Jim, 

That is an interesting concept, the subcontracting method.. 

Regarding my own business experience, I had to run through dozens of employees before I was able to put together a crew that was sober, had individual initative, could make their pay stretch between checks and did not attempt to kill each other at some point during the day. 

My dad's side of the family are almost all union carpenters and I apprenticed with Atlanta Carpenters Union Local 225 after grad school. My great uncle, who was my first site superintendent and my second cousin our foreman taught me that you had to identify and send the losers back to the hall ASAP in order to keep your family fed and sanity on the site. After a couple of years, I finally got to the point where if I watched 100 carpenters work for one day, just by observing attitude, work habits, and body language I could weed out the bottom 10% without much difficulty and little error. 

The Smart Assed College Boy,  

B       

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