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Littering is a scummy thing to do but hearing people get bent out of shape over a cigarette butt under a porch has me feeling like I live in a god drat bubble. Like that is so low on the totem pole of bad habits a laborer can have. That being said holy poo poo did Zipperelli. dunk on you.
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PureEvil6_13 posted:That's a pretty extreme assumption to come up with from me throwing a cigarette butt into an empty porch. I could have thrown out on the ground, or in his house, but if you're the kind of fancy lad that's going to walk all the way around the house to throw something like that in the dumpster, see how long you stay employed in construction. Road construction doing concrete and asphalt. I'll never forget the time one of my rear end in a top hat coworkers threw his lunch trash in between the gravel and asphalt pour of a trail and we had to spend an entire day ripping out and redoing it. He thought he did really good work too. Or how about the aircraft that had three enginges flame out because the fuelies didn't bother to clean out the tanks. They insisted they were great mechanics. Aerospace engineers hate that poo poo because we see it kill people all the time.
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Apr 13, 2020 13:09
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It's totally minor, but you're just burning goodwill with the client every time they have to ignore some (to them) unpleasant behaviour. There's no need for it, and a supervisor that lets people do it is damaging their business. Fine if you never want any repeat or referral business from that customer, but it's just careless.
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Apr 13, 2020 13:12
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I think we're getting away from the point of how anal retentive the guy was. There were 5 of us on that crew and we all smoked and it was about 25 years ago. Yeah it's lovely throwing your butts wherever but you have to remember, the porch was somewhere that we typically used as an ashtray because it got filled in. No one had ever cleared everything out of one before so it was sort of reflex to throw a cigarette into it. It wasn't malicious or or spiteful to the guy.
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Apr 13, 2020 13:45
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PureEvil6_13 posted:I think we're getting away from the point of how anal retentive the guy was. There were 5 of us on that crew and we all smoked and it was about 25 years ago. Yeah it's lovely throwing your butts wherever but you have to remember, the porch was somewhere that we typically used as an ashtray because it got filled in. No one had ever cleared everything out of one before so it was sort of reflex to throw a cigarette into it. It wasn't malicious or or spiteful to the guy. I totally get that, and while it may make no functional difference (and I'm not immediately jumping to "you do lovely work" like the other poster), you gotta remember that while it's just a project to you, you just threw garbage into the guy's foundation. Something he's paying you to build and something he's going to live with for potentially decades. Will he get over it? Very likely. But it's still somewhat thoughtlessly rude to treat the hidden parts of someone's home like a municipal landfill.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I totally get that, and while it may make no functional difference (and I'm not immediately jumping to "you do lovely work" like the other poster), you gotta remember that while it's just a project to you, you just threw garbage into the guy's foundation. Something he's paying you to build and something he's going to live with for potentially decades. Oh yeah, I get that. When I was a dumb teenage kid I didn't. How about I move along to roofing where there is no littering involved? Was replacing a large, flat rubber top roof of a radiator factory one summer. The rubber sheet comes in a roll, I think 100 ft long by 50 ft wide. The rubber is covered with a layer of white rock to prevent hail from puncturing the rubber. All of this rock has to be shoveled to the side to be able to tear out the rubber. We have this machine that's kind of like a big rotor tiller but up front it has a big brush. It's used to sweep all the pebbles and dirt off the rubber before it's removed. One of the guys on the crew had the bright idea to use the brush to move the rock instead of shoveling it. He is marginally successful as the brush simply pushed more and more rocks in front of it, eventually wearing out some very important internal mechanisms. You know, because that's not what that machine was built to do. One of the bosses lost his tits when they had to pay thousands of dollars to repair it. He tried to get someone to fess up, but that guy didn't say anything and I ain't no narc. After tearing the rubber off you have to remove the 2 inch thick sheets of insulation that's underneath. Lots of times the insulation would be soaking wet and crumbly. You had to wear long sleeves so you wouldn't be getting fiberglass all up in your skin when it's 105 degrees. Underneath the insulation we had to cut out any of the metal that was rusted out. There were some spots where it looked fine on top but was rusted out underneath. I found one of these spots by falling through it one day. I stopped with the roof being at my waist. I looked down and had landed right on the middle of an air duct. Underneath that was nothing but conveyor chains with hooks hanging from them moving along. A foot or two to the left or right and I would have fallen into all of that instead. They told me to go get a tetanus shot and come back in the morning. I worked for my best friends dad roofing one summer. We were replacing the sheeting on a roof and I slipped and started sliding off. On the way down my boss goes "You're fired!" I slid off the roof, landed on the ground, rolled once, and got up on my feet (it was only 8 ft from the roof to the ground). My boss asked me, "Are you ok?" I said I was fine and he said, "Ok, you're hired again".
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Apr 13, 2020 14:34
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PureEvil6_13 posted:I worked for my best friends dad roofing one summer. We were replacing the sheeting on a roof and I slipped and started sliding off. On the way down my boss goes "You're fired!" Was he messing with you, or was he serious so that you were “not an employee” when injured?
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Orvin posted:Was he messing with you, or was he serious so that you were “not an employee” when injured? I think he was 85% messing with me and 15% serious.
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Orvin posted:Was he messing with you, or was he serious so that you were “not an employee” when injured? I think that 100% depended on whether OP got injured.
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Apr 13, 2020 15:32
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At summer camp I mixed Tang into my water bottle, then pumped it all through a fancy camping water filter. The water came out clear and I broke the filter. I'm glad you didn't fall through the roof and die in the void of steel hooks, friend.
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Apr 13, 2020 16:11
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PureEvil6_13 posted:I worked for my best friends dad roofing one summer. We were replacing the sheeting on a roof and I slipped and started sliding off. On the way down my boss goes "You're fired!" I've spent too much time around lawyers because that reads like part of a law school hypothetical to me...
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Apr 13, 2020 22:17
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It's a common joke among my heavy construction crews, "if you fall, you're fired before you hit the ground". The lesson is, wear your drat fall protection, kids.
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Apr 13, 2020 22:41
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Also if you drop a tool from height you have to beat it down and catch it.
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Apr 14, 2020 03:41
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If I find a cigarette butt under my porch I'd better also see a corpse down there because the only good smoker is a dead smoker 
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Apr 14, 2020 14:12
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3D Megadoodoo posted:If I find a cigarette butt under my porch I'd better also see a corpse down there because the only good smoker is a dead smoker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACNY3ky5kTA&t=153s
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Apr 14, 2020 15:55
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3D Megadoodoo posted:If I find a cigarette butt under my porch I'd better also see a corpse down there because the only good smoker is a dead smoker We'd all get along just fine if smokers followed the advice of renowned smoker John Arnold 
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Apr 14, 2020 16:07
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3D Megadoodoo posted:If I find a cigarette butt under my porch I'd better also see a corpse down there because the only good smoker is a dead smoker Anyone can quit smoking it takes a real man to fight cancer
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Apr 14, 2020 16:52
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Someone hit the trifecta.
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Apr 14, 2020 18:07
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Is that a gas line, electricity meter, and gutter downspout all within about 6" of each other?
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Apr 14, 2020 18:13
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Is that a gas line, electricity meter, and gutter downspout all within about 6" of each other? Looks to me like they're trying to cross the streams.
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Apr 14, 2020 18:24
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What bothers me the most is the poorly placed down spout can be fixed with a hacksaw and one of those cheap plastic flex pieces.
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Apr 14, 2020 18:26
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couldcareless posted:What bothers me the most is the poorly placed down spout can be fixed with a hacksaw and one of those cheap plastic flex pieces. Or one elbow and a few feet of downspout.
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Apr 14, 2020 18:31
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At first I was like "yikes I doubt that old pipe bodged into the downspout will stop the meter getting soaked" Then I realized its the 
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This reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon about Farmer Brown, who has a burning airline, a derailing freight train, and an earthquake all converging on his house. His eye twitches involuntarily. Pigsfeet on Rye fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Apr 14, 2020 |
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Apr 14, 2020 19:03
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:This reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon about Farmer Brown, who has a burning airline, a derailing freight train, and an earthquake all converging on his house. His eye twitches involuntarily. While he's working on striking a match, unaware that his stove has been leaking gas into his kitchen.
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I assumed the downspout was being used as a cover for the gas pipe going vertically up the house. It hadn't occurred to me it would be an actual functioning downspout and I feel ashamed.
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Apr 14, 2020 21:29
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From the electrical thread:wolrah posted:https://i.imgur.com/FMyXDoW.mp4
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kid sinister posted:From the electrical thread: which electrical thread is this? seems like there's some magical things in there.
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Apr 15, 2020 00:59
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The blue smoke is excited it is about to be freed.
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Beldantazar posted:which electrical thread is this? seems like there's some magical things in there. Please don't burn your house down
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Apr 15, 2020 01:56
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Beldantazar posted:which electrical thread is this? seems like there's some magical things in there. The one stickied in this subforum. Also, you know that you can click the "such-and-such posted" links in quotes, right?
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Apr 15, 2020 02:28
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https://i.imgur.com/tHWmIzn.gifv
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Apr 16, 2020 05:04
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If I were that wall I’d collapse just out of humiliation.
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Apr 16, 2020 05:16
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I’m quite sure it will do exactly that.
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Apr 16, 2020 05:40
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That is the antithesis of the mesmerizing expert bricklayer video.
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Apr 16, 2020 07:10
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... Doing his job correctly does not involve smushing the mortar with his hand, right?
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Apr 16, 2020 07:14
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Zipperelli. posted:drat, came here to post this. The 1970s.
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Zereth posted:... Doing his job correctly does not involve smushing the mortar with his hand, right? If you can call 'pool of mud at the site' as mortar, sure
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