Frank
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Nick
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Alright
do we have our contract? Good Okey dokey - Nick?
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Yes
I have guy, that I, a number of businesses I work with and one of
them I have a guy I work with which absolutely drives me crazy
because our ways of operating are so different and he what he
tends, he um set up a business and how he tends to work in
relation to the business is often very reactive or procrastinates
horrendously so we don't seem to find any middle ground in
anything.
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So
you have to things his way.
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Well
that means the company doesn't progress in any particular useful
direction
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Well
whose company is it?
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Both
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Well
who got there firstest with the mostest
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Ah
well that would be him
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Him,
you're both equal so whose more equal than whom
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Well
that depends on ability or whether there is
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Oh
fuck ability it depends on who gets his way more frequent
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it's
about even
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Well
who gets whom to do more work than whom?
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Well
I don't know, we do different bits in the company
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yeah
yeah yeah who gets whom to do more work than whom
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I, I
get to do more work
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Well
that's wonderful who gets how do we split the money that whom
earns when who is not there? Or is it 50/50?
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it's
not strictly 50/50 because he works less hours than I do so
proportionally he gets more than I would get
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Alright,
say suppose he works 45% of the time and you work 55% or whatever
but he doesn't just get 55% he gets more well cleaver him he's
got a sucker on the string
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Well
I mean I have the benefit of having whatever flexibility I want
which allows me to do other things
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Alright
flexibility costs
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yeah
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yeah,
OK so while you're paying for flexibility he gets paid for
procrastination I mean I think it's just the guy tell him
congratulations from me for finding a sucker like you
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Well
yeah I'll pass that on
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Well
yeah
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Mmmmmm
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yeah
that's the way it is a lot of times in business you think bottom
line lies na there are a lot of other goodies and perks, and you
know bottom line lies etc you know, and I get paid more because I
work longer hours exactly to the he works 37.5% and you work da da
da 52 or 57.5% and you get exactly no and it's half and half and
guess who gets better on this split
right
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Well
it's not so much the financial side it's more the frustration that
the decisions that are made tend to impact just makes life a lot
harder in terms of being
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For
you
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And
for the business as well
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Well
alright but he still procrastinates
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He
has two ways of behaving completely reactive or total
procrastination
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Alright
either way the guy sounds like a winner you know as long as he has
you on board, eeeeeeeee, sits back and smiles took me a while but
I've got old Nicky going ha ha. yeah
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That's
actually quite accurate
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Well
what do you know about that I guess I got quite lucky
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OK
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Or
something
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I
mean If I look to influence him he sees it as being a personal
attack
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Exactly,
which it is well lets not say I look to influence him. You try a
little arm twisting you try a little you know stick of cherry bomb
up his rear end and you know etc it doesn't makes him go faster
just probably slows him down more ha ha ha ha god these stubborn
types and procrastinators dither you know. Mr dithers. yeah. Are
you a forge ahead kind of guy just get these things done digital,
sequential, logical rational, oh god it's just like shooting fish
in a barrel with a shoot gun I mean you ought to feel
guilty
the way you're so easy tell him I said so
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Yep
OK
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I
mean dealing with you and handling you and getting making you more
faster by moving slower for him it's just so easy I mean how many
years has he been doing this to you
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it's
been about 7 years
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Oh
shit he's probably got it down to an art form you know. I know I
can't answer that, do you realize we have to get this thing out,
by Thursday, last Thursday, well it's somewhere did I give it, no
you didn't Looking through stuff. Oh Jesus. Oh sets the teeth on
edge of a poor soul who wants to progress because time is
scheduled and we're gonna get this done on the schedule, on
Tuesday we get this done and you get this all the time? Oh Jesus
he can just drop one wrench after or spanner in the gears and sit
back and just laugh up his sleeve just watching you jumping around
trying to well the guys got his entertainment built in
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That's
true
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Well
that's you, so well what's the problem
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The
problem is I have too much invested in the business to walk away
from it but
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How
much
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7
years worth of work
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How
much
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Well
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Don't
give me well, well is a whole in the ground how much
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Well
I have a 30% stock share in the business
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Which
is how much
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Probably
50/60,000
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Ok
alright
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Yes
but worth having
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Well
yeah It's a little teeny tiny best pocket company OK, alright how
much has he got invested
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A bit
more than that
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Alright
so he gets to make you dance, he invested more so you provide the
entertainment you know
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OK
but I get to be able to do a lot of other things
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Well
alright so he allows you to you know play around with this go
fiddle with that OK you probably think this is really good a good
bargain or something
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Well
it's good to have the flexibility to be able to set up and run
other things which are probably more long term viable
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yeah
alright but one of these days you're gonna really make some
money out of this or something or what
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Well
we're already making money out of other things
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Alright
you gonna have some prestige or some of those good professional
goodies gonna come flowing in or something
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yeah
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Alright
then he sort of by well if were if he didn't dither or
procrastinate
then
he might interfere with you making something out of these other
Things
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yeah
yeah
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Tell
him we thank him
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Mmmmm
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it's
so paradoxical but the very you know arsehole son of a bitch
drives some people to it turns out that they actually should be
thanked. Reincarnations said well you two were together before an
stuff like that and he was the straight guy and you were the
arsehole OK well so now lets switch this bye bye I'll be the
straight guy and you be the arsehole OK if that's the way you
want it whatever I can do to help your soul involvement I'll
just set your teeth on edge til you eeeeeeee hooray reincarnation
ally the guy is owed a world of thanks by you
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OK
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Well
some would say. The next time he's acting like a totally
arsehole an dithering and you know and delaying and
procrastinating you can just come in does he have an office?
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Well
we're all in the same office
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Well
alright you can just shout across the stacks of papers that need
to be gotten out but aren't getting anywhere cos he just hold
onto them
or
he can't locate anything cos he just so dam disorganized and say
you can just take your reincarnational
contract
and shove it up your arse where the sun doesn't shine you know
what huh. you know well you told him you know that kind of thing
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Well
that might work
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Huh
yeah what contract I didn't make any contract, yeah,
reincarnationally you did well or something like that. it's just
such a delicious feeling being right. Well what you wouldn't
know that but I'm here to tell you.
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How
old are you
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45
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Do
you ever think, god well how did I ever get hooked up with this
dildo I don't? Do you ever think
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yeah
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Well
how did you ever with the dildo I hate to bring this up
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We
are we were friends previously and er
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You're
not talking previously incarnated are you you just mean before you
started the business
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yeah
he asked me to help out basically
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Help
out
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yeah
so I have other business as well so I just work there part time
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yeah
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And
things developed from that
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And
you probably thought well he's
taking
me more and more into his business and things are going so well
I'm gonna have da da now I have a certain amount invested in
this and congratulate yourself on how well you were doing and he
did and he was taking you in, good ole buddy you know yeah then you
started changing your tune you were humming to yourself about him
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Well
he did suggest maybe that I
bought
his share of the business for 200,000 cash which didn't go down
too well
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No
cos you didn't have the 200,000 or you didn't want the whole
business or both
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Yes
both
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yeah
yeah so whats the problem you know he had a business which you
didn't want you know and here he's being such a burr up your
arse he's getting you moving you know. And he dithers and you
know some disorganized or whatever and then here you which makes
you more focused, , organized, digital, sequential problem solving
just yeah which really cranks up your problem solving ability or
energy levels or whatever the fuck you know and he goes into his
inertia routine yeah yeah
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yeah
that's very true
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Epitomizes
Newtons what is it second, third or whatever the laws on motion
the body keeps doing whatever the body's been doing if somebody
doesn't come along and interact with that
body
and punch him in the or whatever, whatever
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So
what's the problem? I mean lucky you you know to get an irritant
like this just cranking you up you know.
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Well
I can see it like that but I still find it very frustrating
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Well
of course because you'd like to think that you shouldn't need
a burr up your butt and on it to have to get started. Well some
guys do they just do they want aw one of those burrs in their
arsehole or they'll just sit around. I thought this was supposed
to be out of here Thursday, well it was. Well what's the fuck it
still doing here on your desk. I thought it should have been on
my. Well I wanted to get around to looking at it to see you know
if the grammar was right cos you know he wrote it he's grammar
is just god awful. Checking for spelling, look at this right here
well I don't know if it's a typo or spelling ughhhhh look
theres another on page 3 too. Do you ever get someone elses teeth
on edge you know
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Do I
get someone
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yeah
like some customer coming in and saying wheres the report on dada
da you know
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Not
usually
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Well
alright do you ever explain that my partner is a little bit ha how
can I
say
it ufus doofus and I dither whither and a
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Oh
yeah yeah that's the kind of thing
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Ah
that's why I mean I or me you know me I would have be in there
like a shoot and I would have had that thing 5 days earlier on
your desk but I'm carrying the lead weight around because of
some reincarnational debt that I don't know, what I don't want
to know this crap this meta physical horseshit just get me the god
dam report you know
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So
whats the problem you know if you just crank it up a bit more get
those things out what
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Well
the problem is well the problem is for me is that every time I
think about the situation it just drives me nuts.
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Well
alright you can go nuts but get the god damm paperwork out you
just sit their with just your teeth crunching those dental bills
going on your dentist. You've got to relax I mean you're just
gonna have mastoiditus or whatever the fuck you know or lock jaw I
tell you permanent lockjaw. You go yeah well if you had to work
with that prick my so called partner you'd get lock jaw too you
know. Well boy he sure sets a fire in your arse What - it's
almost like magic isn't it what did he do nothing. That could
start a fire in a guys arse right real fast
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OK
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Oh
shit
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You
got pressures you know you're your deadlines, pressures
customers who want this by such an such at the latest kind of
thingey and you always add an extra month in for the lead weight.
Oh I think I should be able to get oh I say hows September 1,
September 1 yeah but I've got to factor in the lead weight in Mr
Inertia, Jesus and you factor in time ahead of time for that
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yeah
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See
what see you're adapting to him that's really great What
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I'm
not sure that's really great
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Well
I mean it shows your adaptive capacities you know are flexible
enough you know and your jaw is totally clenched you can still be
flexible that that's multi tasking. Daaaa you know and still be
flexible
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That's
good news then
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Well
for him I wouldn't say it's good news for you ha ha ha yeah dam I
tell you all this stuff for productivity and constructivity and
positive and you know and do it yourself movement and all this
happy horseshit how about lets somebody else do it I mean shovel
the load on somebody else you know if you
just
stay green on your load well you just get a buddy you can just
lean all over. You know and let him. Some guys don't have the
brains that god
gave
a turnip but if you lean on them they grunt and work harder
instead of just collapse which any smart enough guy would do. Only
lean on me then splat down they go hey what the fuck I'm leaning
on your for support and you just collapse like a read in a
hurricane hey baby that's just me I'm not gonna be your
stalwart pillar of strength. I've got enough just carrying my
load let alone half of yours too. Huh have you estimated how much
of his load you are carrying.
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A lot
of it.
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A
lot of it how much
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About
80%
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80%
of his plus 100% of yours that's
180%
god dam that guy sounds brighter and brighter to me. Oh you
cleaver little shit boy. Man just tell him I send my admiration.
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I
will yeah
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yeah.
A guy like that can be a captain of industry a CEO just start
delegating not by sending out typed memos and stuff like that just
kind of leaning, collapsing, dithering man I don't know why we
have him for a CEO he just does nothing yes but it's the
way
he does nothing. WOW Some people can do something and it's not as
much as somebody else doing nothing and even being late in doing
nothing you think well his nothing but hes on
time.
Ha ha god dam. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. Some poet
wrote that. Well it's a beautiful thing isn't it. Well we've
been partners in business for - how many years?
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7
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Seven
years god almighty do you think if you could have seen looked
ahead and seen if you could have thought it back then that you
could have tolerated something like this for 7 years.
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Mmmm
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Say
no
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No
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No.
How many more multiples of 7 do you think you could
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No
not more less than one multiple
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Ahhhh
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I
have contingency plans you see
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Contingency,
smengency how about 7, 14, 21
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No
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After
a while you know you start to say well all businesses this way
100% 180% not exactly you get used to being his water boy his
sharper
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Sherper
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Lugged
it up the shit I climbed it just cos it was there No 1 and No 2 I
had all these dum comfs there lugging the load
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Less
than 7
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Less
than 7, come on boy, 6 years 11 months I'm outa here aw come on
by this time you can do it as natural as breathing. You got this
no oh no never mind I'll do it you do it you cover up for him
you polish it up you do the OK alright. Bear yee one another's
burdens wrote St Peter and thus fulfil the law of Christ. Carry
each others burdens well some lazy arsehole says hey I like it I
like it DUM see what I mean I'm just practicing Christianity. Ha
ha load it on Nick aha. And there's always some sucker around in
any group or organization yeah I can do it ask a busy man. Anyone
else will say oh I don't have time for that. You ask a busy man.
Are you busy?
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yeah
I'm pretty busy
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Oh
OK so what do you do you don't give it to the guy just picking
his nose you give it to the busy guy. The busy guy likes to be
busy he likes to have goals pressure and time tables he likes to
get things done. He likes that. People think why I don't know
but the more I dump on him the better he treats me. Ha ha yeah I
mean
you think where the fuck is the rhyme or reason to this well there
isn't and. it's just busy guys and inertia guys there a real pair
- balance. yeah
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Ha ha
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What
yeah
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OK
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Mr
Inner meet Mr you know Busy. Well I'm' certain happy to meet
we should be partners. You get 50% of the income and do 180% of
the work around here. I think it's marvelous. How the hell did he,
I know he just snuck it past you whilst you were being busy. I
don't know I'm just so busy I just don't notice some of
these things till it was too late.
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Basically
yeah
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It's
a joyful thing to see things going on you know got the
administrative flow chart you know and it turns out that some
secretary four levels down is keeping the whole fucking company
you know going right for you
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Ha ha
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So
Nicky Wicky did you have any reactions to any of this
yeah
Mmmmm
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yeah
at one point complete confusion where I was thinking what the hell
was going on.
Frustration
with the situation but also at the same time seeing that my
frustration was my reaction to the whole thing.
I
also found it quite amusing at the same time but I just felt
myself sort of being drawn in to what you were saying. And part of
me was looking to anticipate what was happening and part of me was
thinking what on earth is going on.
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yeah
I'm trying to anticipate but I can't figure out what the fuck
is going on
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yeah
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Well
that can interfere with a persons anticipatory response reactions
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Well
there was one point where I had not idea what I had started off
talking about
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Well
you can cure your mistake on that by the tape you know how the
fuck we got to talking about this. Any other reactions
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I
feel a bit spaced out by our discussions
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Well
it sounds like a pretty spacey business partnership so you're
entitled you know what I mean.
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yeah
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Well
if you think of anything else let me know.
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