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TheJester
02-24-05, 03:17 AM
Even though we always hear that we don't need to bring our tools to the job, then we get there and we should have, I was going to bring my own tools to the next job.
Then I got to thinking, doing that sends the wrong message. By doing that, I'm not only saving the company more money on not getting us the tools, but saving them time for their own misguided ideas of what we need.
If you are a multi-MILLION Dollar CONSTRUCTION company, most would think that you know what is needed to get the job done. All the while not doing it leaving us to use screw drivers as set tools or chisles.
Not only does this seem rediculous it lets them set you up to ALWAYS have a safety reason for letting you go.
We have the resources now with this site, it is time to take back the control of our jobs, and get it out of the companies hands. Say NO to bringing your own tools, say NO to lower wages (like Beijing), so NO to fewer benefits. If enough or everyone does this it WILL happen.
United We Stand Divided We Fall!
Ditto on the tools...and the same goes for offering to work the only day off.
Lack of sense or greed is just a shovel digging everyone else's grave. I
enjoy my one day off. If you want to work more...go find a man camp job.
:blahslap
All we need is a Swiss Army knife and be willing to learn :wtf
:cheers Here! Here! Also....say FUCK NO to doubling up on rooming! Yeah....fabricating your own chipping hammers, and rubbing two pieces of wood together to make fire! (because they are too cheap to buy strikers!!!) Remenber that? (SP Brazil, Fluor)
Even though we always hear that we don't need to bring our tools to the job, then we get there and we should have, I was going to bring my own tools to the next job.
Then I got to thinking, doing that sends the wrong message. By doing that, I'm not only saving the company more money on not getting us the tools, but saving them time for their own misguided ideas of what we need.
If you are a multi-MILLION Dollar CONSTRUCTION company, most would think that you know what is needed to get the job done. All the while not doing it leaving us to use screw drivers as set tools or chisles.
Not only does this seem rediculous it lets them set you up to ALWAYS have a safety reason for letting you go.
We have the resources now with this site, it is time to take back the control of our jobs, and get it out of the companies hands. Say NO to bringing your own tools, say NO to lower wages (like Beijing), so NO to fewer benefits. If enough or everyone does this it WILL happen.
Yeah I remember my favorite line from Brazil "We can't get that here", well dumb asses order it from the states. Hell my welding supply back home has told me time and time again that they can get anything I need to me in 4 days no matter where I am at, so how come these companies can't get tools to the job site. Because most of the PM's and super's are looking at there bonuses.
Hey Tim, your good friends with Mike Quinn, ask him if we are going to get shirts with the new company logo on it. Apparently the new logo is "Can't see it from my house", that is what our super and some of the people in our office are saying. I thought we were supposed to do a quality job and get it right the first time, not a half-ass job, here if you do it right the first time you get criticized :banghead . Times they are a changing. Hey I do have a idea for the shirt. On the front pocket "FUCK IT", and on the back "CAN'T SEE IT FROM MY HOUSE"
:cheers Here! Here! Also....say FUCK NO to doubling up on rooming! Yeah....fabricating your own chipping hammers, and rubbing two pieces of wood together to make fire! (because they are too cheap to buy strikers!!!) Remenber that? (SP Brazil, Fluor)
keefster
03-02-05, 03:49 AM
im in tired of not having what you ned let thm try to build with no tools who they kidding lets do this :kib: and thats my 2 cents :2cents :321
HEY DIABLO,
YEH , GOOD FRIENDS, THATS WHY I AM NOT WORKING FORTHEM ANYMORE. BUT I LIKE YOUR IDEA OF SHIRTS. BUT WHAT ABOUT FLUORCK IT INSTEAD? AND ON THE BACK.........I AM GOING TO LOSE MY HOUSE!
:cheers
TheJester
03-02-05, 05:48 AM
The question is, where does it stop. I mean, today they don't tell you to bring tools, but anyone that has been doing this for at least TWO jobs knows, if you want to get anything done and not sit around all day with your thumb up your ass, you are going to have too.
BUT one day, some accountant at some company is going to put the two together and BANG, you supply your own tools. Hell, from what Smiley said about Martinez, you pretty much have to supply your own transportation TO and FROM the freaking country.
It is time to put this all back in the hands of the people that do the work, not the people that collect the bonus for bringing it all in on time.
How about if we just bring tools and stock pile them, and then when they ask where they can buy that tool we can say...............oh I know where you can get that.
I have a connection.............$50 per hand tool
$200-$500 for power tools :2cents :wtf
okay here is a question, how do we make these companies see the light and get us the tools that we need? Hell the only way I was able to get two lasers over here was to work it out on paper on how it would save them money.
Damn Diablo.....................nice Avatar!
What was I going to say...............damn I canted remember now......nice tits! :cheers :LolLolLol
Oh yeah, Nothing is free and we need to express that factor.
If I bring you will pay dearly.
The Crew
MrBOOCH
12-14-05, 08:35 PM
Working one's ass off in a flurry of activity to complete a a specific aspect of a project is an annoyance to say the least, especially when the dipshit you told two months ago that there would be certain things needed to accomplish said task in good time with expected resultant quality the response usually recieved was "yeah we got all the tools you need" then crunch time rolls around and there we are again(i'm reminded in specific of when my buddy showed me our new lasers and like a little kid at Christmas i ran to get one only to find a box with two plumb bobs in it... good joke on his part but it definitely underscores the problem)
Now that i got that off my chest, what i suggest is this. When i get to my next job I will be packing an exciting variety of high and lo tech tools which i will usually be willing to share with "skilled hands". But as soon as some jackass from upstairs comes and tells me how much better we'd all be off if i just let everybody use my tools and help the company avoid it's proffesional if not contractual obligation to provide tools to those working in far flung regions of the world, I will just take all those wonderful toys and put them back in the old box, snap the lock shut and probably go smoke a cig. Because when it all boils down it comes to this: If I take the high moral ground and bring my own tools then it will most likely be expected in the future, and if I don't bring my own tools and the result is a shitty looking job it merely proves that they really don't give a shit. SO WHY SHOULD I GO ABOVE AND BEYOND? So what I think is gonna happen is I will just go to work and do my job as usual and when some process or another comes crashing to a halt due to a lack of tool & materiel I will just shrug my shoulders and say what now boss man?
BARRELL IN BLIND AND BACKPEDAL AS NEEDED!!! :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead
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