Usually my boss has pretty good guys to work with us for day labor.
- On the construction site, we usually just need people to handle jobs like cleaning up and carrying heavy items.
My boss goes to the day labor place and he hires a couple of guys from the crew that are standing outside in the morning. He pays them a little bit more than the day labor place and then he doesn’t have to pay any of the fees that the daily replace charges. For instance, the day labor place charges my boss $60 an hour for the workers. The workers only get paid $25 an hour and the rest of the money goes to the day labor place. My boss pays one of the guys $30 an hour and she saves a ton of money. Today my boss didn’t do a very good job with hiring the guys. I got stuck with a guy named Jack. Every time we took a break, the guy wanted to go out to the car to smoke. At first I thought he was smoking cigarettes, but he came back at lunch time and smelled like marijuana. I didn’t say a whole lot to that guy, because I use recreational marijuana too. It wasn’t very safe that he was getting high on the job, but I wasn’t surprised. At the end of the day, my boss asked me if the guy worked out well. He was going to use the guy for the rest of the week. I immediately told my boss that the guy was smoking marijuana all day and I did not think he was a very good fit for the construction site.