Whoa, HMW, you are reading my mind, or what??
Mostly, we seem to have found all the real jerks in this biz, and they all had one thing in common -- they would tell any lie they had to so we would come to work for them, then figure that we were trapped with no money to go elsewhere, so they could do as they pleased.
One guy was going to force the other half to either buy his horses or ride them for him at no pay. Guess how that worked out :lol:
One guy actually got p'd off and GRABBED THE BRIDLE -- he was lucky to have got out of that alive, Other Half has a temper. One outfit forgot to mention that the whole summer was spent tractoring when OH was hired as a cowboy. Cowboys DON'T FARM. And they don't use four-wheelers on cows. (Would you hire a thorasic surgeon to deliver a baby? No. And you wouldn't want him to operate using a hammer, either.)
Other no-nos -- house falling in, paycheck bounces, don't know squat about a job but want to tell you how to do it.
Last but not least, we are still looking for a place where THEY HOLD UP THE COWS. Is that a thing of the past or what?
One place was really good, though. All horseback, held up the herd, rode out what they wanted or made them mind up, roof turned water in the rain. The same outfit hired tractor drivers and fence builders and construction help, didn't expect cowboys to do it. But the pay was rock bottom. So the next place looked better. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
And we really like it here, so much so that OH threw away the boxes.
Of course, the weather has been warm the last few days, and I see that gleam in his eyes ...