Valuable employees needed in Maryland for Arbor-X

theXman

theXman

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1.I'd like to find an experienced ground man that is worth $20 to $25 an hour. This position needs filled ASAP.

2.possibly an experience climber as well ($25 to 35 an hour)see below. This position filled now or anytime in the future.

3.Spray technician. I have an extremely good offer for a very knowledgable insect/disease person. Talk to me if you know your stuff and are decent at talking to customers. hourly on estimates and percent on sales, (like your own company but you don't have to buy the equipment and insurance or establish a good reputation). I would like this position to be filled spring of 2007.

Work is way too busy this time of year for me to get on the net to check for responses, so leave a message on office phone 410 838-2999 and write to theXmanjdd@yahoo.com. But right now, the phone call is what I will notice first, so do that and write some over an e-mail.

Do you have experience and good skills as a groundman but aren't paid well for your skill level and hard work?, then please contact me.

I will likely be interviewing over this next month and a half. If I find you interesting through the interview, we will then discuss our offer in pay per hour and the other benefits. We do have paid holidays, paid vacations and more valuable employees can have health care, retirement, etc...... That is all discussed if we make you an offer.

To be worth the 20 to 25 an hour, you probably need all these and maybe more:
2 or more years of experience full-time.

Excellent chain-saw skills, felling, bucking, cutting for the chipper, saw maintanance.

Excellent roping skills. Good with a lowering device. Good at not shock loading the ropes and rigging. Should be able to.... lets say, let a 2000 lb log run and come to a slow stop without bouncing the trunk and climber. Good understanding of the speed line and other rope rigging the climber may do.

Very good with keeping busy and not being a spectator.

Good mechanical knowledge.

Always on time to work or 10 minutes early.

Can handle a 12 hour work day and come back the next day for more. (we normally have around an 8 hour day, but...)

No smoking on the job.

Speak some Spanish, a plus.

Any CDL, a plus.

No drug use of any kind. Yes, POT is a drug.

No alcohol problems.

Excellent physical shape and use to hard fast moving work.

Good with stump grinder and most equipment.

Some skid loader experience.

Can drive a manual shift.

Know your tree species common names.

Continue to work hard and fast even when boss isn't around.

Have pride and love doing this work.

Arbor-X is a small but highly proffessional tree service in Bel Air, Maryland. We live in a rural area 40 minutes North East of Baltimore.

We have a large devoted customer base and have a great reputation.

Through numerous interviews I pick out the best workers with good attitudes. Our crew members always get along very well and no one is a slacker. You will be happy to work beside these guys and we do some amazing jobs.

We specialize in trees only. No landscaping, no mowing, no turf care. We are a Maryland Licensed Tree Expert company.

Tree removals, stump removals, tree trimming, cabling/bracing, land and lot clearing, insect/disease (but currently not applying) pesticide/herbicide licensed.

I created a small web-site myself a month or so ago, things got busy and I haven't had time to add the 200 or more pictures that I intended to. I also wanted to improve the wording but work got too busy, but anyway, you may learn something about us from the site: www.arborx.com
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Are you an experienced climber? or do you have only some experience but you can tell you have a natural ability to become an excellent climber with more time? I would be interested in interviewing you as well.

a good experienced climber that can do everything is worth $25 to 35 an hour starting.

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Also I want a good spray technician. If you are excellent at identifying insects and diseases and are good with applications and talking to customers, I want to talk with you. I'm looking for an excellent person that can handle the whole insect/disease area of Arbor-X. I have an offer that any competent individual would be crazy to pass up. It involves a take home company truck, you get a large portion of the sales, you get health plan, retirement.......... You are very responsible for what you make. I would help you get started and work with you the first year. Maybe grossing 30,000 to 100,000 a year?

Thank you,

David Driver
Arbor-X Inc
410 838-2999
 
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Pot is NOT a drug, but I see your point.

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That sounds like the bong talking.
 
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Well if a cop said it, it must be true!
 
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That's funny Butch!

If I heard on the news too, then I'd really believe it.
 
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A policeman friend recently said that 3 otta 4 fatal car accidents have at least one driver with pot in their system.

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So, the lighter the drug, the longer they stay in your system. Alcohol and cocain are out in a day or so. Pot takes about a month.

That statement merely reflects that a person had used pot in the last month. Not that the driver was under the influence.

3 outta 4? If you believe that, I have a bridge for sale....
 
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Hi Jack /forum/images/graemlins/hisboids.gif

I post this not because I am pro hemp, but because I think the dangers of alcohol are understated.

MYTH: MARIJUANA USE IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS. Like alcohol, marijuana impairs psychomotor function and decreases driving ability. If marijuana use increases, an increase in of traffic fatalities is inevitable.

FACT: There is no compelling evidence that marijuana contributes substantially to traffic accidents and fatalities. At some doses, marijuana affects perception and psychomotor performances- changes which could impair driving ability. However, in driving studies, marijuana produces little or no car-handling impairment- consistently less than produced by low moderate doses of alcohol and many legal medications. In contrast to alcohol, which tends to increase risky driving practices, marijuana tends to make subjects more cautious. Surveys of fatally injured drivers show that when THC is detected in the blood, alcohol is almost always detected as well. For some individuals, marijuana may play a role in bad driving. The overall rate of highway accidents appears not to be significantly affected by marijuana's widespread use in society.
 
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Other problems associated with pot smokers.

Long-Term Effects of Smoking Marijuana: Paranoia, Abnormal physical development in males: reduced testosterone levels may delay deepening of voice, growth of beard, development of muscle mass. It can also lead to decreased sperm count and difficulty having children.

Source: http://www.drugeducation.net/marijuana.htm

A series of surveys he conducted among 4,600 municipal employees in four cities in the Southwest indicated that 8 percent of employees had smoked marijuana in the past year, and a large percentage of these users had smoked marijuana in the past month, Dr. Lehman said.

"Employees who report marijuana use are different from nonusers," said Dr. Lehman. They are much more likely than nonusers to have arrest histories, low self-esteem, high rates of depression, and friends who are deviant. Many marijuana smokers also have alcohol-related problems. One-third of marijuana users in the surveys reported they drank frequently, one-half said they got drunk, and 60 percent reported a problem with alcohol use, according to Dr. Lehman.

This behavioral pattern in the personal backgrounds of marijuana-smoking employees was associated with negative attitudes toward work and job performance, Dr. Lehman said. The surveys found that marijuana users were less likely than nonusers to commit to the organization, had less faith in management, and experienced low job satisfaction. These workers reported more absenteeism, tardiness, accidents, workers' compensation claims, and job turnover than workers who had not used marijuana. They were also more likely to report to work with a hangover, miss work because of a hangover, and be drunk or use drugs at work.

Source: http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol11N1/Marijuana.html
 
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Sounds like a treat compared to what alcohol does.
Same source on alcohol

Side Effects Physical and psychological addiction (alcoholism), Impaired judgment and self-control, Slurred speech, Altered perceptions and emotions, Loss of coordination, Blackouts (memory loss), Vitamin deficiencies, Stomach ailments (ulcers), Skin problems, Sexual impotence, Damage to central nervous system, Cirrhosis of the liver, Increased risk of heart disease/stroke, Coma, Death due to alcohol poisoning

Key to everything is moderation. Find healthy addictions is also good. Mine is the gym. That is where I am off to now.
 
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Other problems associated with pot smokers.

Long-Term Effects of Smoking Marijuana: Paranoia, Abnormal physical development in males: reduced testosterone levels may delay deepening of voice, growth of beard, development of muscle mass. It can also lead to decreased sperm count and difficulty having children.

Source: http://www.drugeducation.net/marijuana.htm

A series of surveys he conducted among 4,600 municipal employees in four cities in the Southwest indicated that 8 percent of employees had smoked marijuana in the past year, and a large percentage of these users had smoked marijuana in the past month, Dr. Lehman said.

"Employees who report marijuana use are different from nonusers," said Dr. Lehman. They are much more likely than nonusers to have arrest histories, low self-esteem, high rates of depression, and friends who are deviant. Many marijuana smokers also have alcohol-related problems. One-third of marijuana users in the surveys reported they drank frequently, one-half said they got drunk, and 60 percent reported a problem with alcohol use, according to Dr. Lehman.

This behavioral pattern in the personal backgrounds of marijuana-smoking employees was associated with negative attitudes toward work and job performance, Dr. Lehman said. The surveys found that marijuana users were less likely than nonusers to commit to the organization, had less faith in management, and experienced low job satisfaction. These workers reported more absenteeism, tardiness, accidents, workers' compensation claims, and job turnover than workers who had not used marijuana. They were also more likely to report to work with a hangover, miss work because of a hangover, and be drunk or use drugs at work.

Source: http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol11N1/Marijuana.html

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Crikey, what a load of crapola!
 
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Crikey, what a load of crapola!

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Haha, what about the paranoia, beard, muscles and no kids bit MB? /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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I firmly believe that the majority of the problems in that list associated with mj users are problems they'd have even if they didn't torch up. In other words, getting high is also a symptom, not the cause of all those others (at least that's the slant I read into what was written).

I've known many folks through the years who have not exhibited any of those characteristics apart from the smoking pot one.
 
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Yeah Glens, we all know that, but we're stirring the pot ... so to speak.

Do you know how many Google articles I had to go thru to find that one? Lol
 
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Wow, I guess there really must be a bunch of pot-smokin' tree guys out there. Well, I'm not one of them.

Not a drug? Hmmm well, whatever, an illegal substance that alters your state of mind.

You can argue all you want as to whether the pot-smoker is affected negatively by it.

That list of other stuff that usually goes along with pot-smokers lifestyle is also what I find to be true and that is also why I don't want pot-heads.

They tend, not always, but the majority of pot-smokers tend to be overall dirtballs. Problematic people with many negative things associated with their life.

Say I pick out a guy on the street, if we find the guy smokes pot, has numerous tatoos, also smokes cigarettes, has multiple body piercings, and long uncut hair, I believe 99% of the time he would turn out to be a worthless piece of trash (well, to me as a worker I mean, and to society). Each element adds a little more of a percent increase into him being a bad employee.


Do I stereo-type, hell yeah. There is a reason stereo-types exist. They are created when an overwhelming number of people with the same characteristics share a similar element. No one person creates a stero type, they create themselves, it's a pattern. Should you give someone the benefit of proving they are not in the stero-type class? Yeah, maybe in personal relationships and such. In business, time is important and it's not worth the risk to find out if that person is one of those 1% good employee pot-smokers (my own made-up percent again here of course)


Now, back to the job opening. We have not been contacted by anyone yet to fill this space. I guess I'll have to list the opening on Monster.com. Or maybe me and my crew are the only non-smokers out there in the world?

If there are any climbers that will work as groundman and climber, your groundman pay will also be very high.

later,
 
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.....Do I stereo-type, hell yeah. There is a reason stereo-types exist. They are created when an overwhelming number of people with the same characteristics share a similar element. No one person creates a stero type, they create themselves, it's a pattern. Should you give someone the benefit of proving they are not in the stero-type class? Yeah, maybe in personal relationships and such. In business, time is important and it's not worth the risk to find out if that person is one of those 1% good employee.....

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Wow! Good luck with that. Would be interesting (yes, sarcasm) to hear your views on women, hispanics, blacks, etc..........
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Well X, I am a Tattoo faced arborist that runs a successful and popular outfit here in Austin and sits on on the city's Urban Foresty Board as well. I Don't smoke weed or do any other kind of dope. Our Company does however have a bunch of bumber stickers That say:"Arborists still Get high" with our logo on them. Mail me a self addressed, stamped envelope and I'll send you some. Either someone does their job and is pleasant to be around or their not. I had to get rid of a guy once because he had a drug problem that was geting in the way at work but I've also had to get rid of a guy because he spent more time trying to convert the rest of the crew to become Babtist that he did feeding the chipper. Go figure! The guys on my crew I have no idea really If they some times take a toke or not, it would not shock me either way but they do their job well and are easy to be around. Smoken or not, most "Arborists still get high" - Nevic
 
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What is a tattoo faced arborist? An actual facial tattoo? Like Mike Tyson?
 
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