Transcript excerpt of a conversation (YouTube video) about workplace safety and strict workplace policies. Speakers, including Mike Andes, discuss enforcing PPE (personal protective equipment), penalties for noncompliance, and retaining high-performing employees by setting strict standards.
Like, no eye protection this morning, boys. We're gonna kill somebody. Like, it's a liability for the business, and it's also people's eyeballs. And if you. You would feel horrible if someone couldn't.
See the rest of their life because they got a nail stuck in their eye.
Come on, ppe.
It's like requirement. My thing was, if I saw the guys out ppe, they were off for the rest of the day and they weren't getting paid.
Can people not just quit? Because I know, like, you're super strict. Like, if they're late one minute, you know, like, whatever consequence or they lose. Profit sharing. Right?
Yeah. I don't. I don't. I don't fire them. They're gonn thousand dollars. They probably want to show up.
I know, but, like, would people be like, this is too crazy. Like, I'm out.
Yeah. But then all the people who stay are really, really good. And the thing is, they want to work with really good people. Like, the most defeating thing for an A player is to work with a C player all day long. Who shows up late, doesn't care.
Yeah.
Wears whatever. They want to work, smokes half the day. They don't want to work with them. Right.
Man, you are preaching to the choir. We.
