[ramonesfreak]

I don’t think the kid needs advice. I think he has an attitude problem. No advice or sharing life philosophies is going to help. I have wasted a thousand hours trying to help such people. I still try and I am not sure why. I added up what I spent in the 35 years I smoked…..conservative calculation is $160,000 up in smoke. If I had invested all of that money every day I would be wealthy. For years I ate pizza slices twice a day so I could feed that habit while earning very little…..much less than $22/hour. I didn’t walk around the office complaining and moaning about how hard it was to get ahead. Instead I worked hard and made moves to climb upwards while living in a 10 x 10 room that costs $1,300 a month, paying student loans etc and leaving me with a whopping $80 a month in walking around money.

The only advice this kid needs is to learn how to be thankful for the opportunity he has been given or else start over and I suspect saying so with result in him responding with a big F you

At the end of the day, the OP is paying the guy to do a job, not to infect the workplace with his poor attitude and commentary about how his poor choices have left him disadvantage in a dog eat dog world

I will say Baz, your the nicest guy on the internet and I admire that