Here's a bad one that happened this past week, I'm pretty sure I haven't posted it on any of the forums I belong to...
Got a veterinary sp? office I work for that has two rental properties next to it.
The one I worked on this past summer has a crawlspace that I'm just too fat to get into, so I use the helper that the owner uses at his office, his properties and farm.
Well, every solder joint, every glue joint back in the crawlspace doesn't have my two hands doing the task, the grunt does.
Long story short,
Months earlier when this guy cut the drain line on the washing machine drain, he nicked both the hot and cold copper water lines, they didn't blow until they froze last week and broke loose right at the nicks.
So, back I go with this grunt to get this fixed, can't understand why these lines were leaking until I see what looked like gnaw marks and I knew it wasn't mice.
He owns up to it, I let him know it was a mistake on his part, he gets "testy" with me the whole time I'm in there watching him, handing my materials and expensive sharkbites to him.
I'm thinking, :furious: why is this guy getting short with me when it's his F-up why we're here?
First time he hooks it up, crossed lines and one water leak
Second time, 3 leaks
Third time, 2 leaks but one was not pushing the sharkbite in like I F'ING told him to.
4th time, after insisting to him to heat the joint and wipe flux on the outside of the fitting to get it suck in and put solder to it, he questioned that tactic and it worked like a charm, we got the F out of there with me having to donate my 3 hours and about $50 worth of materials for his stoopid mistake.
I still like the guy, never let him have it for getting short with me as I'm going to put it in a holding pattern and let him screw up again and get short with me, again. Then I'm going to tell him that I had to eat that day's labor, material all because you got banchee with the sawzall, dumbass! Then I'm going to ask, "Did you charge the owner for your time that day?!" to which he'll probably say of course. I already told the owner that I'd be following up to see if he charges for his time or not, I certainly didn't.
Just another episode where people say they can do plumbing and then you watch the work, and realize that plumbers will ALWAYS have a job in this world. Always. :thumbsup: