[ansel12]

I wasn’t lazy, I was the most profitable plumber in the company, when your employees work on commission you respect your top producer’s habits.

Since I had my own area I also got to hire the man to help cover the area, he was the second-best producer in the company and I got 10% of everything he made, which he didn’t know and it was a year before he even found out I was his boss and that he worked for me, he thought I was just a really helpful friend/mentor that would always show up to help him when he ran into problems in the field.

[blackdog]

Not aimed at you, but if you're a trades guy, you know of those I speak. I would also go in on weekends and install-program VFD's on gearbox motor starters. I would download Kinetix servo drive updates, download Allen Bradley processor levels of updates for communication compatability issues.

After the third grievance filed on me they stopped ignoring work orders with crap excuses.

Nothing more embarrassing to a trades guy whose work was done by someone else, and every conduit bend is perfect. Over time my method was refined to kit up the jobs for them and leave them on their benches. They came around.