{"id":23518,"date":"2015-09-02T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=23518"},"modified":"2015-09-02T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T15:19:14","slug":"speedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/02\/speedy\/","title":{"rendered":"SPEEDY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Speedy, a<\/strong><\/span> building manager, was always falling off ladders. It wasn’t that he was uncoordinated, it was he worked too fast. He could \u201cturn\u201d a vacant apartment in a day. I regularly got claims from workers comp, and I paid.<\/p>\n

Eventually I had to fire Speedy because his relatives and friends were ripping me off: stealing hoses, lawnmowers and snow blowers. Speedy\u2019s relatives were crooks. Also, he started hanging around with a prostitute who ripped me off. (She eventually got arrested. Story is here<\/a>.) Speedy was loyal and worked like a fiend. He was 5-3 and often limped. He didn\u2019t complain and never turned down a job.<\/p>\n

Three years<\/strong><\/span> after I fired him, I still received letters from workers comp: “open wound of hand, right; OxyContin, $349.00; knee, right, active, 2000; right knee disallowed, 2003; eye allowed, 2005; right arm,2005, allowed; neck sprain allowed, 2003.”\u00a0 Speedy’s forwarding address was a porn shop. He wrote me, \u201cThere is one thing you can never deny, I was the best manager you had. I don\u2019t want a job as a manager. I just want to paint or do tile work. I had a major heart attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn’t call him. Anything not nailed down: gone.<\/p>\n

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Speedy & two rooftops<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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