I would want to work for Dale!! well, except the tobacco deal.
I quit my last landscaping job because I was being driven to the worksite while the driver and passengers were lighting up their weed pipe. I watched the foreman talk to the customers while under the influence. I was there while they worked cutting saws on pavers and/or running skid loaders. I was surrounded by it! I was offered 30k a year with benefits to stay and become the landscape foreman. I declined and decided to take the plunge and run my own business, sink or swim. It wasn't worth the risk to me working with these fellahs and about 85% of the company smoked weed ON THE JOB...nothing was being done about it and ears were closed.
It doesn't bother me too much if a worker is a good one and smokes out during their own time, but honestly, in the long run, this person, no matter how good, is not worth having. Having a few beers after work? That doesn't bother me too much as long as it doesn't affect them the next day--but damn, you never know these days who is responsible enough to stop and think about the affects tomorrow. I enjoy drinking although I have cut down considerably since I started my own business. I only drink now if the next day I'm not working. If I ever hire anyone, I would definatly have random drug tests. I think Dale might be a little hardcore about it with the dogs and letting them practice, but more power to him. I know I would feel comfortable working at a place like that...well except the tobacco thing
