So just had a close friend with me out here, I realized that for some reason the people I have associated with don't care about anything, but how they can suck resources off those around them.
This guy....so deal was that I pay for hotels, food, and 500 a wk to him....he would in turn fill out DoT forms, and basic checks like lights, and tires. Plus he was to prep the next truck like pull out the liner in the bucket, or apply needed decals.
Immediately he was falling asleep, playing games on his phone, finding every single way to annoy me...always demanding I get the jab, that I stop smoking...this or that.
Then breaking or losing equipment. "Forgetting" aspects that he agreed to, or giving excuses as to why he wasn't able to perform those tasks.
I confronted him and he just had this blank stare....then said....you are boring and this is boring...I said then leave!
Suddenly he wasn't bored....I said no you made you intent as well as desire towards this very clear...1024 a wk in expenses just for fuel and hotel....not including the food.
Plus 500 a week?
Minimum effort guarantees minimum wage....this to you doesn't matter as none of this shit is yours....nor is it your career.
In the past 6m and all the people I have tried to give a job, it is the same with them....no one wants to expend the effort to make themselves better.
I get that my ethic can't be theirs, and I accept that, but just leach to get a check? Bitch about how 8hrs is such a chore?
How do you think I can afford to keep you here and me make a profit?
I am just about to give up....seriously I want to help someone....I do, but I am realizing that no one wants help...they just want someone else to take care of them.
We had a guy that acted similarly except instead of customer complaints it was fellow crew members. He was awful at weedeating so we stuck him on the big mower crew where all he had to do was ride a zero turn and cut the grass. Within two weeks his crew leader was complaining that the guy was going off and sitting on his phone and skipping areas. Then the guy starts asking about a raise and if we would pay for him to go to school for horticulture. I told him he had to make it through a full season and show some initiative at work before that would even be considered. So instead of taking the hint, his work ethic got even worse. Started calling out because he needed to take his grandmother places, making up reasons he had to leave early, etc. We pulled him back off mowing crew after he got into it with his crew leader (warm body on a mower doing occasional work was better than no one on the second mower) and started using him as an extra person to fill in when people were out for legitimate reasons. That's when he doubled down on his efforts to get paid but not work. First he claimed he had a positive test for Covid so he could get 10 days off with pay. Then he comes back to work and wouldn't you know it he "accidentally" smashed his finger while lowering a trailer gate. Sure enough he starts asking about workers comp because he "can't operate anything other than a blower" because of his finger. Owner of the company finally had enough of the guy's bullshit so we sent him to an urgent care for xrays which came back negative for any fractures or breaks. He walks back in the office after the xrays and tells our owner that his finger had a hairline fracture. Owner looked at the discharge paperwork, found no such diagnosis sent the guy home for the rest of the week, then called the urgent care and was told there wasn't a fracture. We finally fired the guy the following Monday when he came back to work. We documented everything that was going on so he won't be getting unemployment because he was fired for trying to fake a worker's comp case.
I got a call today from a former employee, who knows the guy and referred him to us, asking if the guy quit or was fired. Former employee was mad that the guy pulled all the shit he did and said the guy was constantly running his mouth that he had gotten a promotion and was the best worker we had. I told the former employee that the guy needed to grow up and develop an actual work ethic.