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Old 12-26-2006, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by ProdigyCustoms
Blake, I knew I liked you!

OK, let me try to expand on this a bit. And I might offend someone in the process, sorry. Before I get started, I need to preface this with the fact I am only high school educated myself. I want to get this out of the way before I get killed for linking this to education, BUT.........................

The reality is most people who do this type of work, do it because they were not educated to do other jobs like doctors, attorney, or any other occupation that requires higher education. The reason most of these people did not go to continuation school is because most were not good students. Most of these people were not good students because they had ****ty work ethics and did not apply themselves as students. Now as adults, not much has changed for most of the work pool available to Blake, Tyler, myself and others in the bus. The lack of work ethics and priorities in most of the people that do this work is amazing. There are very few professionals. By professionals I mean in all respects, not just quality of work. the problems and drama in the lives of most of these people is laughable. In 27 years, I have hired and fired 100s of guys. I have dealt with more probation officers, lost driver licenses, DUIs, custody battles, Garnishments, crazy ex wives and girlfriends, present crazy wives and girlfriends, sometimes all stopping by at the same time. I have had 2 guys I had to fire because I was concerned myself or my staff may get caught in the line of fire when the nutty ex started shooting! And that is no exaggeration!

We also are hiring just one person, a paint and body person. I will gladly pay top dollar for a professional. But I do have a few requirements.

No drugs, (OK, I know that is a lot to ask, how about no drugs or dealing from work?). No drinking (Ok, OK, no drinking at work or no drinking that will affect your showing up the day after), I really would prefer you be over your probation, your garnishments I will deal with. A drivers license is not required, but you won't be allowed to operate the forklift without one. If your ex wife is out of state, or dead, this would be great. If your present wife takes anti depressants, please be sure you personally administer her medication to her each day! Also, please do not have any guns in the house! Lastly, please budget to pay you own utilities bills, it really is a accounting nightmare to pay your bills and deduct the advance from your next check!

I had been out of town for 2 weeks..walked in the shop...everything was screwed up...cut the whole crowd loose...my big old shops sits empty..farmed out the last few customer projects and my stuff sits unfinished. I'm not playing their game anymore. I always sent my personal good stuff to Alan anyway. There are very few guys that do good work and especially fast enough that you can make a buck on them and charge a decent price. Most of them have their own shop...
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