What would you have done?

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Troll

Troll??? I've been posting here for 4 years and I'm now a troll. Jeez! some people.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Who cares, it was 32 years ago. Too early in the day to be this wasted.

I care. I'm just curious what other people would have done, or at least what they might have done.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Who cares, it was 32 years ago. Too early in the day to be this wasted.

It's never too early to be wasted.

 

[Captante]

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

My guess is he would have enjoyed this!

 

[Dirigible]

Originally posted by: clamum

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Who cares, it was 32 years ago. Too early in the day to be this wasted.

It's never too early to be wasted.

It's always beer o'clock somewhere.

 

[Saint Michael]

32 years later and you still haven't gotten over it?

 

[BoomerD]

I'm curious why, after 32 years, this bothers you now. Do you feel like you should have done something for retribution?

How long did you work there? You've already said that you and he became good friends, was it a long-lasting work relationship too?
Did you use a company purchase order to buy a replacement set and put the ones he dropped into "shop tools?"
Were the two of you gay lovers and he was just wanting to get you to bend over the desk?

 

[TipsyMcStagger]

Originally posted by: 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.....

Cue the porn music?

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael
32 years later and you still haven't gotten over it?

It doesn't bother me. I just thought it might be an interseting topic since it was so bizarre.

 

[Squisher]

Dial calipers are probably the least precise tool in your toolbox outside of a scale. I'd say no harm, no foul.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
I'm curious why, after 32 years, this bothers you now. Do you feel like you should have done something for retribution?

How long did you work there? You've already said that you and he became good friends, was it a long-lasting work relationship too?
Did you use a company purchase order to buy a replacement set and put the ones he dropped into "shop tools?"
Were the two of you gay lovers and he was just wanting to get you to bend over the desk?

It doesn't bother me. No.
3 days when this occurred. I worked there for about 1 year after.
No. They wer'nt damaged.
We wer'nt any kind of "lovers" since i had only been there 3 days.

I made this post because i thought this was a pretty bizarre thing for some guy, who you barely know, and in fact has just hired you to do.
Don't you agree that it was pretty bizarre waht he did?

 

[BoomerD]

Yes I agree that it was indeed an unusual thing to do. Why would he drop a piece of precision measuring equipment when it COULD have damaged them?
Did you ever ask HIM why he did it?

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: Squisher
Dial calipers are probably the least precise tool in your toolbox outside of a scale. I'd say no harm, no foul.

Well that is beside the point. You,re saying if a guy you have known all of 3 days comes up to you with one of your dial calipers in his hand and looks you straight the face and drops them right in front of you on the floor in wouldn't bother you at all. You would realize as quickly as i did that this was a fake callout. Good for you then.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Yes I agree that it was indeed an unusual thing to do. Why would he drop a piece of precision measuring equipment when it COULD have damaged them?
Did you ever ask HIM why he did it?

I don't remember if we talked about it but I, m sure we did. and had a good laugh. Like i say we became good friends and he is a really cool guy. I think he sized me up and decided he could get away with it. I mentioned in an earlier post how i was pretty easy going at the time, but not a pushover.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Yes I agree that it was indeed an unusual thing to do. Why would he drop a piece of precision measuring equipment when it COULD have damaged them?
Did you ever ask HIM why he did it?

I mean when he first did it my jaw must have hit the floor. But i quickly realized he was messing with me.But he didn't give anything away by smiling or anything. Until i did. His face was burly looking, you know. The kinda face you ordinarily wouldn't want to have a problem with.

 

[shocksyde]

This is the worst thread I've ever read.

However, it's turning into the best thread I've ever read.

Continue.

 

[venkman]

he was trying to get you to bend over.

Think about it, 2 dudes all alone in a metal shop, one bent over picking calipers off the floor.

That sounds like a gay prono to me.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Is this your way of coming out of the closet?

 

[Instan00dles]

I would be pissed, back then I am sure that B&S dial calipers were really expensive. Even today a good one will cost over 100 dollars.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: venkman
he was trying to get you to bend over.

Think about it, 2 dudes all alone in a metal shop, one bent over picking calipers off the floor.

That sounds like a gay prono to me.

LOL.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: Instan00dles
I would be pissed, back then I am sure that B&S dial calipers were really expensive. Even today a good one will cost over 100 dollars.

I think i paid 60.00 for them.
I think most people would have been pissed, and I have no doubt some would have reacted violently.

 

[CorCentral]

If he keeps messing with you, get some Dykem Blue and spread it all over the underneath of a lathe handle or other machine handle. Tell him not to fuck with Papa Smurf! :laugh:

Of course, you'd have to do this pretty quickly right before he uses the equipment, because it dries within' a few minutes or so.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: CorCentral
If he keeps messing with you, get some Dykem Blue and spread it all over the underneath of a lathe handle or other machine handle. Tell him not to fuck with Papa Smurf! :laugh:

Of course, you'd have to do this pretty quickly right before he uses the equipment, because it dries within' a few minutes or so.

This was 32 years ago guy and I havn't seen Ed nor worked in a machine shop in 30.

 

[CorCentral]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: CorCentral
If he keeps messing with you, get some Dykem Blue and spread it all over the underneath of a lathe handle or other machine handle. Tell him not to fuck with Papa Smurf! :laugh:

Of course, you'd have to do this pretty quickly right before he uses the equipment, because it dries within' a few minutes or so.

This was 32 years ago guy and I havn't seen Ed nor worked in a machine shop in 30.

Did I misread the thread or what?
Still a good trick though.

 

[SearchMaster]

What would I have done?

I would have put my entire paycheck into Pfizer stock and waited for Viagra to make me millions.

But your choice was fine for you at the time I guess.