>>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.
I like that speech! How does it work out? Do they generally fall into line once the rules are laid down?
Excellent!
Man, they woyldve hated my FTO’s at police academy!
CC
Gave a presentation to 9 young men who the school had given up on regarding passing their SOL. The coach watches them for 2 hours in the morning. My presentation was about POW’s in Vietnam who got a college education and then given battlefield commissions in the AF. When the coach started with them he asked them what they wanted to learn while he watched them because he was not going to let them sit there and do nothing. One raised his hand and asked, “Would you teach us to sign our name?” No one had ever taught them how to write cursive and sign their name!
Fantastic
Wonderful speech.