whim

Somedays you do things on a whim. A few days ago, I mentioned to Carole that since I was going to have some body work done on my truck in a few days it would be nice to order a rear bunper that I damaged last year. We looked them up on ebay for a price, $200 -300 plus shipping, which seemed like kinda high. My son came by the computer about that time and said he visited a nice u-pull-it place in Horseheads. I looked their website up and they had just taken in a 2001Dakota that had been rolled over. I called them and they said they don't pull off parts untill you look at it. So on a whim, at 2:00pm I headed off to Horseheads to look at a bumper. Mapquest said 65 miles, but I drove right to the place. They had 25 rows of vehicles and a whole row of Dodge trucks and at least a couple with good rear bumpers. Their guy to pull them off was doing a transmission that day and I suggested to them that I wasn't going to drive back there the next day. So I borrowed some tools and it came off fine, and I came home with bumper for $42. An ovious great bargin. We have been working with a new employee that has some issues. From the get go we said he would be a project and that's for sure. His english skills are not great, so sometimes It makes hard to understand what he really means. His skills are good and he is very appreciative of everything you do for him. Now comes the but. He's been trying to take a course or two at the Community college and it meets during the day when he is supposed to be working. The one class is a Microsoft office class and it takes him a long time to prepare for the class. That's ok on his time but now the second problem. He was trying to get into an English as a second language class, the only problem was that it met twice a week at 11:00am?? It would seem to me that anyone that would be taking the class would also be working during that time of day. I think the lack of good english skills makes the computer class prep. go slower too. Us, as a team, have been trying to work around these challenges, but he is a new employee. He is taking a lot of advantages of the system which the more tenured employee's are becoming less toleratant of. I would hope that his common sense would get better, which would lead to the realizeation that he is not pulled his fair load. Again a blog is just my two cents......