1114
Fatherly hazing (lemmy.world)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 50 points 10 months ago

On work experience the guy sent me to get a long weight and I was like to myself 'fine ill go look for something that doesn't exist and have my lunch too. If you want a long wait..' I go back and he gets off his ladder exasperated, goes to the van and gets a long string plumb line.

[-] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

What kind of work was this?

Pardon my ignorance, I only know surveyors that use plumb bobs.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I never even considered this. I'm so used to carpenters using lasers now that I forgot plumb bobs were more popular.

[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I think he was using it to align a speaker so that the cable drop would be vertical to the hole where the cable came out. It was something like that, it was about 25 years ago so details as hazy.

[-] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for getting back to me.

I do a little cabling so the idea of using a plumb to align a cable drop sounds wild to me lol.

Then again I haven't been doing cableing very long so what the hell do I know.

[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Ha yeah honestly it's weird to me too but they were old boys and did a lot of odd things.

this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
1114 points (97.7% liked)

People Twitter

5974 readers
204 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

  1. Mark NSFW content.
  2. No doxxing people.
  3. Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
  4. No bullying or international politcs
  5. Be excellent to each other.
  6. Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major figure or a politician.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS