Kinda funny, mostly true

Cowboy2005 · Mar 18, 2020

Farmall plowboy · Mar 18, 2020

Wished I had that sign.

Olliejunkie · Mar 18, 2020

I worked in a shop once. There was one mechanic that would struggle throughout most days. You could usually hear him cussing under his breath. Every now and then he would get a little louder then you would hear a wrench or some other tool bouncing off the floor. It was time to take cover.

James Howell · Mar 18, 2020

Back in the late 1970s I was working as a production foreman at Lone Star Steel Company.

The CEO from the company office in Dallas usually walked through the plant when he visited.

That particular day the CEO just happened to walk by and stopped to see what was happening.

There was a mechanical breakdown on one of the machines.

The mechanical foreman was up to his elbows in grease and filth helping the millwrights.

At some point the CEO started giving orders to the maintenance foreman on what to do to get the machine working.

The maintenance foreman stopped what he was doing and did exactly what he was told.

After about 10-15 minutes of no success from instructions by the CEO, the CEO told the maintenance foreman to "[i:654c4848f0]just fix the d@mn thing![/i:654c4848f0]"

The maintenance foreman went back to what he was doing before the CEO intervened.

Within 5 minutes the machine was up and running.

CEO got upset and said "[i:654c4848f0]Why didn't you do that 20 minutes ago?[/i:654c4848f0]"

Maintenance foreman replied "[i:654c4848f0]You didn't tell me to fix it[/i:654c4848f0]".

I learned a very good lesson that day.

quefan · Mar 18, 2020

Heard this one years ago
True ? who knows but a good chuckle.

Efficiency expert tours the shop.
Sees lathe operator making a fine cut on a big 6 foot shaft.
He asks why not remove more , shrug of a shoulder and operator ups the cross feed.
Can you go faster ? Operator ups the gear.
Expert now smiling, operator gets to end of cut, shuts down the lathe and swings in the chain block and strap.
Expert asks are you not going to measure ?
Operator " no need to do that I was on the final pass when you arrived".

coshoo · Mar 18, 2020

Toured an egg processing plant with the plant manager when I was with PCA. Suddenly something went wrong and the machine started breaking eggs. A little old guy who had been oiling stuff started barking instructions to everybody. He got on his back in the broken eggs and started adjusting things. He would call out for various tools, and they would be handed to him. Manager said the guy had worked for the company that made the machine, and manager had hired him away. He had the machine going again in under 2 minutes. I smiled at the manager and said "I'm surprised that he's not the manager." Manager replied "He doesn't want the job, and besides, he'd have to take a pay cut."

Mike(NEOhio) · Mar 18, 2020

I may just print that and hang it where the wife can see it. Probably wouldn't make any difference, though.

JGShivers · Mar 18, 2020

James Howell, was that guy from Dallas Max Dodson?

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