Once Bitten Twice Shy

Once bitten twice faint spunked is a great, and fairly common saying. It is an idiom that means if nearly(a)body is verbalise to be once bitten twice shy, it means that a person who has been hurt, or who has had manything happen to them that was life changing in a not so desir sufficient carriage then they will be far more than careful the next time around. I think eery atomic number 53 has experienced steads such(prenominal) as this. Whether it be a deal you made where you ended up getting cheated out of some money, or a time when you got your heart broken by someone you thought would never hurt you.Either way it happens and makes a person leery of trusting others for a long while, if ever again. As a sm both business owner I consecrate experienced many situations in which I was the target of somebody difficult to pull the wool over my eyes, and/or s pack me out of some money. At one point in time a some years ago, I had a small mob of people running(a) on a melodic li ne for me in Rolla Mo. while myself and another crew member were working on a different ponder in St. Robert.I trusted the crew members that I left alone without supervision because they were all hard and honest workers, at least I thought they were. I had been leaving this crew on the Rolla job for about two weeks with really little supervision from myself. The only time I really stop by there was to drop off more material, and take a quick look around at the work they were doing and all was well. That is until I got a call one afternoon from the contractor that I was doing this job for.The call started with me getting an ass chewing like I had never had before, and caught me totally off guard. After some time on the visit with this man I kind of figured out what was going on. It seems one of my crew members that I had been leaving alone on the job for a while was planning to screw me over. They had been sabotaging my job in hopes that they would be able to show the contractor t he shoddy work that was going on crapper his back so that he would fire me and hopefully hire them to put back me.Well, luckily I had known the contractor for years and after some smooth talking I convinced him that I would finish the job personally and fire the member of my crew that caused these problems. So, the plan backfired for the sneaky crew member. Not only did they not get hired by the contractor, unless they lost the steady job they already had. Even though this situation didnt turn out all that badly for me, it still caused me some friction with the contractor, and caused me to never have the same level of trust in my employees ever again.