Cardinal sin of Giving a damn

That’s my biggest problem.   I care.   I do not like seeing good people getting fucked over by absolute selfish-ness.   I tend to be quite self-LESS in much of my dealings wtih others, usually going above and beyond, allowing others to slack off or learn or something.   NOT ONE, of my crews will ever tell you that I am a tyrant, or slave driver. (well, maybe that last, but they can’t say that I ain’t out there giving it even more than I ask of them.)

And then there is my demand for accountability!    I have, and WILL again, take the burden of command, which IN MY EYES, means if one of mine screws up, I will take the heat for it.   They may end up on shit duties for awhile, but they won’t take the brunt of the punishment. (short of legal transgressions.  They do that, I have to step aside and let the course settle itself.)   Very much as I was taught in the Corps: command is the spearhead and the anvil, depending on actions at said time.  Staff is the literal meaning of the word, the people that hold the spearhead in place.

We have a ‘crew-leader’ that won’t take the blame for jack. EVER.   When I was building that flatbed for one of our vehicles, I became very familiar with that truck; especially the backside of it.   Day one out of my shop, it came back with a busted rear bumper,,, Someone had backed it into something that didn’t want to give.   When I asked the Crewlead about it; “That was like that when I got the truck”   Like fuckin’ hell it was!!!  

And today, dood tossed his crew under the wheels (second time I can recall, could be more)   Instead of taking the blame for loading the wrong material, then driving one way for 45 minutes, only to turn around and return,,, He blamed his crew for ‘goofing off’, and they were punished by being told to go home, (there is plenty of work at the the shop they could be doing)   Said crew leader then turned around and went out on the other jobsite to help his brother.    Of course, I have to add here, IF, I were in charge of this situation, the Crew-leader would have recieved the punishment, and his crew would have been permitted to keep working, but with STERN WARNING to pay attention and ask questions.   Seems that the two loading the wrong material were the Crewleader and his nephew, while the rest of the crew grabbed the rest correctly.  I can’t say for certain, wasn’t out there, but this meshes perfectly with some other things I have seen from this character.

Tools come up missing, “They left it at the jobsite’

Truck breaks down, “Never heard a thing till it quit” (after several emps had told me that the truck was in direstraights.)

Look, I ain’t perfect, I fuck up too.  BUT I hold myself accountable and will take the blame as needed.  I may say “this guy did this, but I fucked up and didn’t catch/correct it.”

Just simple honesty.   That, and drive, are all that I ever ask of my crews.   Don’t lie to me, bust your ass.   If you are strugglin’, ask for help.   Need a hand? Ask for help.   Finish your task: see if there is something else that needs doin’.   

Never ever stand there with the tool in hand, water spewing out a pipe, (or similar) and tell me “I didn’t do it!”  Fuckin’ own it, and lets get it corrected.   I respect that way more than chickenshit weasles trying to pass the buck.  I may be mad about it for a short spell, but shit happens,,,   OWN IT.

“But we can’t all be like YOU DIo!”

No, you can’t, but you can be better than you are right now, and better tomorrow than you are today, and there is ZERO EXCUSES for not TRYING TO BE.   It may be only one smidgeon of improvement: you may smile for an extra five minutes today, or thank someone that you wouldn’t normally say boo to.    Be a bettter YOU and stop trying to be like someone else.   AND OWN YOURSELF AND YOUR ACTIONS.

grrrrr,,,,,,   Is this such a foreign concept?   Seems like these were much of the principles I was raised with, yet I see it more and more (and not just in the younger gens.  Said crewleader is older than I am.)

Rant off.   thanks for listenin’

keep on livin’

((Addendum:  after the last time I ‘tried to help’ and had the tables turned on me, I REFUSED to get in the middle of this one.   I told those that were complaining that they need to find someway, on thier own, to call attention to the duplicity and backstabbing, and leave me out of it.  THIS post is as far as I am willing to go to bring this to the attention of those that need it.   And need it they do since allowing that sort of leadershit will drive off decent workers with a quickness, and almost did so today.))