I work for a custom home builder who builds about 10 homes a year. Until recently, the crew consisted of a lead hand, a father and son team who were new this year, and me on the bottom of the totem pole.
Well, the lead hand has been recovering from a serious illness, and the doctors won’t let him come back to work until mid-October. He seems fine and is itching to get to work, but it’s a CYA situation.
The other two guys quit. 😛 Now it’s just me.
The company owner was joking with me, yesterday, about how quickly I moved up to ‘head guy.’ Har har. I hope they get cracking on hiring someone else before stuff starts to pile up.
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What did you put in the lead guys food???
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"After the laws of Physics, everything else is opinion"
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If Pasta and Antipasta meet is it the end of the Universe???
It's your time to shine. Don't overdo it though or they won't hire anyone else.
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No worries about that. There's a lot of oddball stuff that gets done in house. Also, the company also has a large, multi-year restoration project that's just started that will take a lot of man-hours.
Think of it as job security.
Unless you really screw up, they're not gonna fire ya.
Since your doing the work of three, tell him you want three times the pay....ROAR.
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As previously noted, this is your opportunity to create real security and to move up.
I've parlayed similar situations into strong alliances, just by being alert and responsible, all the time.
Show up everyday, a few minutes early, well rested and with a smile. That'll be noticed and rewarded. Sooner now than before.
That is happening all over the construction industry. One of our friends is one of the last 3, down from 70 in a big national builders local division. She is now a job super, the warranty manager, the purchasing manager and president of a couple HOAs ... and took a pay cut.