One thing that gets me quickly is anyone who cannot accept responsibility for their errors.
People make mistakes and unless they commit huge numbers of mistakes or mistakes that there is no reason for them to ever make them, I don't hold it against them.
We have a new guy here. He's 45 years younger than me and we were hoping that he could take my place in a year or two and let me take it easy.
He cannot admit that there are things that he doesn't know.
For example, a week ago he and my nephew needed to run an ethernet cable from one room to another and crimp a connector on each end. I thought that it was well under control and so with my blood clot in the leg (Deep Vein Thrombosis), a blood clot in my lung (Pulmonary Embolism) and a broken arm, I left them there and came back to the office.
Four hours later, they came back and I was shocked when they told me that the cable we are using is no good. Not just one cable that I bought to be used only in the office (it's a really good quality high speed cable), but also our good outdoor cable o which we have literally run miles over the past couple of decades and never had a problem. So they ran three lengths of cable when the first cable was perfectly fine. And they didn't get it to work.
The next day, I went, too, and they tried a different crimping tool I bought for office use that is easier to use and they got it to working. After several tries with errors that they should not have made, they got that to work. So then he told me flat out that the crimping tool is bad and said he was going to throw it away. I told him not to dare throw it away and rescued it out of the truck to keep it safe. There isn't much way that a crimping tool is going to go bad.
The guy who used to make most of our cables is in town this weekend and so he's going to try the crimping tool out. I have no doubt that it will work perfectly for him.
So this guy is ticked off at me because I don't believe his lame excuses.
We have a kitchen at the office and most of the dishes and cooking utensils are mine. Whenever I wash dishes, I run my fingers over the entire surface looking for rough spots that didn't wash off. From time to time I have to rewash one later, but only about once a month. The guy puts no effort into washing dishes. He basically just uses a scouring pad on them (not suitable for my dishes or my Visions cookware). I'm not sure he even uses soap. Nearly every dish he "washes" is still dirty. I don't know how he does it, but I had to wash one three times last weekend to get it clean. I've started removing some of my good stoneware dishes.
He now refuses to talk or stay in the same room as me. He's turning out to be a real a-hole. I'm not impressed at all.
By the way, the twit is 100% against taking any kind of medication or supplement, including vaccines. He claims that using antibiotics just reduces your immunity. He's also convinced that the army created lyme disease as a biological weapon. What a twit! I can't find anything of value in pretty much anything he says.
He and a friend of his now want to go hunting coyotes on the farm Saturday night. Either my younger brother or I can give permission. I said no -- we need more coyotes, not fewer, so that they can kill more mice. Because some mice around here carry hantavirus (untreated, about 95% mortality; treated adequately in a hospital, about 50% mortality), we need anything and everything that kills them. That includes coyotes, bobcats, and rattlesnakes.
I have no idea why they want to go out there at night. They have absolutely no idea where the property lines end and it is illegal to fire shots that cross property lines. And there may easily be cattle or horses on the other side of the fence. Or very expensive farm equipment such as tractors and combines and trucks. Or houses with people in them.
If they do hit something, you can bet that they are going to blame it on everyone but themselves.
09 Sep 2025, 7:25 pm
