"the apprentice" broke a tool today sorry boss

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It was a tap tool. It wasnt a pleasent couple of minutes. But i just smiled and said "are done whining" you have a 3 floor house, 2 cars and 3 boats your obviously doing very well to be whining over a hand tool....It woulda been nice to say all that but i didnt.
 
well at least it was only a tap tool and not a hydraulic punch or a core drill or something expensive. Dont let toys fool you. Just cause he has all that stuff doensnt mean that he accually owns it all. In the past year Ive had friends help me on jobs and one guy ruined a greenlee snake another lost a 4 foot ladder, not to mention the hand tools that went missing. When I would bust their chops about it they basically gave me the same reaction you gave your boss, "ahh you got your own company what are you worried about":( Oh and I forgot to mention the 18v millwaukee battery that was dropped.
 
tonyou812 said:
well at least it was only a tap tool and not a hydraulic punch or a core drill or something expensive...
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Or a scissors lift, or the bucket truck....

Or worse yet, the HOs Mercedes.....
 
Or knocking over someones 27 inch flat screen off a kitchen shelf. (I did it a few months ago) And they were not happy. But they smiled when I got them a new one with a built in dvd played.
 
tonyou812 said:
Or knocking over someones 27 inch flat screen off a kitchen shelf. (I did it a few months ago) And they were not happy. But they smiled when I got them a new one with a built in dvd played.
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How the heck did you do that?
 
tonyou812 said:
Or knocking over someones 27 inch flat screen off a kitchen shelf. (I did it a few months ago) And they were not happy.
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What did I tell you about drinking on the job? :grin:
 
I dont have a problem if a tool breaks under normal use, it happens.... but what I have had experience with it people improperly using tools that break them, that is pretty annoying. and alot of guys have the attitude that "hey things break, its part of the job..." most of the time that is just an excuse because they are careless clods.... another reason he may have been irritated may be the loss of production costing the company money more than the cost of a small tool...
 
tonyou812 said:
....., "ahh you got your own company what are you worried about"........
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I heard someone say once that no man has as much money as everyone else thinks they do.

This is especially true if you are a business owner. Everyone thinks you must be "rich".

Years ago I worked for a mid-size EC. They did about $12-$15 million per year all commercial and industrial. One payday the owner was handing out the checks and a coworker jokingly asked the boss if he wanted to trade.

The boss said sure. I'll do it in a heartbeat and held out his envelope. The joker didn't have the guts or didn't think the boss was serious or something but didn't make the exchange. I always wondered...............
 
a few months ago my buddy helped me on a small house rough, mainly cutting in. Well at the end of the day I see him picking up all the scrap and about to put it in his pick up, and I said were you going with that Dan? he looked at me with a puzzled look and said why do you need it? well considering that i paid for it sure why not......amazing what people think just cause I have my own truck.
 
bbaumer said:
I heard someone say once that no man has as much money as everyone else thinks they do.

This is especially true if you are a business owner. Everyone thinks you must be "rich".

Years ago I worked for a mid-size EC. They did about $12-$15 million per year all commercial and industrial. One payday the owner was handing out the checks and a coworker jokingly asked the boss if he wanted to trade.

The boss said sure. I'll do it in a heartbeat and held out his envelope. The joker didn't have the guts or didn't think the boss was serious or something but didn't make the exchange. I always wondered...............
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hey bbaumer i take it your a hunter.. check out safety and look up old potatoes I posted some pics with elk about 10 feet from me, I bet you would have loved to be that close
 
I have tools that are 20 years old and still look reasonably new.
Without tools I cannot make a living.So I take great care of them.
Sure your gonna break a tap every now and then.But,It really amazes
me when a apprentice cross threads the stud bolt or ruins the seal on
a hydralic punch.I've looked grown men in the eyes and asked this
simple question,"How do you LOOSE a six foot ladder?" "Did it make a
break for it when you were'nt looking?":grin:
 
tonyou812 said:
a few months ago my buddy helped me on a small house rough, mainly cutting in. Well at the end of the day I see him picking up all the scrap and about to put it in his pick up, and I said were you going with that Dan? he looked at me with a puzzled look and said why do you need it? well considering that i paid for it sure why not......amazing what people think just cause I have my own truck.
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I had an employee (for a short time) whom I found out would intentionally pull more wire than needed, and then cut off the excess and say "This goes in the (name of his daughter) fund." :mad:
 
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