I started my working life as a "Chainboy". Wasn't even senior enough to be a "Chainman". The old hands took great delight on day one, sending me for some "elbow grease", and some "putlock holes" (these are joints that British brickies leave without mortar for the scaffolders to insert the flattened ends of their scaffold poles into, and fill later).
Of course I went looking for these 2 items with limited success!
I'll go get some shore line.
For aviators I've heard it's a bucket of prop wash.
A left-handed monkey wrench is an essential tool.?ÿ Don't leave home without one.
New dishwasher or prep cooks get sent looking for the the rice peeler.
Wait staff were sent outside to the patio for table 99.
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I've been insulted many times over the years by power trippers but I must say the worst insult I've ever received - bar none, and totally unrepeatable in any forum - was about 25 years ago, from a contractor's project manager who happened to be surveying with a total station at the time. What he said warranted being knocked out for, in anyone's book but then I would have gone to prison and that would have ended my career. Anyway, that company became the largest civil contractor in Australasia and that fellow became the managing director. Karma's a ...
Interesting timing.?ÿ I took a twenty year old engineering intern out to survey a short profile centered along an existing sewerline.?ÿ I'm not into power trips, but I like to laugh.
Intern: How do we measure the invert?
ME: Well, it's kinda messy, but you have climb into the MH and tape it.
Intern looks at me, horrified
ME: Just kidding, I can hold you by the legs so you don't have to go all the way in.
This particular intern is from PA, so it has been easy to convince her that certain things are pronounced differently down here in the South.?ÿ My current party chief pronounced guy, as in guy-wire, as "gee" for about year.?ÿ I'm hoping she'll break his record...
Reminds me of my Navy days, when they sent me to find some relative bearing grease.
quarter-inch holes
Where does making-it-to-Friday rank in that larger graph thing ?
That feeling that a three-week old baby boy gets seeing his Granddad's face for the very first time and thinks, "Goodie, a new target come diaper changing time."
News at 11
Round these parts, round this time of year, watching a new guy gnash down on his first ??fruit of the woods?- a peqin pepper- then watching the realization appear in his eyeballs...
...."Easy Pyle, take it easy...."
That sounds like a great place not to be. Sucks you had to be exposed to that esp at work.
You survived and are better for it.
Thanks for sharing.
Funny thing I saw yesterday in my 6 hr commute to other home..
Car pulled off along borrow pit, woman standing arms crossed facing forward on passenger side of car...
The pressure stream from a young boy or girl is scary stuff...I reckon the arc was at least 6 feet in elevation and more than 9 away from the car and mom....
Thankfully there was no wind...
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Carry on..
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