Agreed, Sean. You are not.
No slam, just a fact that you have readily acknowledged before.
Now I'm not making any concrete statement...I'll leave it for you to consider, as I know you to be an extremely intelligent and introspective man...but maybe there is a connection between this thread's observations by you and me, and this one by our friend Mick, who admittedly can be a bit rough in his approach
...
Maybe thoroughly clear communications challenge you on other fronts besides posting here...
Just a thought; always on your side, my friend.
Here, typing, multi-tasking, coffee, emailing, surfing multiple sites at once, doing admin work while doing this and that, with Dahlia in the background, at times, I don't take the care or have the focus that I do on jobsites, nor am I as articulate, when rushed. If I wake up at 2 in the morning, wide-ish away, and do some surfing, definitely not so clear.
Like a lot of guys having some beers after work, I'll burn one down and surf. Not the same focus as at work, where my 'living' is on the line.
No matter what I say, some guys that will stand out of sight on the other side of the truck, and start talking to me my while I'm busy working, tracking 5 things at once, asking "Do you want this, in there?", don't get it. I've started ignoring it, rather than ask them, "Sorry, I was busy concentrating over here. Do I want which 'this', in which 'there'?" or say, "No, just bring everything to the back end of the truck, like I asked you to, and you said 'ok'. Please bring everything to the truck. Plan the work, work the plan."
If I was sitting at my desk, at the computer, phone to my ear, someone wouldn't barge into the office, and start talking to me about unimportant, extremely vague things, unless their brain is not very sharp.
I've had to tell an employee who kept trying to talk to me while I was texting a customer, holding the phone up in front of me, "I'm conducting business right now, is it important that you interrupt this communication with a customer. I'm obviously using my phone, I'm not listening to you. Please let me finish the work I'm doing."
or
hide behind things when told to stand out in open so I don't have to wonder where they are when dropping killer pieces from the sky, if they are in any vicinity of the dropzone.
and
I still only have one 'driver's side', and one 'passenger side', and literal measurements of distance for moving equipment with guidance.
When I worked at State Parks, my co-worker/ supervisor was a 40-year experienced professional, we kicked ass and took names like no-other Arbor Crew team in a long while, at the least (mostly my supervisor dealt with 'helpers' as his team-mate, aka drunk guy, not the brightest guy, couldn't climb out of the bucket or fell easy trees-guy, the guy who almost whalloped him in the head with a bag of 5/8" stable braid.)
Unfortunately, that place was guarded by the wolves, and my boss was a ph.D, trying to run logging shows at times, expecting us to make miracles happen with rot-rotted honkers, with a 40 y.o., 65 HP Garrett 15 or 16 skidder.
No rookie bullshit. No sneaking off to text someone. No Space Cadet's on the launch pad.
Unfortunately, I don't work well with low-functioning, low-skilled people, who space out, and can't remember things well.
My current employee is quick on the pick-up, and tells me how good of a teacher I am, and how much he's learned by watching my cutting (oh, pat myself on the back, a low-skill guy is impressed by a high-skill guy, right
) and showing him so many ways to work smarter and easier.
He doesn't go, "I know. I know. I know.", when he doesn't. Usually a great sign of some who doesn't know, and can't be taught.
If I started, "I know. I know. I know.", to Kyle, who was teaching me to weld, what would I expect from him. I'd expect him to hand me the welding gear (don't even know what the welder-thingy is properly called), and watch, or tell me to STFU, and open my eyes and ears. I'd rather he say, "I'm training your because you don't know what you're doing, and I'm the pro. Pay attention."
If I didn't pay attention, or listen to my skilled supervisor, I'd expect to hear, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass, and never come back!"
My punctuation can be atrocious when I'm rushing, online; I do know how to use a semicolon in both main ways, although, don't always do so when distracted, rushed, multi-tasking, or for clarity.
I often use "its" when the proper contraction is "it's". ITS is the possessive. IT'S is the contraction of it is, IIRC.
Quotes, particularly within multi-clause sentences, are not my strongest area of punctuation, either. Multiple-clause sentences, with appositives mixed within, don't make the clearest internet reading. Granted.
When it's important to be clear, I take the time to make it clear, when I'm not buzzing from strong coffee and an empty stomach.
Dahlia just work up. Time for making breakfast.
