Welding Tips and Tricks

Laughed so hard brought the wife over and she watched it too, she was on the floor. :p

Funny stuff!

There's quite a few opportunities for women in construction trades if they really want them. A guy I work withs sister-in-law is a carpenter for a bridge construction company. She puts together the forms for pouring concrete and assembles the re-bar structures. Not easy work. She got into it from a program sponsored by the state of Michigan and the carpenters union to get more women into construction jobs. It was an 8 week class and if you passed it you were GUARANTEED a job at a union job site. You also got a basic tool kit.... hammer,tape,square, tool pouch, etc. Sounds like a pretty good deal right?

Of the 28 women that she started the classes with, she was the only one to finish. The rest all dropped out before the classes even ended.

That's funny stuff, there.

Although, since I'm about to celebrate my 20th wedding anniversary, I have to say I wouldn't put my dog in that fight. A woman can stay mad for three days about some crap you forgot about fifteen minutes after you said it.

I ended this discussion with my wife with one photograph. I was standing in the open on an 8" beam at 132', and snapped a picture with my cell phone straight down of a 100T Terex with a man-basket about 60' below me. I sent her the picture message, and was told IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS to never do that again; She didn't want to know that much about my job.

Steve

Happy anniversary, Otto!

I built a big and heavy screen frame for a tv commercial one time and they sent a couple of stagehands, a guy and a girl, to pick it up and carry it to the shot. The frame was a few hundred pounds and the girl stagehand was about 5'8" 140#s but she wasn't having any problems carrying it. A guy working with me( a pretty big guy 6'2" 240 easy) went up to her, grabbed it out of her hands and said," You better let me carry that"

Big mistake.

She read him the riot act..."If you EVER take anything out of my hands ever again, I'll beat the F*^# out of you!"

I believe she would have.

Thanks. August third is our twentieth.

I'm trying to get her on a plane so we can spend it together.

I understand how that gal felt. I am currently working with the mother of all "prima donna" welders. We're on the same footing, for the same pay, but I want to strangle him with his own socks several times a day. This prick bragged today about how HUMBLE he is. (That is NOT a joke.)

I'm making it clear to the boss. One of us is leaving this job.

Steve

If it was me I'd just put my hood down and weld, thatll shut him up. Aint worth loosin your J.O.B. over, cause Ill bet that dude's a way better suck ass than you are.

The boss hates him almost as much as I do, and has repeatedly apologized for hiring him and putting him with me.

The prick doesn't own a car, and I'm his ride to work and anywhere else (laundramat, grocerey, etc.)

I told the boss to expect a bill for adult day care. He said he'd see what he could do to help me financially for babysitting the guy.

I'm doing everything I can think of to get this guy his ROMF. (ROF= reduction of force. ROMF=run off motherfucker.)

I mean it, too. If I can't lose this guy, I'll drag up, and he can WALK 15 miles to work.

Steve

LMAO, ekfinn,

I don't know how I missed your earlier post about the Cessna. It gave me a big smile. She wouldn't come within ten miles of the airport when I was taking instruction in a 150. That's been a lot of years ago, though, as I was paying $55 for plane, fuel, and instructor.

I appreciate your generous and highly impractical offer. It's a 2200 (statute) mile round trip, IF you were based in Slidell, LA. Makes the $100 hamburger look like a bargain.

We had a minor crisis come up at home, so I wasn't able to fly her up on our anniversary. I suggested saving up enough to fly up, get two nights at the Hershey Hotel, and spend whatever we felt like at Hershey park. She agreed, and we'll be able to do that about the last week in August.

As the dear friends who's property we share have (by complete coincidence) the same anniversary (this is their 23rd), we shared part of dinner over speaker phone. That might sound lame on the surface, but it was actually very pleasant. Sure, they had home made stuffed flounder while I ate a frozen dinner but it was really a fun way to make the best of a badly timed situation.