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My dad's crew in Cleveland ran a 45 minute lunch, and my crew can't even find the truck keys in 45 minutes
I was running a small framing crew in Cleveland a few months back and my dad came out to help for a week. He looked at my guys and asked why nobody had their bags on at 7am, and I made some excuse about coffee runs. The next morning he had all five of them on the wall by 7:03 and we finished the back wall by noon, which normally takes us a full day. So now I wonder, is the whole Boomer work ethic thing actually the answer, or did my dad just scare them? Anybody else had an older guy step in and make your whole crew look slow?
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miles94620d ago
Put your dad on the payroll for a month and see if that 7:03 holds up past week two" is the truest thing on this whole thread. My wife's uncle did the same thing to our concrete crew two summers ago, first three days everybody was sprinting like it was boot camp, then by the second week guys were back to sitting in the truck until 7:15 with their coffee and nobody said a word. @the_joseph nailed it, it's all about the stranger factor. New guy walks on site and suddenly everyone remembers how to work, then they remember nobody's actually watching and it falls apart. Give it a couple weeks and your dad will be standing there wondering where his 7:03 crew went.
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the_joseph20d ago
That 7:03 thing is less about work ethic and more about your dad being a stranger. My uncle pulled the same move on our crew back in 2019, had us sheathing by 7:10, but here's the part you're missing: he was only there a week. Nobody wants to look lazy in front of the boss's dad. Your regular guys know you, they know the coffee run won't get them fired, so the clock stretches. Put your dad on the payroll for a month and see if that 7:03 holds up past week two. My guess is by day 12 they're back to hunting for keys and your dad's wondering where he went wrong.
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