It Never ceases to amaze me how people that are looking to work soooooo damn bad can’t figure out how to show up for work on time. This case is even more annoying than most of the annoying ex-employee issues that come around.

Now most of the time you setup interviews and people either show up mega late or don’t show up at all, Im always thankful for those interview types because it’s simple…. Short interview and never see ya again, good luck finding a job somewhere. However there’s a special breed out there that actually shows up and gives a great interview, and most importantly they are on time. This is where I get confused, after going through all of the trouble to show up, than be on time and than to top if off give a great interview…… than blow it on your first day of work or not show up at all for work. Why would anyone waste their time and MINE? Seriously why are you going to bother to do all of the above than decide to blow it when it counts most, doesn’t make much sense to me.

I guess if nothing else I should be excited about Duh Duh Duh…. Never mind I will be nice, but I should be excited I mean it motivated me to write this blog post even with the shitty hand. Till next time kiddies if your going to shower, get all purtied up and show up on time for your interview if ya get the job don’t blow it when it counts most.

Extreme John’s Interview Tips

1) Think. Think about the job your applying for before you even waste anyone’s time doing an interview, not every job is for every person don’t apply for jobs that aren’t for you.

2) Be on time. Ummm yeah seriously be on time, no decent minded real Manager or Owner is going to hire an idiot that can’t show up on time for their interview.

3) Listen. Of course your expected to “Talk” at an Interview, but there is nothing worse than listening to someone in an Interview answer the question like an idiot because they did not let the inteviewer complete the question or listen to the details of the question.

I know your somewhere out there hiding in a closet somewhere or ridin in a new whip in a new place with the scam money you tucked away in your accounts. I also know that your eggo was always bigger than mine which means your scurrying out of the closet to see what people are saying about you on the web and read the latest, which is exactly why Im writing this blog post….. Just for you, since emails dont seem like something you plan on using and you deactivated your cell phone so I figured I would write you my “Hey James” letter.

I just got done looking at a picture of you, it’s at my pad and your fucking destroyed… Drunk as can be, and I mean that drunk place we all can get to sometimes when your face just reads “exhausted”. The picture said everything about this situation without saying an actual word, for a second In thouht god damn I feel so bad for you bro so fuckin bad I can’t even put it into words. Than on the other hand I thought, “What a stupid fuck.” Not in the “I hate your guts” type of way but in a chuckle kind of way, the way I would have said it to you had you been standing in front of me when I heard the news. Is greed that important that you need to do what you did? All of the real hard work, time guts and pain right in the shitter for something so fuckin stupid it cost you everything?

Enough of that there’s a 10,000 other people that are going to judge you, you don’t need me doing it to ya and I still consider you s friend. A friend that let the greed take him over, a friend that forgot where he came from, a friend that forgot who got them started, a friend that stayed at my place many times… Chilled with my family and my friends. Now the part that I have been going back and forth about is the part where all this shit went down and you couldn’t take two fucking seconds to shoot a quick text a quick email a quick phone call a quick anything?? Im sorry bro but I even tried to make an excuse for you on this one too, “Maybe he was just so paniced he was trying to get out of town.” , “Maybe he thought it would involve me somehow.” but the reality is that there is no excuse why you would be such an incensative rotten selfish spineless pathetic fuck. It was a bitch move, period.

Im not mad at ya James, I think deep down inside the guy I met a long ass time ago is still somwhere inside of you I just hope it’s not too late for you to find him again. I wish you the best through these hard times and I hope wherever you are your driving your dream car and living in your dream home, or on that dream island and I also hope you can get back on top of things and most importantly hopefully not have to spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder. Don’t worry about any of us or me, you know like I did when I called you about the Hurricane and your Family? You know the people that you fucked over with their business’s on the line and shit, it’s cool. Your true friends will let it slide but never forget, if you can ever get out of the closet or wherever you might be give me a shout. Good luck.

This is a topic that I could probably go on about for a long time, I am going to do my best not to do that but no promises. This is a topic I know a lot of you will have a lot in common with because it involves “Friends“, “Homeboys“, Homegirl”, Homeslices” or whatever else you might refer to them as. Everyone has them, everyone has had friends they are no longer friends with for one reason or another and everyone has that back stabbing, fake to your face asshole of a “Friend” as well.

Through the years and working for other companies it seemed you always ended up friends with whoever you worked with and some of those friendships continue through the years even after you don’t work there anymore. Once I started my own business things changed, when starting your own business you typically hire people you know which includes a few Family members and of course “Friends”. Seems that most other people that I know that own business’s also follow or followed the same foot steps.

I am happy to know I am not the only one that starts a business and makes this mistake. Those of you that don’t own a business are sitting there wondering why I would say that hiring “Friends” is a mistake, I will be more than happy to explain why in this post. We have owned out own business now for a little over seven years, in that time I have hired around eight “Friends” or what I would have considered really good friends.

You will quickly learn in business that hiring “Friends” just doesn’t work out, before owning my own business, hiring my own friends and th experience of dealing with those friends in the work place I would have automatically assumed that in hearing from other’s business disasters when it came to hiring their friends that those issues were typically because the owner changed. Knowing what I know today through experiences of hiring “Friends” is that I couldn’t have been more incorrect with my assumption. What I have seen through the years is that it’s typically the “Friend” Employee that changes and not the “Friend” Owner. I have seen friends decide that for some reason or another they have a right to own a portion of the business, the very business I poured money, time, energy and emotion into for years. I have seen “Friends” sit behind a desk and be completely useless for extended periods of time, as if they would accept it if they stopped getting paid for extended periods of time and be o.k with it. I have seen “Friends” jump through hoops and run around with their mouth open ready to do whatever to get what they want, meanwhile if you ask them to do something they have no problem putting it to the side or blowing it off, than when you bring it up to them they give you some three year old excuse as to why it didn’t get done and they sit there and believe you actually bought their bullshit. I have seen these same “Friends” fall asleep at their desk, come in late for their normal shift but be right on the dinner bell like a fucking union worker when it’s time to go home.

The amazing thing about these “friends” is that they constantly feel they have a right to be paid more money simply because they are your “Friend” or because they have been a fixture in your life for some period of time. The same people I am referring to when I say “Friends” are the same people we have taken to places like Jamaica, Antigua, Cozumel, Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, and Vegas time and time again. The same people you treated to 1000’s of drinks, 100’s of meals, a place to stay and made them part of your family for years than decide for no good reason that they can come and go as they please, talk shit about you behind your back and get to a point where they can’t even respond to invitations to parties or events because they got wrapped up in situations where they no longer have control of their own situations, or better yet they don’t even have enough self respect and class to include people that included them in EVERYTHING for years, in anything they do… fuckin jokes for human beings.. These same great “Friends” that call you when their bitch dumps them and they want to go out on the hunt, these same people that will stand and point and say someone else changed are truly the one’s that changed.

This Young Buck song War with your Homeboys has some lyrics that match up to some of the many Business and Non Business related Friends I have seen through the years, wrapped up with the perfect corus… “Smile in your face, all the time they wanna take your place. Backstabbers, Backstabbers.”

My father always told me when I was a kid and I thought I was hot shit with a bunch of “Friends” that I had no idea what “Friends” were and I would learn, he always said, “You think you hot shit with all of your Friends, just wait and see how many of those friends are still around in Ten Years, if your still talking to them after ten years than call them your friends.” My father pretty much nailed it on the head, his years might have been a little off but regardless his point is understood. To those “friends” of the past I have no regrets I take it all in stride, trust me it was a learning experience and there were certainly some great memories in there. If anything I can only hope that in time those people will sit back and think, “Ya know he really hasn’t ever done a fucking thing to me, but I’ve done some shitty things to him.” Most of them won’t ever say it and most of them aren’t man enough to even think it, but deep down inside they know it’s true which makes me completely cool with it.

Closing this one up it’s really sad, it’s sad that because of others owners typically have to change how they really intended and enjoyed doing business in the beginning because of others actions. If everyone stuck to the game plan that was part of the package when things first started everything would have been much different. It’s sad to have those people you treated and thought of as extended family members decide that for all the wrong reasons they stepped outside of the extended family and took a position against that same family that would have taken a bullet for you. If only they would think about that, think about how many times THIS GUY bent over backwards for your ass and while he was bending over backwards you were sharpening your back stabbing knife to stick in my back only AFTER you got what you wanted, and they get plenty…. Flights, Money, Gifts, Trips to see family, “Loans” they never pay off, games whatever else is convenient for them.

Boys and girls do yourself a favor and don’t hire friends and family, neither can really handle the pressures of everyday business and in time they will assume the “World owes me” position which will begin to destroy the relationships you only hoped would grow from the experience. This is not limited to just hiring friends and this post isn’t solely about the friends and family I have hired that actually do kick some serious ass and we continue to have great relationships, it includes those fake fucks everyone has come across in their life, only calling when they need something and it’s convenient for them, and it includes the Back Stabbers who know exactly who they are. To the true friends I love you baby, you know who you are. To all you Fake, Unappreciative, Using, Back Stabbing fucks , your gonna get yours, I promise you will and your going to sit back and think, “Wow I really fucked myself.” and I will think, “Finally the fakes are out of my life” and breath a nice clean breath of fresh air.

You constantly hear me talk about all kinds of different situations and the people I go through some of those situations with. You have seen me rip a few people and respond to a few people that run their mouth about shit when they hardly have room to talk.

Even with the different things I seem to write about, I have yet to write about someone I truly would have liked to punch right in the head. Trust me when I tell you I will be the first to admit that I have a short fuse, I have one of those strange short fuses that forces me to give people a couple of more chances before I really want to get crazy. This is something I told myself going into 2008 I wouldn’t do anymore, but for some reason I still have the issue of letting the assholes get away with more murder than they should ever be allowed to.

Getting into the topic at hand it’s always been funny to me how there’s some employee’s who spend more time worrying about everyone else and what those people are doing instead of worrying about their own shit. I know you know exactly who I am talking about, they sit there and bitch and complain about their co-workers, the same co-workers that would cover their back in a seconds notice. The one that feels the urge to judge everyone else’s work output when they can’t even show a consistent output on their own. The employee that calls in sick but has no problem when they miss a day, two or three. The one that has no problems working an 8 hour bankers shift with 100 breaks to smoke, run errands or whatever else but the minute one of their co-workers needs to run an errand or works any hours outside of their’s they want to start ranting and raving and throwing little bitch fits. So fucking cute it makes ya wanna bust a watermelon with a baseball bat.

When it comes to the size of the fit and these types of people the fit is always the same, way over the top, way out of line, beyond stupid and certainly not something someone wants to deal with more than once, especially an Employer. I mean where in reality and the work place does a co-worker have the right to judge, question or bitch about another co-worker? Is it really their place or should they maybe focus on doing the job they were suppose to do in the first place? It makes me think back to when I WORKED FOR OTHERS and I know I could stand here in front of any of the people I worked with that sucked balls and say, “When you worked with me and you sucked, didn’t I tell you when I had an issue with you?” I am also comfortable those people would say ,”Yes.” I am also comfortable those people would say I approached the issue and addressed the issue in a professional manor, never acting like a fucking four year old about it. Now I can’t say those people liked me or liked working with me, however I really didn’t give a shit, I mean think about it, I was hired to do a job…. Yup do a job, nothing else. I didn’t get hired to fuck around, cry like a baby about petty shit, sweat the small shit or give the managers or owners I worked for any bullshit, again I was hired to do a job.

With that said it could be a much better place in my opinion if people that accepted a job for a certain pay, stuck to their end of the bargain and did THEIR job instead of doing all of the other things that they were NOT hired to do. Of course I believe the employer has a responsibility to make sure those employee’s that do their job get paid when they are suppose to be paid, seems like a pretty simple relationship, for some. Fact of the matter is that the last time I came in contact with someone that acted that way it was my cousin, he no longer works for me from that point forward and I wouldn’t hire him again, not because I don’t like him but because I have learned Don’t Hire Family and “Friends” it only kicks you in the ass in the end. Let this be a lesson boys and girls, sometimes when you feel you need to address something that you probably don’t have a right to address at least do it in a professional way, screaming, kicking and pouting only got you what you wanted when you were a baby, it doesn’t work in big people world.

This will be another installment you can file under “What’s wrong with people?” file or your “Job Security” file. I have been doing some different business things lately and one of the things I am noticing with a bunch of the changes is that some people really don’t think when it comes to their job, position, title or chance for advancement or pay increase. Shit I know some that can’t even figure out that when you ask for a raise it means you actually did work to EARN the raise you got and that raise is based on continuing to grow and prove yourself moving forward. Instead some people take it as the raise that was owed to them or that they should have gotten because they have been standing around the longer than anyone else. I can write an entire blog post about people and their thought process when it comes to working so I will save that for the next dance.

Right now I want to focus on a different type of Employee, it’s the employee that for some reason has decided through time that their new goal is to accomplish and be responsible for as little as possible. In basic short terms the employee that doesn’t mind giving up portions of their job to fellow employee’s and not because they were promoted or put into a position to do so.

I can understand being lazy, and I am not saying I accept it, fact of the matter is I always hated working side by side lazy employee’s when I worked for Home Depot for 10 years, and I hate lazy ass employee’s now. Being lazy isn’t the problem though, it’s being stupid that’s the problem. I mean really let’s call it what it is, if you are being paid to do a job and maybe that job consists of 100 things. If you start to pull things away and decrease that number to let’s say 20 things and the employee thinks it’s great, in reality isn’t that employee only doing 20% of what you pay them to do? That’s putting it plain and simple and in a VERY generic form and the fact of the matter is, that is how it is and it’s a pretty good reality to base it on as well.

Not only would I be concerned if someone took portions of my job away and gave them to someone else, but I can assure you I wouldn’t be fucking happy about it. How can you be happy about being given less work to do on a daily basis? Doesn’t it make the day go slower when you have less to do? Isn’t it harder to stay self motivated if you have less options in regards to the things you put your hands on over the course of a day? Bottom line I would certainly be wondering what else I could do to help out the company and have a good attitude about where I can contribute so that I can continue to prove myself and continue to make more money, especially if I had a family at the time. For those of you that go to work, enjoy work, and are constantly looking for more to do so you can be an asset to your company do yourself a favor and pat yourself on the back and celebrate that your not like the employee type I mentioned above. People, giving your job away puts your job at risk don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.