Posted by NCWayne on April 10, 2014 at 18:10:41 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: Right or Wrong? posted by Wondering If ? on April 10, 2014 at 16:40:37:
Thought I was the only one with a situation similar to this. In my case I"ve known the kid (22) for about a year. When we met he had a real interest in machinery, mainly on the operator side of things, but still seemed to have a real desire to listen and learn how to work on them too. That turned into him starting his own business and winding up getting way too big for his britches. It didn"t help when a relative threw a lot of money at him in the form of a brand new $60,000 truck....Would have been a nice gesture had the older one he had not needed but about $1000 to make it work just fine for his needs, the fact that his main/only machine needs a new undercarriage, and pretty much every attachment he has needs some sort of maintenance. In the end the money could have been spent on repairs, and still had enough left over to buy a second machine as a backup, (already had two mulch heads and only one machine to run them), a second used truck, and two trailers (been borrowing mine thus far).
Basically for the money spent on one brand new truck he could have doubled the size of his new company and still had money left over.
Longer story short, I guess the new truck basically amplified the fact that he had delusions of being "big time" like companies that have been around for years. With this attitude he decided that he didn"t really need to listen to any advice given to him by those of us who have been in business for ourselves and know how to stay in business and make money. As a result he is consistently losing money, bouncing from job to job trying to keep ahead of the money given to him to complete the last job, and on, and on, and on. That wouldn"t be so bad except for the fact that he also went from a nice kid wanting to learn, to a arrogant pr!ck who told me to go F myself the other day when I once again told him all the things he was doing wrong. Between that and quite a few things I have discovered in thre past week that he has flat out lied about and......
Needless to say I"ve told him a couple of times he was burning bridges, but between the lies and the F-you the other day was pretty much a napalm bomb that obliterated the bridge. He"s now trying to play nice, but I"m pretty much done with him........he can now sink or swim on his own, without my help, and if his disrespecting me gets him under the wheels of "the bus" with others that I know (some of which were giving him a chance to work for them), then it"s his own fault...................
Not to hijack your thread with my situation, but I just wanted to let you know there are others with similar problems. That said, the best thing to do is let him sink or swim on his own, and if his actions are what you say they are, he"ll jump under the bus on his own, without any help from you......heck it"s your help that has kept him out from under those wheels thus far anyways.......But that"s just my opinion....
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