Had a guy at home depot tell me fiberglass mat was the same thing as fiberglass resin. I asked why my project would call for a *cup* of resin if resin was not a liquid, and he said they probably wanted me to tear up the mat and measure it in cups. Only saw him working there once.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend unless my friend becomes that enemy's friend then I become they're enemy aswell or my original enemy becomes my friend
@@logger22 But if your original enemy becomes your friend, are you still going to be friends with your friend who is still the enemy of your new friend, who was your original enemy? Or are you going to stop being friends with your original enemy's enemy because your original enemy is now your friend?
I've only done a bit of plumbing in my life. But those seems to be couplings. They are piping in a literal sense, but not usually directly called pipes (as they are called couplings or couplers). It'd be like calling your flange a pipe too. That is too say a person could try to argument semantics that a flange is pipe, but calling it as such for utility purposes is useless.
It wasn't meant to be funny like family guy or the Simpsons but more to portray the struggles and hardships of everyday life. Focusing on importance of friends, family, growing up etc. King of the hill was truly a unique show
I worked at a hardware store when I was 17. Owner only hired teenagers with zero experience and didn't train. Customers would get pissed at us, but knew it was the owners fault for not hiring professionals. You get what you pay for.
The problem is ego, of you're not talented enough to compete with people who can do straight trades, then your expectations are lower and your time line longer. The manager/owner of such a store is no different, with the difference being that the see saw might propel them only day enough to see what's the cost truly is. So if it takes you three years providing tools for home builders and trades people and all sorts them you go do your trade, you're three years behind. But if you do this lazy, because you don't have access to the quality teachers that are focused on trades, engineers and such you're teaching yourself. If you teach yourself, take longer and end up with an who that is not "how can I help you, so you might help me" well, I'm a tradesperson, I wouldn't help you. This as a metaphor for society is where most of our problems are, be they hardware stores, Coca cola plants or Google HQ. That this process of rank heirarchy and idea structures is obscured helps no one but those isometrics.
@ZMan1471 It's called learning the job, reason bunch of those stupid teens stay at the bottom or go to fast food. Guess some people to stupid to learn things
We have one like that here too. If it wasn't for the fact that they carry stuff the Big box stores didn't i wouldn't shop there. I go in i get "can i help you" i say Yes, by staying out of my way. If you even get that much of a reply out of them
As someone who is a plumbing associate at home depot, I can confirm we are very much ignorant of a lot of what we sell. I apologize to everyone who has had to go through something like this
As a plumber, all I need from you is to point me in the direction of whatever I’m looking for, and maybe check inventory if I can’t find what I need on the shelf. I fully understand that Home Depot and Lowe’s don’t make a habit of hiring tradesman to work for nearly minimum wage, and that isn’t the fault of the employees I interact with. On that note, I will admit it’s annoying when I’m in my work uniform and I’m grabbing parts at Home Depot, and I keep getting stopped by customers to answer their plumbing questions. I always smile and answer as best I can, because I’m hoping they will decide it’s above their pay grade and call me, but honestly I just wanna be left alone to get my parts in peace.
To be fair, people really should learn to research that kind of stuff themselves instead of relying on a bunch of underpaid employees to know it. I work in a meat dept. at a large retail chain and the amount of questions I get just makes me wonder if these people have ever heard of Google. Like, I'm sorry but I don't get paid enough to know what the difference between a flank steak and a chuck eye is. It's meat, either buy it or don't lol.
@@davisbowe8668 I know your pain. I was a cashier at a grocery store and had people asking me questions like whether or not the shampoo they were buying was good for colored hair. They seriously expect minimum wage workers to have encyclopedic knowledge of the 10,000+ products in the store.
I applied to Lowes last summer and they ask what areas you have knowledge in, and my dad was like "you know what a 2×4 is, apply for the wood section." Or "you've planted a seed before, apply for gardening too"
@@gemstonegynoid7475 if you don't have that, then it becomes like a Qtr and Mid life crisis where you become interested in carpentry around 26 and almost certainly complain about some kind of aching muscle pain from _years_ of bad form doing something that a father would've corrected when you were 5.
LOL Thats not always the case. often you see people working in there 70s because the fail to save for retirement had obsolete skills and are just working part time to meet ends. Most these people don't know much about trades, & cannot really help that much. The experienced tradesmen are all working making $50-$120/hr, not working at a hardware store making $12 to 18/hr.
At the end of the episode, with the guys deciding to let the friendship die because they lived in different towns, I pursed my lip, nodded, and understood. While my wife looked at me, and wondered what the fuck was wrong with me. They just don't understand, I tell yew what.
It sucks really cause you know they had a real friendship going on but their own lives got in the way sooner or later. I honestly wished they managed to keep contact with one another
My grandfather was a contractor for 40 yrs and I remember as a teen driving to Lowes with him and I could see the blood vessels in his eyes bursting before we even got to the store lol
Why is that? as a Contractor he should already know what he needs & where to get it. Hank is just a retail propane sales man, and does really know much about trades. Thats why he asking for a "L" pipe which does not exist. If he had a clude he would be asking for 90 degree elbow fittings to make an "L" pipe. The Store helper was correct.
@@guytech7310 Even as a contractor you can't know everything about everything and also Lowes was huge, you would think it'd be faster to ask someone where something is than search for it yourself but often wasn't the case. Also go into google images and type "L pipe" you will see that it is absolutely a thing.
@@parker-boy98 Wrong, genius. A threading block that is held in a handle is called a die. "DYE" is what you put on your Easter eggs. Try reading a book once in a while, or how about you buy some tools and learn to make things, perhaps things that will need taps and dies to fully finish. Just an idea.
I worked at a big box hardware store in my late teens / early 20's. I didn't know much when I started but it wasn't hard to learn the basics of each department. Eventually, I knew almost the entire store and where everything was. If someone had a technical question about electrical or plumbing and I couldn't answer it, I would find someone who could. I realize that this isn't typical... in fact, a lot of the customers were shocked when I could answer their question or walk them straight to the item they needed. A few times, the customer asked to speak with the manager, so they could say a few nice things about me. The manager didn't give a shit. Said thank you to the customer, but I never got a raise or any real recognition. That's just how those places are. And that's why most of the employees behave as shown in this clip.
@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty Thanks. I took pride in what I did and for a low level retail job, I still felt accomplished with my ability to help the customers. That was the enjoyment of that job.
If you're really that type of person, you should know that we never become morons like these, and that such morons need no abuse to act this way. Motivation may wane because of bad management and bad customers, but integrity, curiosity, and intelligence do not.
@@ezakustam bad bosses and bad customers berating you constantly can 100% make you lose all motivation, curiosity, and integrity, and can sure as shit make you feel like you're getting dumber as you listen to them
I walked into an electronics store with an adaptor I had broken hoping to buy a replacement. There were two guys behind the counter, one was on the phone and the other loitering. I expected the availialbe worker to give me a hand, but he didn't and I had to wait for the phone guy to finish. I then held up the adaptor and asked if they had any like it in stock. He wandered over to the display cabinet and took a brief look before declaring "nah you can't buy those in this country". What the hell was I holding then? Went to a different chain and found what I wanted in five minutes. The bad store chain closed down a few months later.
Man, there are way too many people who would rather lie to you outright than spend a few minutes actually helping you. I saw it so much when I was working jobs as a teenager. Those same people were the ones wondering why they make so little and haven't been promoted.
Now that im older and im a plumber The associate has a point. I have NEVER found an L pipe in any supply store, if you want to route a pipe at a 90 degree angle you use a 90 elbow. It is possible to bend pipes but ive yet to see a store that sells pre-bent pipes Also those “U pipes” are definitely pipes but they look more like a p-trap
Plumber here too. The store clerk is partly right, all pipes are straight, the ones that arent are custom made with bends at specific angles. To make all other pipes "bend," you need pipe fitting. Hank just needed a galvanized (looks like he's holding a galvanized pipe) 90 elbow or he could have bought a pipe bender lol
Out of curiosity, could you bend a thin galvanized pipe with a heat gun and a bench vice to get a 90 degree bend for a water pipe or would the heat on the galvanized pipe make it so it would be unhealthy to get drinking water out?
@@mischievousone9999 You never be able to bent it with a heat gun, as it would never get hot enough to soft for you to bend. If you tried to make a sharp 90 "L" the pipe would either kink (preventing flow) or crack. As far as contamination. Well its possible ordinary galvanzied pipe might have some heavy metals, as zinc ore usually contains other heavy metals. Best option is to not use galvanized pipe for potable water. Pex, or copper. Although both of those materials have issues if the muni water is treated with chloramines (which is probably toxic)
I don't expect the floor workers to know everything, no one can know everything, just don't make stuff up if you don't know. There's nothing wrong with "hmm not sure I'm familiar with that, let me check with someone else, then we'll check our inventory."
I work at a grocery store. I’m a stocker and I never had to make up stuff of what I don’t know I always try my best to know where food or different products are if I don’t then I just ask my manager, check in the back or ask one of my coworkers
I started my career in commercial plumbing sales/service at a lowes...and yes, some of the things people assumed/asked for would make hanks hair catch fire. Even now on the commercial side what the alleged "pros" ask for is mind boggling
If pipes don't bend and are all straight, then what kind of factory work have I been doing for the past two years that involves a pipe bending machine?
I worked at a plumbing supply warehouse for 2 years and sold and delivered literal tons of pipe to residential and corporate job sites in a day, none of it was L shaped. The kid is right. All their piping is straight as is 99% of pipe. What Hank points at and calls a "U pipe" is not a pipe. It's a fitting. You wouldn't have L shaped pipes 99% of the time unless it was bent for the specific job but that would be purchased straight still or you would cut a straight pipe and use a 90 degree elbow (or whatever angle you needed) fitting. Which is going to be the case for the septic tank Hank is installing
nope. Pipe: "a tube of metal, plastic, or other material used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances". Tube: "a long, hollow cylinder of metal, plastic, glass, etc. for holding or transporting something, chiefly liquids or gases." A tube or pipe is still a tube or pipe even if it's curved. Now, you might not call the small, compact elbow fittings a pipe, even if technically they are; but a layperson would absolutely call the longer elbows often used in pvc electrical conduits (*1 in. 90-Degree Schedule 40 PVC Belled End Standard Radius Elbow) a curved pipe or elbow pipe. The ones without the bell-end (*2 in. 90 Degree Schedule 80 PVC Plain End 24" Bend Radius Elbow) arguably are not fittings at all, btw, since they don't fit to anything and require fittings to attach to any other pipe. *home depot listings. I don't use links since youtube loves to ensor-cay me and links are a good way to get targetted by the algo.
Worked for a small municipality. Had to work on their lines. "L-pipes" are blinker fluid. Old Copper had fittings. PVC had fittings. Pex was bendable. Those "u-pipes" are indeed fittings.
@@Sebastian_Hahn This is just an argument on semantics. I mean yeah you could technically call a fitting a pipe because it fits the definition but you could also call a straw a pipe or a toilet paper tube a pipe because they also fit the definition. A pipe is a pipe and a fitting is a fitting. Pipes are straight and fittings are what allow you to fit a bunch of straight pipes together to make something that is not straight. And yes I know you can bend a pipe with a pipe bender and it's no longer straight. But when you bought it it was straight because that's how pipes are sold. They're straight.
I worked at Lowe's for a while and nobody trained me on which lumber and cement was used for what. Had to learn on the go or ask for help all the time. It would crack me up tho when you'd get these guys who were super confident they knew more than you but somehow actually knew less. Me and my supervisor had to try our damndest to convince a guy he needed to build a frame for his dock and be refused to believe us lmao
An O'Reilly's clerk stated that metric brake line fittings don't exist because they didn't have any. I went across town to Napa and they had them in stock.
I remember working at Home Depot at 18... I'd spend all day teaching people how to install faucets, replace P-traps and install hot water tanks with expert level confidence having never done a minute of plumbing in my life. I was once given 15 minutes notice to do an hour long demo on how to install a new toilet to a seated audience of about a dozen customers. Went something like "Unscrew everything, rip that badboy off, put in a new wax seal, stick your new toilet on, screw everything back down... uuuh... don't forget your teflon tape." "Which side of the wax seal goes on the bottom?" "huh?...uhh... The bottom side. Next question please..." Crazy thing is I was always the one training new people and every time the department head or any manager got asked questions they'd pull me off my break to ask me. Got fired after two years for having never once shown up on time. Hell I even had a face piercings. This clip couldn't have been more accurate.
@@pineappleparty1624 It's hyperbole. But I rarely showed up on time because I wasn't motivated to. Working there was like being trapped in purgatory. For clarity they weren't wrong to fire me. Frankly they wouldn't have been wrong to fire anyone outside of cashiers and the night crew. Even the gruff old timey tradesmen didn't know modern code and would either hide in quiet aisles or fall asleep in the break room.
At 23 I already feel like Hank. I remember asking for a valve to slow the flow rate on my shower head since the pressure was too high. I was promptly told by the Lowes employee that I either had to buy a whole new shower head, or cut into the pipe leading up to the shower head. I however went to TrueValue and they immediately knew what I was looking for and it just threaded on. And True Value is a fraction of the size
There are a lot of dumb people in fast food. Not all, but damm, there are a lot. I do delivery and they always screw up the stickers. You'd think it would be easy to understand how to put a sticker on a bag so that the bag is actually closed, but nah. That's rocket science to some of these people.
@@teemun3979 it really depends. I work in retail and am fine with the wages but only because I have no expenses. If you're applying for a job with a low starting wage while trying to support a family, then obviously it's a idiotic job to apply for. People are not realizing that those type of jobs are more meaning to people with little to no experience in working. It is not made to support a family. As a job it's fine, as a career field I would reevaluate on where your position in the company you want to be. If you see yourself being a store manager or district manager in 10 years, then it's reasonable but if you see yourself staying the same position, then you need to reevaluate yourself.
I swear this is what it's like going into Lowes where I live. I've just turned into Ron Swanson, every time I walk in it's just like" I know more about this than you do, leave me alone."
Lol this was me at a tractor supply, told them i had no experience and wanted my southern roots back. Shieeeet I didn't know anything there but I worked for months until I had to move, shit pay, only enjoyed the work when having to lift stuff in the back or load trucks with material. Good times. Still got no damn idea what 90% of the items were but im 22 and learning wtf basic tools are Dad never taught me anything, gotta learn yourself someday
If you want to learn all about tools, find a union hall and join a trade. Electricians, fitters, carpenters, whatnot. The money's good and you'll definitely learn about some tools.
As someone who worked at a hardware store and was put in plumbing, which I knew nothing about, I can tell you I had a few Hank Hill's "educate" me. I was always interested of course but jeez was I put in the wrong department lol.
I find myself rewatching more and more of these clips the older I get. pretty sure I've seen every episode as a kid but I can relate so much more to Hank now
When I first started off in a meat department. I had a customer that awfully reminds me of these 2. Brought him 2 Tbones when he asked for Porterhouses. Man gave me a 10 minute lecture the whole time sounding very annoyed yet trying to teach me the difference.
LOL, that reminds me of a story a guy once told me. He said he went to a steakhouse, ordered a porterhouse and they brought him a T-bone. I said, "well, they are pretty similar..." He snapped at me, "A T-bone has a BONE! A porterhouse doesn't have a bone in it!" (for anyone who doesn't know, they look almost identical with the porterhouse having just a bit more meat on it, and both have a T shaped bone). I'm guessing they just served him a ribeye or something to shut him up! I figured if they couldn't teach him, I wasn't going to bother. It's funny how some people are willing to teach, some are willing to learn, and some just think they already know everything.
@@Eric_1991 Teenager? As a former teen, let me say: It's true. Teens haven't learned to channel those hormones yet, so it makes you stupid. You'll realize it's true in 10 to 15 years.
@@alextomanovich8486 More true than most can imagine. They seriously need to have a customer service rep posted on each end of every department. Or at least keep an up to date layout map posted with a "You are here" dot.
I was building a firepit and went to home depot to get some iron piping and I couldn't find the right pipe I needed so I asked an employee and he took me to the PVC pipe...
I love how King of the Hill routinely had famous actors play the exact opposite of what they usually played. Drew Carry was a Hank clone, Brad Pitt was Boomhauer’s brother, Johnny Depp was an effeminate yoga instructor, the list goes on
I could see Drew being similar to a Hank personality with his history in the military and his libertarian beliefs. Comparative to most celebrity guests on the show
@@SpazzerMcFly drew typically played energetic funny guys though. and he hosted 2 shows. his character in this was very reserved and low profile. that's what OP means
I walked into an unknown hardware store a few weeks ago and the kid (probably 15) behind the counter asked if I needed help, so I said "yeah, I'm looking for a P-trap." He proceeds to lead me to a shelf filled with varmint control items and asked what animal i was trying to catch again.
I know what it is, but I won't buy it... again. It's almost useful on some materials, but horrible on others. And there are better choices for the ones it works on.
I went through the comments thinking the same thing. I'm no professional plumber, but I've redone five bathrooms and never heard of an L pipe. Like you said, pipe and fitting. The configuration is your job, not theirs.
They're called fittings. 11 1/4, 22 1/2, 45 and 90 degree bends. You also got Wyes, Tees and P-Traps. You are probably gonna say you use soft coppers, but even still they make fittings for that.
I used to work at home Depot in the plumbing department I know exactly what it's like to be new in that position. Then 2 weeks later I realized plumbing is adult legos.
This is like that Ron Swanson moment when asked by a staff member if he’s working on a project and he just says “I know more than you” without even stopping to talk.
One time, me and my brother-in-law (who's 15 years older than me) went into a store and he asked one of the workers where a part was. The worker said they didn't have that, only my brother-in-law found it right there in the store, and laughed. The worker promptly glared at him for the remainder of our time there. XD
This is actually a thing. I was once told by some smartass kid that you can’t use oxygen with propane because it will explode. I freaking educated him too. What an embarrassment.
I once gave a short lecture on oxy-fuel processes. One guy came up afterwards and said "That was interesting. I've never heard about oil-fuel welding." Was he even paying attention?
@Marshall Banana I've worked in lots of retail places too. I also was a retail bench jeweler for five years. Its maybe one thing if its yarn and construction paper you are talking about. But you don't wanna fuck around with gas tools, or pretty much any kind of high power tool for that matter. If someone working at a hardware store is giving customers false information, then they shouldn't be working at a hardware store. Plain and simple. I don't care if they train you or not, you should probably make sure you know what you are talking about before you tell some random customer all about it. Most customers aren't knowledgeable about what they are buying, and they will assume anybody who works there is. If that customer goes home and finds out you were wrong the hard way, it could lead to a whole can of worms and legal issues. You also won't have a job if you get identified as the wise guy. Never underestimate the power of stupid. Especially if it takes the form of an ignorant customer. One customer could ruin your whole career if you screw them enough.
this is so true, most of the time someone at Home Depot won't know what your talking about to the point where if they ask if I need anything I just say no thanks just looking. it is much more effective to just find what your looking for on your own in most cases, I worked in construction as a Summer job for 3 or 4 years so I usually know exactly what I am looking for when planning a small project around the house.
Once when I was working at Lowe's I was helping a man find fuel for a 4 cycle engine. He grabbed the oil for the engine, and I asked him if needed the fuel as well or just the oil. He said he just needed fuel. I told him that what he had his hands on was oil. He asked me what the difference was. Damn near split his reality in two. Have not seen him since, I worry for him.
I know a guy that bought a new push mower. He saw that he needed to add oil to the engine before use because it shipped without oil in it, right? So he attempts to disassemble the engine to add the oil...
@@jesuscruz6533 The problem is that many (and unfortunately an ever growing number) of retailers and companies in general, especially and kind of chain or large-scale corporation, feel that their employees are a replaceable as those pipes. They don't care to provide even the most basic training, feeling that it is better to fire or encourage people to quit quickly and being in someone else who will start at minimum wage starting the cycle over. Even if, and admittedly a big if, an employee wanted to know more about an area and be more helpful, they would have to do it almost entirely on their own time and dime. Often you're disincentivized from doing things like that in a number subtle and insidious was. Source: I worked retail for many years at a several different companies.
@@scaper8 Yeah, I hated seeing new employees get "trained" by people who hadn't been on the job long themselves. Then they end up doing things...well...adequately, but not as good as if they actually knew what they were doing.
One of the reasons ive never been to Lowe's again. Was looking for corkboard and got directed around 4 times to the wrong aisle until I accidentally stumbled on it by myself.
Had a guy at home depot tell me fiberglass mat was the same thing as fiberglass resin. I asked why my project would call for a *cup* of resin if resin was not a liquid, and he said they probably wanted me to tear up the mat and measure it in cups.
Only saw him working there once.
Lmao 🤣 Guess that guy would try hammering down screws!
Bet Lowes would love him.
Fancy meeting you here :p
Almost makes me glad we don't have one, not the first time I've heard a stpry like that about the homeless despot
Oh my good Lord! I know it shouldn’t, but it really blows my mind how damn dumb some people can be.
Mutual hatered, the cornerstone to any friendship
It reminds me of the Hateocracy from The Boondocks
Your enemy's enemy is your friend.
Saltmates. Friends through mutual anger
The enemy of my enemy is my friend unless my friend becomes that enemy's friend then I become they're enemy aswell or my original enemy becomes my friend
@@logger22 But if your original enemy becomes your friend, are you still going to be friends with your friend who is still the enemy of your new friend, who was your original enemy? Or are you going to stop being friends with your original enemy's enemy because your original enemy is now your friend?
Just the sheer confidence he says "those aren't pipes" gets me every time lol
You almost want to believe him!
"Those are joints."
I found myself agreeing withy the store employee,...... There is pipe....and there are pipe fittings........ 90 degree ells---tees---reducers..etc.
I've only done a bit of plumbing in my life. But those seems to be couplings. They are piping in a literal sense, but not usually directly called pipes (as they are called couplings or couplers). It'd be like calling your flange a pipe too. That is too say a person could try to argument semantics that a flange is pipe, but calling it as such for utility purposes is useless.
I’m young and I’d beat that idiot upside the head with every pipe until he learned he was wrong.
This is why every hardware store employee should be an old man with a bad back and a drinking problem.
And I wouldn't go to any other hardware store ever.
The hardware store I go to is owned by a guy in a wheelchair. Does that count?
@@ianfinrir8724 does he have a drinking problem?
@@jonjacobjingleheimerschmid3798 The wheelchair does have a cup holder, so yeah, probably.
@@ianfinrir8724 then you won't go to any other hardware store ever....
As I'm getting closer to the age of 30 I'm starting to relate more and more to hank hill
You live a few more years, and then you have people younger than you, who have no idea what you're doing asserting you are wrong.
Feel you brotha
right then. wait 'til you're 50. my mama just LOL and told me to wait 'til i'm 80.
Me too omfg
This is Home Depot, in a nutshell.
Love at first sight.
Truly Beautiful!
Superdave OZY eyup
If that man was a woman, Hank would have no trouble leaving Peggy
Zao Medong Didn't think I'd read that tonight!
Superdave OZY It's platonic
"There are different sized holes,
how do you think that happens?"
*subtle shoulder shrug*
Some girls are easier then others .
@@MaekarManastorm 😂
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@@MaekarManastorm Cursed
This show was never funny to me as a kid. But now I see the true genius of this show.
SAME
Because it wasn't for kids
Wasn't for *dumb kids
It wasn't meant to be funny like family guy or the Simpsons but more to portray the struggles and hardships of everyday life. Focusing on importance of friends, family, growing up etc. King of the hill was truly a unique show
Dude same
It appears that the Mega- Lo Mart has Mega Low standards for hiring people.
Minimum wage jobs basically.
Mostly teenagers or people who just got out of highschool.
All you need to get employed is a pulse
+Melancholy Mango Pretty sure I saw a corpse working at Walmart the other day, he was doing a better job than anyone else.
@rgtrooper13 its not just minimum effort its minimum brain function
That's Arlen for you.
I worked at a hardware store when I was 17. Owner only hired teenagers with zero experience and didn't train. Customers would get pissed at us, but knew it was the owners fault for not hiring professionals. You get what you pay for.
@ZMan1471 Or the owner couldve trained his employees. Cheap bastard.
To become a professional, you've got to get experience starting out somewhere. The problem would likely be a lack of any training if anything.
The problem is ego, of you're not talented enough to compete with people who can do straight trades, then your expectations are lower and your time line longer. The manager/owner of such a store is no different, with the difference being that the see saw might propel them only day enough to see what's the cost truly is. So if it takes you three years providing tools for home builders and trades people and all sorts them you go do your trade, you're three years behind. But if you do this lazy, because you don't have access to the quality teachers that are focused on trades, engineers and such you're teaching yourself. If you teach yourself, take longer and end up with an who that is not "how can I help you, so you might help me" well, I'm a tradesperson, I wouldn't help you.
This as a metaphor for society is where most of our problems are, be they hardware stores, Coca cola plants or Google HQ.
That this process of rank heirarchy and idea structures is obscured helps no one but those isometrics.
@ZMan1471 It's called learning the job, reason bunch of those stupid teens stay at the bottom or go to fast food. Guess some people to stupid to learn things
We have one like that here too. If it wasn't for the fact that they carry stuff the Big box stores didn't i wouldn't shop there. I go in i get "can i help you" i say Yes, by staying out of my way. If you even get that much of a reply out of them
I was in my late teens watching this new show, laughing at how uptight Hank was. Now at 42, I've become Hank Hill, in many ways.
dude you just tripped me out with the passage of time. were the late nineties really that long ago? 😥
@@moggioz7165 yes, now get back to finding a wife, time's ticking
@@ChemySh or just keep hooking up with ditzy college girls if you live in a uni town. They love older guys with experience
I never laughed at him being uptight, I always got mad at him being uptight. Still do. Bobby is a more entertaining and healthy person to watch.
Do you also understand that this happens because companies don't train their employees?
Lowe’s employee: “Can I help you find anything?”
Ron Swanson: “I know more than you”
......my usual reply is....”I doubt it.”
Prove it.
On three separate occasions I showed THE SAME tractor supply employee they did in fact have something he didn’t believe they had.
They moved the plumbing section.
Same basic joke, but KOTH did it before Parks & Rec. lol
This was me at a Radio Shack when the guy told me ALL laptops take the same size power input.
Radio shack !
@@dillonwarman7769 a distant memory
Hey ranger Ryder could I have your autograph. Make it out to Steve
was that in like ninteen something?!
I still had a radio shack down the street a couple years ago
This is how friends are made after high school/college.
@Rusty Shackleford come on hard gay right from the start, that way the relationship can only possibly get less gay as it progresses.
@@deathsheadknight2137 Hwat?
@@llIlIlllII someone deleted their comment
When your an adult getting new friends is almost impossible.
@@CyberLance26 Pretty sure this episode ends with them going separate ways, does it not?
As someone who is a plumbing associate at home depot, I can confirm we are very much ignorant of a lot of what we sell. I apologize to everyone who has had to go through something like this
Yeah that poor associate had to explain what a fitting was to an ignorant customer
If you need to find something, we can help, if you want to know what a thing actually does, we can't help you. I just put it on the shelf, sir.
As a plumber, all I need from you is to point me in the direction of whatever I’m looking for, and maybe check inventory if I can’t find what I need on the shelf. I fully understand that Home Depot and Lowe’s don’t make a habit of hiring tradesman to work for nearly minimum wage, and that isn’t the fault of the employees I interact with.
On that note, I will admit it’s annoying when I’m in my work uniform and I’m grabbing parts at Home Depot, and I keep getting stopped by customers to answer their plumbing questions. I always smile and answer as best I can, because I’m hoping they will decide it’s above their pay grade and call me, but honestly I just wanna be left alone to get my parts in peace.
To be fair, people really should learn to research that kind of stuff themselves instead of relying on a bunch of underpaid employees to know it. I work in a meat dept. at a large retail chain and the amount of questions I get just makes me wonder if these people have ever heard of Google. Like, I'm sorry but I don't get paid enough to know what the difference between a flank steak and a chuck eye is. It's meat, either buy it or don't lol.
@@davisbowe8668 I know your pain. I was a cashier at a grocery store and had people asking me questions like whether or not the shampoo they were buying was good for colored hair. They seriously expect minimum wage workers to have encyclopedic knowledge of the 10,000+ products in the store.
The nexus of "Those aren't career jobs, they're meant for highshcoolers" and "How come nobody here knows anything about home care and repair?"
I knew all those things in highschool just have a dad educate you in basic hardware stuff
@@R3Cat cool. What if you dont have that?
I applied to Lowes last summer and they ask what areas you have knowledge in, and my dad was like "you know what a 2×4 is, apply for the wood section." Or "you've planted a seed before, apply for gardening too"
@@gemstonegynoid7475 if you don't have that, then it becomes like a Qtr and Mid life crisis where you become interested in carpentry around 26 and almost certainly complain about some kind of aching muscle pain from _years_ of bad form doing something that a father would've corrected when you were 5.
Point being you're supposed to hire them and train them. The training part gets left out, even for older people who never went past that point.
If that guy was a woman then Hank would divorce Peggy in a heartbeat.
@Belletaina She was pretty much Dale without all of his weaknesses.
@@nickirmen6671 Yeah
@@nickirmen6671 Yeah, tell John Redcorn he can have Nancy!
Parker Green he knows joesph not his song
I mean, Drew Allison Carey's got three girl names. That's a start.
If you need help at a hardware store, always go to the oldest employee.
LOL Thats not always the case. often you see people working in there 70s because the fail to save for retirement had obsolete skills and are just working part time to meet ends. Most these people don't know much about trades, & cannot really help that much. The experienced tradesmen are all working making $50-$120/hr, not working at a hardware store making $12 to 18/hr.
At the end of the episode, with the guys deciding to let the friendship die because they lived in different towns, I pursed my lip, nodded, and understood. While my wife looked at me, and wondered what the fuck was wrong with me.
They just don't understand, I tell yew what.
*hwhat
The womenfolk just don't understand the practicality of such important decisions.
*hwat
It sucks really cause you know they had a real friendship going on but their own lives got in the way sooner or later.
I honestly wished they managed to keep contact with one another
If he was gay
My grandfather was a contractor for 40 yrs and I remember as a teen driving to Lowes with him and I could see the blood vessels in his eyes bursting before we even got to the store lol
Why is that? as a Contractor he should already know what he needs & where to get it. Hank is just a retail propane sales man, and does really know much about trades. Thats why he asking for a "L" pipe which does not exist. If he had a clude he would be asking for 90 degree elbow fittings to make an "L" pipe. The Store helper was correct.
@@guytech7310 Even as a contractor you can't know everything about everything and also Lowes was huge, you would think it'd be faster to ask someone where something is than search for it yourself but often wasn't the case.
Also go into google images and type "L pipe" you will see that it is absolutely a thing.
I need a tap and die and some WD-40
Dye
@@parker-boy98 Wrong, genius. A threading block that is held in a handle is called a die. "DYE" is what you put on your Easter eggs. Try reading a book once in a while, or how about you buy some tools and learn to make things, perhaps things that will need taps and dies to fully finish. Just an idea.
Back before Buckley was dating Luanne.
@@holton345 No it's dye idiot
@@Bonkbonk100 Might want to at the very least check Wikipedia before calling someone an idiot. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_and_die
I used to laugh at this until my last trip to Home Depot.
Y
Truueeee
Home Depot is a minimum wage job, so you get what you pay for.
@@matthewgagnon9426 It has nothing to do with minimum wage. They hire morons.
@@matthewgagnon9426 they rose minum wage and we still get dipsticks working in these places.
I worked at a big box hardware store in my late teens / early 20's. I didn't know much when I started but it wasn't hard to learn the basics of each department. Eventually, I knew almost the entire store and where everything was. If someone had a technical question about electrical or plumbing and I couldn't answer it, I would find someone who could. I realize that this isn't typical... in fact, a lot of the customers were shocked when I could answer their question or walk them straight to the item they needed. A few times, the customer asked to speak with the manager, so they could say a few nice things about me. The manager didn't give a shit. Said thank you to the customer, but I never got a raise or any real recognition. That's just how those places are. And that's why most of the employees behave as shown in this clip.
Kudos to you for being a good'un.
So basically, bad management, good employee. Tale as old as time...kudos on you dude.
@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty Thanks. I took pride in what I did and for a low level retail job, I still felt accomplished with my ability to help the customers. That was the enjoyment of that job.
If you're really that type of person, you should know that we never become morons like these, and that such morons need no abuse to act this way. Motivation may wane because of bad management and bad customers, but integrity, curiosity, and intelligence do not.
@@ezakustam bad bosses and bad customers berating you constantly can 100% make you lose all motivation, curiosity, and integrity, and can sure as shit make you feel like you're getting dumber as you listen to them
"That's when hank found the right pipe."
Underrated comment
LMAO
It wasn't a l pipe though lol
🤣
@@annoyingPoe15 it was a D pipe bucko
One of my favorite episodes. The ending got me so good.
"Guess that's it."
"Yep"
Guess this is it then..
The funny thing is that they in fact aren’t pipes. The U joints are fittings, and what Hank is holding is actually an electrical conduit
Nah, No U joints for electrical conduit. They are P-traps for sink drains.
I walked into an electronics store with an adaptor I had broken hoping to buy a replacement. There were two guys behind the counter, one was on the phone and the other loitering. I expected the availialbe worker to give me a hand, but he didn't and I had to wait for the phone guy to finish. I then held up the adaptor and asked if they had any like it in stock. He wandered over to the display cabinet and took a brief look before declaring "nah you can't buy those in this country". What the hell was I holding then?
Went to a different chain and found what I wanted in five minutes. The bad store chain closed down a few months later.
Man, there are way too many people who would rather lie to you outright than spend a few minutes actually helping you. I saw it so much when I was working jobs as a teenager. Those same people were the ones wondering why they make so little and haven't been promoted.
Now that im older and im a plumber
The associate has a point. I have NEVER found an L pipe in any supply store, if you want to route a pipe at a 90 degree angle you use a 90 elbow. It is possible to bend pipes but ive yet to see a store that sells pre-bent pipes
Also those “U pipes” are definitely pipes but they look more like a p-trap
Plumber here too. The store clerk is partly right, all pipes are straight, the ones that arent are custom made with bends at specific angles. To make all other pipes "bend," you need pipe fitting. Hank just needed a galvanized (looks like he's holding a galvanized pipe) 90 elbow or he could have bought a pipe bender lol
Also "L pipes" are a thing, but they aren't bent pipes. The L is for the thickness of the copper.
Out of curiosity, could you bend a thin galvanized pipe with a heat gun and a bench vice to get a 90 degree bend for a water pipe or would the heat on the galvanized pipe make it so it would be unhealthy to get drinking water out?
@@mischievousone9999 You never be able to bent it with a heat gun, as it would never get hot enough to soft for you to bend. If you tried to make a sharp 90 "L" the pipe would either kink (preventing flow) or crack.
As far as contamination. Well its possible ordinary galvanzied pipe might have some heavy metals, as zinc ore usually contains other heavy metals. Best option is to not use galvanized pipe for potable water. Pex, or copper. Although both of those materials have issues if the muni water is treated with chloramines (which is probably toxic)
Legend has it that Hank is still trying to find that “L pipe”, and Tom Anderson is still trying to find those “Spanish Tiles”.
I’m looking for some Spanish roofing tiles!
He got it at the end.
Hello? **Lights shutdown and his car parked outside gets towed**
Home Labyrinth!
I don't expect the floor workers to know everything, no one can know everything, just don't make stuff up if you don't know. There's nothing wrong with "hmm not sure I'm familiar with that, let me check with someone else, then we'll check our inventory."
I work at a grocery store. I’m a stocker and I never had to make up stuff of what I don’t know I always try my best to know where food or different products are if I don’t then I just ask my manager, check in the back or ask one of my coworkers
Exactly. It's the lying that gets people upset. Can they not spend a few minutes to actually try to help?
One of the writers DEFINITELY had this "straight pipe" debate at a parts store, it's just rings way too true to be made up.
I love this episode for Hank's genuine nice friendship he forms. Also seeing bill and dale be petty over Hank's new friend is hilarious
The best part was when Bill & Dale got drunk in the alley waiting for Hank.
0:33 The moment Hank realized marrying Peggy was a mistake
shut up
@@bradymetzinger8755 Why are you a homophobe?
@@parker-boy98 why are you geh?
@@kilachiki538 I'm not gay. Also, you can't just ask someone that! It's like asking a guy why he's black!
@@parker-boy98 you are geh
I don't know jack about plumbing but even I know the basics of what a pipe is and what shapes it could be.
L is actually an identifier of pipe thickness in copper pipe.
Sounds like you would be a more competent employee than this jackass
@buthut If the elbow is welded then it's one whole pipe that isn't straight
@buthut I fell like it's just semantics at this point lol
He was right tho, he needed threaded pipe and some fittings
if the hardware store has an old guy working there with one eye and less than 4 fingers on one hand, he's the guy you want.
I work at a Lowe’s, sometimes it’s the opposite.
I started my career in commercial plumbing sales/service at a lowes...and yes, some of the things people assumed/asked for would make hanks hair catch fire. Even now on the commercial side what the alleged "pros" ask for is mind boggling
Wait a minute is that Drew Carrey?
Yep
Mhhmm
I guess he has retired because i have not seen Drew Carrey in anything in ages.
lol Drew? he is hosting Price is Right, been doing so for a while. He slimmed down a ton.
Yup.
Pipes don't bend all pipes are straight......Home Depot lied to me... :-/
And yet home depot sells pipe benders
Rone Herushin: Go figure.
@@roneherushin4638 .....those aren't pipes 😏
If pipes don't bend and are all straight, then what kind of factory work have I been doing for the past two years that involves a pipe bending machine?
@@wilcoxway well clearly those arent pipes.
I worked at a plumbing supply warehouse for 2 years and sold and delivered literal tons of pipe to residential and corporate job sites in a day, none of it was L shaped. The kid is right. All their piping is straight as is 99% of pipe. What Hank points at and calls a "U pipe" is not a pipe. It's a fitting. You wouldn't have L shaped pipes 99% of the time unless it was bent for the specific job but that would be purchased straight still or you would cut a straight pipe and use a 90 degree elbow (or whatever angle you needed) fitting. Which is going to be the case for the septic tank Hank is installing
this is the correct answer
nope. Pipe: "a tube of metal, plastic, or other material used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances". Tube: "a long, hollow cylinder of metal, plastic, glass, etc. for holding or transporting something, chiefly liquids or gases."
A tube or pipe is still a tube or pipe even if it's curved.
Now, you might not call the small, compact elbow fittings a pipe, even if technically they are; but a layperson would absolutely call the longer elbows often used in pvc electrical conduits (*1 in. 90-Degree Schedule 40 PVC Belled End Standard Radius Elbow) a curved pipe or elbow pipe. The ones without the bell-end (*2 in. 90 Degree Schedule 80 PVC Plain End 24" Bend Radius Elbow) arguably are not fittings at all, btw, since they don't fit to anything and require fittings to attach to any other pipe.
*home depot listings. I don't use links since youtube loves to ensor-cay me and links are a good way to get targetted by the algo.
Worked for a small municipality. Had to work on their lines. "L-pipes" are blinker fluid. Old Copper had fittings. PVC had fittings. Pex was bendable.
Those "u-pipes" are indeed fittings.
@@Sebastian_Hahn This is just an argument on semantics. I mean yeah you could technically call a fitting a pipe because it fits the definition but you could also call a straw a pipe or a toilet paper tube a pipe because they also fit the definition.
A pipe is a pipe and a fitting is a fitting. Pipes are straight and fittings are what allow you to fit a bunch of straight pipes together to make something that is not straight. And yes I know you can bend a pipe with a pipe bender and it's no longer straight. But when you bought it it was straight because that's how pipes are sold. They're straight.
@@jdthesexpert05 intustry lingo doesn't trump far older lingual definitions. sorry.
"He who stands with me shall be my brother" Hank Hill
*"While the asses of my enemies still ain't kicked there can't be any peace, I tell ya h'wat."*
_"We fell in love in a hopeless place"_
there are two kinds of people:
people that get pissed off when the lowes employee tries to help,
and people that ask the lowes employee for help
That's actually the same person.
They ask the Lowe's employee for help then get pissed off.
I worked at Lowe's for a while and nobody trained me on which lumber and cement was used for what. Had to learn on the go or ask for help all the time. It would crack me up tho when you'd get these guys who were super confident they knew more than you but somehow actually knew less. Me and my supervisor had to try our damndest to convince a guy he needed to build a frame for his dock and be refused to believe us lmao
An O'Reilly's clerk stated that metric brake line fittings don't exist because they didn't have any. I went across town to Napa and they had them in stock.
Other countries make automobiles. I would think everyone would know that.
How do other countries break then?
"Hi, is there something I can help y-"
"I know more than you."
guitar store stereotypes lol
More people need to be like Ron Swanson.
Alright, but do you know WHERE to find it in this store? Because every store is arranged differently, even in the same chain.
@@cymond r/woosh
cymond r/woosh it’s a Ron swanson quote
the customer service at mega lo mart looks like the customer service I get at the circle k I go to.
Dethblade4 Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Probably because they don't sell pipes at Circle K
Customer service? At Circle K? All they gotta do is take your money...
Why are you going to circle k for pipes? You stupid or something?
@@KenMabie That boi ain't right.
I remember working at Home Depot at 18... I'd spend all day teaching people how to install faucets, replace P-traps and install hot water tanks with expert level confidence having never done a minute of plumbing in my life. I was once given 15 minutes notice to do an hour long demo on how to install a new toilet to a seated audience of about a dozen customers.
Went something like
"Unscrew everything, rip that badboy off, put in a new wax seal, stick your new toilet on, screw everything back down... uuuh... don't forget your teflon tape."
"Which side of the wax seal goes on the bottom?"
"huh?...uhh... The bottom side. Next question please..."
Crazy thing is I was always the one training new people and every time the department head or any manager got asked questions they'd pull me off my break to ask me.
Got fired after two years for having never once shown up on time.
Hell I even had a face piercings. This clip couldn't have been more accurate.
"expert level confidence" that is so spot on! i googled so much crap for that job
Why did you never once show up on time?
@@pineappleparty1624 It's hyperbole.
But I rarely showed up on time because I wasn't motivated to. Working there was like being trapped in purgatory.
For clarity they weren't wrong to fire me. Frankly they wouldn't have been wrong to fire anyone outside of cashiers and the night crew.
Even the gruff old timey tradesmen didn't know modern code and would either hide in quiet aisles or fall asleep in the break room.
@@Powermeta11 Wow what a terrible store lol. It's not fun to work at a terribly managed place.
At 23 I already feel like Hank. I remember asking for a valve to slow the flow rate on my shower head since the pressure was too high. I was promptly told by the Lowes employee that I either had to buy a whole new shower head, or cut into the pipe leading up to the shower head. I however went to TrueValue and they immediately knew what I was looking for and it just threaded on. And True Value is a fraction of the size
Lowes can't even get a fridge delivered properly . You can't trust them.
If that guy doesn't think U-pipes are pipes, what does he think they are?
I feel robbed; I want to hear his answer.
Horse shoes
@@HunterShows the other truck near hanks might be his
Headrests for cars or something?
Does he think that only straight pipes are actual pipes or something
Why can't mega-lo mart just hire smart people?...Oh Right, they don't want to pay extra for overqualified people.
Batben01 sounds like amazon.
Nigga its a retail store
nigga its a fictional cartoon
There are a lot of dumb people in fast food. Not all, but damm, there are a lot. I do delivery and they always screw up the stickers. You'd think it would be easy to understand how to put a sticker on a bag so that the bag is actually closed, but nah. That's rocket science to some of these people.
@@teemun3979 it really depends. I work in retail and am fine with the wages but only because I have no expenses. If you're applying for a job with a low starting wage while trying to support a family, then obviously it's a idiotic job to apply for.
People are not realizing that those type of jobs are more meaning to people with little to no experience in working. It is not made to support a family.
As a job it's fine, as a career field I would reevaluate on where your position in the company you want to be. If you see yourself being a store manager or district manager in 10 years, then it's reasonable but if you see yourself staying the same position, then you need to reevaluate yourself.
I lose it when Hank says "all pipes cant be straight" lmfao
I swear this is what it's like going into Lowes where I live. I've just turned into Ron Swanson, every time I walk in it's just like" I know more about this than you do, leave me alone."
Lol this was me at a tractor supply, told them i had no experience and wanted my southern roots back.
Shieeeet I didn't know anything there but I worked for months until I had to move, shit pay, only enjoyed the work when having to lift stuff in the back or load trucks with material. Good times. Still got no damn idea what 90% of the items were but im 22 and learning wtf basic tools are
Dad never taught me anything, gotta learn yourself someday
If you want to learn all about tools, find a union hall and join a trade. Electricians, fitters, carpenters, whatnot. The money's good and you'll definitely learn about some tools.
When i was 17, i used to buy at least one tool a week. Have a pretty good supply, now.
Lol you learned about your southern roots alright, hope you enjoyed your lesson on wage slavery.
That's how little training is available in retail.
Yup they just throw ya to the wolves with pretty much no training or teaching at all.
we started out like Bobby, but now we're evolving into Hank.
Not knowing the difference between a pipe and a pipe fitting. Evolution am I right?
I see this as an absolute win.
As someone who worked at a hardware store and was put in plumbing, which I knew nothing about, I can tell you I had a few Hank Hill's "educate" me. I was always interested of course but jeez was I put in the wrong department lol.
That sounds the beginning of a good frienship
It was till they found out they have conflicting schedules.
@@JP-rf8rr oh well
Separated at birth much?
As someone who works at a hardware store, this is accurate
I find myself rewatching more and more of these clips the older I get. pretty sure I've seen every episode as a kid but I can relate so much more to Hank now
Twist: They knew what they were talking about, they just wanted to troll them because they're teens.
When I first started off in a meat department. I had a customer that awfully reminds me of these 2. Brought him 2 Tbones when he asked for Porterhouses. Man gave me a 10 minute lecture the whole time sounding very annoyed yet trying to teach me the difference.
LOL, that reminds me of a story a guy once told me. He said he went to a steakhouse, ordered a porterhouse and they brought him a T-bone. I said, "well, they are pretty similar..." He snapped at me, "A T-bone has a BONE! A porterhouse doesn't have a bone in it!" (for anyone who doesn't know, they look almost identical with the porterhouse having just a bit more meat on it, and both have a T shaped bone). I'm guessing they just served him a ribeye or something to shut him up! I figured if they couldn't teach him, I wasn't going to bother. It's funny how some people are willing to teach, some are willing to learn, and some just think they already know everything.
My dad had this happen to him at Home Depot. He was looking for wood screws and the 'help' thought that they were screws MADE OF WOOD! 🤦♂️
Wood screws vs wooden screws. This is why pronunciation and hearing is important.
Good thing he wasn't looking for drywall screws then
Mike judge always did such a good job at showing the terrible and true stereotypes. e.g. wal-mart/office jobs/dumb teenagers
Whatever you say buddy
@@Eric_1991 Teenager? As a former teen, let me say: It's true. Teens haven't learned to channel those hormones yet, so it makes you stupid. You'll realize it's true in 10 to 15 years.
OK boomer
@@domenik8339 do you know what a boomer is?
No. Mike Judge is a comedic genius. The butt of this joke is the audience. Boy's right. Hank's wrong. Those are fittings.
Of course, drill bits would be on a completely different aisle than pipes.
Not at mega lo mart they aren't lols
Maybe he was in the pipe aisle just to ask the employee where to find the drill bits...
He probably walked past 14 aisles with no workers in them before he finally found a guy and knew it was him or nobody.
@@alextomanovich8486 More true than most can imagine. They seriously need to have a customer service rep posted on each end of every department. Or at least keep an up to date layout map posted with a "You are here" dot.
I was building a firepit and went to home depot to get some iron piping and I couldn't find the right pipe I needed so I asked an employee and he took me to the PVC pipe...
Why would you need a pipe? For air?
@@schwarzerritter5724 I'd guess the pipes were for propane. A lot of fire pits are glorified propane grills rather than wood fire.
@@schwarzerritter5724 gas. I'm a landscaper and over 90% of fire pits we build are propane pumped through glass or lava rock
@@PyroNinja713 Wait, they don't use PVC? Lol. Jk
most of the time people using black iron for gas
I'm pretty sure Mike Judge must have have experienced this multiple times in his life.
This is the same store that let a teenager in charge of flammable gas because they wanted him to stop making keys
Hank showing the future of the American work force.
their friendship is probably one of the most realistic ones portrayed in movie/tv.
I love how King of the Hill routinely had famous actors play the exact opposite of what they usually played. Drew Carry was a Hank clone, Brad Pitt was Boomhauer’s brother, Johnny Depp was an effeminate yoga instructor, the list goes on
I thought Johnny Depp WAS an effeminate yoga instructor.🙄
Dude I didn't even know that was supposed to be Depp, damn.
I could see Drew being similar to a Hank personality with his history in the military and his libertarian beliefs. Comparative to most celebrity guests on the show
@@SpazzerMcFly drew typically played energetic funny guys though. and he hosted 2 shows. his character in this was very reserved and low profile. that's what OP means
@@TrippingHawk yeah that makes sense personality-wise.
I walked into an unknown hardware store a few weeks ago and the kid (probably 15) behind the counter asked if I needed help, so I said "yeah, I'm looking for a P-trap."
He proceeds to lead me to a shelf filled with varmint control items and asked what animal i was trying to catch again.
Should've told him "sewer gas" and seen how he responded. 😂
"hold on, of course there are different size drill bits! There are different sized holes HOW DO YOU THINK THAT HAPPENS??"
Oh, caught in a Rad Bromance.
I see what you did there
Hank finds his soulmate.
Reminds me of the time I went to Walmart and asked an employee in his 60's where the gorilla glue is and he said he didn't know what that was.
I know what it is, but I won't buy it... again. It's almost useful on some materials, but horrible on others. And there are better choices for the ones it works on.
Hank was later introduced to a different kind of pipe and pipe fitting
Dayum how many Mega-Lo Mart workers does it take to help a costomer...uh how about ∞ XD
209legodude there aren't enough
Square root of negative 1
As a plumber I’ve never seen or heard of L-pipe. All hard pipe is straight, you make the L.
Yes with copper 90s
Is such a thing as a u pipe?
youve never seen 90 degree bends???????
I went through the comments thinking the same thing. I'm no professional plumber, but I've redone five bathrooms and never heard of an L pipe. Like you said, pipe and fitting. The configuration is your job, not theirs.
They're called fittings. 11 1/4, 22 1/2, 45 and 90 degree bends. You also got Wyes, Tees and P-Traps. You are probably gonna say you use soft coppers, but even still they make fittings for that.
I am glad this show is coming back
I actually like going to Home Depot and Lowe’s because you can usually find a bunch of Hank Hill types in there.
It's true what they say, an enemy of megalomart is your friend.
SPAZZ MATICUS
0:00 they both have the same truck 😂
Damn good eye
Never noticed that BEFORE!!😂😂😂
uh yeah if you watched the episode you would know that
I used to work at home Depot in the plumbing department I know exactly what it's like to be new in that position. Then 2 weeks later I realized plumbing is adult legos.
I will never be able to watch this video without thinking of Sans. Damn you, Toby Fox!!
I use to work at lowes, I'm not going to lie I act exactly like those workers and I met people like hank hill lol
Even when this first aired, I was wondering how Hank (of all people) didn't know the difference between a pipe and a pipe fitting.
This is like that Ron Swanson moment when asked by a staff member if he’s working on a project and he just says “I know more than you” without even stopping to talk.
now, they dont sell L shape pipes, but they sell L joints you can connect the straight pipes to.
Hank is being a know-it-all.
Home Depot associates. And I was one one of them 😂
One time, me and my brother-in-law (who's 15 years older than me) went into a store and he asked one of the workers where a part was. The worker said they didn't have that, only my brother-in-law found it right there in the store, and laughed. The worker promptly glared at him for the remainder of our time there. XD
This is actually a thing. I was once told by some smartass kid that you can’t use oxygen with propane because it will explode. I freaking educated him too. What an embarrassment.
Nice work
How do you oxy cut without acetylene if the shit just explodes, ha
I once gave a short lecture on oxy-fuel processes. One guy came up afterwards and said "That was interesting. I've never heard about oil-fuel welding." Was he even paying attention?
@Marshall Banana I've worked in lots of retail places too. I also was a retail bench jeweler for five years. Its maybe one thing if its yarn and construction paper you are talking about. But you don't wanna fuck around with gas tools, or pretty much any kind of high power tool for that matter. If someone working at a hardware store is giving customers false information, then they shouldn't be working at a hardware store. Plain and simple. I don't care if they train you or not, you should probably make sure you know what you are talking about before you tell some random customer all about it. Most customers aren't knowledgeable about what they are buying, and they will assume anybody who works there is. If that customer goes home and finds out you were wrong the hard way, it could lead to a whole can of worms and legal issues. You also won't have a job if you get identified as the wise guy. Never underestimate the power of stupid. Especially if it takes the form of an ignorant customer. One customer could ruin your whole career if you screw them enough.
They need to make more of these
this is so true, most of the time someone at Home Depot won't know what your talking about to the point where if they ask if I need anything I just say no thanks just looking. it is much more effective to just find what your looking for on your own in most cases, I worked in construction as a Summer job for 3 or 4 years so I usually know exactly what I am looking for when planning a small project around the house.
This is exactly Home Depot.
I would just ask other trades men I saw there or the old employees
Just use the app to find the aisle and bay number.
@@mrlescure That's what most employees end up doing anyways.
One of my favorite episodes. Drew Carey was perfect for this.
Reminds me of the time a Lowe's employee tried telling me I needed a 3-way lightbulb to hook it up to a 3-way switch.
ok the moment the video ends gives this a whole new look.
Once when I was working at Lowe's I was helping a man find fuel for a 4 cycle engine. He grabbed the oil for the engine, and I asked him if needed the fuel as well or just the oil. He said he just needed fuel. I told him that what he had his hands on was oil. He asked me what the difference was.
Damn near split his reality in two. Have not seen him since, I worry for him.
He has had a lot of things to fix
These people have licenses, and these people can vote.
Wonder why the worlds so fucked
I know a guy that bought a new push mower. He saw that he needed to add oil to the engine before use because it shipped without oil in it, right? So he attempts to disassemble the engine to add the oil...
@@Homeskillet-mk6bj that's called meth.
As someone who used to work retail. I relate to the worker more than hank
Well you’d at least expect someone to know the basics of there department
@@jesuscruz6533 The problem is that many (and unfortunately an ever growing number) of retailers and companies in general, especially and kind of chain or large-scale corporation, feel that their employees are a replaceable as those pipes. They don't care to provide even the most basic training, feeling that it is better to fire or encourage people to quit quickly and being in someone else who will start at minimum wage starting the cycle over.
Even if, and admittedly a big if, an employee wanted to know more about an area and be more helpful, they would have to do it almost entirely on their own time and dime. Often you're disincentivized from doing things like that in a number subtle and insidious was.
Source: I worked retail for many years at a several different companies.
@@scaper8 Ruthless
@@scaper8 Yeah, I hated seeing new employees get "trained" by people who hadn't been on the job long themselves. Then they end up doing things...well...adequately, but not as good as if they actually knew what they were doing.
One of the reasons ive never been to Lowe's again. Was looking for corkboard and got directed around 4 times to the wrong aisle until I accidentally stumbled on it by myself.
I love how behind the other guy there are what look like multiple sizes of drill bits