Yes, there is more to the story. The guy is in his late 40's and runs a lawn care company. He gets out and works doing the same things his guys do every day, so it's not like he's some lazy boss who rides around in the truck checking on them. All he expects his guys to do is to be on time every morning, and he expects them to work during the day and put in a full day, regardless of how hot it is. He also expects them to be able to perform the work he asks of them, and more so the work they claim they know how to do when hired.
His biggest problem is that he tries to work the white guys instead of the Hispanics like most of the other guys do. That has gotten him things like the one kid last year that told him that he thought they should have at least a week of paid vacation time every month so they could take care of their own business instead of having to work every day and spend so much time on the phone getting everything done that way.....Either way the kid thought he was entitled to get paid for taking care of his personal business, whether it was as vacation time, or as time taken away from his actual work time by using the phone.
Short answer to your post though is that as bad as many of us hate to admit it, finding a young person that actually wants to learn and work, and has the sense to do most types of blue collar jobs (like me being a heavy equipment mechanic) is a near impossibility. Heck I had a kid stopped and asked me about work a few months back. I didn't have anything at the time, and he called me about a month later and asked again. Word from a buddy that knows him said he was a hard worker and didn't mind getting dirty. So, I gave him a chance the second time he called because I had work for him. He proceeded to call the first morning with the excuse that his girlfriends mom/grandma had to go to the hospital and he needed to be there. From that point he never even called back. I left a message that night as I also needed him the next couple of days, and then called and left another message a week later. This far I've heard absolutely nothing back from him. At this rate if he called tomorrow I wouldn't use him, even if I was swamped with work (which I am)because there is no way now I could trust him to be there when I need him. Oh well, it might throw me a little more behind, but at least I'm getting paid for the 'extra' hours I've got to work to get the jobs done alone.
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