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Big meanie

I had to be the mean boss last week.  I still am sprised someone tried to challenge me on something as simple as, "sit here all day and watch all the safety training videos."  Some how some one fell through the cracks on that and never completed the safety training we require.  He spent almost the entire shift giving me reason after reason why he didn't have to do and how he had all these safety certifications from another job that are endorsed by OSHA.

I sure didn't want a wasted day of someone not getting things done because they missed their safety training during their hire on but when the tuber boss says do it, just do it.  I hated saying it but eventually I told him that I gave him permission to skip all his regular work so that he could focus on getting this done and out of the way but if he wasn't going to do it he could go home.

What real kills me about it is that I really felt like this one of the guys on the team that understood what I am doing with our program and wanted to be on board with it.  So getting a full day of defiance from him really threw me off.  Has just been "trying to get in good with the boss" this while time just so he can avoid regular work or are his interests in the direction I want us to get to genuine.  Now I am less sure.

I also had to get on someone else that decided over the weekend that even though they agreed to work all weekend, they didn't really have to and calling in 15 minutes before their night of the weekend was about to start was good enough advanced warning.

On the plus side the data is starting to show that some of the changes I am making are working so I am excited that my data driven decision method is starting show that it really will work.

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