From: null@void.com
Bob La Londe writes:
> On 11/5/2025 3:48 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> Is there any reason you know of that you may not be able to do this job?
>> (Yes / No)
>> __________________________________________________________
>> I hired a guy a long time ago, and the first job I put him on was
>> running Cat 5 network cable in a school admin facility.
>> No red flags on his application, better than average on my basic
>> skills exam, nothing on his driving record, and he passed a
>> background check. He answered no on the question above.
>> I came in and started certifying cable runs with a PentaScanner, and
>> they all failed the basic wire map. I started popping off covers
>> and looking at the jacks. Every single one was punched down wrong,
>> at both ends and they weren't even wired wrong the same from jack to
>> jack. After about the 3rd one I went and found the guy, and
>> explained again all he needed to do was punch the wires down the
>> same as they were clearly marked on each and every jack, and on the
>> patch panel. Just like i showed him earlier.
>> I went back to fixing his previous runs. As soon as he finished the
>> next run I plugged in the PentaScanner right in front of him and it
>> failed the wire map again.
>> "Okay, watch, and I'll show you exactly how to punch it down."
>> (again)
>> "See, the jack is marked with colors and pairs.Just put the orange
>> wire ont he all orange pins. etc etc etc. The white paired with
>> the orange goes on the half orange marked pin. Got it?"
>> "Sure."
>> Next jack failed again.
>> "Why are you doing this? Are you f'ing color blind?"
>> "Yes, I am."
>> "On your application it asked if there was any reason you could not
>> do this job."
>> Silence.
>> In my mind, but not out loud. "FUCK! If I fire him I open myself
>> an ADA lawsuit. I'll just have to figure out how to use a color
>> blind technician."
>> "Okay just go pull the rest of the wire, and I'll terminate them
>> all. No point in paying you to terminate them if I have to take it
>> apart and do it over."
>> I proceeded to work my way around to fix all his work and terminate
>> the couple other wires he had pulled so far, and he came walking
>> back over to me to read me the riot act.
>> He was quitting because I was an asshole to point out how bad he was
>> screwing up in front of the customer, and how I was kissing the
>> customer's ass, and treating my employees like crap.
>> There were people in the vicinity, but nobody was "watching" us have
>> our earlier conversation, but now I was starting to breath a sigh of
>> relief.
>> I said, "So to be clear you are aware I tried to find a way to make
>> you useful to the company and you are quitting on your own
>> initiative anyway?"
>> "No way I want to work for an a-hole like you."
>> "Great. You quit (glance at my watch) at 2:52. Lets go to the
>> office, and I'll write your final paycheck for 5hrs and 52 minutes."
>>
>
> I wonder years later if maybe he was hoping for a chance to file an
> ADA lawsuit, and when I didn't fire him right away that is why he quit
> shortly afterwards.
>
>
> --
> Bob La Londe
> CNC Molds N Stuff
"service economies" tend to develop these ways of "making the money
flow".
Makes manufacturing ever even more impossible.
In Britain we are about 10% of the population (9%?), so the 90% will
want things which keep meals appearing on their tables. So there will
not be a "survival" aversion to this sort of thing. Can understand that
- next meal on the table; keep it coming; go meal by meal.
In any "service economy" money wells-out of a hole in the ground
somewhere beyond your sight and washes across the economy and you grab
your bit of its flow.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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