What would you have done?

[ManyBeers]

.......23 years old and have just got a job at a 2 person model shop at a place called RSI technologies. They made x-ray machines for Pfizer. Anyways, the other guy who works in the shop and is the foreman who hired me is Ed and he is about 38 6' burly looking with a bushy black goatee. About 3 days in I am at my work desk and Ed comes up next to me picks up my Brown&Sharpe dial calipers and says "Are these yours" to which i say "Yes" and he promptly drops them on the floor, deliberately i might add. As he does this he isn't smiling and i kinda go WTF and somehow realize he is just fucking with me. I just smile and picked up my calipers and we became pretty good friemds.

Now there is a 1" thick mat at every machine tool and desk in most machine shops like you would see in many Barber shops which would soften the blow of dropped objects and also is easy on ones feet. So he probably figured they wouldn't get damaged. Still.....

 

[Gothgar]

confuse me this post does.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Take calipers and stick them up his ass. Deliberately, without smiling.

 

[Feneant2]

Testing you maybe? Or coming on to you?

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: Gothgar
confuse me this post does.

What are you confused about?

 

[olds]

I'd put the crack pipe down.

 

[clamum]

I'd set myself the fuck on fire.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
Take calipers and stick them up his ass. Deliberately, without smiling.

Yes. I am a pretty easy going guy...at least i was back then. It was weird to say the least. It's been so long i don't remember if we talked about it afterwards much and he told me why he did it. But we became pretty good friends. I even did some work for him at his garage shop he had at his home and had dinner there.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I'd put the crack pipe down.

What are you talking about?

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
Take calipers and stick them up his ass. Deliberately, without smiling.

Yes. I am a pretty easy going guy...at least i was back then. It was weird to say the least. It's been so long i don't remember if we talked about it afterwards much and he told me why he did it. But we became pretty good friends. I even did some work for him at his garage shop he had at his home and had dinner there.

So you did stick them up his ass? Good work!

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I'd put the crack pipe down.

What are you talking about?

You write like you are fucked up on crack or 3 years old. Which is it?

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: clamum
I'd set myself the fuck on fire.

Why?

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: clamum
I'd set myself the fuck on fire.

Why?

Fire kicks ass.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I'd put the crack pipe down.

What are you talking about?

You write like you are fucked up on crack or 3 years old. Which is it?

Again, what are you talking about?

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Good story.

 

[D1gger]

This story sounds like the OP living up to his screen-name.

 

[wwswimming]

i used to manage a lab machine shop for a microwave instruments
company. which doesn't mean much, i was just the guy with the
name brand engineering degree and the machine shop person
reported to me.

i remember designing some stuff in high nickel content steel,
Allegheny Ludlum <some #>. we needed a high modulate able
magnetic field for some YiG oscillators. one thing led to another, so
i'm asking the guy to tap 0-80 holes in this super gummy steel. it
always impressed me that he did it without breaking a single tap.

anyway i've worked in and around shops a fair amount. i've seen
people f' with each other at work, but more politics.

the best way to deal with something like that is to out-machine them.
or one way at least.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

What would Tyler Durden Do?
And wth does 1976 have to do with anything?

And San Jose?

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: wwswimming

i used to manage a lab machine shop for a microwave instruments
company. which doesn't mean much, i was just the guy with the
name brand engineering degree and the machine shop person
reported to me.

i remember designing some stuff in high nickel content steel,
Allegheny Ludlum <some #>. we needed a high modulate able
magnetic field for some YiG oscillators. one thing led to another, so
i'm asking the guy to tap 0-80 holes in this super gummy steel. it
always impressed me that he did it without breaking a single tap.

anyway i've worked in and around shops a fair amount. i've seen
people f' with each other at work, but more politics.

the best way to deal with something like that is to out-machine them.
or one way at least.

How'd you hose the formatting up, copy and paste?

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: Feneant2
Testing you maybe? Or coming on to you?

But why? Testing for what? Have you ever had an almost complete stranger who hired you 3 days ago test you like that?

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: D1gger
This story sounds like the OP living up to his screen-name.

What does my screenname have to do with my post?

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
What would Tyler Durden Do?
And wth does 1976 have to do with anything?

And San Jose?

Nothing really. Just the time and the place that's all.

 

[olds]

Troll

 

[Capt Caveman]

Who cares, it was 32 years ago. Too early in the day to be this wasted.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: wwswimming

i used to manage a lab machine shop for a microwave instruments
company. which doesn't mean much, i was just the guy with the
name brand engineering degree and the machine shop person
reported to me.

i remember designing some stuff in high nickel content steel,
Allegheny Ludlum <some #>. we needed a high modulate able
magnetic field for some YiG oscillators. one thing led to another, so
i'm asking the guy to tap 0-80 holes in this super gummy steel. it
always impressed me that he did it without breaking a single tap.

anyway i've worked in and around shops a fair amount. i've seen
people f' with each other at work, but more politics.

the best way to deal with something like that is to out-machine them.
or one way at least.

I was a good machinist, but this had nothing to do with my machining abilities as i had only been there 3 days and we hardly knew each other.