Young'uns...

It's an odd time right now for our shop here at work.  We actually have more work than we can handle at the moment, and we've got 7 full time guys and one part time guy.  This is how it used to be in our shop when I first started here in 2007, but since 2009 we've never really had more than 3 full time guys back there.  Up until about 3 or 4 months ago it was just Justin in the shop, and had been that way for a while.

We've got the part time guy who is the owners' son.  He's a nice kid but he's not a shop guy.  Not by a long shot and it makes me wonder why he's here.  


We've got two guys from a temporary agency - one really knows his way around the shop and didn't take long to acclimate.  The other seems to be doing alright; I haven't heard any complaints about him.


Then we've got the others, one of which has worked here off and on when not in school and he's a pretty decent guy, another who was hired from the temp agency and seems to have been a good fit as well, and one who if he calls in with some BS excuse again will get the boot.  Then we've a kid who Justin calls Ricky Schroder.  (Apparently he's a trust fund kid who's passing away his summer before he heads to college in the fall.)

You 'member Silver Spoons, right?!

Photo Source: http://www.bullz-eye.com/movies/interviews/2010/ricky_schroder.htm

This kid is the bosses daughter's boyfriend.  As such he think's he has an upper hand in the dynamics of the shop.  This is where he couldn't be more wrong.  He's learning the hard way that you never ever complain about your foreman.  Ever.  (Obviously there's exceptions to this rule.  Such as if your foreman is telling you to do something deadly or illegal, etc.)

Justin was giving him shit about behaving himself with the bosses daughter or Mike'll kill him (Mike is one of my bosses and a 3rd degree black belt.)  It was just typical Justin shop shit.  Showing that he's top dog back there.  Apparently "Ricky" went to Mike to complain about this line of "questioning" and saying that it makes him uncomfortable.  So of course Mike had to talk to Justin.

Ricky now has a target on his back.  Every crap job that comes into the shop, whether it's cleaning or moving stuff or organizing something, "Ricky" will have to do it.  Justin's already started.  We have a new PM starting next week so we've been taking advantage of the fact that Craig's off this week and we're gutting the office that he'll share with the new PM.  Craig holds onto way too much shit that doesn't need to be held onto.  Since we've been boxing up stuff to put in storage - guess who gets to spend his days up in the storage areas out in the shop?  Ricky.

And it's damn hot here this week.  It's supposed to feel like 107 today and even hotter the rest of the week.  There's no AC in the shop and the kid'll be up near the top of the roof moving boxes around, bringing more boxes up there, throwing other shit out...  He's not going to have a good week.

That's what you get when you think you're entitled.  He may "know" the owner, but that doesn't mean he's untouchable in the shop.