Deal with this one.

[Spotted Owl]

New guys and everything that goes with that. I'm a stud timber faller, that type( oh boy). Workin away ears right next to the powerhead cleaning things up a bit can't hear anything. Start in on backen'er up. Look up and see a pecker pole lean right into my stick. Look back and the "stud" while I was down cleaning up, faced and backed a 12"er and leaned in right into what I was workin on. So now I have a leaner on what I was doing and that changed the whole game. To late to stop and change up so I sent them on their way and sold mine to the local Match CO. via a ground belly and two stumps and his rolled off and 180 bent a small maple. Had to drop a smallish fir into that to bust it down. No way in anything was I gonna touch that maple with a knife let alone a saw.

Then I got a big grin and a thumbs up for "good work".

How do you suppose this went. Remember now I was learned buy old school guys that were up in there 60s and one in early 70s, 20 years ago. I feel kinda bad and feel good, all at the same time. You guys that know will understand what it's like to chew a new guy so hard he starts to cry. Feels good cause ya still got it, and bad cause you just pulled some poor sap to tears(hopefully the message stuck).

Any how he left for the day after that, didn't tell anyone . His truck at the bottom mine at the top. So instead of a nice down hill walk to the commuter to catch a ride back to the top. It was a nice 3700' pack back to the top after we figured out he was gone. Nothing like a nice walk to calm you down and boil you up all at the same time, with the other guys asking what the heck, man what's going on, is there.

Told Mrs. about it when I got home and she was gonna call and chew him some more and tell him how close he came to making her a widow, to quote John Wayne, she has a fine color when she's on the scrap. That would have been bad so we just talked and she calmed down so did I. I think though next time she see's him in town all bets and gloves are gonna be off.

Another good day on the strip.



Owl

 

[2dogs]

You did the only thing you could do except walk away. Good day I'd say.

 

[Gologit]

Don't worry about the guy leaving. He shouldn't have closed the gap if you were working the same strip. And don't worry about yelling at him...it's better to piss him off than to pack him out.

If he left because he realized his mistake, and was embarrassed, maybe there's hope for him. If he left because he was mad about being yelled at for something he should have known better than to do you're better off without him.

 

[mile9socounty]

Negative criticism is better in the long run than an "atta boy" is. Getting your behind chewed royal and getting ticked is normally a good way of making a person rethink things. I bet half of us wouldn't be the person we are today if none of us had had their behinds chewed. Lord knows himself I have had my fair share. It puts the simple things that can be over look into a clear picture.

 

[madhatte]

Navy logic I try to follow: Praise in Public, Punish in Private. If the guy had done a great job, I would want to point him out as an example to the group. Since he screwed up, chewing him out one-on-one is the appropriate corrective measure. Not chewing him out could have resulted in somebody getting hurt later, had his bad habits continued to propagate unchecked. Good on you, Owl.