as being assertive or just beyond assertive i always felt like the people in in in the military make good people uh operators for for this industry i'm not a military background but you have to be assertive you can't be wishy-washy people need direction uh you've got field guys they're like you know you got your foreman he's like a sergeant and you're the captain you're the officer you're the you…
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and the plan, and they will follow you through. And you can't be wishy-washy about your plan. You have to be direct.
And if somebody is not following your directions, you have to correct them like in the military.
You're kind of smirking there. What does that mean? Just discipline them clearly and quickly?
You have to let them know clearly, yeah. Especially in construction, safety is an issue. Work is an issue. I tell you when I hire new guys, the first thing I tell them is like, hey, sometimes there's issues out there.
There's one contractor doesn't like another contractor. A lot of people are working together. They're rubbing shoulders.
No matter what happens, there will be no issues on my job site. If you're wearing my shirt, you will clock out. You will take the day off.
Sure, go meet the guy down the street if you want, but not on my clock, not in my project site, because if we get kicked off the job, I don't get paid. You might still get paid because that's the law, but I'm not going to be happy.
Okay, Enrique, wait, hold on. Hold on for a second. So in construction land, fights between contractors, different contractors on the same site break out sometimes.
No, no, no, no, never. No, there's a lot of, everybody gets kicked off the job if there's any sort of issue. Everybody knows that.
And if you would have something like that once, you're off, you know, you'll find a new job. No, nobody does that. But it happens on rare occasions.
People rub them the wrong way. And you have to cool the situation. It happens. It's happened. It's happened. Yeah. Okay.
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