what grinds your gears?

[Anthony S]

A couple of work related ones:
When you're up a ladder in a precarious position, the person footing the ladder gets bored and starts banging on the ladder.

When people borrow your tools and lose them, or break them, or give them back dirty or otherwise not in the condition they were lent in.

New chargers. That's another one. When you've just forked out a fortune for a new drill, you leave the charger lead neatly coiled up as it was when it left the factory because you're only going to be charging it next to a socket anyway, someone borrows it and the first thing they do, first thing, is they uncoil the lead and lose the tie. Why do that? It's totally unnecessary because they're charging it next to the socket, and if I'd wanted it uncoiled, then I would have uncoiled it.

People who are so precious about their own knackered old tools they won't even bring them in to work, then they expect to be able to borrow mine. No you can't borrow my tools. I need them. That's why I bring them to work.

I need a drink now.
:54:

I don't let people ponce my tools anymore, I won't have it and tell them to do what I do and that's put your hand in your pocket and buy some.

They have money for smokes, money to pour booze down their necks. While I put my living 2nd behind my wife and kids and make sure my van is maintained and on the road and my tool kit is maintained and ready for work.

I f**ked the plasterer off the other day drying to ponce my bosch sds multi to clean up a wall. Makes my blood boil people who ponce.

 

[Geordie Spark]

oooh. promises, promises.

You won't know much about the experience of that cos she'll anaesthetise you first - with just one punch!

 

[Geordie Spark]

I don't let people ponce my tools anymore, I won't have it and tell them to do what I do and that's put your hand in your pocket and buy some.

They have money for smokes, money to pour booze down their necks. While I put my living 2nd behind my wife and kids and make sure my van is maintained and on the road and my tool kit is maintained and ready for work.

I f**ked the plasterer off the other day drying to ponce my bosch sds multi to clean up a wall. Makes my blood boil people who ponce.

It's one of my pet hates too.

In my Rock 'n' Roll band playing days, we had a lead guitarist who would show up with his Strat minus Lead, Strap, Spare stings and Pick and expect us to bale him out with our spares!!

It's amazing how much bad feeling can be born out of what to him were "minor things".

 

[VoltzElectrical]

We usually have a cat 1 of the year award from all the lads on holiday take a pic of best Car 1 and we decide at end.
The Thailand ones generally unbeatable

Posts like this that appear to be written in English, but....

...are completely incomprehensible.

 

[VoltzElectrical]

When the people in front of you in the que do not have the money ready.

When the same people insist on putting every coin in its place before vacating the till area.

People that leave their car at the pump and decide to do a monthly shop.

Not saying thanks when stopping to let someone cross at a zebra crossing.

When you get to site at 16:00 on a Friday, open the last light fitting to be replaced and you find the lamp is smashed.

Arrogant drivers who don't stop at zebra crossings for evidently waiting pedestrians. It's not driver's discretion if they feel 'in the mood to let a pedestrian cross', it's the flukin LAW. Why should I say thanks for utilising a system designed to aid safe movement.

HOWEVER, don't get me started on the arrogant drivers that refuse to acknowledge my courtesy in pulling in/ giving way. What's it take to raise a hand. Even a finger. I'd settle for just a finger!

Now I'm breathing like Harry Enfield in the Righteous sketch! Breathe, breathe,

Now Im off to be wound up even more by the rest of this thread.

 

[shanky887614]

neo ----'s

 

[Jonspark]

Huddersfield Town fans who winge when leeds beat em (again)

 

[Geordie Spark]

Arrogant drivers who don't stop at zebra crossings for evidently waiting pedestrians. It's not driver's discretion if they feel 'in the mood to let a pedestrian cross', it's the flukin LAW. Why should I say thanks for utilising a system designed to aid safe movement.

HOWEVER, don't get me started on the arrogant drivers that refuse to acknowledge my courtesy in pulling in/ giving way. What's it take to raise a hand. Even a finger. I'd settle for just a finger!

Now I'm breathing like Harry Enfield in the Righteous sketch! Breathe, breathe,

Now Im off to be wound up even more by the rest of this thread.

CHILL Bro. ........................:chillpill:



.......Life's too short to stress about...... :sifone:



... Nod, smile then .................




............ Kick the ****ers right in the balls!!!

 

[VoltzElectrical]

FWIW I spend three months in Turkey for work. Commissioning drives in a zinc mill.
It was not an experience I would wish to repeat or an experience I would wish on anyone.
It was about 40 years ago and even then...........
OK. I could be loquacious, verbose, garrulous even about the trials and tribulations but just one example might give a flavour.

Come back to your hotel room after a day at work. Take a shower. A perfectly reasonable and normal thing to one might think. So, get all soaped up - then the bl00dy water supply fails.
What do you do? Give up and try to wipe it all off or shiver for a while in the hope that the service might be restored. It wasn't an uncommon occurrence - you just got used to making it quick.

But Mrs B an I have been back to Turkey on holiday. Different part. It was probably the best holiday abroad we had - maybe excluding our recent trip to the US.

I mean, how often do you get to sleep with your wife and her best friend in the same bed.........

Dude, if it was that long ago and a one off experience, then I think you mean spent​.

 

[VoltzElectrical]

A couple of work related ones:
When you're up a ladder in a precarious position, the person footing the ladder gets bored and starts banging on the ladder.

When people borrow your tools and lose them, or break them, or give them back dirty or otherwise not in the condition they were lent in.

New chargers. That's another one. When you've just forked out a fortune for a new drill, you leave the charger lead neatly coiled up as it was when it left the factory because you're only going to be charging it next to a socket anyway, someone borrows it and the first thing they do, first thing, is they uncoil the lead and lose the tie. Why do that? It's totally unnecessary because they're charging it next to the socket, and if I'd wanted it uncoiled, then I would have uncoiled it.

People who are so precious about their own knackered old tools they won't even bring them in to work, then they expect to be able to borrow mine. No you can't borrow my tools. I need them. That's why I bring them to work.

I need a drink now.
:54:

OMG are we the same person! You've just described my life!

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Agencies that supply electricians and mates that don't have electrical knowledge, let alone an electrical qualification.
So called electrician with 30 years experience puts up one light fitting in the time it takes me to put up three.

 

[Anthony S]

So called electrician with 30 years experience puts up one light fitting in the time it takes me to put up three.

Was he on day work lol

 

[Geordie Spark]

Agencies that supply electricians and mates that don't have electrical knowledge, let alone an electrical qualification.
So called electrician with 30 years experience puts up one light fitting in the time it takes me to put up three.

As you get older you do tend to slow down a bit.

Nowadays, it takes me all night to do what I used to do all night.

Trust me on this!!

 

[VoltzElectrical]

Agencies that supply electricians and mates that don't have electrical knowledge, let alone an electrical qualification.
So called electrician with 30 years experience puts up one light fitting in the time it takes me to put up three.

Been there! We had one completely useless guy who used terms like 'two-throw switch' and referred to 3-core and earth cable as 'four-core'. I wouldn't have minded, each to their own, but OMG was he useless.

 

[Anthony S]

As you get older you do tend to slow down a bit.

Nowadays, it takes me all night to do what I used to do all night.

Trust me on this!!

You wise up