Service job..guess the training didn’t stick...or he’s an idiot.
>>or he’s an idiot.
I know a guy who supervises apprentices. He has started them out by taking them one by one and looking them in the eye (which he says that only about 1 in 4 can look back into the eyes of a man) and tells them, “I am going to say a word to you that no one has ever said and meant it.”
“NO!”
“Your job here is dependent on doing what other people tell you to do, when they want you do it, and how they want you to do it. Your phone isn’t more important than the work. Facebook can wait. The girlfriend can wait. so, when you ask me to bend a rule because you want to do something else, remember that word I just told you. You will hear it again.”
“Now, your mama can’t get you promoted. She can’t get you easier work. She can’t come in here and convince me not to fire you. Everything that happens from here on out is your responsibility.”
I only have journeyman/master level technicians and degreed engineers working for me and I thought he was going overboard until I got a college intern (Civil Engineering) this summer. If I take another intern next year, that person will get the “NO” speech.