Every morning I go to work, and no matter how early I get there Earl is already there.
He has the coffee percolating, he is laying out the day’s work assignments, and listening to really, really terrible old music. He is the boss, the owner, and my only co-worker, so I have no one to complain to about him other than you guys. My biggest pet peeve is that every morning, every single blasted morning for the last seven months, he always says to me “great day in the morning!” Like, what does that even mean? I love Earl, he’s a good dude, so I never show irritation just ask what HVAC calls we have to work today. Sometimes we ride together for bigger HVAC installation jobs, but most times we go our separate ways and do service and repair calls. After just three months Earl decided to let me handle some of the easier HVAC jobs without him. I don’t have my HVAC certification yet, so there are a lot of things I am just not allowed to do. When this happens I will call Earl who will come over and handle the rest of the HVAC repair and I will go to the next job. I can do general inspections of all heating and cooling systems, replace air filters and minor fuses and circuits, but the major repairs need to be done by him. In another year I should have my HVAC certification, at which point Earl says he will hand off a lot more work to me so he can take it easy.