The Shelf From Hell: Why Employing People Sucks Part 5

We've recently been sharing our experiences here (links at the bottom for those just tuning into this series) in regards to this shelf both to vent and to share valuable life lessons to be learned about difference in mindset and thus life quality. Our local friend we've referred to as our compadre in these posts is a young low income Mexican man with a wife and a child a third of his age. It seemed like he was doing his best to make a life for himself and his family, so we hired him to help us around the farm to start really getting things done.

This shelf was realistically the last straw, where he spent a few weeks total on what should have taken a couple of days. All we needed was two large but simple shelves to hold plants, what he attempted to deliver was something apparently too complex for his abilities. His stated life dream was to be a carpenter and he was amature at best, which was perfect for what we needed. We did not need or want him to spend days on days notching wood pieces (sometimes with no purpose) to make it look fancier. We wanted his fast but functional work and he was more interested in milking the time clock than finishing the job. He even admitted that at a point.

John eventually finished it with just a few hours of work. It's not perfect but it doesn't need to be and some of the worst imperfections were done by our compadre as part of his efforts to make it nice. And it is a really nice shelf, but that's just not what we needed.

The shelf is finished and in place but honestly sits empty as we've lacked time and motivation. With how much we spent to build it, it's going to take a lot of microgreens sales just to break even on the shelf which is a bit annoying to say the least. It's a bit of a sore spot, sadly.

But it's here, and it's ready for when we're ready for it and that's all that matters now.

Stay tuned as we will soon plant things and share exactly what we were planning on doing with this shelf, which is just another way to make our farm systems more efficient. We've been working with nothing for so long that it's been an interesting process learning to farm here, and with the proper tools.

If you'll notice, one leg is shorter than the rest. It's also too tall and will be top heavy unless we trim the bottom of it.

So yeah, thanks for following this journey with us! For those just joining, check out these links below for the other posts to share the whole story behind this mammoth shelf we've been avoiding.

The Shelf From Hell, Part 1
The Shelf From Hell Part 2
The Shelf From Hell, Part 3
The Shelf From Hell Part 4

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