One of my vice presidents is working a long time project in a city 500 miles away. Three weeks ago he hired a full-time sales associate - 30 years old, supposed to be a great seller. We sent the VP, this woman, and another associate to a 3-day industry seminar/meet and greet event. Basically classes all day and networking parties in the evenings. The new woman skipped half the classes and spent the last night of the event in the room of one of our competitors.
Needless to say she was promptly fired. It takes a special person to f-up this spectacularly the third week on the job.
I had a stamped concrete patio poured 5 years ago and it started cracking in the first year plus the stamping sucked - the mix was too soft at one end, which left depressions in the concrete, and too hard at the other end so the stamp was too shallow. I hired a guy to replace it and he started jacking the old slab out. It's 8" thick and he poured right into holes in the blocks for the block wall the slab sits on. No one knows why he used twice as much concrete as he needed. The redo is going to cost me extra for the time it takes to break this slab up.
