Ohhh myyy gawwwd! Out of the blue job offer!!! (UPDATED #29)!!!!!! - Page 6

WOW!!! IMPRESSIVE I read the last few posts..............Now to ask for the raise!!!

Congrats, it's what happens when you work for it and have good morals and ethics.

Originally Posted by Abuilder

Is it safe to assume that your home scrapping has come to a standstill?

Nope. As a matter of fact I'm on my way out the door for my long run tonight after the truck warms up! All my free time is still spent scrapping and doing pickups from my peeps!! I just don't have time to turn it in so I load the trailer and let hubby or dad bring it up and offload for me and I do the non ferrous in the morning when I get to work before we open.

Sorry! You can't stop posting about your job. Keep on telling us about your days at the yard. We look forward to your posts!

You sound proud of yourself, I know I'm proud of your fast progress and your intense desire to do well. You never know where this job can lead you and where it does I will continue to have high hopes for you. Congratulations. Mike

Originally Posted by newattitude

I don't think I can go any higher. I've already gotten more responsibilities and privileges given to me than the guy above me and that only leaves the warehouse manager spot so of course he knows more than I do about some things but in only 4 months I have almost as much knowledge and privilege as he does.

Hmmm.... Warehouse manager...... hmmm......

Boss called me into the office today and said he is putting me down for another raise, I just got one a month ago! he said I'm doing a wonderful job.

he also said to buy a pair of good coveralls and a good pair of shoes and bring him the receipt. I just bought a pair but they aren't waterproof like I thought and didn't want to spend a kazilion dollars on another pair yet but if the boss is buying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lol, he's always worried about me more than the guys I think because I'm a gal.

Spent almost 2 hours with him in the office this morning ''in a meeting.'' he showed me a LOT of stuff; paperwork, orders, who to call, how to balance the book each morning, where he files stuff, orders for the following month, prices, some bank stuff, etc. And he is making me my own set of keys to the building for opening up.

He said the more I learn the more responsibility I get. Lol, I didn't think I could get any more!

We talked about how he got started in the business as well as how I got into scrapping and why did I take the job. He told me he was surprised when he got the call from the guy that runs his other place about hiring me (the manager here had talked to him about me and told him to call my boss and tell him he knew me and I could do the job). He said he is happy and surprised how hard I work and that other people that come here (buyers, sellers) say look how she is hopping around like a rabbit lol.

He said he is happy with how I talk to customers, how I interact with them and how I ''teach'' them in a nice way (his words not mine).

I told him I thought I was pretty smart about scrap before I worked for him but I really only knew just the tip of the iceburg!

I caught an almost ''oops'' by the other guy this morning, he almost bought a granite sink as AL but I told him no, look at it closer and break it with a hammer. I knew what it was and the first clue is that most sinks like that are made from cast metal not AL. It also feels different and sounds different when you bang on it. But once I broke it he could see it was made from stone. So I taught him something today but he also doesn't scrap on the side (he never knew tv rabbit ears are usually always brass) but he's been there long enough he shouldn't have been so quick to assume either.

We are sooooo proud of you!!

Lol, the last thing I offered to buy was a tool box filled with 50 lbs of hand tools, he said its just steel right? yeah. So he let me have it for nothing! I'm always out on the pile looking to add to my tools.

There was one thing I thought would be fun to have, it was a large round steel ''cage'' with a seat in it. You roll the person around a yard in it. We played with it a bit before it went in the roll off.

One day last month a guy brought in a GMC like mine that I wanted to offer to buy for parts. Before I got the chance the boss had the guy that brought it with his front end loader put it in the roll off when I was with another customer. I walked out the door just in time to see a 5000 lb tractor dropped in on top of it. . Few choice words came outta my mouth just then lol. Before the tractor was dropped on it I woulda had no problem going in the rolloff to pull what I could.