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Sort of a first for me today.

It was the first time I had ever fired one of my children.


Richard boy opened the gate. My god......he opend the gate.....

I have reinforcements coming to help fix the wreck tomorrow.

Starting to calm down some now....and starting to feel lousy.


Trouble is that I know it wont be the last time. I was fired several times.


Anyone else?

Yep. My old man fired me numerous times for plowing too close to the fence line. I loved to see how close I could get without hooking the fence 🤠

Breive - breive jim . . . .

One of my many failings as a parent is a lack of patience.

It's part of the growing process. They have to learn that life brings responsibilities and their actions bring consequences. Both good ones and bad ones. They have to learn from both and get stronger. You are just doing your part, as a parent should.

Need clarification on "opened the gate" being a fireable offense.

Im paying emotionally now for my lack of patience with my kids when they were growing up when I spend too much time remembering or a memory just pops up. Makes me a better Grandfather I guess.

I save my anger for strangers now.

Ha! Having to open a closed gate might get you hollered at FC.

Trying to close a gate once all the cattle have gotten away might get you fired.




We were going to sort some calves out of our bred heifers.

The calves had rubbed a hole in the wind break. About a dozen of them got in with the bred heifers.


No biggie. Just bring the bunch out and put them in the alley way between both pens. Can sort either way.


Nyet. Richard opened the gate so that the whole shooting match went right by him and mixed back into the pen of calves.


So instead of sorting 12 calves out of 40 heifers we now have to sort 40 heifers out of 225 calves.


Grand scheme of things......meh. The very pinpoint scheme of things?????? Hole E schit!

you and me both.

I’ve been lucky, never been fired yet. I’ve had four jobs, quit the other three for another. I have been close twice where I’m at now. I had issues with a couple of guys they hired.

Is this 'Firing' just temporary, or a permanent thing?

If my father had 'fired' me permanently, for as small an infraction as opening a gate and letting out livestock, he would have lost the most loyal, dependable, (and free!) right hand he would likely ever have on our farm.

Consider it as a learning experience, one your son won't soon forget, just forgive and move on.

I was very patient with my kids after I smacked them.In fact they were lucky I was so lenient.My Old man used to strap me when I fugged up.They got spanked with an open hand.Now I suppose it would be jail time for that.

Gotcha Jim. Thought it was something like that.

Had a gate situation like while hunting Wyo.

Couple camps over left the gate open to the camping area next to the cattle local trough and of course they flooded in. Walked out of the tent one morning to heifer a eyeballing me.

Never did get them all out of the area but atleast bothered them enough to stay a few ditches over,

Tough love.

I come from the days when they had electric lawn mowers that had about 100 feet of cord. My dad bought it because they were supposed to spin faster than gas mowers and cut cleaner. There was a method of going in a circle and throwing the cord to the outside as you mowed. I cut that cord easily within the first 2 circles and got spanked and scolded my my dad. Why I couldn't mow like my older brother made him furious.

I was never allowed to mow the yard again, what a sacrifice that was...

Yep.

Is it really a firing offense, or a learning experience?

When I was a kid the crux of my and my father’s struggles centered on him being motivated toward the product of an activity/chore and me being motivated by the process. He just wanted it done, where I wanted to figure out the best way to do it.

I once fired my son for not showing up to work to help me install a giant pre-hung front door. Had to rassle that thing myself and it wasn't fun.

Fired him again on a big concrete pour that he missed. Forgot to set his alarm.

The third firing was for back talk.

All water under the bridge, he was young and rebellious. Like me I suppose.

We're inseparable fishing and hunting partners now.

I figured out pretty early on that if you weed eated too close to my step dads peach trees he would get frustrated enough to do it himself. And he thought I was the idiot for screwing it up every time...

Oh dear an engineer.

Fixed it!