/diy/ - Do It Yourself

My wife got a psychology degree.

>>1784672
that sounds like a slow and painful fuck up

>>1784640
Govt. job. Female plumber on 5th floor broke something she was working on. Didn't know where shutoffs were. Hundreds of thousands in damage. Just got transferred to shittier location. Not even fired.

>>1784705
>Female plumber

I've seen pornos that started off this way...

>>1784714
Pic related exists somewhere in Palm Beach County. IIRC, the trucks or website state that you can request a female plumber if you don’t feel comfortable with a competent plumber in your home.

>>1784715
Damn I wonder if I can request Erica herself and a happy ending if I’m willing to tip.

For real tho, they should get more hot chicks into blue collar residential tech jobs. I would pay an extra $10/mo to Comcast if some topless Colombian chick with a fat ass came to reset my cable box whenever I have issues.

All of the sexual harassment lawsuits would probably slow down business though.

>>1784719
There were some painters I worked with who had a female that drove around with them to jobs. I never saw her do anything but she was there

>>1784705
>tfw not union

>>1784723
How did she look?

>>1784765
she was attractive probably in the 80s and 90s

>>1784715
lmao

>>1784640
>be HVAC tech doing a service call in a new housing development
>get call from friend who is new construction installer
>we need to get over to this other sublot, Mike is in trouble
>get there, smoke is trickling out the attic vents
>Mike was brazing a copper refrigerant line in the attic and didn't use any kind of firestop
>he also hasn't got his extinguisher with him like he's required to
>he lit one of the waferboard rafters on fire with his torch and it started spreading
>we had to literally start a bucket brigade passing water up to him to douse it with
>left a huge patch of charred wood, whole attic smelled of smoke, plus all the water ruined the new drywall ceiling below
>he works as an auto mechanic now

>>1784640
Haven't worked much before going back to uni, but I did an apprenticeship in a small businesses that made custom luxury lamps. I was a CAD designer, and my biggest fuckup was slaving a shitload of parts (steel holding brackets) to an assembly geometry and not doublechecking the output drawings Solidworks made before sending them to the laser cut. Long story short, when we opened the box we found out I bought 300 of the same bracket instead of 150 pairs of brackets, each with a different geometry and size.

>>1784857
>still HVAC tech
>working on a PM call
>boss calls, mandatory meeting NOW at shop
>uh_oh.jpg
>get there and he starts ripping us all
>evidently our "least experienced" guy was on-call the night before
>he went to a call and found a temp limit stuck, he couldn't get it to reset and he didn't have one with him
>he decided to jump/bypass it for the night to get the heat back on
>never actually watches furnace run, writes it up and leaves
>few hours later homeowner smells something burning
>furnace has been rolling out and wire harness is now on fire
>fire department comes and puts it out with that dry powder shit
>by then fire did some damage to basement and filled the house with smoke
>homeowner called boss and told him he wanted all new furnace & AC installed free or he was going to sue
>boss put old furnace (still caked in dry chemical) on display in shop as a warning to anyone who thought about bypassing a safety
>kid got fired of course

>>1784861
>working for new construction AC company
>one of the new houses we installed got blown up
>no one was in it, house filled with gas, once it reached water heater pilot BOOM
>blast lifted whole house off its foundation, turned it a smidge, and dropped it back down
>gas company immediately blamed us
>fire investigation reveals we hadn't been in it in months, BUT gas company had installed meter just two days before
>fire dept found whoever put meter in wrenched on the pipe going into the house and caused it to leak
>they turned meter on despite never going in to leak test
>brand new $300k house wrecked, had to be torn down and rebuilt.

>>1784863
>working at a supply house
>manager of nearby store quits abruptly
>thats_weird.jpg
>new manager going over inventory
>sees equipment ordered for a big commercial job and notices that there seems to be a lot more stuff than is on the order
>discovers that old manager accidentally duplicated equipment order to manufacturer
>accidentally over-ordered about $100k in custom-built equipment
>company tries to return it
>nope.jpg
>regional who was supposed to double check order gets flown to corporate for in-person ass reaming
>mfw old manager figured out what happened and beat it out of town before they noticed

>>1784864
>still doing HVAC service
>get called to shitty old apartment building to look at a job with the salesman
>landlord wants to replace existing AC setup but keep old furnace
>existing furnace is vintage 60's shitheap
>tell him no
>keeps pressing it, finally boss calls and asks if I can make it work
>I can but its a bad idea
>there's no floor drain, instead a vintage 60's condensate pump handles the runoff
>pump hasn't run in years, tell salesman it absolutely has to be replaced
>guess_what.jpg
>they do the job and re-use the old pump
>couple days later get called on a Saturday AM on the hottest fucking day of the year (over 100 outside)
>old condensate pump is on fire and smoke is filling up the apartment and the halls
>tell him to call the fire department
>instead they wait for me
>get there 45 mins later, pump still smoldering, AC still running, water overflowing into apartment
>why didn't you turn it off?
>its 100 out bruh
>They end up paying for new pump, smoke cleanup, and water damage
>all that cash to save $150 on a pump

thanks for the posts, reminds me of some section 8 apartments I worked in being heated by pic related, turns out the thing exploded about two weeks after I took this picture so that's kind of spoopy

>company hires a new a guy for HVAC res. installs
>I've been doing them for a couple months now with the then current lead installer
>I am new leader installer, new guy is my helper
>at first figured he was good, went to school for HVAC, manager liked him, had his own tools, seemed to know what's up
>couple installs in
>disconnect boxes never level (nor condensers), also not properly mounted (no anchors). go to pull disconnect plug and nearly rip the though thing off the wall
>has to rehit lineset fittings 3-6 times each. after putting nitro in the system. he owns a mirror and flashlight, but would rather waste all our nitro and time just brazing it up and instantly hitting it with pressure
>drain pans not level and fucking up ceilings/floors
>gas lines cross threaded, leaks in general
>blown fuses if you let him do low volt
>tripped breakers and welded romexes when you let him do high volt
>he also does the sheet metal since I never done it and manager says new guy told him he could easily do it
>metal is more like tape. since he will just tape off large gaps. he has no concept of a transition. just straight up and down metal with the S-lock piece he uses usually several inches too short. so if the existing duct is 14x20 and our unit needs 18x21, he just goes straight down from 14x20 and tapes off the gaps. looks like absolute ass and leaks air everywhere
>and this isn't a cheap company. we charge 4 grand for the cheapest shit, as in an AC or furnace only with low warranty and no extra shit on it.
he lasted about 6 months. 5.5 months too long. heard he then applied and got hired at another HVAC company. And then another, and another, and another. He's been hired and fired by just about every res. shop in town by now.
some people man

>>1784640
>why is this rebar in a pile outside, it needs to be sheltered to prevent rust
>oh we didn't need those spare bars you specified
>3 storeys of stability core missing tie bars
>scanned the core
>all the rebar was along the centreline of the walls
>propped 3 floors and demolished the core, rebuilt from scratch
>clerk of works was fired


Also
>hey you said that we could do this underpinning in 2 hits right
>yes if you cast temporary foundations under the first hit, here is a spec for the minimum width to prevent the buildimg sinking
>oh OK cool
>2 weeks later
>right half of the 7 storey house is 6 inches lower than the left half.
>not tilting
>house literally cracked in two
>site manager fired

I have dozens of stories like this from site.

>African engineering
I work at an MSP. We do IT stuff for small and medium-sized businesses. We had a guy that was a decent employee and then started doing drugs on the regular. Not like just one drug either. Fucking cocktails of them at once. He bragged about it sometimes. Here are some highlights:

>Caught sleeping on the job multiple times. At his desk. In a room full of other people. Snoring.
>Fell asleep on a couch in the lobby.
>Fell asleep at a client location while installing a computer under a desk.
>Caught streaming TV at work multiple times instead of working. All streaming and social media sites were blocked on his machine.
>Caught taking multiple breaks a day when we are only allocated 2.
>Caught falsifying his timesheets to coverup times he wasn't working. Kept fucking it up though and overlapping times so he was billing for more time than the length of his shift.
>Got caught in the breakroom at a client location eating fried chicken. This was after he had already taken his lunch hour.

The bit that got him fired though was the best. It was just a pile of minor fuckups rolled into one big fuckup. He drove a company vehicle to a client location to do a job that could have been done remotely. After doing the job he didn't return to the office. He drove in the opposite direction to go to a restaurant and eat lunch. This was like 2 hours before his scheduled lunch hour. He then returned to the office and acted like he hadn't been gone for an hour to do a 15-minute job. Well, guess what? He got a parking ticket in the company car. He decided to not tell anyone and just pay the fine but he left the ACTUAL TICKET in the car. Another employee found it and turned it in. They checked the time, date and location on the ticket with who checked out the car and then reviewed his timesheet for that time.

The weird thing was the dude was Asian. We don't have many minorities out here so it's generally the dumbass white folks that get fired for stuff like this.

Part 1.

Did a tour in the Army as a "radio mechanic" (MOS 21U). I worked in the battalion commo shop for an infantry unit. While training in the field one of our companies sets up their CQ next to some power lines. They have an OE-254 antenna, picture related, right next to the tent. It reaches over 40 feet in the air. I tell the Staff Sergeant on duty that the antenna is way to close to the powerlines and it needs to be moved at least 100 feet away from them. He tells me to fuck off 'cause he is infantry and has been in the shit for 15 years and I'm just a 'commo dick' and only a specialist at that. I call my platoon sergeant (Sergeant First Class) and he tells the asshole to move the antenna. Well, he doesn't want to because the cable that connects it to the radio is only 80 feet long and half of that is going up the antenna so he would have to move the tent, which is quite large. He calls up the company's first sergeant and tells him what I said. First Sergent arrives, sees the antenna is only about 30 feet from the power lines and says fuck it, nothing will happen, fuck off. I tell my SFC again and he says, welp, nothing we can do, cover your ass. I write up a report and file it with the battalion. They date it and put it on the desk of the secretary to the Colonel. You can see where this is going.

>>1784907
Part 2

Now, this antenna has a lot of parts but this is the Army so the setup instructions are written on the bag it comes in. It takes 1 commo guy about 15 minutes to set one up, start to finish. These infantry shitheads had fucked it right up. It looked worse than picture related when done and they only used 3/4ths of the guy wires, which were also only stacked about 10 feet from the base.

A couple of days after I filed my report the wind came up in the middle of the night and blew that fucker right into the lines. It knocked out power to a small section of the post, set the tent on fire ($25k), blew up about $75k of radio equipment, and badly injured about a dozen soldiers in the tent. Several were sleeping and were burned and had smoke inhalation. Two were manning the radios and were badly burned, one of them electrically while the other got seriously peppered with molten aluminum.

>>1784911
Part 3

Everyone in charge played dumb. Freak accident, who would have thought, crazy world, etc. Then my report was discovered by the investigation. The Staff Sergeant was demoted to private and kicked out of the Army. The First Sergent, who had been in the Army for almost 25 years, had his unit taken away from him and was told to take his retirement (it would have taken an act of Congress, literally, to take his rank). The unit commander, a Captain with about 10 years in, had his commission revoked and was kicked out. The unit LT, who was at airborne school at the time, returned to a 'field promotion' and a unit that had been gutted. He spent the next year 'commanding' about 30 guys. The whole unit spent their time mowing lawns and painting shit around the base. The whole thing was a huge embarrassment and our battalion was declared non-deployable. Over the next year, we were raided for staff and equipment, as I mentioned. About 18 months later, our division was reorganized and we were staffed back up again to prepare for a deployment.

I got my fair share of shit too. While almost our entire unit was emptied out only me and 3 other commo types, from a platoon of 16, remained. I was the only lower enlisted (ranked of less than a corporal) of the group. I was not allowed the chance to go to Sergeants school nor was I allowed to request transfer to another unit. I sat in the unit for 2 years basically waiting for my contract to expire. When it came time to reenlist I was not offered a signing bonus. I was told my only options were 2 years for nothing or 4 years and I could request the choice of my duty station. 2 other commo guys I knew were being offered $15k for 2 years or $40k for 4 years and choice of dutty station. I let my contract expire and took the honorable discharge.

Lesson learned: Do the right thing, but be prepared to pay for it. My military career was ended for me but I sleep fine at night. I'd rather have that than the other.

>ITT HVAC installers brag to other trades about how easy and often it is to experience a massive fuckup

At work loading a 120' by 60' cutting table with 90'x30' 1.75" plates to cut
>clunck

Drop a fuckhuge plate of steel on the tracked torch rack. The hooks, about 2 inch thick steel by 8inches where way small for the job and the rigger didn't change them that plus metal fatigue made them brake clean in half right over the arm.
Same company, electrician locks and tags out a beaker to work on, operator operates operationally and bends the leaver around the lock, the electrician flew back about 5 feet and a surge fried a bunch of boards in the tracked sub welder.
Same company, i brought my suitcase welder too close to a 2000° cherry red pipe and it fucking melted in to a grate in the floor.
Same company, some fool dropped a 1 ton xray cobalt camera while transporting it from 10 feet up.
Same company, some fool cut 50 2" plates of 14'x45' .05 too short
All this happened in a six month period i worked there
Word also got arround thst they dropped a finished steel bridge structure while loading it to a barge and it mow sits at the bottom of that channel, that was a 700k fuck up

>>1784931
what industry do you work in anon? welder in a fabrication shop?

Frac

You prime up the pumps to get all of the air out of the fluid ends and ground iron. Air/water/pressure doesn't mix very well.

These are huge engines and transmissions with like 1200-1600HP. Caterpillar tranny's, Cummins 50 liters, Detroit's with Allison combos, couple of Cummins 45 liters with twin disc tranny's.

We were sent to help out another fleet from a different shop. They had their supervisors get fired so we went out to help. The guys running pump room said they were trained and good to go. They were guys we were sent to help.

Ground guy was complacent and used to his own guys. The pump room guys said they were in brake and nothing was rolling. Ground guy starts to close in the wheel valves on the ground iron for the front bleeds. Ground guy is talking on the radio this whole time, explaining to everyone what he is going to do and how, like he normally does.

When you're keyed up on a radio, you can't hear anyone else talking so he never heard everyone screaming for him to get out of the iron because pressure started coming up.

Pressure went from 150psi to 10250psi in a couple of seconds.

Pump room guys turned out to be greenies who had only spent 2 hitches in pump room.

They also had their pumps in 2nd gear, 1200rpms. You're supposed to prime up in 5th gear and idle which is 750rpms.

The iron was 10k iron so it over pressured. The we'll head was a 10k wellhead so it over pressured.

Just our string of iron cost 1 million dollars. I have no idea what a we'll head costs.

>>1784857
I work for a small company and my boss who I learned from didn't use any sort of firestop besides wet rags around the king valve sort of thing. I would regularly be on fire duty while he used the torches when I was still his helper, now I'm happy to do everything the right goddamn way every time. Fuck old timers and their skipping shit I can't keep up with any of them because they never do anything right so it makes me look bad.

>>1784861
Lol we bypass those all the time mostly just for temporary testing (mother of fuck those take forever to diagnose checking each sensor 5min at a time), but what a fucktard I can't sleep at night if I'm not absolutely sure about a furnace. Even besides the fire hazard, we have an avg of one family a year die from CO in my city.

>>1784640
As an HVAC tech, it's almost always the homeowner/renter that fucks shit up. I had one guy insist we switch the IDB motors in his two furnaces because one rattled. Most of the time, it's some dumbass request or some unknown lifestyle of whoever lives there.

>>1784868
90% of my problems are caused by jewish landlords or homeowners who are made of money or totally broke depending on how it serves them. They have no problem calling out my competitors with their fancy trucks starting at $10k a unit but want to hassle me about the littlest thing when my starting bid is easily half that. My company has it down to a science, and we keep labor down and reuse whatever materials we can etc but you can't really save beyond my price unless you want problems later on, and we're not in the business of callbacks.

>>1784879
We've had lots of helpers who don't seem to have life experience in general. Last year we tried three guys under 20 and one didn't know what a single tool was but worked his ass off and didn't show up the next day, totally ghosted us (funny because he was neighbors with a tech who hasn't heard from them since). Neither of the other two had any aptitude for this work or showed any real motivation to even be there. All of them were constantly on their phone when I need help and asking about lunch an hour into the day etc I'm sure you've seen it, a lot of these zoomers are getting it in their head that they're too good for this work so they don't really give it the attention it deserves because they'll be at a high paying desk job soon right? Often times very well read, but not very wise at all and little work ethic.

It's frustrating, because I don't feel much older than them. I'm definitely settled down and partied out now and I get the bachelor life, but I never brought that to work when I was their age and what I did on the weekend was my business. Using phones like that while you're on the clock is unacceptable. They have no sense of urgency i.e. I've got the torch and am asking for help do you A: Finish this tweet B: Your phone's in your pocket and I didn't have to ask for help because you were watching and just helped.

>>1784868
>Still doing HVAC
Wtf you're the same anon this whole time?? Fucking kek

>>1784640
Missing a decimal in a machine shop or confusing negative with positive can total an older machine, and be a $40,000 repair job on a nice machine. I’ve seen it happen and did it once when I was first starting. If the first line of the program is g0 x0 z-.250 instead of z.250, and your first tool is a beefy motherfucker that won’t give up before your machine will, you’ve just not only caused thousands of dollars worth of damage that a trained team of professionals has to fly in to fix but also lost profits due to unnecessary down time. All from pressing a button wrong. Literally 2 seconds causing thousands of dollars worth of losses

>>1784881
tell more pls

>>1785173
Do you see cnc being complement automated soon? Seems like a badass job

>>1785257
Completely* sorry pleb phone poster

>>1784939
Good radios have a feature where, if someone else keys the mic twice in a row quickly, it causes all other radios on the channel to stop transmitting. Nice safety feature for just such an occasion or when some fuckwit is hot micing.

>>1785150
The issue you have is the people that are motivated are going for other fields. They are either going to college to earn real money or they are taking other blue-collar jobs that pay more. At least where I live, people working HVAC only clear $50-80k a year (average income is $55k here for everyone) but clear $70-110k a year if they go into manufacturing. Often times they just need some welding or CAD certs and they can beat you in salary for an easier job with better consistency and possible union membership.

The people you are getting are the shmucks that would have been working fast food a generation ago but think it is to good for them. At least where I live, no one wants to work the 'low trades' anymore. Anything construction or maintenance related is hurting something fierce for employees here. We are a right to work state too so most of these jobs are non-union. All they can seem to drum up is illegals, burnouts, and wastoids.

>>1784640
>engineer putting together a quote for adding a new fiber ring between two cities
>accidentally commits it to the database of completed work.
>someone else designs and quotes fiber to a customer along that route using the new fiber loop
>someone else signs the contract and takes the money for it, like $20k
>some magic and 700k$ in tree trimming, permits, we manage to complete the contract without placing the whole $5 million loop

>>1785173
>>1785257
>>1785258
Not him but yup. All of our machines are networked. The operator is some turd making just above minimum wage. All he has to do is use the touchscreen on the machine to browse to a local folder and double click a CAD file. Everything else is done by the draftsman in the office. They don't even go out to the floor anymore. Turd loads the file, loads the material, closes the shields, waits, opens the shields, removes the work, cleans the machine, and repeats the process. That is for the lathes, brakes, and mills.

For things like a CNC waterjet or laser cutter, it's less work than that. They load up the sheets right before they close for the day. The machine works overnight loading itself, making the cuts, clearing the work and debris until the staging area is empty. The staff comes in in the morning and preps the machine for another 12-hour shift of work. Our one CNC laser cutter can process a couple of thousand jobs a day, depending on the complexity. It takes three guys about 90 minutes total to prep 24 hours worth of jobs and most of that time is just machine maintenance.

>>1784914
If you didn't CYA you would have caught all the flak for the shitstorm, so you still did alright

>>1784936
Yip

>>1784640
>carrying cabinets into house
>new guy, fresh from trade school, calls me over to the attic, wants to show me the firberglass insulation (???)
>say yeah that's how they do it, and turn around
>guy steps into it (in shorts mind you)
>Puts foot right through ceiling

I've never seen my boss so fucking mad, and I've had my fair share of fuck ups as well. That's barely even the worst part.

>drive him home after work, fired, of course.
>kid says he can beatbox really well
>please god no
>proceeds to shittily beatbox the entire half hour drive.

>>1784835

That old?

>>1785271
Setup and CAM is the hardest part of a machine shop now.

>>1784640
“Facility Technician” at an old folks home. Wandering around, walk up on a housekeeper chipping away at freezer with something sharp. Try to hurry towards her as fast as possible telling her to stop. As soon as I reach her, one last tap and then I hear a hissing and knew it was fucked and we’d have to chuck it. Granted it was a cheap fridge but still money we weren’t budgeted.

>>1785421
I've thought of trying to land some kind of property maintenance gig, how is it? I imagine it has its ups and downs

>>1785141
I work with a Übermensch boomer mason who never wears a mask or respirator and is always complaining about his asbestosis

>>1785425
Oh yeah, stupid people all around which you’ll probably have to eat the cost of like people destroying property but it’s mostly simple shit. Make friends with contractors for shit you can’t handle like HVAC. Apartments can only have so much in them go wrong you are responsible of.

>>1785407
Yeah. We do still have some manual machines for specialist stuff. And when I mean manual, I mean fucking manual. We have a giant old engine lathe with US Navy, World War II production tags on it. The original owner of the place bought it surplus in the 1960s. Originally, that was the lathe the place was built around. We call that area the small shop as its only about 1/6th of our total workspace. It is mostly older manual machines. We still use it pretty regularly. Mostly when we are repairing stuff. Just used it before we shut down due to Carona to shave down a tractor PTO shaft that had its splines sheared off so we could machine new ones.

on a space between 2 apartment buildings some guy was doing roof felt (there was an underground garage beneath said buildings. as he reached one of the buildings he set styrofoam on fire. few moments later all that was left on elevation of that building was mesh facade on styrofoam dowels.

>>1784640
I lift this way all the time. whats the problem?

>>1784931
>Same company, some fool cut 50 2" plates of 14'x45' .05 too short

I'll take a few of those worthless drops off your hands...
Heavy duty benches for days!

>>1785465
We have an old monarch from 1942 and it still runs beautifully. We even have a 30' 1950's lathe from West Germany back when it was separate.

>Architect orders wood paneling for the walls on about half the building
>mill worker installs it
>architect comes back, decides he wants it all torn out and replaced with a different type of paneling
He ordered freshly installed stuff removed and redone at least three other times on that job that I know of

>>1785739
Homeowners are by far the most expensive part of my job for this exact reason

>>1785578
Left or right? The picture is taking the piss, you definitely want to lift like the frog man

>worked for a laser-cutting company
>this one guy with a glass-eye called Keiran who'd worked there for years kept being told not to smoke near the machines
>does it anyway
>one day his cigarette smoke drifts into the machine and goes into the path of the beam
>smoke scatters the 6kw laser in various directions, including back into the machine itself
>lenses and mirrors are ruined
>the magic pixie dust escapes from the emissions unit
That machine was out of action for weeks

Our maintenance guy kept track of all the machine damage that Keiran caused over the years. At a bare minimum he cost the company about $250k over about 4 years in machine repairs alone, probably closer to $1m+ (or more) when you account for all the orders he'd fuck up or misplace and general lost productivity. The fact it took so long for him to finally get fired should have been a big clue to me about how poorly run the place was.

Spoilers: it was poorly run enough that I and a few others got made redundant because business took a nose dive last year. I imagine the current economic woes will finish them off.

>>1784878
I'm not an HVAC guy, so forgive what is undoubtedly a stupid question, but is that thing actually some kind of furnace?

>>1784907
>>1784911
>>1784914
You did the right thing, thanks for posting

>>1785884
it's a boiler from like fucking WWII

My cousin was crippled [paralysed neck down] by a rsj falling from height

>>1785938
shiiiieet can't believe he survived

personally- hungover and dropped a pedestal sink basin the was $1300 and VERY SPECIFICALLY ORDERED by the client. had to eat it.
on crew- retard misnailed $30,000 worth of teak decking

>>1784939
did he deid?

>>1784715
>>1784715
> you can request a female plumber if you don’t feel comfortable with a competent plumber in your home.

Request female plumber if you don't feel comfortable with a competent plumber? What?

>>1784857
He's a mechanic now, so he can fuck up people's cars too

>>1784868
> >why didn't you turn it off?
>its 100 out bruh
Elaborate plz... What's the temp got to do with you not doing your job?

>>1784939
This is incredibly hard to read

>>1785143
I imagine homeowners/renters going in behind you after you fixed something and changing it somehow. It would look like you were at fault if something bad happened because "you were the last one to work on it"

>>1785964
>Elaborate plz... What's the temp got to do with you not doing your job?
Not that anon, but I've also experienced things like that. Customers for whatever reason don't care about further damage and think it'll all be on the installer if they think we did anything wrong and they continue to use it. Kind of like hearing loud clunking and banging as your driving home from the mechanic but you work in the morning and you're kinda hungry so might as well go home, then to work and then deal with it later vs drive straight back or get towed back and save engine damage. Because in the end it wasn't your fault, right? I've been screwed over by faulty work plenty of times, but when I notice things like that I try not to make them worse. If it's my AC and I'm hot as balls I've survived a lot of discomfort in my life and will be ok, and if they are old etc then they can go to a hotel and the court will decide who foots the bill in the end. That would be far cheaper and easier for everyone involved rather than risk water/fire damage, having to replace expensive portions of the system, or injury/death.

>>1784640
i once took out a sprinkler head in a hotel while i was drywalling and 3 whole floors got fucked hard i was just doing cash work too LOL

>>1785974
To be clear, my company is really great about coming back ASAP if they have problems. There are still people who can't be arsed to turn things off for any amount of time or risk even minor discomfort to avoid massive damage or risk to their life.

>hmmm there's smoke/fire/water/banging coming from a place it shouldn't lets shut it off and call the guy
vs
>hmmm there's smoke/fire/water/banging coming from a place it shouldn't but *it ain't me* so lets keep this party goin and we'll sue their ass and get them to put all new in haha

>>1785350
Why are you in the attic for a cabinet install?

>>1784640
The stupid fuck lucked out so nothing happened but could have been pretty fucking bad.

>do setup/programming in a machine shop
>end of the day, get tools in the machine but that's all I have time for
>leave
>come in next morning
>go to machine
Why the fuck is there coolant on the table?
>notice program on controller is halfway through running
>in a machine that literally nothing had been touched off on
>no work offsets, no tool heights
Dipshit operator thought it would be a good idea to warm up the machine by just pressing cycle start. He got chewed out pretty good for that one.

>>1786119
Oh fuck, bye bye tools, fixtures, and probably spindle if that thing crashed.

>>1784715
Blog post.
Im a plumber and wrecked a house to the tune of £89 000 ( as per insurance calculations, property worth about £700 000)
Not proud of it in any way. Thought id share.
Guy was doing up his house by floor starting on the ground, moving up to 4th. Bathrooms and en suites on each level. Plus a kitchen on the ground. Plus other high end decor works. Over like a year. last bathroom. the master en suite and i never compressed a fitting completely. on the 3rd floor. Fucked everything below. I understand my fuck up and how it happened. Insurance paid out and rectified. Was super depressed for a couple months until i understood the chain of events that led to it happening. Shit like that really fucks with you mentally

>>1786145
Also to add. because of my response and actions in the resulting aftermath i didnt ruin my reputation. Outwardly i did project a position of calm and control, which i think helped alot but inside i was dying. Fine in the end. Thankfully

>>1785425
Fuck apt maintenance. Did that for 2 years. No money for supply's and mostly woman that are being bossed around by the owners that are the mangers that believe every cost cutting idiot ideas they are told to follow. Worked a 30 story tower for 12 years after that and I got every bolt and valve I asked for. Go commercial if at all possible.

>>1786147
>Outwardly i did project a position of calm and control, which i think helped alot but inside i was dying

I know that feel, glad it worked out for you

>>1785938
I dropped a tube of silicon caulk from the top of 30 story building by accident. I watched in horror as it few all the way down, thank God, next to a guy dressed in a business suit. He was covered in it from the waist down. My company bosses never said a bad word to me about it after they got done laughing.

>>1785966
Go work an oil rig and figure it out.

>>1785978
My customers never turn the A/C or furnace off if it is not cooling. Sorry bro, it would have been a 100.00 to replace the cap but 5 days latter, now that the compressor has burnt out, it's going to be a 5,000.00 replacement. Crap like that happens all the time.

>>1785350
>be my helper in attic brazing copper line.
>finishes up using the sil-fos andm steps back to >admire his work.
>puts foot through drywall ceiling.
>grabs the first thing he can to save himself.
>lets go of red hot copper as soon as he can.
>cuts the hell out of his knee and the skin on >his hand is badly burnt.
>did not dieded.

>>1785426
My lungs gotted that from tearing out coal fired furnace 40 years ago. Nobody told us.

>>1786147
Been there and did stupid thing too. I put a dresser fitting on a hot water tank install because I could not get line to quit dripping, bread and all. Three days later the fitting failed and flooded a finished basement. Only $20,000.00 insurance payout. They never even raised my rates after.

>>1786177
More.
>same helper years later.
>Do a HVAC install together.
>I do the outside and he does the coil and furnace in the attic.
>after every thing done with perfect charge, we leave.
>Customer calls 3 days later. A/C not cooling.
>I check the charge, suction a little high.
>go up in attic and damn there is a 6"x17" opening behind the blower return.
>he cut the furnace opening for the return to the max and connected the smaller existing return plenum without sealing it.
>fired him for other reasons.

>>1785880
>>the magic pixie dust escapes from the emissions unit
That shit is always escaping out of machines.
I saw somebody hook up a 240v 3ph 25 ton compressor to a 440v 3ph circuit once but the pixie dust stayed somewhere within the A/C system.

>>1785943
I saw a $30,000.00 teak deck in Georgia that had to be replaced right after being built. Did it happen in Georgia by chance?

>>1786164
Learning is knowledge and therapy. I could have ended up in a lot worse place

>>1786199
*therapeutic

>>1786064
We were carrying a cabinet to an upstairs bathroom and he decided to snoop around a bit, he called me over when he saw it

>>1786214
I had a helper once that did a little snooping. He got caught stealing a $26 thousand dollar wedding ring set.

>>1786214
>be snooping helper
>looking at weird protruding bookcase on wall
>figure out that it opens into secret room
>state department documents on desk
>different passports
>close bookcase and vigorously sweep floor

>>1784881
interested

>>1785880
>>1786188
can someone explain what magic pixie dust is please
sparks?

>>1786169
Don't be a dick to >>1785966 just because not everyone works on a fucking oil rig. It's /diy/, people are here to learn. If you're going to be an elitist hound either go to fucking /o/ or just don't post.

>>1784640
This was maybe 10 years back, but I had two friends that worked for a carpet installation company. Typically customers would leave their homes during the install. On one install my friends went straight to the master bathroom, found some vicodin, each popped a handful, they then raided the fridge, ate food, drank beer, then went out back and jumped and wrestled on the trampoline in the back yard, tore through the trampoline, got caught on the springs and tangled in the mesh fabric, dragged the trampoline all through the lawn and landscaping in an attempt to free themselves in their intoxicated stupor. I still can't believe the homeowners didn't press charges. Their boss covered all the costs of the damage and needless to say they were immediately fired.

>>1786241
I still do my fair share of snooping, but difference with me (and him) is that it was a brand new house. Wasn't bought yet or have anyone living in it, so it's not criminal. Hopefully that scummy retard got what was coming to him for stealing from a client.

>>1786281
Wow lol

>>1785268
Your labor problems are about to be fixed by the market crash.

>>1785606
Great machines. My very successful machineshopownerbro has two beautiful American Pacemakers from WWII. The oil is aimed by drip trays in the headstock and every detail is beautifully cast. Foundry was a fucking art back then.
Manual machines are valuable still. My bro just took a Keith Rucker scraping class and is overhauling his Bridgeport to new specs for fun but he's saving thousands more than the course cost.

>>1785258
>>1785257
Depends what shop you are working at.
Every shop ive worked at wants someone who can program/run a CNC and usualy with some CAM software because fuck programming manually some wank an engineer came up with.
These shops ive worked at are also ran cheaply and youll need to beg for tools to do your job so you need to jury rig every setup.
If you can do it though your basically cannot be fired aside from burning the shop down because they cannot replace you (at least in my area).
I didnt work fridays for all of winter one time because I wanted a long weekend and they could only grin and bear.

>>1786273
it's an electronics joke.
A lot of the time when you fuck up on an electronic circuit (such as blowing up a chip or resistor), it releases a distinctive-smelling pale blue smoke.
The joke is that the smoke is what makes the chip work. If you let the smoke (pixie dust) out, the chip doesn't work anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke

>>1786550
Thank you for this. I'd never heard the joke before but I'm familiar with the smoke.

The absolutely most horrible fuckup I’ve ever heard of was when some spic demo illegal dumped a wheelbarrow full of rubble off of the 8th floor and killed a pipefitter leaving for lunch. Guy was an Irishman with like 5 little kids, at least the wife got his pension.

The worst I’ve ever experienced was when a demo guy pulled back on a claw hammer and caught it on a sprinklerhead, which happened to be over a brand new $70,000 electrical transformer box. I shut the system down but 50+ gallons had already been dumped into the thing.

I fucking hate demo guys, they’re all either complete mongoloid shitheads or FOB illegals whose English knowledge is only “yes” and “no”.

>>1784715
A competant plumber lol

>>1785917
eastern or western front?

>>1784672
I laughed

>>1785960
Yes

>>1786119
thats pretty retarded

>>1784868 here, some smaller stories:

>got a large hospital with a boiler down because of the pump motor
>some rare/weird pump motor, only one left in the country
>supply house orders it next day air
>UPS guy grabs it off truck and drops it on the concrete
>pump motor lands on shaft and blows out the back end of the motor
>system had to be re-worked to use a different pump

>repairing a refrigerant leak in an attic
>about to braze the line when it starts vibrating
>air is coming out
>wtf_jpg
>the builder's idiot checklist guy couldn't get AC to work, so he went out back and MOVED MY TOOLS so he could plug disconnect in
>compressor fried before I could get down there and turn it off
>ripped guy a new asshole about how he could kill someone plugging in random disconnects
>bought a lock out/tag out kit the next day
>builder ate the cost of a new AC

>get sent to replace an AC condenser coil under warranty
>someone else did the leak check
>system already empty, go ahead and replace coil
>finish vacuum and restart unit to charge it
>hear loud buzzing noise
>that's weird
>KABOOM
>turns out the leak was the compressor terminals, which blew out while I was charging it
>big blue arc flash and giant flame as terminals lit the compressor oil
>peeled the unit open like a grenade
>homeowner laughing at me, said he would've bet I couldn't run that fast

>customer called, side of their house caught fire
>they say the AC did it (new construction)
>go check it out, siding up the side is melted
>disconnect is melted inside
>installers never tightened terminals and they heated up until plastic caught fire

>homeowner calls us and says new AC in attic ruined the ceiling in his expensive house
>go look, system froze up so bad that water overflowed emergency pan and ruined ceiling
>find the owner's wife put a new filter in
>instead of taking plastic wrapping off filter she cut some slits in it
>he had to pay thousands to repair it

>>1787332
>multiple times installers would mark AC jobs complete but never opened valves on unit
>builder checklist idiots would turn them on and let them run sometimes for days before calling to tell us they didn't work
>got real good at replacing compressors

>worked with a guy who spent half a day replacing a condenser coil under warranty
>at the wrong house

>worked a new development once where the plumbers got mad they didn't get the HVAC work as well
>refrigerant lines in these houses went up the side of the house, across the attic, and dropped into furnace room on second floor
>plumbers snapped all the lines off flush with the ceiling
>had to go house to house pulling the lines back into the attic, brazing an extension on, and shoving them back through
>heat season none of the furnaces would run
>took me hours to figure out the plumbers pulled the sensor wires and cut them and tucked them back into the harness where you couldn't see them
>builder got charged for all of these repairs

>>1786244
>22 kb image
>filename 33
>digits 44

>>1786178
Hope you are ok mate

>>1786941
>tfw 60% of co-workers are mexicans

>>1784640
When I showed up to inspect ~200 joist reinforcements and it turns out they hired 100 local farmers and nothing was good, another company took 60% of their contract and they spent 3 months fixing everything they had already done.

>>1784714
well somebody certainly got fucked

>>1785365
lol

>>1786178
hope you got a payout

>>1786550
sounds like some post-apocalyptic belief

>>1784640
my worst nightmare was when a 24-footer (partially extended) against the side of a house, got taken by the wind, paint-bucket-on-hook and all. It wasn't smart to have left it up there in retrospect, but it was left up there only to grab a tool from the box ~10ft away from the base of the ladder. turn your back for 90 seconds, all it takes. toppled over, paintbucket (half a gallon in it or so) hit the thankfully-empty driveway, but it was immediate all-hands-on-deck to hose the bright paint off the fresh blacktop and down the drain without staining, off the neighbor's trash can and car where drops splashed. could have gone far worse than it did and thank God nobody was hurt and nothing was smashed. I don't know that it cost much (if they had the blacktop resurfaced I didn't hear about it) but I remember seeing the ladder tip past its center of gravity, watching in slow motion and disbelief the whole way down. one of the bigger fuckups I've been party to, but funny to look back. I don't think I've ever lost a whole 5-gallon to a spill, that would be my nightmare.

>>1784719
Our on site contractor from the insulator's union is this hot little blonde. She is a hell of a worker and can fit into some tiny fucking spots. Sometimes at the end of the day she emerges in a Tyvek suit covered in dust from some random spot between ductwork.

I also hear from her girlfriend (who is a tall hot legal secretary) that she is damn good at eating pussy.

>>1787340
Fair's fair, here's some of my personal fuck-ups:

>I'm doing a PM cleaning on a residential AC
>it's a 30 year old hunk of shit
>like a dipshit I took it apart to clean it
>putting screws back in and blast one into condenser coil in a spot that will be just about impossible to fix
>FUCK
>convince guy it's been leaking for a while and salesman talks him into a new one

>installing a humidifier for an Indian guy
>he's hovering behind me watching every single thing I do
>keep trying to get him to fuck off while I work
>not paying attention due to constant questions
>using drill mounted hole cutter to make perfect cutout for the round duct
>cutter strikes the header of his evaporator coil and pinholes it
>refrigerant begins pissing out
>FUCK
>Indian guy runs upstairs and immediately calls my boss
>I run outside, shut condenser valves, and "recover" the rest of the refrigerant
>bring my torches in to braze the leak shut
>Indian guy is now back downstairs yelling that he wants an all-new AC system inside and out for free and he's not paying for the humidifier
>Told my boss I poisoned his family by releasing toxic refrigerant into the house, says his wife already feels sick
>boss explained that very little actually leaked out, it's non-flammable and non-toxic, plus it's heavier than air so no way his wife could've even breathed it in yet
>fortunately my boss is cool but Indian guy still going
>YOU RUIN MY AC YOU POISONED ME AND MY WIFE I'M NOT PAYING BLAH BLAH BLAH
>I finally snap at Indian guy
>tell him I am going to patch the leak and recharge it for free, we'll give him a one year warranty on my repair for free, and then I'll finish the humidifier that he is definitely paying for but I will knock 10% off
>also tell him that if he doesn't leave me alone to work I am packing up and leaving
>guy actually apologizes and says no problem he will pay
>made him give me credit card number before I finished

>>1788643
More from me
>installing an AC condenser on a new construction job
>yard is a mud pit, hasn't been graded yet and every step sinks you to your ankles in mud
>condenser is very expensive model and also very heavy
>call install boss and ask them to send me some help for ten minutes so I can get this fucker over to the wall mount bracket
>he starts bitching about how service guys are all pussies, man up and move it myself, etc
>OK.jpg
>try using hand truck, it just sinks
>can't drag it in the mud, too heavy
>fuck it
>turn unit on its side and roll it end-over-end through the mud to the bracket
>the coil is destroyed, fins are all smashed and impacted with mud
>install it anyway
>get called next day by install boss asking WTF did I do to that expensive new unit
>told him it was fine when I installed and the guys grading the yard must've hit it

>new construction service call
>no heat, owner moving in tomorrow, MUST be fixed tonight
>go to the house, all doors/windows locked
>all of the construction supers are gone for the day
>tell office I can't get in, they can't get ahold of anyone with a key
>office keeps telling me figure it out, must be done tonight
>fuck these idiots
>take brick and smash out the glass in the back door
>let myself in and fix the furnace
>left door wide open and brick on floor as a message
>boss calls the next day, WTF did you do?
>I found a window open and squeezed through it, I definitely didn't brick it open

>>1788648
>turn unit on its side and roll it end-over-end through the mud to the bracket
>the coil is destroyed, fins are all smashed and impacted with mud
>left door wide open and brick on floor as a message
those arent fuck ups. you arrogant cunt did it on purpouse. i'd fire you

>>1788651
I'd fire me too. I was the WORST. Every time they dicked me on pay or scheduling it cost them somewhere else. No one up top ever noticed or cared.

More newcon fun:
>company takes on a custom home
>it's a slab house which means ductwork gets installed then concrete gets poured over it
>you're supposed to use special PVC duct pipe that won't collapse under the weight of the concrete
>installers instead used regular thin duct pipe
>slab gets poured, house get built, time to put the registers in
>where's the register boots?
>every single duct and boot crushed flat by concrete
>ruh_roh.jpg
>builder had to jackhammer up slab everywhere duct needed to be and put proper duct pipe in before re-pouring
>builder sues us
>builder loses in court because before floor was poured city inspector looked at job and OK'd it

>buddy is installing condenser at a new house
>stop by to see if he needs help
>he's rolling unit to back yard on hand truck
>slips in the wet grass and drops hand truck
>it begins to slide downhill
>into the retention pond next to the house
>well_shit.jpg
>he tries to grab it back out but he is slipping in too
>finally have to tie rope to service truck and pull it and him out of pond
>mfw he put it in anyway

>>1784672
>>1784676
>my wife
as a colossal life fuck up, getting married is pretty quick, only takes like 30 minutes at the courthouse, or in vegas.

>>1784868
your charging people 150$ for a fucking pump?
no wonder
its a 30$ part and 90% of the time you reuse the same fucking tubing
douchebag

>>1784901
You emphasize scheduled breaks and lunch times a lot, do you know that?

>>1788665
Yeah, $150 because your shitty $30 pump won't pump higher than 15' and these retards were pumping the water all the way to the roof. High lift pumps are expensive you fucking goon.

>>1786550
>Magic smoke comes out.
>Shit doesn't work anymore.
It's not a joke, it's legit.

>>1788672
>>1788672
telling me they didnt have any plumbing or a laundry sink?

>>1785270
what the fuck

I used the wrong power supply and fried one of these bad boys. Not a single card worked after. Put it on a shelf and worked on something else. lol

>>1788697
*wrong cables

>>1788697
Is that a buttcoin miner? If so, go die.

>>1788704
Either that or he was trying to play Quake.

>>1784640
>does that shit and has the option to quit.

KEK.

Truck driver got triggered. Found bridge construction and just let his truck idle over it while dancing on the bridge ON LIKE 30 CELL PHONE AND SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.

He was told it was a load of dry goods. Typical shit you see at a walmart like cans of paint, tools, electronics, etc...

The electronics part.

MUTHERFUCKER DROWNED 44,000 POUNDS OF $1,300 each graphics cards when bitcoin mining peaked.

Pretty sure they had him killed before he even posted bail.

>>1784672
So many questions. I always wondered wtf that would be like. Is it weird? Can she always tell if you lie? Does she overthink everything?

At any rate she is without a doubt saving lives. Rather it be directly or indirectly.

And in the off chance of 1 in a million if you are a farmer in a town with a bunch of orange tractors and a dollar tree in front of a walmart, tell your wife thank you.

I am a fat red bearded fuck and i cried like a bitch while she just talked to me. She saved my life.

I still hate myself and want to die every single second of the day but i figure i may as well pay it foward and try to help others. She may have indirectly saved a lot of lives.

>>1784719
No way man. The framer on a job brought his niece to work. Bitch could frame a room alone in 20 minutes. But she was the tightest and hottest 18 year old I've ever seen. Even sweating her ass off while helping her frame up a garage lifting heavy shit she smelled like cherries, child support, and alimony.

She worked 3 days, her uncle wound up beating a guy's ass for patting her on the butt baseball style and saying "good job."

You simply cannot mix us retarded neanderthal faggots with hot bitches and expect anything to get done.

Just like it costs $8 to have a shirtless crew of 5 dudes sweaty and shreaded landscape your lawn.

And it costs like $1,000 to have some mildly attractive bitch in a bikini push mow while 5 bouncers stare at you.

>>1784857
>Mike arsons a house trying to fucking tie water lines together.

>Mike now cobles some shit together on 70mph missiles hauling women and children.

Sounds about right

>>1784914
Damn man!

Way less interesting story but i sold windows for a few weeks. My blue collar ass fell into a job, competed with over 100 people for it for 3 months. Then quit 3 days solo into it.

Didn't like the snake oil salesman faggot i became. I stood to make EASY 700k a year. 800k plus if i tried hard.

Now i make $21.50 and overqualified as fuck for the blue collar job i got. It sucks. But aside from the daily nightmares from other shit i sleep well also.

>>1784917

Well faggot. How exciting and entertaining is it to tell us all you burnt a hole in a table top tig welding aluminum benches...?

>>1784936
My reply, then read this reply.

My fucking sides!

>>1784939
With a pipe string like that? Easily 10 times that.

$11,000,000 fuckup. Mininum. Fuuuuuuck

>>1784715
she doesnt look comfortable holding that pipe wrench

>>1785259
Be me. ALWAYS assume mic is hot. It is the only way to live with a CB.

Welp. CB busted in piece of shit rental machine. Never talk to myself either. For wtf ever reason that day i decide to just screech and rant about what an egregious fucking cocksucker my boss was. Turns out after a year of not working cb hits a bump and my busted ass mic is keyed.

Boss comes flying up to me. Am in a 365 cat trackhoe. He's in a pickup. Comes charging like 500 feet straight up hill PISSED. See his pickup start to roll. Stifled laugher as best i can. Whip out phone and casually record that fat faggot taking a breather 18 times while cussing and throwing rocks at my hoe. Record his truck roll backwards off about a 90 foot cliff. Is full of tools. Heavy af. Gets to hoe. I crack the window and lock the door. Have phone now casually proped up to record him call me every name in the book threatened murder, etc...

The next day get called into owner's office.

He's an even bigger cocksucker.

I wear hidden tape recorder just for laffs.

He simply hits play on the phone. About a 1 hour conversation of my boss blaming every single thing on me, making up rediculous accusations, and generally just covering his ass by trying to get mine fucked.

Doesn't say a word. Just looks at me. I hand him a usb stick with the video on it. He watches the entire shit happen.

>anon, would you do me a favor? Go home for the day and take tomorrow off both with pay. Id like to talk to you monday.

Monday i come in. Brand new service truck. Nice as a mutherfucker! I knew we needed it replaced since the cliffdiver is kill.

>anon, you faggot boss has been terminated, reported, and is currently in county jail for death threats.

>mfw HAHAHAHA!
>mfw anon, I'd like you to consider piloting that fine machine outside and being bossman
>i don't know sir...
>you will work 6 hours a day monday, Wednesday, and Friday 150k a year.

I was making 35k before...

>>1785426
It's mesothelioma you slack jawed faggot

>>1786169
Top. Fucking. KEK!

>>1788750
You dont have to be neccesarily taught how to recognize lies in a psychology degree, youre more likely to learn what makes someone lie. And if she recognizes lies, its not because she overthinks it, its mostly because shes probably trained to see it and its effortless for her to see it.

>>1788767
Look up asbestosis

>>1788764
Cool story, bro

>>1788767
It's the same thing you insufferable boomer faggot

>>1784863
and that's why the utility I work for does not tie in new meter sets.

>>1784723
She was the chauffer. Only one that had a license.

>>1784939
You can't write for shit

>>1788868
never thought I'd see that used unironically

>>1784640
Ex CNC monkey, my boss set a machine to run about a foot too deep into the material, in under a second he cost the company upwards of 5 digits. Many laughs were had that day, and in days following as we watched the mechanic grumble.

>>1784939
I work an oil rig and relate. Bunch a greenies and no one doing the one two right.

>>1789149
Pretty sure you still haven't

>>1788711
>Quake
Assuming Quake 1, how many fucking FPS @ 8K would such a setup get you?

>>1784868
>37 degrees (100 F)
A cool day here in AUS

>>1788648
>take a brick and smash out the glass in the back door.
You are a fucking moron and the reason that lots of tradies have bad reputations you retard. Don't breed and drink bleach.

>very, very large industrial furnace
>operators purge the pilot burner lines with fuel gas instead of inert gas
>control room starts the auto-ignite sequence
nobody died so it was reported as a small fire. plant was down for 3 years.

>>1788752
I had a job relocating sprinkler heads in a mall lobby about six months ago. They had to have two supers on the job, with one just making sure the guys weren’t oogling the girls too hard lmao

I'm a welder who wears many hats
ship fitter / iron worker / fabricator / pipe welder
I might come back with more stories later. does death count as expensive?

this one is definitely the quickest and most expensive

>be my friend 'Lou'
>twenty years ago
>union boilermaker
>travels to different power plants. does maintenance while they're shut down
>next power plant run by his step dad
>night before
>co workers tell Lou he's a faggot if he can't get wasted and work full shift tomorrow
>challenge accepted
>next day
>barely makes it 45 minutes into shift, falls asleep in porta john
>mind you, when power plants are shut down, they're losing gorillions so work needs to be done in a day or so
>four hours later
>Lou is awaken by fire fighters
>tfw completely drenched in sweat barely alive and extremely hungover
>everyone is crowded around him cause evacuation
>entire crew, power plant employees, and every boss is there to watch him awaken like jesus did after three days
>one man lay off
>step dad pissed obviously and cost company something like 10 mil

no one recommended i put a catch plate underneath the thc oil recepticle. and within 2-5minutes of me flicking through college radio. about 200ml of 98%thc oil spilled onto the floor. values at about $5-10g.

the next days the other techs were like 'ya ive done that'

>>1789251
Oof
Can you confirm or deny grow operations will sell the swept up trimmings as low grade weed or shake

>>1789212
Maybe 30 if he's lucky

>>1789231
did the furnace itself not have a prepurge even for pilots or was that not enough?

>>1789528
Why wouldn't they use that for the oil?

>>1784640
Renovation without abating lead paint.
Left paint chips all over my yard.

>>1784878
wew lad

>>1786343
>market crash
>fix labor problems

explain

My favorite thing is to walk headfirst into someone else's fuckup.

>Work for a plumbing company
>Get dispatched to check a repair that we previously made that started leaking again
>Get onsite and the owner is livid
>Oh boy, here we go
>The owner found it when doing the final walkthrough after tenants left
>Shows me the previous work area, a bedroom that our boy had cut a HUGE piece of paster and lathe out of to access the back of the sink
>Drywall patch is soaked and fell out of the hole
>Walls, floors, everything is dripping wet, mildew all over
>Inside is a galvanized pipe with a crack along its ENTIRE LENGTH, "fixed" with a piece of rubber pipe patch and about a dozen hose clamps
>Literally spray of water coming from several spots
>Shit has probably been leakings since day one of the repairs
>Subfloor is mush, studs are mush, lathe is mush, paster is like wet tissue paper
>Shut off the main go to my truck and call my supervisor
>Get passed to the boss, who does not want to hear what I have to say, tells me to "fix it" and return
>I'm able to unscrew the pipe, which is about 3 feet long, with some pipe wrenches and slot a new one in. Maybe 20 minutes of work with testing
>Owner wants to know what I'm going to do about all the damage
>Give him the company card, tell him I'm not a carpenter and walk away

The previous tenants didn't want to rock the boat and just ignored the problem until their lease expired. The owner was a fucking douchebag so I can see why. Turns out, the only bigger douchebag was my boss, who tried to pin this whole thing on me. Luckily, I saw the way the wind was blowing and contacted the owner of the place and told him "we" needed to take pictures. I took a shitton of pictures showing the condition when I arrived and how I fixed it. Get fired for the whole thing and end up a co-defendant in a civil case to recoup costs. End result was my boss had to pay a FUCKTON of money and I walked away with some of it for unlawful termination.

>>1789691
The trades are considered essential in most states

>>1784640
>work in a warehouse
>forklift driver
>building is ancient as fuck, 100+ years old, re purposed multiple times
>due to being so old, it was built with antiquated cast iron support poles holding up steel I-beams, and thus, the roof
>floor manager is known for coming in real early, sometimes exhausted
>everyone cringed each time he got on a forklift in the morning, barely awake
>we all knew this was gonna be a problem sooner or later
>one day he comes in early to do some cleaning
>gets on the heaviest battery operated forklift in the building
>seems to be in a rush, so he's really pushing that accelerator
>flying around corridors and into the room with the suspended ceiling
>we think nothing of it
*BOOM*
>sound of hollow cast iron hitting solid steel forklift reverberates through the whole place
>everyone rushes in to see what happened
>floor manager somehow managed to ram this 10" wide 1" thick pole so hard, it just cracked in half like an egg
>pole is now dangling in mid air, ceiling tiles knocked out all over the suspended ceiling
>roof starts to sag a little bit
This is the point where immediate panic sets in
>not only did this guy shear the pole in half, but he ripped the bolts clean out of the I-beam somehow
>repair crew has to come in and prop the roof up with heavy lumber and some jacks
>manager suffers a minor concussion, can't recall the incident at all
>company has to pay for a welder to come in and install a new pole, and a roofer to replace the cracked planks
All in all, the guy didn't get fired for that, but he's the reason we've had weekly safety meetings since then.

>>1784939
>Also frac
>-40C something day
>too fucking cold to pump water
>consultant says fuck you were doing this
>prime about half of the 20 the pumps
>lines frozen, pumps frozen, everything frozen
>2 days of steaming frozen everything out

>first job on a farm
>boss/owner rents a bulldozer and back hoe
>tell the six of us chucklefucks he wants us to dig a pond where he marked
>spend a week cutting trees, digging and hauling in a bog
>suddenly lights, sirens
Dumbass had us digging in protected wetlands half a mile from his property line on government land. We got $100 fines and he went to jail, sold the farm.

>>1789724
I remember the training videos for forklifts were all basically telling us that we were going to kill somebody with the forklift and it was just our fate

When I first started my electrical apprenticeship, I cut ten 80 metre runs of fibre optic cable five metres too short.

>>1788663
Wife's are generally useless unless you can find one that can cook/clean around the house (very rare thanks to feminism). However I still love my wife and keep her around for the 50/50 chance she will pop out a son who will eventually be able to help out with things.

>>1784640
At my old job, loading planes, coworker drove forks of forklift through fuselage of plane.

At current job, project manager rubber stamped millwork drawings. Millwork drawings were made according to architectural IFC, architect didn't coordinate with mechanical engineer, mechanical contractor installed services according to mechanical IFC. Long story short all of the millwork had to be reordered, including granite counter tops, for a 400 million dollar job. Not sure what the price tag on that failure was but it must have been sky high.

>>1784640
>most expensive fuck up
Not on a work site but one time I dropped a piece of glass that was one square inch and cost 5 grand because of the special coating. Smashed into a million pieces.
Almost most expensive was I unplugged a piece of test gear by accident, corrupted the windows embedded operating system, lab was down 150 grand worth of kit for three weeks I was very unpopular.

>>1788750

https://www.unionleader.com/nh/outdoors/footprints-in-the-snow-lead-to-an-emotional-rescue/article_482a2e0f-e725-5df6-9e7c-5958bdb272e5.html

Read this in Reader's Digest, your post made me think of this.

>>1789708
So is the Starbucks drive-through 5 minutes down the road paying 9.00$ an hours. Dont thing 'essential' will save you.

>>1785150
Name one reason that your fellow employees should show urgency or respect when the you have to job hop to get a raise in nearly every industry. They dont care about the job because it doesnt care enough about them.

>>1788659
>I'd fire me too. I was the WORST. Every time they dicked me on pay or scheduling it cost them somewhere else. No one up top ever noticed or cared.
A competent blue collar worker not getting respect from his job then not caring about that job?! No way. Surely that's only McDonald's millennials. Not the superior older generations.

>>1785880

I wonder how Kieran got his glass eye

>>1784861
>send unexperienced kid out on service call
>it fucks up
>retard boomer blames kid instead of himself for sending out someone without the experience to work by himself

Sounds about right

>>1788755

>phd in windows sales. 700k+ starting

>>1788764

fascinating anecdote, brother

>>1784715
Fucking lol look at the reviews for it..... The only 5 stars are some paid promotors or the owners friends.....

www.yelp. com/biz/ericas-plumbing-and-restoration-boca-raton

>>1784719
>For real tho, they should get more hot chicks into blue collar residential tech jobs.
No! No! Bad penis. Back in your pants!

>>1784640
>What is the quickest, most expensive fuck up you've seen on a job site?
First day on the job, Pripyat, Ukraine.
Made a slight oopsie on a safety test.

>>1788665
Thirds, Anon.
Third, materials. Third, labour. Third, profit.
T. Paid cabinet maker who does cashies for walking around money.

>>1784672
I have a psych degree and probably make more than you :3c

>be me, retarded
>Broke homeowner
>Go to basement, lots of poo
>Toilet paper too
>Tell gf to call whatever plumber she thinks is good
>Calls tiger
>They say that the sewer line is completely fucked, and they need to jackhammer the whole thing because it will collapse if anyone tries to snake it
>Quote me $19,000
>Fuck off.jpg
>But my retarded ass believes them

>>>2 years later

>Decide fuck it, let's try and snake it, Because it's no longer draining at all
>Basement is a foot deep poop swamp
>$120 later it drains fine
>Now have to figure out how to fix pic related

I hope everyone employed at tiger catches fucking ebola, at least the basement overall is ok

I burned a power electronics custom monitoring device, I was supposed to write code for as an intern. They sell them for ~$15 000 a piece. Nobody was angry, they just replaced FPGAs and we're making fun of me.

I did an entire house renovation. We did one floor at a time starting with the basement and working our way up. I took out the vanity/demo'd on the top floor on a friday. I came back on the Monday and the shut off valve for the vanity had been leaking. Not much but enough that it ruined the drywall of the bathroom on the main floor, and the basement. These bathrooms were completely done, painted, trim (MDF trim does not do well with water) caulked and painted, etc. Basically had to re do almost all of that shit in both bathrooms below. Always replace the shut offs in that situation. The shut off was fine when I was there all day. I've told this story to a few other contractors and apparently this type of thing isn't uncommon, unfortunately i had just completely finished the 2 bathrooms below it.

>>1784939
>Caterpillar tranny's, Cummins 50 liters
is this /d/

>>1784715
>plumber in business attire in a pink truck
Anyone would hire this person deserves whatever they get

>>1784719
My bricklayers wife is pretty sexy. She does a good job but she's a tomboy and not wearing heels and a skirt. There have been a few times I've watched her mixing mortar a little on the heavy side for her to handle and jiggling around. She's honestly a decent brick player but her husband is clearly the one in charge and she's the help

>>1785884
I live in canada and worked for a plumber for a while. These aren't that uncommon in older homes and most times they're caked with asbestos.

Not a fuck up but my boss bought some 100+ year old house that was in dire need of renovation with the intent of flipping it. My useless coworker always does the demo work because he sucks at everything else. Long story short, he found a dead baby in the walls. Cops said it's not all that uncommon for that time. Was likely the daughter of the family that got knocked up out of wedlock (it was a huge house that used to have living quarters for the help) or one of the former workers had a baby that died and they couldn't afford a funeral so they stuffed it in the walls.

I wasn't there when it was discovered but the coworker that discovered it was spooked and didn't want to go back there. So I was like "pshhhh fuckibg pussy, I'll do it". I'm not gonna lie, I was creeped out for the rest of that job and was hearing or seeing weird shit (probably all in my head) but I was too proud to admit it after making fun of my coworker for being a pussy.

>>1791838
Bathroom shutoffs are a complete fucking joke.

I'm a plant design engineer and I was part of a horrible water treatment plant project.

>two guys to design it, I was one of them
>the contract was badly made, didn't properly specify what our scope was due to multiple teams in the project
>project manager didn't care, just orders us to do what the customer asks without any kind of idea how this will fuck up the project time table
>customer abuses this, doesn't pay for 2500 hours of work because it's not in the contract

>150 000 € lost

>due to constant hurry, some documents are left unchecked despite someone's name in it
>co-worker puts flanges into a pipe in CAD, doesn't notice a difference in pressure class of the flange and valve
>about ten flanges need to be replaced and these are somewhat large, the pipe itself being over 600 mm in diameter

>40 000 € is lost in flange updates

>customer and my company go to court over these
>over 6 months of legal battle

>??? € is lost

>>1791863
Old houses make strange ass noises. My house is 116 years old and it creaks and groans, especially in winter.

>>1791753
... you let poo accumulate in your basement for 2 years, yet it's tiger's fault ?

>>1791838
Never walk away from a shutoff without putting a compression cap in it.

>>1789792
Onision owned a fucking farm?

>>1791980
No, I put multiple pumps in, and did everything I could to fix it without spending a third of the price of my home to fix it

>>1790913
We love our wives here. Fuck off. If you're only keeping her around for the 50/50 chance she'll give you a son it's no wonder she doesn't do shit for you.

>>1791490
kek

>>1791652
And?

>>1791839
i like this comment

>be green sparky
>doing renovations at a fiber distribution hub in NJ
>supplies internet and TV service for 4 counties
>kneeling behind machine pulling wire through conduit
>accidentally brush up against the machine
>hear a click, think nothing of it
>later, sitting in my car eating lunch
>job super comes up to me and asks what the fuck I did
>wut
>tells me all 4 counties lost service for over an hour
>WUT
>the machine I was behind is a UPS for some of the equipment and it shut off
>nobody can figure out what happened, I'm about to be fired since I was working around it
>go look at machine, notice copper strands sticking out of some terminals
>these terminals were for a remote switch
>some else just yanked the wire out without unscrewing terminals
>hair bridged the gap and turned off the UPS
>mfw
>mfw get laid off 4 months later because someone else at another location accidentally shut off service for the whole state
>ISP was tired of our incompetence and we lost the contract

ah well

>>1792029
>Didn’t even bother to search Pripyat

You probably couldn’t kill yourself either.

>>1792103
alright honey bun <3

Stories of my Grandmothers ongoing series of unfortunate events building her new house

>Foundation freshly poured and ready to go
>For some reason, someone left a water hose on for 3 days straight over the weekend
>Contractor drove a bobcat near a wall
>The weight of the cat compacted the absolutely soaked soil and cracked the wall at the corners
>They "fixed" it by shoving it back in place and patching up the corners "that will last longer then the concrete"

>Grandmother had this great big motherfuck of a gas fireplace she wanted in the basement
>This has been a thing since before the final architectural drawings had been finalized, so nobody on the job has any excuse to not know
>The frame is finished and the floor is in
ah shit we forgot to put the fireplace in the basement, oh well we'll drop it down the staircase
>They measure it
>Doesn't fit
>Won't even fit in the double door entrance
>They cut a hole in the side of the house, then a hole in the floor, hoping they can lower it down with some janky setup
>No think, just cut
>End up slicing up some HVAC in the floor on the first cut
>Give up and fix wall
>Then they cut the stairwell and the roof
>Hire a crane to lift it and set it in the basement
>Now they don't know how to move it in the basement as it weighs over 1K lbs but they'll worry about that later

>Another company is doing the granite counter tops in the house
>Grandmother picked out a very specific slab set for very specific spots
>They measure and cut everything, come back to do install
>One of the drywallers went to leave for a drs appointment and backed right in to the largest slab, cracking it beyond use
>The owner of the granite company thought that slab was the best piece he's ever cut, was going to be on every piece of advertisement after it was installed
>He nearly murdered the drywall guy

Grandma still has quite a bit of work to do on her house, can't wait to see what else happens.

>maintenance bitch for city
>live where hurricane Michael fucked up Florida
>house gets fucked, trees everywhere
>fuck it, I have to go to work clearing roads
>work so long I forget where I live and sleeping in dozers/trucks/benches
>finally come home and see ambulance in front of my house
>bobcat smashed beyond recognition, blood all over outside of house
>hydrolics failed on cat when they tried to lift 100 year oak off my stone house
>inexperienced mormon had his legs outside the cage
As far as I know, the guys decision cost him his legs and maybe his life. Only lineman to die in my town during was also a house down. Shit was rough.

>Work for a small MSP some years back
>Most of our client's are small/medium-sized business that have email hosted onsite using Exchange
>Big Exchange update comes out so we have one of our "experienced" techs doing the upgrades
>It takes him about 2 weeks to do all our clients and then goes on Christman vacation
>Process is simple: take a snapshot of the VM, update Exchange, reboot machine, test
>Everyone higher up is on vacation and out of town except my dumbass
>About three days into his vacation we start getting offline tickets for servers
>Entire sites are going down, only the host machines are still online
>VMs won't start back up
>Only a few QA desk people working and they don't know enough to find the problem
>I'm the only guy still in town despite being on vacation so I get the call
>I come in and each one is the same issue, the drive the VM VHDs are on is full

The motherfucker doing the Exchange update created snapshots but never merged them back in. So they have been sitting there running on the snapshots getting bigger and bigger for almost 3 weeks now. Our company also had a dumbshit policy of setting the VHD size to dynamic and using whatever number as the upper bounds. IE the drives could grow larger than the total space on the host machine. This is fine if you have the space, but once you don't have any space and the VHD needs to grow, pow, the VM goes down. Bumblefuck did this shit to something close to 80 clients and we have a half dozen down already. More could go down any minute so I'm going from customer to customer (remotely, thank god) trying to unfuck their VMs before they crash or to get them back up as soon as possible. The worst part is the fucker wasn't fired for it. It was by far not his first fuck up and it was also not nearly his last. We were hurting for "experienced" techs so the bosses would hire anyone with a pulse and a cert.

Lesson learned though. I always go 'camping' for my vacations and turn off my phone.

>2012
>Be serving on pic related
>We come back alongside HFX on Friday
>Guy in charge of getting to shore power cuts corners
>He presses the "Close On Dead Bus" button on the 450v switchboard instead of following proper synching with shore
>Gets lucky, the phases were close enough...
>But not that lucky
>Here comes Monday, coxswain states it smells expensive in his office.
>Shore breaker welded itself to the bus because of the slight difference.
The whole mess ended up costing between 10 and 15k Leafbux (much less than lots of the fuckups in this thread but still) and we had to be on generator watch for three days.

>>1792029
>And?
Not bad. Not good.

>>1791730
Thanks baitposter, always good to have you around.

Definitely not the quickest but I managed to royally fuck up a couple months ago
>work at a ems, im good with electronics so it can be fun but also mindnumbingly boring
>order of 1700 pcba
>im literally screwing transistors to a heatsink
>dont read instructions like a goof
>assumed the loctite in front of me was correct cause my workbench was already set up
>go home after doing about 700
>next day engineer tells me theyre fucked and need rework
>loctite wasnt curing and was discoloring in a way i had never seen (former mechanic)
>i had to rework the entire batch, surprised i didnt ger fired
I still hate myself for that. Been away from work cause of corona cunt and I miss being there as it can be a real mixed bag unlike some places I've worked.

>>1792327

>>1784878
Why would something like this blow up?

>>1792329
Very neat. I have a gassy beam power tube that does that, maybe I'll dig out some pics.

>>1792131
Maybe time for new builders. It's such a gamble though. Everyone is a shitshow really. We're living in atlas shrugged times

>>1792333
It's a boiler, boilers can explode, bigger ones can take out buildings.

>>1784672
>psychology.
the most pseudo science on medicine, i have more respect for dentist and chiropractors than those fuckers.

A broad in my shop (who was the one of the highest paid troubleshooters at the time [fucky testing system the company uses]) put a 24V contactor where a 120 should have been. The fucker welded shut. This contactor controlled a heating device for preheating rubber. Caused a huge fire. She saw no repercussions. Diversity is strength.

>>1785977
>Be in dry dock on a cruise ship.
>Doing engineering rounds in the engine room.
>Get called beck up to the control room "as fast as possible".
>Walk in the door, other engineer sprints out without a word.
>He comes back and explains that he had to go and turn off the water supply to the fire main (provided by a hydrant out on the dock because there was no sea water supply) because someone upstairs in the accommodation had broken off a sprinkler head and the compartment was flooding.

>>1792799
did you notice how most of the issues here were made by men
everyone makes mistakes
shut the fuck up and take my bait

>>1792164
>states it smells expensive in his office

>>1792164
Connecting to shore power is always fun and games.

>>1789231
man this hits so hard, you cant trust operators for shit if the system isnt locked down as hard as an iphone.

t. an operator

>>1791730
I suck dick for money and probably make more than you

The largest electrical contractor gave an entire floor to a freshly minted foreman in his 20's. Let's just say the fired him a few months later and thats one of the reasons why they are so behind

>>1793899
One floor of the new Rams stadium

>Used to work in a small swimmingpool construction company as designer, but since it was small i basically did everything alone (including customer service, front office, back office and cleaning the office every saturday)
>We start to build a swimming pool with a really expensive automatic safety cover
>After the main structure was completed my "field" colleague sent me the drawings with the as-built measures to order the cover, on the drawings was also indicated in which side the engine of the cover must be.
>FF one month later the cover arrives and the engine is on the wrong side (left instead of right)
>Turns out that the guy who took the measures indicated the wrong side, realized it was wrong but didn't have a rubber to correct it and left it as it was because what could happen.
>20k€ cover in the garbage, had to order another one and wait another month before installing it.

And another one
>Same guy, same year
>Same cover (different pool)
>Same problem
>Other 20k€ in the garbage

For some reasons my bosses never fired him, instead one day he simply left in the middle of summer (working in the swimming pool sector this is of course the heaviest period of the year). He then reappered a couple of years later, as the company was growing and we had to hire a new Sales guy, he sent an email literally saying "Yeah i saw you are searching for a Sales guy, you know that position is mine don't you?"

I think we never replied to that email

>>1793882
I pay to suck dick and probably suck more dicks than you.

>>1784640
I didn't see it but a train derailment that cost the company $40 million

>>1788648
>responding to shitty work conditions with active sabotage

based

>>1791863
What the actual fuck.

>>1788677
Nice bong.

>>1785268
What is considered low trade and what is considered high trade?

>>1791652
>implying the safety test didn't perform as intended
This man is delusional, take him to the infirmary.

>>1785819
Yes left is correct. There are quite a few memesters here on 4channel.org so dont take everything at face value

regards John
---
A bad day fishing is better than a good day with the wife

Diesel mechanic here, been doing this for about 2 years and so far I've seen some crazy shit

Co-worker removed and replaced one box for emissions. It's the entire housing for the DPFs, whole thing cost about 12,000 I believe + labor. Driver doesent make it 30 miles before it falls off and blows 2 tires

Had another co-worker leave my new drill on the top of the engine block of a brand new truck with like 3000 miles on it. Driver drove out of the yard and the drill dropped into the radiator fan and plastic pierced the radiator and went halfway through the fiberglass hood.

Both have kept there jobs with no reprimandation,

Meanwhile I get threatened to get beaten if I sit down for a few minutes to do my paperwork

:thinking:

>be me
>be auto mechanic
>doing rear axles on a 300
>pull caliper anchors off and threads on aluminum knuckles are as smooth as glass
>put car back together and "tighten" rear caliper bolts.
>they came in like that they can leave like that too.
>see car in parking lot 3 days later.
>mfw the caliper busted through the inside of the rim
>tap new oversize threads in knuckles
>buy used rim for 50 bucks.
>get free tire change
>get paid be the hour so get paid to repair my fuck up.
life is good.

My coworker who programs ran an entire job using files which were old revisions which wasted $15000 worth of material. Guys kinda dumb.

>>1784907
>>1784911
>>1784914

It has been bothering me for a week now.

I was a Signaller in the Canadian Forces. If anyone was stupid enough to do this and pull rank, why not just offer:

>Hey Warrant, I see your coax is too short and your antenna is way to close to power lines.
>I have two lesbian connectors and two more lengths of coax right here, give me 30 minutes and I can move it safely for you. Also, your troops did it poorly, give me two helpers and I will show them how to do it right.

If after you offered to fix it for them and were ordered not to touch that antenna, I get that.

I get you filed a report, but you passed a fault.

I was taught safety first no matter what.

>First time working under a Sgt
>He's got Jean Chretien face (Half of it is droopy)
>Set up antenna
>He asks me directly when I am done
>"Did you properly ground the antenna?"
>"Yes Sgt."
>Proceeds to go and visually inspect the ground himself
>Comes back in
>"Good. You want to know how I got this face? I trusted who said he grounded the antenna. He didn't. Lightning struck it, and I happened to be on a field phone attached to the truck at the time. Lightning went straight through the phone and down the right side of my body. Doctors say the only reason I lived was the metal chair grounding the my one side, otherwise it would have went across me. I was half paralyzed for a year, and this was five years ago. Face never unparalyzed."
>"I checked to see if I could trust you. You pass."

Be me, apprentice building powerlines
Foremanisahugedrunkdrinksatleastahalfgallonaday.jpg
Doing a reconduct, basically installing new poles and wires but having to keep the old wire energized to keep.everyones power on
Pulling in a mile of wire near hot conductors
Tell foreman he needs to insulate the hot conductor
In his drunken stupor he thinks itll work the way it is, he engages the one shot device
One shot device means that the line will get energized once and them drop all power cause they assume either equipment had exploded or a nigga died
Running the tensioner, wearing my hot gloves and standing on a rubber mat away from the equipment
Tensioner.is in a swamp with a ground rod attavhed
New wire hits it, drunk foreman didnt engage the right one shot
Not even 500 feet from the sub, watch a lightning bolt go from the tensioner to the swamp with me a few feet away with my.buddy john, literally watch it flash 4 times
Heart nearly.stops, we.both think we are dead.from this and huddle.on our rubber pad

Foreman never got.in trouble as it was.apparently.our fault
Go home and kiss my wife and explain to her i almost died because of a drunk

>>1789748
What is brine

>>1784672
On a job site?

>>1796016
Change jobs. It's not worth your ass.

>>1796038
What is Google?

>>1796069
It's the shit the should have been circulating you fucking worm

>>1796016
You’re not supposed to put periods in the middle of sentences.

>>1794665
This is a really, REALLY good post.

>>1794943
you already know you're a potentially murderous piece of shit but I'm going to say it again anyway

>>1796072
Thanks for this response. I was feeling it but didn't have the words exactly.

>>1792847
Indeed. We always pranked the A-Ticket (roundsman) trainees when they did the drill on their own for the first time by turning off the lights to the switchboard room. Good times
Another story from the MCDVs, although its something I heard rather than something I saw. One guy is put in charge of cleaning (with acid) and preserving (with base) the ROD units. Guy wanted to cut corners (you must flush with fresh water in between) and probably failed basic high school chemistry (you can see where this is going). He mixed both chemicals in the mixing tank and it ended up producing a nasty smoke that corroded any exposed metal.