Doing mounts for your boss?

All you part-timers out there, do you do taxi work for your boss on your regular job? How bout co-workers? I was just curious. I work for a one owner shop, construction, and his contracts run into the millions. I've been there 6 years, as a lead man, made him tons of money. He has never ask me to mount anything for him, although he knows I've been doing it 42 years, and just opened back up 3 yrs. ago parttime. Maybe he figures I'll be leaving him if or shall I say "when" I get my buss. off the ground. He did say he had a couple of deer he wanted done and wanted to look at my work when he was trying to sucker me into doing something for him. "I've got something else I want to talk to you about when I come out there." He wanted me to be his "superintendent" , or shall I say, "babysitter", and watch over all the other workers including foremen. I declined and he's never mentioned the mounts again. I can smell a rat a mile away. He's always saying "you can't be friends with these guys". He's talking about when you're in a lead position you can't go drinkin with the guys under you. I kinda agree with that, you become buddies and they will expect you to look the other way when they are late or mess up. I guess he figures if I do mounts for him, we'll become friends, I don't know.I can't stand the arogant somebeach. I don't hate him, just don't want to be around him. I think he knows that, pluss he likes the braggin rights. He takes his deer over to a million dollar shop and pays more to show off. He's got more mounts than any two taxi shops. It does get old walking in every now and again and seeing a new deer ,sitting in the floor, no place to hang it up. Out of all those mounts, he only has one or two that even shows the whites of the eyes, only one where you can see any veins on the muzzle or nose and I laugh to myself when I see cracking behind the eyes on several deer. No rotated eyes at all. He thinks he's getting top end work, he ain't. He does have some decent mounts though. He gets alot done out where he took the animal. The last one came in dammaged, from a trucking mess up. I was just wondering. I have done work for other "bossmen" in the past.

 

Sheephunter, I guess I can see why you would call me bitter. I'm bored to death with my job, after 33 years of that. Topped out in pay, no where to go. The post wasn't about me, I was asking about others in a simular situation. I could get my boss as a cust if I wanted to ask him. But, he gets so much mounted even if he brought me a truck load of deer it would still be only crumbs from his table. He still leaves stuff out west, up north, whereever he kills it and still brings stuff back to two other taxis that he uses around town. Alot of people have ask, why don't he bring his stuff to you, as much money as you make him? Arrogance, nothin more. I could do my job blindfolded, but if I get work this fall, I will leave it with him. Then he'll only have his regular crowd. Mostly good workers and good guys, only most on drugs, alcohol , late every morning, leaving early, can't pass a background check, need a baby sitter to watch over them. Being trustworthy and dedicated, that's what I'm talking about. Hard to find someone with those qualitys.

 

Catman, I really like your first statement, I'm trying hard to make a career change . I AM thankfull to have a job when so many don't. No, I don't resent my boss for making money and he's not in athourity, he leaves me alone and I run my own project and hardly ever see him. That's my point, 99 % of his employees are drug users, drunks, they will steal anything not nailed down, can't pass a background check, and have to have someone to watch over them. He feels he has to have a superintendent, that's what he calls it, to watch over them. They're all bunched up on 2 or 3 jobs and he has to have a babysitter. I get a job, like a highschool for example, and he trusts me to just take the ball and run with it. I've worked for twelve air cond. companies I have never burned a bridge when I left one of them. Always got a truck to drive home and free gass. I don't have to pick up my tools unless I want to. I just tell all the younger whipersnapers what to do.
I guess it would be considered a pretty good job. But, everything is built so fast now. Coordinating with other trades, block masons, electricians, plumbers, sprinklerfitters, steelworkers, it can get kinda hectic at times. No coordinating, just everyone working on top of everybody else all the time and dangerious too. A man got killed on my last job. Got electricuted. They had a scaffold collapse in a separate incedent. Broke a man up bad. Two years ago, a crane turned over. Boom was all the way out, over 100 feet, crane flipped over on its back, all 4 tires sticking up in the air. It took 2 cranes and two flatbed trucks to disassemble it and haul it out. One crane had to leave and bring in a bigger one.Construction is dangerous as hell nowadays, because of the hurry up attitude. OSHA is always there, after the fact. And it's a joke. They can't just walk in on your job without anouncing their presence to the super with the construction company. By then, he has sent someone in the building to tell everyone to get up all the faulty drop cords, bad ladders and such and gettem off the job.
I'm gettin out if I have to go to work for another taxibedermis.
How many mounts does a man need anyway? If someone stole one of his deer mounts, I dought he would miss it for a few days, unless it was his biggest favorite or he noticed a bare spot on the wall. My point being, if he let me mount one of his lesser bucks, and I messed it up and put the antlers on backwards, he would 'nt miss the money, he would make it back in 1 hour , besides he has heard good reports on me and my mounts as I have done work for several that he deals with everyday.
I just wondered if anybody else has had a "boss" do them this way.
Just ranting I guess, thanks for listening to me whining.
Cole and George, I admire yall and respect ya, but somethings tellin me you've never worked construction. Yea, It's time I quit my job.

 

Cole, I've seen pitcurez of your mounts . I only hope wish and pray that one day my mounts look as good as yours. I admire all you guys, including gorge.