I reminisce of some previous horrible employees at our window cleaning company
I could name their names but I won't
What's the point?
I could mention about two of my past workers who got in a physical altercation outside the customer's garage
One choked the other
The other loudly cursed him out
With the customer home
With their garage door open
No five star Google review that day
I could tell of the time one employee pooped his pants on the job
Then he asked to use some of the company towels to clean himself up
I told him he could keep those towels as souvenirs
He just said, "I'm shorry bosh, I'm shorry"
He always seemed to say he was shorry
And why did he call me bosh?
Then this same guy dropped a ladder in the Catholic church and damaged the church walls
He just looked down and muttered, "Hail Mary mother of grace, I'm shorry I dropped that ladder in this place"
Then later he drove our Cargo van with brand new decals into a tree
Again he just said, "I'm shorry bosh, I'm shorry"
I was shorry for hiring him
Another employee ran over a fire hydrant with the company truck
Another employee did not tie down the 40' ladder properly
It went flying off on the main highway and caused an accident
He caused the highway to shut down during rush hour
At least we got some free advertising with the decals on the sides of our truck
But I digress
Others had ladders fall off trucks
Others fell off ladders
Others had pressure washers fly out of the back of their truck
Others were drinking alcohol on the job
One was found at the bar on his lunch
Another had empty Jack Daniel bottles scattered throughout the work truck
Once I tried hiring from a halfway house
That halfway worked
Until one of them went to jail and another went to prison
They didn't even add me on their visitor list
So I paid them no vacation time when they were in jail
Then there was the guy who fell off his ladder
He broke his elbow and knocked out some teeth
The weird thing is he looked better after losing his teeth
Another worker had a piece of ladder fall and hit him in the mouth
He chipped some teeth
His new nickname was Chip
Then another guy carrying a four foot step ladder up a hill had it dig into the ground
He had his mouth open and he ended up eating the ladder
He lost teeth
You kind of knew our company workers around town because we had the employees with chipped or missing teeth
Then enter the thieves
I could name some names but I won't
Like the guy who came on my property at 3am and stole an expensive ladder
Then there were the guys who stole my equipment to start their own business
They stole my drills
They stole my customers
They even stole my snacks in the office
I could name some names
But what is the point?
You have to go forward
You have to stay positive
You have to believe for success and that each day is a new day
Well we did
We prospered
We overcame
Now the business is flourishing
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