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An older gentelman that delivers parts for the local parts store asked me if I had any work for him. He had lost his job, and was nearly in foreclosure on his home. He seemed like a pretty good guy, I have known him for about 6 months now.
My partner and I are in the final stages of renovating a rental house, and could use some help, so I hired him on for some painting, cleaning, caulking etc..... that kind of stuff, nothing hard or complex., The guy is 54, and my partner and I are both 38. The guy is kind of green to this kind of work ,. so he is asking me how to do things. I am very patient when it comes to showing somebody how to do something when they dont know how,. but this guy spends all day second guessing how we are doing things,, and I keep finding myself engaged in 15 minute dissertations with him as he explains how he thinks we should do it, Gawsh damn!!! I didnt want to seem like a punk, but for christ sake , I tried to give him some simple tasks . We weren't ordering him around or anything like that, but he just seemed to cop an attitude. I ended up just telling him, "look this is how we get it done, if you cant do it , then this is not going to work out. I felt good about throwing this guy some extra cash, but now I am not so sure.
We were paying him pretty fair as well, probably 5 bucks an hour more than he makes delivering parts. Oh well, live and learn. This is exactly the reason I shrunk my other buisness down to a one man operation.