From the book
by Christos G. Konstantinopoulos "Builders from Lagkadia"
A "boss" can be good, and he can be bad. He’s bad
when he’s hassling the tradies and pushes them supposedly to take greater care but
if truth be told in order to boss them around. To be frank some owners are
"misery gutses" as well as stingy. They never ever provide a decent
lunch for the tradies and only seek to watch over them. But tradies won’t put up with such things. Here’s
how they evened the score with one such “boss”:
One day, early in the morning, the master tradie pulled out
the nails from a plank of the scaffolding and left it unfastened at the section
where the boss would stand when making his thoughts known to the tradies. Then
he called the tradies to get to work at the other end of the scaffolding. In a
little while, there came the boss. He was so pleased to see the tradies so hard
at work so early in the morning. He climbed the scaffolding and proudly
inspected the construction of the house.
He then took a step forward onto the unfastened plank and oh no, down he
came crashing to the ground!
The apprentices yelled out: “The boss, the boss, the boss
has fallen!”
"Be quiet, you," the mater tradie rebuked, “why
are you carrying on like that? He’s the
boss, he’ll rise when he feels like it, and he’ll fall when he feels like it!”
And, quite unbothered and unperturbed he carried on with his work.
