Unfathomable

We worked another glorious half-day Friday today. We had four people at the site, so another guy and I went off to work on framing out another wall when we arrived.

The foreman and another guy decided to work on fixing a nail gun that had jammed up like three weeks ago. They spent over two hours dicking around, taking the entire thing apart. Ultimately, the nail was completely jammed in there, and they still weren’t able to remove it so the time was totally wasted.

As they were in the process of piecing it back together, Hefé pulled up. To his displeasure, he discovered that they had both spent over two hours messing with it, and the gun was still broken. Words were exchanged, and for good reason I think.

So after all that, the foreman spent another half-hour to 45 minutes, walking around aimlessly, at which point we received a lumber delivery. Shortly after the wood hit the ground, and the truck pulled away, he asked the rest of us to move it in off the street.

I asked, “Are you helping,” already knowing the answer in advance based on previous experience. He said he needed to go get some things and supposedly headed for the hardware store.

We were floored. He actually had the nerve to ask us to do it then take off to go shopping. That’s just horrible management.

A good manager would have jumped in there and helped us move it, then taken off to the store. As the old saying goes, don’t ask someone to do something if you’re not willing to do it yourself.

Filled with disgust over the spineless gesture, I was more than happy to get to leave early on account of the half-day Friday and all. Lazy people suck. I weighed in at 172 pounds this afternoon.