REHIRING
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I got me a problem and need to vent The owner is rehiring his son who is a painter but a very sloppy painter at that.They paid for him to go to hvac school to get rid of him and 8 months later he is comming back.If i wanted a run in every panel i’d let my detailer paint.My lead painter is excellant but probably wont stick around due to problems we both know are going to arise with this idiotic decision by the owner.
that sucks, maybe you can make a descent painter out of him….send him to painting school!!
ya the family thing is always touchy. parents are always trying to help out their kids. some just don’t let them grow up on their own. I work in a family business and in 2000 I left due to the family conflicts. I eventually came back 5 years later but being out on my own taught me a lot that most people don’t learn when they are raised in that family business and don’t know anything else
hes been painting 9 years and still doesn’t know what a flash time is.He won’t get far with standox you either let it flash or you’ll be doing it all over again.it has the strongest reducers I’ve ever seen.It will be the same old sht all over again.come in late 2hr lunch leave early.I’m gonna loose my best painter and prep tech because daddy can’t say no.they tried to send him to school for refinish but he refused to go because he knows eveything already.we have enough work for the team we have now 1 more is gonna screw it up.I have’nt figured how 2 painters are gonna use 1 booth and 1 prepper.And I sure as hell am not going to go back and fix his sht like i did for 9 years covering his ass because i wanted the job done right.If he f’s something up then it’s gonna come out of his pay and then I’ll be looking for a job I can see it already. Unlike him I do have schooling and am certified in dupont and standox,and estimating and business management.I would be willing to bet he cleaned his guns once a month and couldn’t figure out where the dirt was comming from.I could rant about this forever but it only pisses me off more.
I’d let him come in late, hoefully about 10 min. before he leaves for his 2, hopefully 3hr, lunch and see if the leash is set free and don’t say anything he’ll leave a couple hours early. Maybe he’ll only be around the shop an hour total.:lol: Best of luck. I had that same deal but the bosses kid had some learning problems and was partially deaf. He was always messing stuff up but I think it was cheaper for the owner than paying all his bills, even with all the redo’s. He went to school for truck driving and hit a stoplight making a turn. Someone called the cops and he had 15 cars following him with lights on and sirens, he drove for about 10 miles before he was at another stop and the cops grabbed him out of the truck. I guess with those types of school bills and police fines it’s cheaper to screw your bussiness up.
:laugh: Thats pretty bad.We have split the paint hours and booth time up now the time paint time isnt a problem booth time is i told him if you fuck it up then you fix it on your time and the scheduled out date stays the same i don’t make excuses for any other tech and i wont for him. last night be fore i left I did my walk through and the booth had 4 parts that absolutly had to be cuttin and there they sat they had been in there since noon.so i painted them. guess who doesn’t get time for it neither one of them. I have a total of 170 paint hours this week one of them is the 64 tbolt with 74 hours and the rest Ins. work.If they can’t do that between them something is seriously wrong.
I can understand the boss’s “kid” not doing it because he knows he isn’t going to get fired, but your regular painter? Does he figure he is on his way out? I think I’d have a talk with him, he might not care if he’s looking for a new job because of the kid. I have no jealousy of your situation, at least in the one I was in the owner knew his kid was hopeless and just wanted to support him. He was always whinning because he wanted to do more important work than clean up and errands but when you’d let him he failed. He at least was trying. When you have someone that doesn’t care and doesn’t get that they don’t know everything is a very different situation. I think you are right in not treating the kid any different from anyone else, I did the same thing in my situation. Funny story that follows with that point. I came back from lunch, they sent the kid to pick up a table with the new truck. I walk in and see the table through the back glass and say what happened. He said “Dad said it wasn’t my fault, I slid it into the bed and through the glass.” my response “How the hell isn’t it your fault the glass is gone, who’s fault is it?” I had elevated my voice alot. The response back “Well, I guess your right I’m sorry I’ll try to be more careful.” Don’t get me wrong he was a good kid and after that he did alot better. He just needed someone to make him responsible, I don’t think he was ever yelled at before. He is still in the field and doing quite well from what I hear. Hang in there Miracles can happen.
I have decided that I’m not gonna say anything at all just let it go and whatever hapeens happens.I have too much on my plate and I’m not taking on personel issues as well.I keep them comming in and thats that.I already feel better.
I would also like to apologize to everyone here for venting about this.but my wife can only take so much.
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