off topic but when I was 14 working on a construction site I was told to go fetch a crooked 2x4. The carpenters started yelling at me to move my ass cuz they needed it. I spent 30 minutes walking around asking for it and got sent all over the job site.....
"off topic but when I was 14 working on a construction site I was told to go fetch a crooked 2x4. The carpenters started yelling at me to move my ass cuz they needed it. I spent 30 minutes walking around asking for it and got sent all over the job site....."
That's a classic initiation gag for a rooky on a construction site.
They do it to every newbie.
Sounds similar to a persuit down the runway looking for flight line or prop wash.
We'd always send the new guys down to the maintenance bay to get a bottle of squelch oil.
"go fetch a skyhook"...great way to keep newbies occupied.
Me? I'm always looking for an adjustable metric crescent wrench.
That's as bad as the forman that I fired for sending an apprentice up and down a high rise to look for and bring him the stud stetcher.
Never having taken shop (Catholic schools), I was smart enough to use a small c-clamp to hold the wood, and keep
my fingers out of the way.
The blade grabbed the wood, wedging it against the table, and proceeded to propel the saw up the wood, finally
hitting the clamp, and stopping dead. I turned it off, removed the piece, and turned it back on to see if I did
any damage.
The saw started shaking. I turned it off, and removed dust cover, noting that the elbow was missing.
Any way, the c-clamp took out a dozen or so teeth, remarkably throwing some out the dust exhaust, knocking
off the elbow.
I thought something went whizzing by my head...
So, while I didn't know enough to tighten the saw, I knew enough to fashion a jig.
(It was also an excuse to buy a few other toys.)
Have you ever hunted snipe?
I'm still trying to figure out what a skyhook is - from my first overnight scouting trip fifty years ago......
I carried the romex cable and drilled the studs. My boss sent me out to his truck to fetch a cable stretcher since it appeared that the cable wouldn't reach the junction box! I spent an hour rummaging in his truck looking for that darn cable stretcher!!!
working in a restaurant, we send newbies for powdered mayonaise or dough repair kits.
one of them unfortunatey went too far once. after not finding it in the basement, he assumed we were out and proceded to the store to buy some. he managed to confuse every employee at two stores before the third store called us asking wtf he was talking about.
You should have looked over by the metric hammer...
"off topic but when I was 14 working on a construction site I was told to go fetch a crooked 2x4."
That's ok. As a young aircraft mechanic in the Navy they would send you for a gallon of "bulkhead remover" (wall remover for you non-nautical types) or a gallon of "propwash".
Another couple:
"Go get a bucket of steam to clean the Gradall!"
"Go get a board stretcher!"