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ChairMan[_6_]

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

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