I buy the quart jugs of Gatorade on hot days. Spiderlilly shows up with malts and dough nuts occasionally. We do a couple company field trips each year, where the admission and beers are on the boss, the last one to Summerfest last Friday to see Buddy Guy blow the roof into Lake Michigan. And any day that ends at my shack/shop is capped with a couple of Hi-Lifes.
Otherwise, it's show up with a gallon of water and a sack lunch or get sacked.
I was really shocked to read (before this thread got hacked) how many members buy lunch on a regular basis for the crews. I've never been much on leaving a job site (the ones on Lake Geneva can be real nice for eating lunch) and figured the time lost I couldn't afford. I guess it comes down to wage, and whether we are compensating the guys fairly.
We start at $9, go up to $10 after a one month probationary period, and base further raises on merit and experience. My best guy is on his sixth summer, and makes $13.50 an hour for what is essentially laborer's work, although he knows the score and all the details to attend to, and it's like a well-oiled machine has been fired up when he's on the job.
Has anyone figured out the cost of all those lunches beyond the literal expense of a $3.50 Happy Meal??? I grunge driving between jobs on mow and maintenance days; can't imagine how I'de sweat packing everybody up for a trip to the Taco-rea.
And wow, hats off to Wild Child for the home cookin'...sounds just like cutting cabbage on Saturdays in high school, eating Shirl's Tater soup with a package of Ritz crackers in the back of the step van out of the wind and rain.
