A friend of mine who owns a landscaping company says about a certain group of workers (you can use your imagination as to what group) that the ethos is this:
One guy will take 8 hours to dig a 20-foot ditch.
The next guy who works the job will take 8 hours to dig a 15-foot ditch.
A third guy will spend the 8 hours digging 10 feet of ditch.
A friend of mine who owns a landscaping company says about a certain group of workers (you can use your imagination as to what group) that the ethos is this:
One guy will take 8 hours to dig a 20-foot ditch.
The next guy who works the job will take 8 hours to dig a 15-foot ditch.
A third guy will spend the 8 hours digging 10 feet of ditch.
And be recognized by the first two as the smartest one.
While he said this about a certain immigrant culture, I have observed the same mentality among Teamsters of all races, all ethnicities. I know because I was one. And I was the one who pissed all the others off, because I'd finish my route 3 hours earlier than the other guys. I had a knife pulled on me, a guy telling me to knock it off, slow down. I didn't, then they started giving me the worst routes. Whatever. I'm never gonna be that person who takes a nap on the route. You literally can't pay me to do that!
A friend of mine who owns a landscaping company says about a certain group of workers (you can use your imagination as to what group) that the ethos is this:
One guy will take 8 hours to dig a 20-foot ditch.
The next guy who works the job will take 8 hours to dig a 15-foot ditch.
A third guy will spend the 8 hours digging 10 feet of ditch.
And be recognized by the first two as the smartest one.
While he said this about a certain immigrant culture, I have observed the same mentality among Teamsters of all races, all ethnicities. I know because I was one. And I was the one who pissed all the others off, because I'd finish my route 3 hours earlier than the other guys. I had a knife pulled on me, a guy telling me to knock it off, slow down. I didn't, then they started giving me the worst routes. Whatever. I'm never gonna be that person who takes a nap on the route. You literally can't pay me to do that!