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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: ScubaGuy on June 20, 2012, 09:13:12 PM
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I don't think he intended to do this but it's funny.
DUmmie Don (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002833566)
Read this story and see if you can figure out why this friend of mine was fired
Last edited Wed Jun 20, 2012, 01:45 PM USA/ET - Edit history (3)
I know why he was fired.
His boss had him and another carpenter take a company truck to an out of state job to do. The boss told them before they left that this was a two-week job. Well my friend and his co-worker finished that job in 4 days.
On the ride home these two guy were congratulating themselves on how good of a job they did so quickly. They were telling each other they were going to get a whole basket of attaboys from the boss when they got back here.
They both got out of the truck with big smiles on their face when they went in to tell the boss the good news.
Well, they didn't get any attaboys. Without any explanation their boss fired them them both right on the spot. Told them both not to ever darken his door looking for a job again. And that was the end of that job for these two now unemployed carpenters.
Anyone else know what happened here?
Don
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jp11 (1,828 posts)
13. Boss wanted to screw the client/whomever by going over the deadline
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but his employees did it too fast and screwed up his plan. Instead of screwing over whomever he wanted to hurt his people ended up saving the day.
If not that then it was probably some government job where the boss would've made a killing on billing for 2 weeks and they screwed that up for him probably ruining his chance at future jobs.
dkf (28,167 posts)
15. In addition to answers above they blew away the estimate to the client showing the contractor had
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Padded the job.
abelenkpe (5,209 posts)
17. Boss is a lousy leader
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for not letting them know that they needed to take the entire two weeks to perform the job.
NNN0LHI (65,579 posts)
20. No one ever had to explain stuff like that to me
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If my boss told me I was on a two-week job that last bolt when in during the last hour of the fourteenth day.
This is common sense.
Don
Screw the customer! It's the union way! :rofl: :rofl:
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Anyone else know what happened here?
Unions promote laziness and lowest-bidder performance at top-shelf prices?
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NNN0LHI (65,579 posts)
20. No one ever had to explain stuff like that to me
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If my boss told me I was on a two-week job that last bolt when in during the last hour of the fourteenth day.
This is common sense.
Don
And they wonder why our country is in trouble, if you have a good work ethic you get punished, a sorry work ethic they make you president. :banghead:
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Sometimes a customer sends in a motor and I'm asked to give a time estimate for my part of the job. I try and give myself a little leeway on the estimate, but the office also adds in a little fudge factor. If the customer accepts the overall quote, then that is what gets billed regardless of the actual time it takes.
(I never go over my estimated time, only under.)
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Maybe the first estimate was in dog years. Dogs are getting all the headlines lately
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Maybe the first estimate was in dog years. Dogs are getting all the headlines lately
24 business hours . . .
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Unions promote laziness and lowest-bidder performance at top-shelf prices?
That would still be better than what government contracts seem to be producing. One of my last trips before getting laid off, I was sent to a site to conduct testing.
The site was not complete or near ready for testing when I arrived.
Testing and troubleshooting revealed that wiring had been improperly configured and installed due to faulty cable run sheets.
My team was told that the run sheets were correct and we were not allowed to consult equipment documents again.
The testing and training events were complete washes due to managerial and engineering incompetence, which I pointed out a bit more than bluntly in a conference call.
They tried to disprove me for a month before sending a team to correct the problem I identified in the first few hours of testing.
This was done at a cost to the government of $60,000.
In my last few weeks at the company, I volunteered to manage a project that our contract people had messed up. Our guaranteed profit was to be smaller than our standard contract. My bosses made the decision to refuse the contract. I looked around the table at that point and ralized that all of the guys I had "grew up with" and built the organization with had been pushed out. At that point, I knew I was done.
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24 business hours . . .
Haah, I should have know. Good catch !
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Sometimes a customer sends in a motor and I'm asked to give a time estimate for my part of the job. I try and give myself a little leeway on the estimate, but the office also adds in a little fudge factor. If the customer accepts the overall quote, then that is what gets billed regardless of the actual time it takes.
(I never go over my estimated time, only under.)
Always estimate in dollars, not hours. This avoids any trouble. It's not uncommon for a good tech to beat flat rate times, etc.