In my shop there's a plaque on the wall put up by my grandfather... simple questions $.50, Guesses $1, intelligent questions $2.50, Honest questions $5, but dumb looks are still free
"Were you not listening to the conversation we just had?" Ricky, my dude, its management. As soon as you say the forbidden words, "raise" or "days off" or "vacation" or "PTO", they stop listening.
Terrible negotiating. You don't demonstrate bad abilities to try and sell that you're actually skilled. That's like a dealer giving a spiked to hell sample to a new customer. You give them a small taste of the good shit, leave them wanting more of what you have, and then use that desire to leverage yourself into a better position.
@@zeropolicy7456 sounds good to me... Ricky just wants the Boss Man to keep to his word and give him that raise. Then the "Good advice" will be supplied. 😂
@@CloudHindlen Yeah, but we know, just as bossman does, that Ricky is a habitual liar. And according to the lore, he has by far the most worksite fuckups. Especially with rental equipment. I don't think bossman is willing to bet a $3 raise on Ricky telling the truth for once. Lol.
Well he's right good advice is not free it took him time to lean the good stuff, if some on ever gives you good advice repay them in away you can dont even need to be money could just buy them a drink at a bar or go out for a coffee.
I love watching people struggle at work , but if you try to help them they usually get offended and argue so it’s better just to watch the struggle 😂😂😂
So true. I'm the second newest guy at a mechanic shop, I've officially hit "Doin' Ma Told" mode at work. When I know the right way to do something, it's sad that I still have to ask if that's the way we're going to do it. The question is "Fixed or Running?".
its even better when the newbie struggling got hired 2 weeks ago, makes 30 cents less than you do but you've been there 5 years. best is when the new guy thinks he knows everything and can do it faster than anyone else, at least in his mind.
@@darrellfrenzel8524 I had this exact thing happen, boss walks up and asks how it's going, new guy: "he's impossible to work with, he doesn't know what he's doing " Boss: "he's trained half the guys in this shop, including me when I was brand new" Next week him: "can you help me" Me: absolutely not, your completely on your own and I'm the only trainer so good luck. It took about two weeks for me to let it go and start "helping" him. I started sending that one guy that no one can stand over to help him out.
sounds a bit like a problem i had with my old boss. boss: how come you can work so fast when its a fixed pay for the job but not when you work on other stuff ? me: well if i only get paid to work with one hand then thats what i do. my salary works like a speedometer . bagged a 30% raise after that XD
Ricky is spitting facts like crazy. I quit giving our good advice years ago since I am the only one 6 been at my site for 15 years, and my management only been here for 6 years total, and yes I am combining them together. Then again, what do I know it's not like I been around the longest and seen the most.
Never teach your way out of a job. Too many folks focus on a handful of skills and get talked into training their replacement. I left a job that wouldn't hold up their agreement to get certs on heavy equipment but wanted me to teach the new supervisor how to do my job. I all but laughed in the operations manager's face and told them good luck. "I wish there was something we could do to get you to stay" was the parting words from the second ops manager. I happily told him that there was something they could've done, specifically what they promised in the first damn place. That ended the conversation real quick. 😂
I often forget you’re just one dude playing all these characters - very great job by the way - but I have a question: Has anyone ever passed by or walked in on you mid conversation with yourself? 😂 Also, I’m sure you’re used to it by now, but was it weird talking aloud to yourself the first few times?
I've always said some people cannot be taught. Their mind is like a shot glass, information you share is a 5th of whiskey, if you pour all that information into that shot glass mind..your going to lose some.🤣🤣
I feel ricky on this. You can only help and go behind and fix so many issues before you so screw it yall are grown a$$ adults do your job and figure it out.
Episode request: After Safety Guy introduces a particularly stupid new policy, Ricky snaps, going on a murderous rampage, killing off Safety Guy and Roscoe. Boss Man comes to work, discovers them dead, and is chased by a crazed Ricky out for blood on a forklift. When it seems all hope is lost and Boss Man's death is inevitable...he wakes up. Feeling relieved, he goes to a safety meeting where Safety Guy is introducing a stupid new policy...
This is a loaded topic when i started out I always tried to work with the old hands didn't stay with all the young bucks. Now a days if your teaching someone its your '"cheaper "' replacement. GL
The same goes for asking your boss as a referent. He got asked about if he was ok to be a ref to another coworker, he said yes and coworker went away. Boss then turned to me and said "he didnt ask if I was gonna be a good rererence". That stayed with me and when I left a few years later I asked him if he was ok to being a *good reference* to me. He cracked a big smile at me for asking the right question and said yeah no problem.
As a former laborer turned site Manager i sort of agree with the ricky😂, but the boss man has a point. Keep making these videos guys, you bring alot of laughter to a job site on the other side of the planet. Cheers jake New Zealand 😂👍👍
I'm with Ricky on this I wouldn't stop my job to do someone else's job for them and it is the safety man's job to train them properly or help them with advice not the workers
Anytime your welding a pipe and your having a problem in the same place all the time, make that your starting point, now Ricky this is free Advice😂 Because free advice should be worth something.😂
