People can't make up their own decisions about if its important to listen to details, especially from the boss. This is just one fence, one stump, etc, but a pattern of inattention, like how my climbing rope ending up in the chipper about 5 years ago.
Two weeks ago, I made sure that I had their attention at least some of the 5 times I shouted down, "Please don't pull on the tree". Somehow, that wasn't good enough. When I shouted down "Stop pulling with the giant leverage you have on the big dead, cracked, rotten, shitty tree that I've strapped my life to the top of!!" They stopped shaking it while taking the pull line through the brush to a safe pulling location. They must have thought that pulling on the tree some was ok. Somehow "don't pull on the tree" was overlooked. Stupid me, thinking that I should pull the top (team effort), rather than just wedge it over, especially since I brought wedges and ax up the thing. Another example of employees being more trouble than they are worth, sometimes.
You can't treat employees like children, even when they act like it.
Since I'm ultimately responsible for everything and everyone, and most people's dangerous decisions put me at financial and physical risk, I don't trust people who are not trustworthy. If someone can't follow basic instructions, I give them less responsibility.
Is Damien going to cough up the money for the extra work on the stump?
