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J. Clarke
 
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Eradicate Sampson wrote:

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:02:10 -0600, "bob"
wrote:

Damn those Hitachi nail guns. Sue the *******s.

Seriously, it is easy to spot the problems with this accident:
1) shooting a nail into concrete with a nail gun points to no training for
the employee. There are specialized tools for this.
2) three weeks on the job. Sounds like a day laborer to me. No training.
Asking for problems.
3) originally from Mexico. Possible language barrier. I had some Indian
programmers working for me once. No matter what I asked them to do, the
answer was "I can do dat. I can do dat.". They could not do dat as I
later found out.


Why then were they working for you if they couldn't "do dat"?

Didn't you screen them?


Don't know about where he worked, but in most businesses of any size the
line supervisor doesn't get to make hiring decisions.

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