Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Have you worked with some real dumb people??

Boomers I have hired are the worse. More than anything they spend more effort trying to look busy and not doing anything than just doing the job. They generally get sacked real quick.

In my business stupid people don’t last. So, no.

One that comes to mind , although not work related .
Me and the ex was at a campground loading the canoe for a day of fishing . Our two dogs were in the river swimming around and chasing each other in and out of the water . A family pulled up and the mother and kids get out and are standing there in a half azz prayer stance , hands clasped in front smiling and talking about how precious that was .
I’m thinking “WTH are they talking about ?”
But ignored them and called the dogs and put them in the canoe .
The mother says “excuse me , but I have a question . How on earth did you teach them to do that?”
I give her a puzzled look and ask what are you talking about ?
She says “the dogs”
I said , huh ?
She apologizes for being nosey and says she just has to know .
Know what ?
With a smug look , how did you teach them to swim like that , that is incredible .
Again I look at her puzzled , are you serious ?
Well yes I would like to know .
I laughed and said , dogs just naturally know , he’ll just pick one up sometime and toss it in , it’ll swim .
With an exasperated look , oh no ! I would never do that to an animal !
Ex and I busted out laughing and started paddling away , she says , that’s rude ! I would like to know !
We laughed harder and she ushered her kids to the car .
Tags were from Maryland, nuff said .
Kenneth

And some smart folks.

Being self employed, yes.

Yes,thats why i both a gastric and a duodenal ulcers when i retired.
Between journymen not knowing how to read a ruler,a guy spraying the oxygen gauge with wd 40,to help it go on easier,another idiot telling me the actelyne
Gauge was broken because it wouldn t screw on.guys sawing away with a hacksaw with the blade on backwards,etc.guy telling me he really needed this job,he d been out of work 6 months,but he wasn t coming in on wed. Thur. Or fri. Because he was going on a ski trip.don t get me going.

I had a secretary ask me once while she was doing some filing: "What state is New Hampshire in?" "Uh, New Hampshire is a State." "No it isn't." "Uh, yes it is." "Well, where is it then?" "Next to Vermont, sorta looks like an upside down Vermont."

Coworker that thought chicken eggs were bleached white. Just one of the MANY

Yes, several along the way, and the drugs didn’t make them any smarter either.

Another, we're out working on a habitat study, supposed to collect samples of plant A and plant B. A couple of hours into it, his bags are empty. Upon questioning he says he can't find any.

I say, "what about the one you are standing on? "

He proclaims, "that's where I am standing NOT where I am looking!"

The dumbest people I ever met professionally were civil servants in the US Air Force and the US Navy. They were really dumb and hindered the mission. One time I was assigned to a 450-person program to design a certain missile. The feds couldn't just pay us and get on with it. They had to impose a micromanagement cost control system that had nothing to do with reality. So we had 122 people "controlling the costs." The USAF probably had that many people reading the meaningless reports we submitted.

I could cite many other stories. During the first Gulf War, I was amazed that any of our planes actually got into the air.

Years ago, there was a fancy clothes store here in Bedford, satellite of
the one in Cumberland Md. Both towns are on US 220.

A guy here needed a tux, and they called down around 10 AM to get one sent up,
guy said he would get the shop helper to run it right up. 30 miles, it would
be there in an hour.


A couple hours later, Bedford called down, and was told he left hours ago.
About 5, Cumberland called, they just got off the phone with him.
He was in New York! And still hadn't found Bedford!

So, they got him turned around, and had him call every hour.
When they knew he was close, they went to the center of town to flag him down.

The customer had to come in that night, and the seamstress had to work way
late to have the tux ready for the Saturday shindig.


That said, I know a guy who hooked to a trailer in Maine.
Pulled it to Cincinnati, then realized it was the wrong one.
This paper went to Georgia, his was still in Maine.

Numbers were close, I found it by walking around, took the papers
out of the box, then went and got the truck. I had the right papers.
Hooked to the wrong trailer. (We had dozens there)
Never, ever took the papers out of a trailer until I was hooked to it again.

I used to work with a guy who would mop the floor by splashing bleach everywhere and then took a dry mop and "mopped" the floor. No mop bucket with water, just bleach and a mop. The fumes about knocked all of us out.

I felt that way about millennials

In the army we called em " Leadership Challenges"...

Always laughed at other Sqd leaders and PSG,s when they had theirs.

Then when you had em the laugh was on you.
Some one or 2 task masters at a time, but had it down skill level overall.
Just not able to multitask complex stuff.
Good soldiers but not leadership material stress think on your feet types.
Good soldiers to reup and reclass into soft shell jobs and they actually become good leaders in rear echelon jobs from their Infantry time.
I had alot of soldiers like that and had some long talks with them how being a leader in Combat arms is not a good fit for them.
You approach good soldiers like that in a core inner way and they realize alot of stuff in a good way.
Some I had recommended up the chain of command to go to the E-5 board as a infantryman and become a e- 4 p before they left to go to their new job AIT from reenlistment and reclass.
Its a call on someones potential in many cases.
Some soldiers you know will do excellent in other jobs.
Just not combat arms and the stress with it at times.

Other soldiers require constant counseling, and attempts to teach coach and mentor just dont work.
Like working with a rotten tree stump.
Need constant supervision and checking up on.
Time eaters.........
Never go beyond e4
Not promoted with TIS TIG waivers
Do your time, get your honorable discharge.
You will never see the E-5 board in this unit.
I have a counseling file that will support it 100%


In civilian jobs
We just called em so and so,s son, cousin , nephew, or brother.

Untouchables checking the block from Nepotism that will get promoted soon no matter what they fugg up or cost a company.

Standing around bullschitting weekend stories and this young gal says she was at a wild party and this drunk hippy starts puking. Apparently she felt the need to hold back his long hair and happened to notice he puked up "an entire hot dog untouched by human teeth".

The secretary chimes in with, "Oh my God, the bun and everything?"

40 couple years ago I worked with some crazy guys , some pretty sorry .
Keith was one P.O.S. and dumber than shiet . Him , Waverly , and myself was setting in a company's truck on rain delay .
Keith is talking about how broke he is and needs money bad . So Waverly starts messing with Kieth about selling some time with his wife . I figure this is going to go south quick as Kieth had a 38 laying on the dash .
But Kieth actually starts thinking out loud how he would approach his wife about it .
The guy is disgusting , he is setting under the wheel , Waverly in the middle and me at the passenger door .
So finally Kieth decides this ain't going to fly with his wife .
Waverly then says , tell you what , take all the shells out except one , stick the gun to your head and pull the trigger , if you live , I'll give you 50.00 .
Kieth looks at Waverly and says m I don't know man , if it kills me the money won't do me any good .
Waverly puts the money back in his pocket , a few minutes go by and Kieth is looking at the gun and looking at Waverly . Finally , Kieth asks will you really give me the 50 ?
Waverly assures him and Kieth gets the gun down and unloads all but one round .
He is sweating , looks ahead with a blank stare and spins the cylinder . I see the bullet line up to rotate to fire when he pulls the trigger .
I reach over open the door and step out of the truck watching as he puts the gun to his head and Waverly grabbed his arm about time it leveled with his head and pulled his arm down.
Waverly says , look you would have been dead . Kieth looks at the revolver and says gee , I would have . Looks at me and says , how come you got out of the truck , told him I didn't want that shiet blown all over me .
He says dam man you would have let me shoot myself ?
I said ,Yeah , you that stupid , pull the trigger .
He was sweating and shaking as he layed the gun back on the dash .
We knocked off , Waverly didn't come back the next day and Kieth came back after a couple days .
I quit a week later and went to work in WVA and never saw Kieth or Waverly again .
Crazy world , Kenneth

I don't want to point fingers, but, here's a couple someone very, errr, close to me did trucking.

Delivered in SLC, supposed to get an empty 53' trailer and take it to Helena. I, ooops I mean, he, grabbed a 48' special trailer with a side door and took it all the way..

Another time, he (haha) got into a construction detour in the middle of the night in Fife WA and and it looked more familiar each of the three times around the circle! Finally had to ignore a couple of signs to get out of it.

Worked for a guy, who hired a guy, who had been in prison for 23 years, since he was 17. Guy told him he was an experienced carpenter. I had to explain where 3/8 was on a tape measure, in the “yeah, that mark between those two bigger marks, but not the smallest marks” vernacular. To this day, not sure who was dumber. The ex-con, experienced carpenter who couldn’t read a tape, or the idiot that hired a guy who spent his entire adult life in the pen as an experienced carpenter.

Roofing contractor friend of mine's crew stripped the roof off the wrong house in a very expensive neighborhood.

He's still bitter. Cost him alot of money.