'He has a massive superiority complex': Nepo baby faces off with entitled repairman

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    Rectangle - 'I get to explain to both OSHA and our insurance how we managed to damage over 70k in equipment'
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    Font - I was the Boss's son, had an entitled employee on my crew make a mistake. Super long so apologies
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    Font - A little background. My father owns a telecommunications repair company and before that he worked in the industry for years and since I hated daycare I spent every summer helping him and learning to weld, rig cellphone tower antennaes, shit like that. By the time I was 19 and dropped out of college I decided to go get my certifications and ask my dad for a job.
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    Font - Well he got a huge contract and hired five brand new guys with myself and another veteran thats been working for him for years as crew leads to run all the repair projects. I end up with this massive dbag who got fired from multiple different physical therapy clinics and is now 40 and unhireable by any other industry, but he has a massive superiority complex cause he has a bachelors and that somehow makes him better than tradesmen. On to the story. Me: Me, CL: The other crew lead, DB: d b
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    Font - We are on the first site on the first day of a job for a major client taking down old antennaes and putting up new ones. CL and I drive up to the site after morning meetings at the hotel with my dad and the client over Skype and we've brought lunch for everyone. CL realizes that he forgot his hard hat at the hotel and tells me he'll be back in half an hour. No big deal, its a simple job that I've done before with my dad. I drop the sandwiches in the refrigerated server room and go over to
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    Font - Me: Hey DB I think you've got your fasteners on backwards (the fasteners have to be perfect cause the higher the antenna gets, the more wind, the more tension on the winch) DB: They're fine Me: No they're definitely backwards
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    Font - DB: They're fing fine. Go the away bootlicker. (Guess that was his derogatory for me being the boss's kid) Me: No, they're backwards and by the time it gets up there the winch is gonna slip and that antenna is gonna drop. Bring it back down and fix it.
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    Font - DB: I don't have to do s for someone who's half my age and couldn't make it through a year of college. Only reason you're here is you're daddy's kid and can't make it in the real world.
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    Font - Right as he finishes the sentence I hear the winch crack so I grab DB and run both of us into the server shelter (smashing all the sandwiches in the process) while the winch flies out of the hitch mount and the antenna drops like a rock onto the truck, carving straight through the cab and into the ground underneath.
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    Font - Me: Ah f, so you can't rig right and don't have the common sense to put the pin in to secure the winch to the truck? DB: There's no way that was my fault
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    Font - Me: Not only is it your fault, but now I get to explain to both OSHA and our insurance how we managed to damage over 70k in equipment and 30k in our client's equipment in the first day on this job.
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    Font - I spent the rest of the day calling OSHA, my dad, our insurance, and my mother (our accountant) to make sure that all the right reports get filed and our aes are covered on all bases. I'm assuring the other crew guys their paychecks aren't going to be affected and that I'll get them more sandwiches. After the end of day reports are finished my dad calls me up and tells me to fire DB for negligence. So I go up to him.
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    Font - Me: Hey. You're being let go. Sorry, but this incident is just something we can't afford to happen again, and since it was obviously- DB: You can't fire me. CL: Pretty sure he can fire you. And if you don't believe him, I'll fire you. If you don't believe either of us we can go see the boss tomorrow. DB: F it let's go talk to the boss. Right now. (Its like 4pm)
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    Font - We drive three hours, interrupt my family's dinner, and then sit there smugly on the couch in my dads home office while he literally screams at this guy about costing him 100k and maybe a lost contract and basically tells the guy he's filing a civil suit for negligence since I specifically came and told him he was doing something incorrectly.
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    Font - DB: What the fi He's just a kid. does he know. Dad: I taught him how to rig a winch when he was ght and he did it right. You're a 40 year old man who managed to crush an entire truck. Get the fuck out of my house.
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    Font - Yuunof York This is a good one. How much did his insurance go up, and did literally any of that get offset from the suit?
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    Font - roktol OP We were able to prove to the insurance company that with him gone there was no reason our rates should go up since CL and I had pretty solid records as crew leads and that was our first incident in two years. My dads company actually has one of the cleanest incident records in the industry cause he focuses on training and safety more than profits.
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    Font - roadrager 10 I like how a f in eight year old could rig an anttena correctly and a forty somthing year old cant.
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    Font - UknownTiger39. That probably the best bit, the guy thinks bc he's older it means he knows better
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    Font - bu tmagnuson I appreciate the thoughtfulness of sammiches in this story. 53 Reply Share roktol OP I splurged for Mancinos and got everyone a full sandwich which is 18 inches of meaty goodness.
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    Font - gobe1904 That guy got what he deserved. Safety first!
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    Font - bp_on_reddit who got fired by multiple different physical therapy clinics I know it's a different industry, but why would your dad hire someone with such a bad track record?
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    Font - roktol OP We tend to take just about anyone who can read in our industry due to massive turnover rates and a lack of people willing to risk their neck for a cellphone company. We actually end up with a lot of felons, former military, and people who couldn't behave at a more corporate job. Our philosophy is that if they turn out to be good workers then who cares about their past. If they don't then we just wait for a contract to end and don't sign them for the next project.
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    Font - Myloveki s We drive three hours..."...Get the out of my f house." So, that was a fun 3 hour return trip?!
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    Font - roktol OP I just went up to the guest room (my old room) and fell asleep. An incident like this meant that everyone gets called back to the office and we go through like fifty safety briefs for the rest of the week. CL said he'd handle getting everyone else home and didn't feel the need to make me sit in the truck with DB on the way back.
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    Font - Liquid_Hate_Train How'd the suit go? 22 Reply Share roktol OP We settled out of court. Guy tried to claim that it was me distracting him that caused him to fail to secure the winch to the truck. Even though he already had the antenna 150 feet up by the time I got there.
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    Font - MrMultiversity2 So, age doesn't always equal wisdom.
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    Font - TheCrooner One thing that seems to have been missed... I think you saved DB's life. Had you not been there, noticed the issue and pulled him away, God knows what would have happened to him. If anything that should have humbled him and he should have been thankful for you saving his life or preventing him from getting injured! OP, you have great presence of mind and I think your tradies feel safe you being around, for that quick act! Great job on that!!

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