This morning, the service manager called me aside and told me that he has offered a job to Manuel. Manuel worked for us for about five years and left about the same time Ronnie did. He left due to difficulty with this same service manager. I trained Mannie in his first job, then again for the job to which he was promoted. The service manager kept assigning him stuff from his first job, so Mannie left to go with a competitor as an alarm tech rather than a mechanical systems installer.

The competitor has been bought out by a huge construction conglomerate, and the bean counters are now in charge. They are driving everyone over there crazy with multiple levels of petty managers who do not really understand the work we do.

It will be great to get Mannie back. He is good at his job, very dependable and easy to work with. It will also cut my time on 24 hour call from two weeks out of six to two weeks out of eight.

Everyone wins!