I'm in Deep Trouble

MilwShooter said:
As a mason we had a ton of these "special" tools that the new guys weren't aware of. In one particular instance I was repairing a basement and was about 6"x12" shy of enough concrete so I told the new guy to go out into the job trailer and get the concrete stretcher....

15 minutes later my boss chimed in on the nextel saying "I'm not paying some idiot to look for a concrete stretcher. He just came over the CB asking me what it looks like. When he's done looking for it tell him to look for a new job!"

Sometimes jokes are funny until someone gets yelled at. :-)
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This reminds me of when my brother and I were doing carpentry. We sent the new helper to the truck to get a square. Well, he was gone for a bit, and when he came back all he had to say was " I could not find a square, all I saw was a triangle". We still laugh about it.


Hey I think your wife may get you back for this. I can imagine the next time you roll over in bed and start to get something going she might tell you that "maybe you should use YOUR left hand!" I know my girl would if I got her to fall for that!:thumbup::p


Jw
 
I was in our office one day with our job superintendant, and our project manager who is generally in charge of ordering materials when a new guy walked in and asked if anybody knew where the board stretcher and a set of sky hooks were. The job SI just looked at me and grinned, but the truly scary part was when the project manager asked me where I might find a local supplier for a board stretcher and skyhooks, and this nut was dead serious!! Needless to say, he is no longer with us, and the new kid turned out ok.
Left handed cues are ok, but only a few suppliers have wraps in stock for them, so I would suggest learning to play right handed, or rotate the cue 180 degrees when playing.
dave
 
I had a crew of guys who were brutal when it came having the rookie on the job chase down some specialized tools. All too often I would have the new guy would ask me where we keep the glass-bender.

NewStroke, you're in for it now. Remember, women don't get even. They get ahead!!!
 
Satman, I rode the Wall of Death for years, maybe we crossed paths at one time. I know the old carny jokes. We'd do the same schtick. Withe the MotorDrome, we'd send a local off to see the electrician to get a wall extender, who was used to this and in turn he'd send him off on another safari.
 
me too

When I first started my apprenticeship in the Navy, I was sent to get a can of relative bearing grease...
 
sad story

tjlmbklr said:
While you were at it you should have told her to stop by the local filling station and have the air in her tires changed from "winter air" to "summer air". . . . . :rolleyes:
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Best I can recall Nick was the first man I had to fire and I hated it because I liked him. Problem was he wouldn't stop conning the customers when someone wasn't keeping a close eye on him at our service station. Yep, this was 1967 and there actually were service stations. Pump the gas, wipe the windshield and back glass, all of them if a customer asked, check under the hood, and air tires if asked.

The service station was in an affluent part of town and Nick had hit on changing the air in the customer's tires. Told them that the air got old and lumpy over time and the car would ride better with fresh air in the tires! He would pull the valve cores, drop the car down on all four rims, replace the cores and air the tires properly. He charged $2.00 for this service which he pocketed of course. He was drawing minimum wage of $1.25 an hour which worked out to about a dollar an hour after taxes so he often doubled his pay during a shift changing air in tires.

The way I found out about it was a customer thanking me for Nick changing the air in her tires and telling me how much better the car rode! Nick admitted doing it regularly and tried to talk me into doing it too. That didn't fly and I warned him about continuing the practice. Caught him at it a couple weeks later and he was gone. The customers loved him and many regretted his leaving. The first con man I encountered and I learned a good con could be better liked than an honest person.

Hu
 
tjlmbklr said:
While you were at it you should have told her to stop by the local filling station and have the air in her tires changed from "winter air" to "summer air". And while she's there have them change the blinker fluid and check the muffler bearings. And it's always good to have your conduty valve change once a year. :rolleyes:
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I used to work in a gas station when I was in college. There was another station a few miles up the road and one of my friends worked there. We used to do the winter/summer air thing on women when they'd come in. I'd ask them if they had summer air put in yet, they'd look all confused and say no so I'd direct them to my friends station.......because we didn't have the summer air pump in our station. Occasionally they'd come into our station looking for that air and I'd have to fill them up for them. hehe!! No reason to rat each other out.
MULLY
 
Worked for a natural gas pipeline company. Would suggest that a new employee go out looking for leaks with a lighter. Great way to test for common sense and eliminate the failures.:D:D:D
 
MilwShooter said:
As a mason we had a ton of these "special" tools that the new guys weren't aware of. In one particular instance I was repairing a basement and was about 6"x12" shy of enough concrete so I told the new guy to go out into the job trailer and get the concrete stretcher....

15 minutes later my boss chimed in on the nextel saying "I'm not paying some idiot to look for a concrete stretcher. He just came over the CB asking me what it looks like. When he's done looking for it tell him to look for a new job!"

Sometimes jokes are funny until someone gets yelled at. :-)
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I've told new guys to get a block stretcher, a scrotum puller and a bucket of steam when I was a mason. It was hilarious to watch em look for it.

I now work in cable manufacturing (coax, trunk lines, fiber etc) and it is much the same thing. Had a guy come up to me all frustrated asking me where the hell do I find a cable stretcher? I looked at him all serious and said who told you to get that to which he told me who. I then proceeded to explain to him that they were messing with him because they are through the tunnel and in the other building (a half mile walk). I told him that once he got to the other side just to ask the first person he saw and they would point him in the right direction. Never did see that kid again ;)
 
When I use to hang out at my friends pool room anytime there was a new employee we would send him to the hardware store to pick up a bucket of red steam to clean the place.

They would come back and say they had no red steam and we would say dam they are out can you go to the other store down the block and pick up a bucket. Man we laughed so hard.
 
MilwShooter said:
As a mason we had a ton of these "special" tools that the new guys weren't aware of. In one particular instance I was repairing a basement and was about 6"x12" shy of enough concrete so I told the new guy to go out into the job trailer and get the concrete stretcher....

15 minutes later my boss chimed in on the nextel saying "I'm not paying some idiot to look for a concrete stretcher. He just came over the CB asking me what it looks like. When he's done looking for it tell him to look for a new job!"

Sometimes jokes are funny until someone gets yelled at. :-)
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I have a similar story only with a board stretcher. But it was funny and no one was fired.
 
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