a co-op in the office, drawing. As part of their co-op training I would always have them spend some time in the field doing some labor when drawing jobs were slow. Had a small load of landscaping rock I was salvaging off a construction job we were doing. Not quite enough to load a 16" trailer 2 rocks deep. It was a sunny Friday, showed him how to do it and left him with the trailer, parked right next to the rocks. Several hours later, he"s stepped on a nail (because he didn"t clean his work area as instructed) and has to take the weekend off, he was also complaining about it being too hot and hard to work fast. Not even a quarter of the trailer loaded. So, that weekend I went over there with my boys (ages 9 and 11) and showed them how to properly lift the rocks, etc. The three of us were loaded and out of there in about an hour. Monday rolls around, we"re in the Monday morning meeting. Now, we"re a smaller company so all 10 of us are in the meeting, including our rather visually gifted young female interior designers. He says he"s feeling better, says he"s ready to go, wanted to know if there would be a bobcat or something there... Told him we got it done Saturday morning. Then in front of everyone including the girls, I had the pleasure of telling him it was my two young sons that did it in a bout an hour. Thankfully, my dad is one of those hardworking older guys who tried to teach me right (I think he may still be able to out work me...). Hopefully my kids get it too.
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