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Leon[_7_]

On 4/19/2017 2:55 AM, wrote:
How sad to see this humble blue collar man's death become a ****
storm of pontificating bull****.

Ed is the only one that has noted the sadness of this man's passing.

I think of so many one/two man companies I work with that have
service guys that are divorced, their kids are grown or moved away,
and yet they still get up every day and do something useful without
prompting. The could easily be Chris King on any given day.

I work about 40 to 50% of the time on homes and small commercial
sites that have no one at home, no one to check in with, and I climb
on roofs to do estimates, work on roofs for repairs, go high on
ladders to examine repairs and take pictures for reports, etc.
Sometimes I never see my clients, we just email and text. It was
strange at first being a completely one man show that is responsible
for every aspect of the work from estimating to completion. Doing
that for a couple of decades though, you get used to it. I realize
that I could be hurt (and have been) badly when there is no one to
help. Poor Chris was doomed, and going to work that day, doing that
job was his undoing.

Seeing this thread about what could have/should have/ought to have
been makes me glad I don't work that much with others. The guy is
dead for crying out loud. He was just making a living. And
apparently (after reading a bit) he died the way he lived, he just
went away. He didn't seem like the guy that expected much out of
life from what I read, but as pointed out was there to help others.

If only you guys had been there to advise him and the people around
him on how to act, what to do professionally, and how to interface
with the world, letting him know of his shortcomings and personal
responsibilities. With this kind of advice, he might have jumped off
the damn roof.

It seems that these threads of bickering self righteousness get at
least 10X the interest than any wood working thread do these days.

Robert

A lot of "Posers" here. A few here, and myself, as do you Robert, share
what we do. I do not give much notice to those that argue for the sake
of doing so. Few step up to actually show their work or to be helpful
in any way. Sad.