Vacancy opportunity

[swinny]

39 minutes ago, Gray git said:

Enhance and prolong!
I know as have plenty of work related injuries and long term damage from years of slogging my arse of manually doing everything which is having a affect on my life everyday now.

You over half a century old yet lol ?

[Gray git]

Nope, that's the really worrying thing I started at 16 22 years ago, you do the maths...
Knee replacement here I come, steel pins holding my shoulder in place a back that can make putting socks on a interesting experience some days till I stretch it out

[eggsarascal]

25 minutes ago, Gray git said:

Nope, that's the really worrying thing I started at 16 22 years ago, you do the maths...
Knee replacement here I come, steel pins holding my shoulder in place a back that can make putting socks on a interesting experience some days till I stretch it out

Stop it, you'll have me in tears man.

[monkeybusiness]

I’m tempted to sack the lads, weigh in all my kit, ditch the wife and kids, move house and come and work for you tbh!!! 
Don’t lose hope - there are brilliant people out there (I’m lucky enough to have amazing guys working with me) but there are also many who just don’t ‘click’ (we’ve had our fair share of those too)...
Some very good at what they do, but just don’t ‘fit’ (in extremes they can be terrible for team morale - we’ve had a couple of excellent climbers who nobody wants to work with). Others who you’d be best mates in the world with outside work, but can’t be relied on to turn up when required/not wreck kit/etc etc. Others still who talk a good game and have everything possible on paper, but simply can’t do the job. 
There are also guys out there who arguably aren’t the best in the industry but I’d employ them tomorrow as they get stuck in, get on with everyone, don’t need watching and can be relied upon. There are yet others who could probably run the business better than me in reality, but I wouldn’t even employ them as brash draggers through direct or word-of-mouth experience of their work ethic. 
We’ve had work-experience lads here that you simply can’t believe are functioning human beings, yet I’ve crossed paths with others (admittedly not many) that I’d employ on the spot even though they have no tickets or industry experience (sadly I have a strong moral compass and won’t poach staff off anyone!).
@Gray git - I wasn’t aware of your family situation and understand your need to fill the gap ASAP to give yourself some breathing-space. Talk to your customers and explain your situation - they are human and will no doubt be invested in you and what you bring to the table. The ones that have no compassion you don’t need anyway so don’t lose any sleep if they go elsewhere.
Try to ‘triage’ the workload so your guys can handle the immediate stuff that can’t wait whilst you are focussed on much more important family matters. 

Don’t take on a totally new member of staff that you aren’t 100% happy with whilst you are spinning so many plates, it’ll just add to your workload/stress-levels. The right person will come along soon enough. 
(If you are really in the mire with a job before ‘Mr or Mrs Right’ appears give me a shout - I’ll send you some cracking lads up  as long as you promise not to steal them!). 

[Gray git]

I’m tempted to sack the lads, weigh in all my kit, ditch the wife and kids, move house and come and work for you tbh!!! 
Don’t lose hope - there are brilliant people out there (I’m lucky enough to have amazing guys working with me) but there are also many who just don’t ‘click’ (we’ve had our fair share of those too)...
Some very good at what they do, but just don’t ‘fit’ (in extremes they can be terrible for team morale - we’ve had a couple of excellent climbers who nobody wants to work with). Others who you’d be best mates in the world with outside work, but can’t be relied on to turn up when required/not wreck kit/etc etc. Others still who talk a good game and have everything possible on paper, but simply can’t do the job. 
There are also guys out there who arguably aren’t the best in the industry but I’d employ them tomorrow as they get stuck in, get on with everyone, don’t need watching and can be relied upon. There are yet others who could probably run the business better than me in reality, but I wouldn’t even employ them as brash draggers through direct or word-of-mouth experience of their work ethic. 
We’ve had work-experience lads here that you simply can’t believe are functioning human beings, yet I’ve crossed paths with others (admittedly not many) that I’d employ on the spot even though they have no tickets or industry experience (sadly I have a strong moral compass and won’t poach staff off anyone!).
@Gray git - I wasn’t aware of your family situation and understand your need to fill the gap ASAP to give yourself some breathing-space. Talk to your customers and explain your situation - they are human and will no doubt be invested in you and what you bring to the table. The ones that have no compassion you don’t need anyway so don’t lose any sleep if they go elsewhere.
Try to ‘triage’ the workload so your guys can handle the immediate stuff that can’t wait whilst you are focussed on much more important family matters. 
Don’t take on a totally new member of staff that you aren’t 100% happy with whilst you are spinning so many plates, it’ll just add to your workload/stress-levels. The right person will come along soon enough. 
(If you are really in the mire with a job before ‘Mr or Mrs Right’ appears give me a shout - I’ll send you some cracking lads up  as long as you promise not to steal them!). 

Thankyou.
I think I nodded in agreement the whole time I read that, so very true.
We are managing just about to keep all the plates spinning and a lot of clients have been very understanding but at times things just can't be put off, my good friend Mike off low impact forestry has dropped his stuff a few times to help fill a gap when I've suddenly found myself unavailable.

[timbernut]

So a month on have you had any joy?

[Gray git]

So a month on have you had any joy?

Yes at last we have found a lad who seems to fit nicely, he came for a week and just got on with stuff, experienced enough to be safe and not need watching but not arrogant so we can still reach our way of doing stuff.
He's relocating so we have had to wait a while till he'd managed to find somewhere to rent which in these strange times isn't as easy as it should be but hopefully next week we will be go go go.

[timbernut]

That’s great news![emoji106]