Perhaps sometimes the good guy finishes first
A few weeks ago Rick quit his job after he found another. The biggest reason he did so was because of a co-worker I’ll refer to as BFF. BFF was a jerk. He stole tips from his co-workers and overall he was the type of guy that only looked out for himself. Despite working for the company for 3.5 years Rick got fed up and left because of this guy. It was a frustrating situation and while he didn’t really in his heart want to leave the company, he couldn’t tolerate this BFF guy anymore.
Today Rick’s former boss called him and asked him why he quit. He never discussed his moral issues with this other guy and today he answered his former bosses question honestly. He told them it was due to this BFF’s attitude and his stealing from the company ways. This guy often would tell repeat customers to call him personally and he would do the job for less himself. This is stealing from the company.
His former boss then said, “BFF stole a $200 tip yesterday and kept it for himself. The crew returned to the same job to finish it and the customer mentioned the tip and the other guys got mad at BFF for not distributing the tip and now I have 3 guys fighting about this issue. If I fire them all, will you come back?”
To which Rick said, “Yes”.
Now, as to whether this will pan out is still up in the air. We both find it hard to believe that the company will in fact do the right thing and fire 3 guys for fighting over a tip, something that is just not teamwork if you ask me, but we shall see. We don’t know if the company will do the right thing, because Rick did briefly discuss this guy’s bad behavior before and nothing was done about it in the past. However, Rick is a quiet sort of guy and never really speaks very loudly so they may have dismissed it as no big deal.
If they do in fact fire these guys, Rick will then go back to his job with tenor and at the same pay rate. He likes the company and the people, outside of that thief BFF. He’s earning the same thing at his new job so his move would not be a financial decision, more of a “he likes that company” one.
For those of you paying attention, it was BFF’s wife that got arrested for theft not all that long ago. Now it turns out that he’s a thief just like his wife.
When you work with a crew of guys and you get a tip from the customer you split that tip equally within your crew. That’s what a moral person like my husband always does. BFF is immoral to the core.
Someone recently insinuated that my husband surely could not be smart and be a truck driver for a moving company. I find this to be alarming that we live in a world where we want someone to take away the garbage but we don’t want that person to be anyone we know. People hire moving companies every day but think movers are stupid?? That’s just pathetic and small minded. As if moving men are somehow less than. Seriously….the world we live in is a diverse one and Rick happens to like having a job that allows him to move freely about, be outside and not be tied to a desk crunching numbers. He actually likes what he does for a living. There are many people who don’t. I personally admire him for how hard he works. I’m not married to a slob who wears a tie and I’m proud of him, how hard he works and how moral he is.
This reminds me of a co-worker I have at the University who when being an Academic Counselor told me not to marry a guy who was “only” a mover. I did some calculations and ya know what? I found that my husband was earning quite a few thousand dollars more than this co-worker did every year when said co-worker held a college degree. It’s also come to my attention that movers in Florida apparently earn far more than movers in other areas because this is transient state we live in and people are in constant motion.
As the person who washes his sweat soaked work clothes, being a driver for a moving company is not easy work, however he loves what he does. How many people LOVE what they do? I’m always exceedingly proud of him because he busts his ass at work and that is highly commendable in my world. I’m also not married to a fat out of shape guy….becasue he WORKS for a living. Ahhhh a man who sweats AND has rock hard MUSCLES….yum.
I could care less what someone does for a living, or how much money they make, as long as they TRY to do their job well.
My Grandparents have some friends who worked on a ranch near our land in WY. The couple left after the ranch was broken up and sold and their jobs were no longer needed. He ran into them a few weeks ago in “town” and found out they were working at a local landfill. They were embarrassed about it, and it made me feel bad - who cares? There are so many people in that town that could be working and flat out refuse, and they’re embarrassed?
And, as it turns out, they were given permission to take anything that comes through the landfill, so they’ve been creating sort of a recycling business on the side - selling metal and other items to recycling companies and making a lot of extra money for themselves.