rez,
Don;t recognize your screen name but….. you have already violated the rules of the forum,’Jon
rez,
Don;t recognize your screen name but….. you have already violated the rules of the forum,’Jon
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There ya go my man, just to make you feel better. :o)
you mean you guys actually get paid for this stuff???
"There ya go my man, just to make you feel better. :o)"
Rez,
????????????? OK you deleted your multiple identical posts.
Hey, we are all friends here right? Geez. Well, maybe not yet.
Jon
Ha, I was referencing Boss's comment in 'Going WAY above and beyond the call' is all.
What he mentioned about never having both sides of a problem represented here at the same time before.
Then being tired I looked back at the threads and said nah and deleted is all. No biggy, just gettin' lates all.
Don't know about the multiple identical posts tho'.
Roar
Hey Rez waddya delete???
How come I miss all the good stuff???
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
It was a blank page. I was hoping something might come up along the lines of what Boss was speaking of in his post mentioned earlier as I started another titled at the same time titled moron homeowners.
It was getting late and I was tired.
Edited 2/16/2004 9:03:41 AM ET by rez'b&g
Hey rez'b&g,
you mean you guys actually get paid for this stuff???
Had some duffus's ask us just about the same thing down in Dallas.
We were putting up a 150' x 25' partition wall in a warehouse/office complex. The lease we were working on was going to be leased out so they needed a wall to separate the space.
The company on the opposite side of the new lease ran a publishing business. One lunch break a few of the office type people came over and asked us to help them. It seems they had hit a wall at the bottom track with fork lift. It had shoved the bottom of the wall in about 3" to 4" over a span of a couple of feet. They said they needed it fixed before the new lease went in and didn't want the land lord to know they had damaged the premises.
We told them NO PROBLEMO-- we could fix it for them and all it would cost them was a cold case of beer at the end of the day. They said GREAT go ahead and fix it and we'll have the cold beer waiting.
We were standing right next to the damaged wall and had our tools, hell it was our lunch break so we could do what we wanted. Twenty seconds to cut a hole in the wall, twenty seconds beating the wall back with a 2 x4, then twenty seconds to shoot down the track, twenty seconds to screw the drywall back on--DONE!!
The office duffuses heard us working and came back and watched us fix it. We finished up and said make that Miller!
A$$wipes told us " NOOOO-- you expect us to actually PAY you for that-- it only took you just over a MINUTE to do that!! They then promptly turned around and walked out without another word.
Talk about PO'ed construction workers!! These pencil necks thought they were actually going to beat us out of our BEER MONEY !! The GALL !!
We called office and explained the situation and asked if we could discreetly rat these folks out to the landlord-- didn't want to cause problems with the customer but by GOD-- not paying a man for his work stinks.
The owners of our company who needless to say have been screwed on more than one occasion, said go ahead and make a BIG STINK!!
Just then the owner of the complex walks up asks "How you doing-- gonna finish on time"? We said "yeah, but the folks next door just screwed us." Told him what happened. Showed him the wall. A black cloud momentarily crossed his face. Then he says "NOOOO PROBLEMO-- I'll take care of it."
He goes next door, we go back to work. Five minutes later he honks the horn on his car and gives us a thumbs up sign and then drives off.
At the end of the day the office duffuses come over with not one, but THREE cases of ice cold Miller!! They must have gotten one hell of a scolding from the BIG DOGS.
Needless to say it put a BIG smile on all of our faces.
Cork in Chicago
Edited 2/15/2004 11:01:12 PM ET by cork
Cork, you are freakin' hilarious, absolutely the kind of guy it's a blast to work with... too bad Chicago's so far. I'm still laughing about the molten metal in your plumber's cleavage.
Good to know there are still pockets of justice in the world:o)
Your story reminds me of something that happened to me.
We came in to work one morning to find a desk in the middle of the floor. There was a funny looking horizontal slot in the wall where it had been sitting. And another similar looking hole in the back of the metal desk.
Turns out the guys on night shift were having forklift races. One of the guys lost control of their forklift and ran into the office wall. One of the forks came through the wall and hit the desk.
Since the office was locked at night there was no way for them to get in and cover up their tracks.If at first you don't succeed, aim lower.