I would like this to stay up here in the general discussion area if possible because the topic is more for the regular working types who deal with this stuff vs. the link masters in the tavern who wouldn’t be able to add anything worthwhile.
So I’m down here in New Orleans with a new guy.
Profile: 46 years old doesn’t have a drivers license. Lost it to a dui. Lives at home with his parents. They have to drive him to and from work everyday. He has had several jobs,never stays at one for very long. Talks non stop about booze.
So we are down here to work. Leaving the motel a 7:00 a.m. sharp and getting back anywhere from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday might work Saturday too.
We travelled Monday got in at 9:00 p.m. Worked yesterday got in at 9:00 p.m. There’s another crew here that travelled down here at the same time. Both guys are in there 50’s so everyone here is a grown up.
Well except for the new guy. He stayed out until 3:00 in the morning drinking. This morning the guy he’s rooming with couldn’t get him up. I couldn’t get him up either.
What would you do?
What do you think I did?
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We give up.
You gave him a raise?
Called his momma?
'Nemo me impune lacesset'
No one will provoke me with impunity
buket of ice water?
james
That would be my guess. Although I probably would have just left him.
Do what you want when you're off work but you better be at work (and worth something) on time.
I broke up a partnership once over a similar issue, and it only happened once. If you're working, you work. If you ain't, you ain't. On the other hand, I'm not clear if you guys are doing volunteer work, or paying work? Is he costing anybody anything? Sorry, I just haven't been following the NOL thing.
Andy
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
We're working down here for pay. We've been recovering banking equipment and now were installing some drive thru equipment.
It's a pretty good little investment to send a guy down here. Rooms are a $135.00 a night plus $35.00 a day per diem. That's in addition to normal operating costs. It's not a place for horsing around when your on the clock.
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Dear Ann Landers,
My boyfriend Matt drinks a lot and beats me when he comes home to my apartment where I invited him to live with me in a weak moment. When he's drunk he has very abusive sex with me, leaving me almost unable to walk in the morning. My only breaks are when he goes to his pool league and stays out late, which is why I'm grateful that the Wal-Mart is open 24/7 so that I can go there with my boy to get groceries and what not. We live in Arkansas, and I know that the laws vary from state to state, but, generally, my question is this, should I kill him in the trailer or should I wait to do it outside the bar, where the *itch will be and also have to be wasted? Also, he has a drunken friend who wants to go to Louisiana to take advantage of the hurricane with some contractor. If I should kill him also, would the courts consider that a patriotic act, that is, for the good of Louisiana and the country? Closed Eyed Woman
Dear Closed: Yes. I recommend either .40 caliber or 12 gauge buck for the three of them. Anything less takes longer for them to die and could make the authorities think you were enjoying it. The other guy would probably not leave Louisiana alive, anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. Ann
Edited 11/30/2005 10:24 pm ET by BARMIL
What would you do? Go to work, If I was in charge can his azz right now. If I wasn't in charge call my supervisor, and tell them to send another man down, cuz we are short one man and your expectations of what was to be accomplished this week ain't going to happen. Have company advance bus fare, and let the company deal with the money issue for fare out of monies he has coming, send his sorry butt packing. Pack my stuff and have desk issue me another room, cancell room I 'am in.
What did you do? Sent him to Sphere's house, he's got a soft heart.
how much are they paying you to baby sit?. 2+3=7
leave him in the hotel and move to another hotel, miles, miles away. 2+3=7
Edited 11/30/2005 10:40 pm by brownbagg
After putting up with the bablling drunk when he came home at 3:00 in the morning Larry the guy he was rooming with wanted to sew him up in his bed sheet and throw him down the stairs.
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or leave the sewn sack hanging out the window?
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Another good use for duct tape!
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Sounds like you handled it properly. I enjoy a drink myself on occasion, but I won't tolerate a drunk on the job. I'm probably more patient and tolerant than most, but I wouldn't want to be around a man his age in that shape.
Allen in Boulder Creek
Just read the thread this morning. As soon as you asked how you handled it I knew. Nice job. DanT
Maybe you ought to watch your back and make sure you're "packing" if/when that happens again.This happened about a month ago. Local contractor had problems with a 42 year old drunk employee. Arguement at job site...main street of little town. Drunk gets rifle from truck, shoots boss several times, including head. Takes off in truck. Shoots state cop pursing him - cop is still alive but minus three inches of bone in his upper arm. Drunk turns gun on himself.Contractor was a good guy in many ways, quite a stir here.Todd
Perhaps you missed the thread on the M-60 I picked up last month.
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Perhaps you missed the thread on the M-60 I picked up last month.
Gunner,
I didn't see it, but just picked me up a Tech-DC9. Inaccurate as heck, but......15 rounds/second, who cares, lol.
JB
Am I that transparent? LOL
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It sounds like you handled it in an adult fashion.
Why??
After putting up with the bablling drunk when he came home at 3:00 in the morning Larry the guy he was rooming with wanted to sew him up in his bed sheet and throw him down the stairs.
Well that's better than sewing him up and throwing him in the lake.
jt8
"With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke." -- Will Rogers
Yea Larry is pretty compasionate. LOL
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You pretty much hit it on the head. I called my boss (the owner of the company) to fill him in. He agreed. So I waited until noon and called his room and told him he was fired. Pack your stuff up and hit the road. I didn't offer a bus ticket (you must be a softy.) He was stunned and shocked and then insisted I wasn't serious. I told him we don't babysit, and there wasn't going to be any options, or negotiations. And he would have to find his own way home. He tried to say I couldn't do that. I reminded him that I could do anything I wanted. And told him if he didn't believe me could call my boss. You would have to know my boss. If he was here he probably would have drug him to the curb and left him there. And that's no b.s. Very short fuse on that one.
Then he tried to deny anyone tried to wake him up and that he got up on his own at 8:00 and everyyone had left him. I told him the truck left at 7:00 same as every morning. Typical whining career drunk blabber. Even tried to tell me at one point that he had gotten stuck in the elevator for two hours and had to call for help. Of course I called him a liar,and he admitted to it. And then he started stammering around again. I told him once again that there would be no negotiating and hung up on him while he was in mid sentence.
I don't have time for that, and guys like that only cause more heartache down the road.
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I figured you probably sent him packing, but did you give him directions to sphere's lol
I told him to keep checking the front desk for a money order from Sphere. He would cover all costs incured during his discomforting ordeal.
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What you hired Brownbagg?
Just kidding in all seriousness I lost a lot of retirement pay about 285K cause I couldn't show up to work on time & was pretty hung over. Maybe it was all those stamps on my wrist from bar to bar.
I was young & stupid & it cost me big time----- took being fired & having my apprenticeship terminated for me to wake up.
I absolutely will not tolerate an at work or (not being able to show up for work) drunk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not holier than thou I still drink but work is work & you better be there & do your job.
FIRE HIM NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See that's the thing that makes me shake my head. If I'm gonna tie one on I make sure I do it right. Because I know I have to have an income in order to buy the booze to tie one on. I do it on a night that I don't have to work the next day. If I want a few beers on a work night I have them but I limit it.
Funny side note: I worked with the other crew today because I was short a guy. On the way in we stopped at a BBQ place to eat. I wanted a couple of beers with dinner. But of course it wouldn't look good if I got back to the hotel and the dumb azz was still there wanting to argue. Can't in good conscience get in a drunks face and tell him off when your breathing beer all over him. LOL I cursed him under my breath.
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Twice in my life, i've had somebody show up drunk on jobs I was lead man on. Both times, I took them home, then i called the boss and trold him to never expect me to work with that man again, and why. Both got fired, Both it turned out had been warned before.
i've never had anyone show up drunk or drink on my own jobs.
In your case, I would hav ethought about just getting the guys together to carry his carcass out to the dumpster, but I probably wouldn't have done it. He darn sure would not have had another hour or meal on the company.
ATM masters really hire drunks to install their machinery?
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Twice in my life, i've had somebody show up drunk on jobs I was lead man on. Both times, I took them home, then i called the boss and trold him to never expect me to work with that man again, and why. Both got fired, Both it turned out had been warned before.
i've never had anyone show up drunk or drink on my own jobs.
In your case, I would hav ethought about just getting the guys together to carry his carcass out to the dumpster, but I probably wouldn't have done it. He darn sure would not have had another hour or meal on the company.
ATM masters really hire drunks to install their machinery?"
Paul,
One of the worst drunks I know does that very thing for a living. Got fired for DUI fifth offense (wrecked the company truck drunk), having an affair with the receptionist, lost his wife after that...and his home.. and job. Saw him two weeks ago... they hired him back. Go Figure.........
JB
you sure you do not work at my company. 2+3=7
you sure you do not work at my company"
Brown,
Huh?
JB
ATM masters really hire drunks to install their machinery?
It's a little more then ATMs LOL I don't know what gets in their heads up at corporate. One time you have to be a highly qualified zen master. Then the next week anyone walking by will do.
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