General Funny or frustrating work situations

[Hardyman's Yugo]

Miket12 you must have a similar job to me.

Twenty odd years ago the property company I worked for were redeveloping an old hotel building. We wanted to open some of the floors up to a more open plan arrangement suitable for offices. Our structural engineers came up with some floor strengthening works (steel ties from floor joists to walls and steel ‘herringbone’ straps between the joists. All this has to be done before the demolition started and I had this written into the job specification, the pre start health and safety plan and in the pre start meetings and correspondence. Basically everything short of tattooing it on the contractors forehead.

Job started on the Monday, I visited site on the Tuesday (it was nearl100 miles away) to find the contractor well on with the demolition already. I remember thinking , these lot aren’t hanging around. I asked the temporary site agent about the floor strapping and got a puzzled look ( the planned site agent was on leave for a week). I quizzed again to find he hadn’t a clue what I was saying.

I panicked with thoughts of evacuating the building. This was before mobile phones really got going so I legged it to our management office and rang the structural engineer expecting panic from him as well. Fortunately for the site agent the engineer laughed and said ‘the 50 year excessive wind load’ isn’t blowing today, get them to fit the straps in the next few days and we will be fine.

Panic to elation in the space of a couple of minutes.

Building is still there btw, I looked on google maps this morning

 

[snake77]

I've never worked in a unionised workplace. Growing up in a town with two big corporations I have heard a few union stories or seen a few strikes. My father once had to go to court as witness to explain the strike. I'd tease him that under cross examination he'd have to admit he wasn't holding a picket but off fishing.

That is nothing to wait I heard yesterday. Working offsite my customer mentioned his father worked in my home town and would travel over with a group of guys everyday. He then mentioned his father telling him that the union once had them on strike as they didn't like that they changed the orange juice.

 

[wizards rage]

That is nothing to wait I heard yesterday. Working offsite my customer mentioned his father worked in my home town and would travel over with a group of guys everyday. He then mentioned his father telling him that the union once had them on strike as they didn't like they changed the orange juice.

Was that right before he asked you to go down the road and purchase a long wait... and bring a glass hammer back as well...

 

[snake77]

Was that right before he asked you to go down the road and purchase a long wait... and bring a glass hammer back as well...

I got sent to the storeroom for a longweight while on work experience. Luckily the guy took pity on me and let me in on whats going on. The guys I was working with were probably thinking damn now we need to find something else for this kid to do.

 

[gREVUS]

I got sent to the storeroom for a longweight while on work experience. Luckily the guy took pity on me and let me in on whats going on. The guys I was working with were probably thinking damn now we need to find something else for this kid to do.

lefthanded screwdriver

 

[snake77]

lefthanded screwdriver

Hey I'm left handed and do you know how hard it is to find left handed screwdrivers? The left handed spanners were hard enough.

 

[gREVUS]

skirting board ladders, spirit level bubbles or tartan paint then, all available at every hardware store ever

 

[Miket12]

skirting board ladders, spirit level bubbles or tartan paint then, all available at every hardware store ever

A tin full of sparks

 

[gREVUS]

A tin full of sparks

yeah never saw anyone fall for that.

 

[Hardyman's Yugo]

 

[snake77]

I felt like I was in that skit at the start of the year. During the Christmas period I went to the local pizza store in my home town. My wife asked to get the 3 cheese pizza which is a new one they had on the board.

We paid and I'm thinking how did he get that price?

Got our order and we got three cheese pizzas. Had to point out I wanted the 3 cheese pizza.

That store seems like a magent for comedy. Last time I was home I followed my father and sister back into town. I walked to the supermarket to get some juice. Got back and they were gone. I drive home and see my sister tidying up, strange I don't see the pizzas. "Where is dad?" she responds "He must be still down at the pizza store". Had to drive down again and try and calm him down a bit. He said he was yelling but I took of so fast. Hey I didn't want cold pizza.