On 7/19/2012 11:29, Lee Lofaso -> John Massey wrote:   
    JM>> Example. I buy a new employe a $30.00 long china bristle professional   
    JM>> paint brush. Tell him it's his brush, and to take care of it. A week   
    JM>> later I tell him to paint something and he tells me he doesn't have   
    JM>> the paint brush because he didn't do a good job cleaning the brush   
    JM>> and it got hard.   
      
    LL> It is cheaper to replace the toothbrush or paint brush or whatever   
    LL> else is needed to do the job rather than the employee.   
      
   I didn't find that to be true.   
      
    LL> Trying to force an employee to pay for tools that are needed to do   
    LL> a job will serve only to drive the employee away, thus forcing the   
    LL> employer to find another employee capable of doing the job that   
    LL> needs to be done (in addition to buying a new tool).  And what fool   
    LL> of an employer would want to do that, as the cost of training a new   
    LL> employee would be far more than the meager cost of replacing a tool.   
      
   I think no one would want to do that. But it is cheaper to hire a new person   
   with a stronger work ethic than to keep a person with a PPA (piss poor   
   attitude) around even if you have to go through a few people   
   that fit in.   
      
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