I owned a small construction company. The land owner refused to pay line locate fees insisting there is nothing underground and if you dont start digging now I will fire you. I should have walked but needed the work, the bit caught a phone cable pulling it and a street sign out of the ground and the street sign hit the land owner in the head. He needed stiches and paid a huge fine for cutting phone service to several square miles of farmland east of town. I had a guy miss work and his reason was "a big ugly guy like me doesn't get a woman very often I had to stay as long as she would let me". I had to admit I understood his reasoning.
In the late sixties I worked in a fancy restaurant as a bus boy and the worst duty was mopping out the walk-in freezer. This always got dumped on the newest guy and we had a lot of turnover. One guy who was a lot bigger than he was smart said he was going to show us the right way to do it. He ran steaming hot water into the mop bucket while pouring in a box of spic-n-span and a jug of bleach. When he started this I walked out into the restaurant area and up towards the checkout on the far side of the dining area. The strangest thing was the silence. Nobody yelled or screamed or anything, not even the customers. As this invisible wall of gas left the kitchen and moved across the the tables people just got up and quickly walked out of the nearest door. I stood outside and watched as EMS went in while wearing breathing gear and hauled him, unconscious, out on a stretcher.
Oh, Lordy. When someone tells you they're going to show you "the _right_ way to do" some large, dangerous, onerous job, it's time to back away. Way, _way_ far away. It's the people who say, "Excuse me -- let me try something my granddaddy showed me. You just have to take it easy. It might take a couple tries, but it oughta work..." who generally get things done right.
I remember my husband digging a post hole, he thought it would be fine it wasn't at a normal angle, but POP all the electricity went off in the court!! We were new to the neighborhood and got to meet all the neighbors!! My husband was so embarrassed he dug the hole wider so when the crew showed up all they had to do was fix our line. They had sent the neighbors their electricity on an alternate route. Yeah we call 811 now.
2:02 The average American worker DOES NOT fix a broken clock by taping a new clock to an old one but a cheap corporation who refuses to fix anything, hire new exployees, pay employees more, and insists on pumping all resources into a bank account does.
Look, I get being upset if the painters don't bother moving a paperclip or something, but if you've left a kitchen's worth of cabinetry leaning against the wall in a room being painted, that's on _you!_ -sincerely, a former house painter
in the very, very high end homes I've been involved with the FINISH trades all work/communcate well together. one house one man jobs I don't know, but the idiocy I can imagine. I've had LandRovers parked right in FRONT of the main entrance door, and the keys are with the guy 300 miles away skiing. the problem?? i have cast coloured concrete fireplace surrounds and they need turning room, and they are HEAVY, and mishandled can break. The wife hasn't a CLUE: these are people with money and ejumakation degraes. What?
7:55 Tattooists and spell-checkers. Repo guy and double-checking the license plate or VIN. SWAT teams and double-checking the address. I think I see a pattern.
2:35 His workmates made "surprised face" and said "HOW DID THAT HAPPEN ?!" 6:16 This happens because on a building site, if you touch other companies work, their tools, or their supplies, you can get held responsible for any damage that THEY have done, or even get blamed for them not completing their work. We NEVER EVER EVER touch anything owned or controlled by another contractor. It can actually cost you millions of dollars if things go wrong.
@6:03 That is NOT the painters fault at all. That crap should’ve been moved before the painters got there. They are paid to paint, NOT move other peoples sh*t.
no, but I suppose they could call the owner and say something like "hey, there's stuff along the wall. Either we paint around it or you get someone to move it"
@@wisteria3032 I know this might be hard to understand but whomever required that job to be done were probably told to have the area clear. And when the painters found the area cluttered, I bet they informed their boss. If nothing was done by the owner then it’s not the painters fault.
@hillbillydeluxe27 I know, I'm just saying people forget. That looked like a corner where someone had put things so that the painters could paint. So why not just tell the owner and remind him. We ain't robot
@@wisteria3032 having had to deal with absolute idiots in the past, I see one of two things there: the owner of the area being painted felt that he was entitled to all sorts of extra, free labour or he just didn’t care.
@hillbillydeluxe27 having had to deal with myself for the past 30 years I can assure you people will forget anything once they walk out the room. I can't count the times I burned soup 🤣🤣🤣 this doesn't make it your problem of course, I would just like to be reminded instead of getting home and finding out I have to call someone again. I would most probably just forget to do it anyway. 😅
I had a co-worker who proclaimed he knew everything. Somehow we got talking about satellites and I spent an hour trying to explain geosynchronous orbits to him (only way most all communication satellites can work). He never could accept that. To him all satellites can only stay in orbit if they constantly travel around the earth:like Sputnik....
7:11 How in Hades do you repair something like that? Anyone in the business here know? 7:28 MY shredder "moment." Remember those ads you'd get in the mail where your first month of subscription was only a nickel or a dime, and they'd include a nickle or a dime in the mailing so that you could sign up immediately? Well, at one point I was getting so much junk mail that I began shredding it without even opening it. One dime trashed a $99 shredder. Great times.
7:11 One wire at a time. Seriously, though, the phone company employs highly-skilled cable splicers, who get paid a lot. It's a demanding, exacting job, as you might well imagine. The telco's crew will have to excavate both sides of the hole to expose each end of the damaged cable. Then the splicer will need to trim and prepare each end then splice a new cable between them. So, each wire will require two splices. For a 100-pair cable, that means 400 individual, manually performed splices. Put a waterproof housing around both splices and back fill. If that hole the contractor dug absolutely _has_ to be at that exact location, the cable will need to be routed around it, at additional expense. I don't know who is responsible in this case, but _somebody's_ going to get a hefty bill.
@@johnopalko5223 They REALLY have to do this? (Splice one by one.) Good grief. I was hoping things would be more along the lines of, "Dig up the cable, which has manufactured polarized connectors at each end, and replace with a new cable." The splicer has to be someone who can deal with this level of detail without going nuts. More power to these folks!
@@josepherhardt164 That would mean digging out the whole cable and replace it with another. Then, you still need to reconnect each and every single pairs at both ends. That would cost more and take more time. Those cables don't come cheap with some 100, 200 or more twisted pairs, each single pair colour codded.
3:00 Multitasking is very hard for many, and just impossible for some. That guy in among the «some». 5:55 I would have answered : Ponce Pilate, or Julius Caesar to that one...
4:30 - reporting someone else's "incompetence" with *THAT* thumbnail in your photo? Yeah, no, speaks highly of your professional dedication to personal care. 7:23 - except that's not City wiring. It's telephone company wiring. Is the City responsible for that? 🤷🏻♂
Possibly the pope question is not so totally daft, if you consider that St Peter is regarded as the founder of the Church, and is thus thought of by some as the first Pope
And was appointed to the position the day before Jesus died. Although neither Jesus nor Peter knew that the position Peter was appointed to was called Pope.
I dunno about Florida, but on the side of a liquor store in southern California, someone proudly and boldly wrote *"DETORIT".* I think dumb is everywhere in the U.S.
I'd have told her it was Pope Goestheweasel. 😂
I would say it was Pope Alexander. :)
@@skydiverclassc2031 Or say that is was Adolph Hitler the First, but, that back then, they hadn't yet invented the word «pope».
I would have told her it was Augustus because thats who it was. He held the title of Pontifex Maximus when Jesus was born
Rotl
Thank you for this... just when I really needed a good giggle.
Big love and kudos from a London Goth 🖤
I owned a small construction company. The land owner refused to pay line locate fees insisting there is nothing underground and if you dont start digging now I will fire you. I should have walked but needed the work, the bit caught a phone cable pulling it and a street sign out of the ground and the street sign hit the land owner in the head. He needed stiches and paid a huge fine for cutting phone service to several square miles of farmland east of town. I had a guy miss work and his reason was "a big ugly guy like me doesn't get a woman very often I had to stay as long as she would let me". I had to admit I understood his reasoning.
In the late sixties I worked in a fancy restaurant as a bus boy and the worst duty was mopping out the walk-in freezer. This always got dumped on the newest guy and we had a lot of turnover. One guy who was a lot bigger than he was smart said he was going to show us the right way to do it. He ran steaming hot water into the mop bucket while pouring in a box of spic-n-span and a jug of bleach. When he started this I walked out into the restaurant area and up towards the checkout on the far side of the dining area. The strangest thing was the silence. Nobody yelled or screamed or anything, not even the customers. As this invisible wall of gas left the kitchen and moved across the the tables people just got up and quickly walked out of the nearest door. I stood outside and watched as EMS went in while wearing breathing gear and hauled him, unconscious, out on a stretcher.
Oh, Lordy. When someone tells you they're going to show you "the _right_ way to do" some large, dangerous, onerous job, it's time to back away. Way, _way_ far away. It's the people who say, "Excuse me -- let me try something my granddaddy showed me. You just have to take it easy. It might take a couple tries, but it oughta work..." who generally get things done right.
I remember my husband digging a post hole, he thought it would be fine it wasn't at a normal angle, but POP all the electricity went off in the court!! We were new to the neighborhood and got to meet all the neighbors!! My husband was so embarrassed he dug the hole wider so when the crew showed up all they had to do was fix our line. They had sent the neighbors their electricity on an alternate route. Yeah we call 811 now.
The Zoom call woman was hilarious😆😆
2:02 The average American worker DOES NOT fix a broken clock by taping a new clock to an old one but a cheap corporation who refuses to fix anything, hire new exployees, pay employees more, and insists on pumping all resources into a bank account does.
Look, I get being upset if the painters don't bother moving a paperclip or something, but if you've left a kitchen's worth of cabinetry leaning against the wall in a room being painted, that's on _you!_ -sincerely, a former house painter
too true, if you moved their organized stuff you would have been yelled at anyways!
in the very, very high end homes I've been involved with the FINISH trades all work/communcate well together. one house one man jobs I don't know, but the idiocy I can imagine. I've had LandRovers parked right in FRONT of the main entrance door, and the keys are with the guy 300 miles away skiing. the problem?? i have cast coloured concrete fireplace surrounds and they need turning room, and they are HEAVY, and mishandled can break. The wife hasn't a CLUE: these are people with money and ejumakation degraes. What?
Yeah, I'm with the painters on this one.
7:55 Tattooists and spell-checkers. Repo guy and double-checking the license plate or VIN. SWAT teams and double-checking the address. I think I see a pattern.
2:35 His workmates made "surprised face" and said
"HOW DID THAT HAPPEN ?!"
6:16 This happens because on a building site, if you touch other companies work, their tools, or their supplies, you can get held responsible for any damage that THEY have done, or even get blamed for them not completing their work. We NEVER EVER EVER touch anything owned or controlled by another contractor. It can actually cost you millions of dollars if things go wrong.
Is the guy clear wrapped to the boxes free yet?
Maybe the coworker was using the “crevice cleaner“ as a stick to knock down spiderwebs?
I rather like “unindated”. Makes goofy sense.
Had a sweet young thing ask a Jewish coworker, “So, like what do you people have instead of Easter?”
Some of the slices in Ray's catfood cans make for good pizza. 💙 T.E.N.
@6:03 That is NOT the painters fault at all. That crap should’ve been moved before the painters got there. They are paid to paint, NOT move other peoples sh*t.
no, but I suppose they could call the owner and say something like "hey, there's stuff along the wall. Either we paint around it or you get someone to move it"
@@wisteria3032 I know this might be hard to understand but whomever required that job to be done were probably told to have the area clear. And when the painters found the area cluttered, I bet they informed their boss. If nothing was done by the owner then it’s not the painters fault.
@hillbillydeluxe27 I know, I'm just saying people forget.
That looked like a corner where someone had put things so that the painters could paint.
So why not just tell the owner and remind him.
We ain't robot
@@wisteria3032 having had to deal with absolute idiots in the past, I see one of two things there: the owner of the area being painted felt that he was entitled to all sorts of extra, free labour or he just didn’t care.
@hillbillydeluxe27 having had to deal with myself for the past 30 years I can assure you people will forget anything once they walk out the room.
I can't count the times I burned soup 🤣🤣🤣
this doesn't make it your problem of course, I would just like to be reminded instead of getting home and finding out I have to call someone again.
I would most probably just forget to do it anyway. 😅
I had a co-worker who proclaimed he knew everything. Somehow we got talking about satellites and I spent an hour trying to explain geosynchronous orbits to him (only way most all communication satellites can work). He never could accept that. To him all satellites can only stay in orbit if they constantly travel around the earth:like Sputnik....
Geosynchronous satellites DO travel around the Earth, it's just that they do it in the same amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate once.
@@Kualinar , ???
By your wording, Mount Everest travels around Earth.
The telephone cable looks to me like a 200 wire pair one. That means 800 splices.
That's a LOT of splices. That's also a lot of work hours.
1:47 as they'd say in the U.K., that content update was pants.
A psychologist who bites their nails that much should see someone.
"My friend," says from personal experience, the dumpster guy must have been stoned.
4:46, I would have made the connecting straps longer and used more bolts to keep the bridge together. But, that's just me.
Duct tape... -Fixes everything. :D
6:04 Don't blame that on the painters. They're paid to paint, not move people's stuff around.
No kidding. Same thing if you hire a plumber to fix your sink, clear out the sink and cabinet!
7:11 How in Hades do you repair something like that? Anyone in the business here know?
7:28 MY shredder "moment." Remember those ads you'd get in the mail where your first month of subscription was only a nickel or a dime, and they'd include a nickle or a dime in the mailing so that you could sign up immediately? Well, at one point I was getting so much junk mail that I began shredding it without even opening it. One dime trashed a $99 shredder. Great times.
7:11 One wire at a time.
Seriously, though, the phone company employs highly-skilled cable splicers, who get paid a lot. It's a demanding, exacting job, as you might well imagine.
The telco's crew will have to excavate both sides of the hole to expose each end of the damaged cable. Then the splicer will need to trim and prepare each end then splice a new cable between them. So, each wire will require two splices. For a 100-pair cable, that means 400 individual, manually performed splices. Put a waterproof housing around both splices and back fill. If that hole the contractor dug absolutely _has_ to be at that exact location, the cable will need to be routed around it, at additional expense.
I don't know who is responsible in this case, but _somebody's_ going to get a hefty bill.
@@johnopalko5223 They REALLY have to do this? (Splice one by one.) Good grief. I was hoping things would be more along the lines of, "Dig up the cable, which has manufactured polarized connectors at each end, and replace with a new cable."
The splicer has to be someone who can deal with this level of detail without going nuts. More power to these folks!
@@josepherhardt164 That would mean digging out the whole cable and replace it with another. Then, you still need to reconnect each and every single pairs at both ends. That would cost more and take more time. Those cables don't come cheap with some 100, 200 or more twisted pairs, each single pair colour codded.
That tie wrap situation is actually serious. There have been fatal incidents like this when nobody was around to stop the machine.
I think I would have gone with Pope Murray Weisenberg. The First.
We had a couple of John Pauls. How about a George Ringo?
I had a co-worker who insisted that Pope John Paul II wasn't Catholic because he was Polish, not Italian.
She was Catholic.
I subscribed because you have good music.
Painters show up ready to paint. The other solution is double time and a half for work they should not have to do.
hey ... can you tell what time it is...?
Then that clock is properly fixed....... !
Does lasagna guy understand that the blades on a shredder are covered with machine oil?
Thanks1
I know they are only human, but oh, the stupidity of it all.
3:00 Multitasking is very hard for many, and just impossible for some. That guy in among the «some».
5:55 I would have answered : Ponce Pilate, or Julius Caesar to that one...
Pontius Pilate, do you mean?
4:22 Sandi’s parents had a sense of humor. Or they were just tired.
4:30 - reporting someone else's "incompetence" with *THAT* thumbnail in your photo? Yeah, no, speaks highly of your professional dedication to personal care.
7:23 - except that's not City wiring. It's telephone company wiring. Is the City responsible for that? 🤷🏻♂
Oh, a literal thumbnail, I thought you meant a little picture
01:33 😂
Would have timed out without your explanation. And that's playing at ½ speed. 😂
I'm thinking Sandi Mann should have been a handyman or a doctor specializing in sleep disorders.
The customer is a single male, right? So, a single male and THEIR phone and THEY came back? Splendid English!
It's a modern style of parlance that usually works perfectly. Except when you phone for an ambulance. cheers! / CS
Possibly the pope question is not so totally daft, if you consider that St Peter is regarded as the founder of the Church, and is thus thought of by some as the first Pope
I believe Peter was the first Pope
And was appointed to the position the day before Jesus died. Although neither Jesus nor Peter knew that the position Peter was appointed to was called Pope.
She asked who the Pope was when Jesus was born…
That's a daft thing to believe!
But but but, it's still pronounced 'partici-pants. The R's are silent.
You sure that tattoo story ain't from Florida? 🤷♂
I dunno about Florida, but on the side of a liquor store in southern California, someone proudly and boldly wrote *"DETORIT".* I think dumb is everywhere in the U.S.
Spell checking is hard everywhere in the world! Here in my hometown in Germany someone spelled "Accessoires" (on a shop window) as "Exsesuars"!
@7:45 I nottist rite awa.
Name tag one, thumb nail chewed up a lot.
It looked to me like a certain psychologist might need some therapy for stress.
Who was the Pope is deeper than you think.