Are You Serious?
Once again, we began the morning working on sheeting the deck of our driveway structure. In the morning, we have great shade on the deck so it’s a prime time to work there.
Midway through the morning, our foreman received a call from his woman. Apparently she was having some stomach pains and needed to go to the doctor. He would need to come home and watch the kids while she went to get checked.
It’s not my place to say anything, and normally I wouldn’t care, but when I had bronchitis a few weeks ago and needed to go to the doctor, he gave me a bunch of crap about needing more notice and laid a guilt trip on me. On the other hand, he can leave at a moment’s notice because his woman is sick; his woman, are you serious?
On more than one occasion, I got to sit in the waiting room while my mom was in the Doctor’s office. That’s part of being a stay-at-home mom; you take the kids with you when you go places, you don’t call your guy at work to come home and watch them for you.
So, clearly I was already annoyed with the situation, but he came back in the afternoon, and had the nerve to tell us all about the nap he took while he was home watching the kids. It would have been better to just let the subject die I think.
Do as I say, not as I do never really say well with me. Any effective leader absolutely needs to lead by example. If you’re running a crew, you should be the hardest worker out there because when your subordinates see you slacking off, they take it as a subconscious cue that it is ok to take it a little easy themselves.
Despite that somewhat annoying situation, I still had a fairly decent day, we got a lot done and the day progressed nicely. I weighed in at 173 pounds this evening.
Midway through the morning, our foreman received a call from his woman. Apparently she was having some stomach pains and needed to go to the doctor. He would need to come home and watch the kids while she went to get checked.
It’s not my place to say anything, and normally I wouldn’t care, but when I had bronchitis a few weeks ago and needed to go to the doctor, he gave me a bunch of crap about needing more notice and laid a guilt trip on me. On the other hand, he can leave at a moment’s notice because his woman is sick; his woman, are you serious?
On more than one occasion, I got to sit in the waiting room while my mom was in the Doctor’s office. That’s part of being a stay-at-home mom; you take the kids with you when you go places, you don’t call your guy at work to come home and watch them for you.
So, clearly I was already annoyed with the situation, but he came back in the afternoon, and had the nerve to tell us all about the nap he took while he was home watching the kids. It would have been better to just let the subject die I think.
Do as I say, not as I do never really say well with me. Any effective leader absolutely needs to lead by example. If you’re running a crew, you should be the hardest worker out there because when your subordinates see you slacking off, they take it as a subconscious cue that it is ok to take it a little easy themselves.
Despite that somewhat annoying situation, I still had a fairly decent day, we got a lot done and the day progressed nicely. I weighed in at 173 pounds this evening.
posted by fuqstik @ 5:49 PM
2 Comments:
At 12:41 PM,
fuqstik said…
wow, there were some expensive words in there.....
At 12:53 PM,
fuqstik said…
...and for future reference, I am 100% OPPOSED TO ALL FORMS OF ORGANIZED RELIGION! Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindis....all are simply larger, better organized, and more socially accepted cults.
Religion will be responsible for the death of all of us; one only need remove the blinders and view the world's current events to see the violence and destruction wrecked by religious ideology.
There is nothing wrong with believing in a higher power, but when it is taken to the point of having ceremonies, and converting the masses, it has gone too far. Religion should be a personal experience, not something that is shouted from the mountaintops as a control mechanism to guilt the weak minded into behaving and following.
In summary => Organized Religion BAD, vague personal ideas regarding a higher power GOOD
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