The Steel Will Not Work

If you haven't seen this cartoon, its worth the 4 minutes and 40 seconds.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/12060359/conversation-with-an-ironworker

 

[MikeHalloran]

BT,DT. Tnx.


Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[Ron]

I think I've had that conversation....more than once.

 

[msquared48]

What I hate more is when the modification is done, and you are the last to find out, after the fact.

That is when the fat lady sings. And man does she sing!

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

[bridgebuster]

Been there too.

One thing though - I've never met an ironworker who ever said steel unlease it had an a in it.

 

[fegenbush]

bridgebuster, I see what you did there.

My favorite gross misspellings are on job applications. At the last shop at which I worked, there was a welder who couldn't read. He knew it, I knew it, everyone else knew it, but it was never mentioned. He may not have been able to read, but he was an amazing welder. I think a good foreman is able to use the resources at his disposal to make chicken soup out of chicken <insert base vernacular for feces>.

/I can absolutely kill a metaphor.

 

[ToadJones]

My favorite one was getting a call that my erection drawings had some "mistakes" only to go out in the field and find out the iron workers had shortened some braces "to make them work".

 

[EricaB]

I needed a good laugh.. painful but true!!!