Thanks man! The owner and the manager are old buddies. I'm sure the owner knows, because I've been like the 3rd or 4th replacement within the last little while. The manager was also a good 30 minutes late on my first day. The owner also played down how big of an ass the guy was by saying "he can be a little difficult to work with".
I wasn't getting any of those bad vibes from the guy on the first house we worked on. It's like he turned into an ass on the last house.