New Guy: Lasted Two Days - Page 2

"I wants my walkin' time!"
New York State Hospital employees demanding to be paid for the time it took to walk from the bus to work in the 1960's

well, i can say with legitimacy that i can understand the working a part timer for other reasons.

you guys know that i am a part time scrapper, I do auctions and very little actual hunting on the streets. I have a full time 8-5 that brings scrap to me via our voice/data/security install customers. I have a 2 car garage and a storage unit that I work out of and that's really it. I also run my vinyl graphics business out of the same garage (it takes up 1/4 of my garage space)

I work 2-3 nights a week (6-8 hour shifts) cooking for Outback Steakhouse, not because I have to, but because I want to. We all know the winter months are a little slower. I know the owner and he pays me $12/hr and I use that for Vacation/Christmas/play money. Could I use the time I spend there and earn the same cash to play with doing more scrap? Probably. But I like the stability and guarantee of it, I know that there are no peaks or valleys in my play stash. Will that change in the spring? Who knows?

All in total, I would say I work about 80-90 hours/week. 40-45 at my office, 15-20 at the restaurant, 15-20 cutting/installing vinyl, and another 10-20 doing E-Scrap. So even at the low end of each of those, I'm looking at 80. I will say that the vinyl and e-scrap are a little balancing act. If I have more hours on vinyl, I spend less on the scrap and vice versa. But I have 4 completely unique and separate income streams. And they all serve a purpose.

+1 crazyguy
You can turn a lump of coal into a diamond,
but you can only polish a turd so bright.

That kid was a turd.

I am more than willing to work with less than perfect workers ... but it's up to them if they're a diamond a coal or a turd.

Also...look at it from an employees perspective. 9-12 bucks an hour is par for the course in most manufacturing jobs in this country with a complete benefits package. I'm not making excuses for this kid in particular, that would be the wrong approach, BUT I would not hire anyone at 9-12 an hour and sit him down to perform break downs all day long. Most of these kids are pretty smart and generally overqualified for menial labor tasking, at least in my area. There is value in a hard days work but the mind needs more these days with video games, facebook, and everything else making our daily lives more "engrossing". Work needs to have variety. Yes mostly I need things broke down, but then I need help on pickups, I need incoming boxes tested, and help boxing things up, doing inventory, taking pictures for ebay and craigslist stuff...working ebay especially....and that's how you keep a guy, because he knows he has value that he's not a machine.

After 1.5 days, There was no opportunity for variety to occur

I meant in the future, not with this guy.

Originally Posted by spinroch

After 1.5 days, There was no opportunity for variety to occur

LMFAO......I actually Laughed OUT loud a little on that one

I know, army...
It was just too good of a line to pass up!