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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts
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To: robert b furman who wrote (9994)6/22/2020 12:22:06 PM
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I know you used to manage quite a few employees and I'll bet you were good at it. I always thought that was probably one of the keys to a successful business.

This is a bit OT but worth telling...an example of how not to manage employees and maybe why so many young people don't keep their jobs very long.
Yesterday I hauled the last of my cattle over to my partner's place in eastern NM in the ranch country. They have grass there with likely more good rain coming tomorrow. We have nothing but grasshoppers. Its gotten so bad the big hoppers are eating the little ones. Drove 200 miles and hardly saw a cow. Dried up desolate pastures. Anyway, just as I pulled up to his gate, he was talking to a young fellow wearing a mask driving a strange looking little company car. This fellow was heavily tattoed and black. My partner and his son were both visibly displaying guns. My partner, who is a middle aged cowboy fellow and a very fine person, was lecturing the young guy but also stopping to pat him on the back and reassure him it was well meant. My partner does his banking with a coffee can. He's an old school type who grew up riding and roping for his grandpa and knows about everything one can know about a cow. But he's not into credit cards. So he decided maybe he needed to establish some credit officially so he bought tires for two trucks and did so through a rent to own company. He doesn't go into town often...waited until the last day this month to make a payment on the tires. The credit company sent this kid out to collect or repo the tires...a day early in this case. The kid waits by the gate for an hour wearing his Covid mask like instructed. The gate is a half mile from the house. My partner is watching through his riflescope and sees a tattoed young black fellow wearing a mask standing by his gate. SO he and his son gun up and head down. The kid sees these two cowboy types with guns approaching him and he's shaking with fear. He found out what the young fellow wanted, explained he had just paid, and then passed on some advice. Nobody in Roosevelt County is wearing that stupid mask. If you have business, take the mask off and drive in officially, etc.

Hard to imagine a company sending a single, young minority fellow out to these ranches to take back tires with an inaccurate list and instructing them to wear a mask in the process. Poor kid. Wonder if he keeps that job.

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