Equalizer or EQ -- A large bar, or hammer and chisel-A.K.A. screwdriver, used to "equalize" or persuade mechanical parts into place. :)

Dont forget the horse cock, AKA strain relief
Or the 4 foot pry bar, AKA 4 foot level

This message was edited by chrsb on 03/12/02 15:32.53.

Okay, I'm reading all these terms, and they are really funny, and crude, and funny, and all I can think is that if you use these in your installation career you will end up limiting yourselves to open-frame house prewires. Not that that is a bad career, but full screening rooms in homes where the client can afford $20,000 of seating? You had better not use many of those terms doing installations like that!

ESPECIALLY CWILF. Imagine THAT being overheard....

Wow Ernie! You a master of the obvious! None of us have ever considered proper English!? Until you said that I believe everyone was foolish pig headed mopes who could only be a "wire monkey".

I'm sure the industry will turn around now that you suggested we not use crude humor in front of people we don't know.

NOW I KNOW!.. And knowing is half the battle. Note to all. "Use these terms with caution!" Gosh!.. I.. I.. Don't even know how to thank you. You are such a wise ole' sage. We are all richer for reading you words of wisdom.

Oh Yeah!? Not that any of you crude wire monkeys would EVER be working in a corporate environment, but when you put up caution tape to block passage through an area.. That's called a "Dumbass Filter", "Dumbass Trap, and "Dumbass Detector". Depending on the outcome. Just make sure that when you're up on your "Five gallon get tall" (because that's all a wire monkey could have and take care of)... Just make sure tat if someone gets trapped in your Dumbass trap you rip your shirt off and wave it in a circle high above your head! Like a signal beacon!.. Make a WHooooP! WhoooP! WHoooP@! Sound REALLY LOUD! And in your BEST robot voice say "DUMBASS ALERT!>>>DUMBASS ALERT!"

Yep.. Do that.. Because that's your lot in life if you choose to use any humor...

Jeeze, it's a real good thing the customers NEVER show up at a residential prewire.. I have NEVER seen that happen. They would be horrified by our slack jawed yokel antics! I have to run and get my overall's out off the dry line beofrs a bear dun runs awf wit um'

Ok.. Maybe a teeny bit of over the top sarcasm, but I can't held but be crude and in excess.

pia.....or pain in the ass
pia fee....pain in the ass fee
pia is a reason to charge way more money than you should

ed

Hey thanks for the advice Eddie!!! I wish I would have read your post before I called my last client a "CWILF" and that it would be great if she could get out my "China Men" by stroking my "Donkey Dick"!!!

Eddie why dont you get off your high horse and start getting a sense of humor!!!

Using these types of terms make installing fun and thats why most of us are in this business for!! So have some fun whu dont ya!!

I think it is really funny, you get your enginer types, or bussiness types and they look at us like we are some type of lower life form, well last year 4 out of 5 of us pulled in over 95k, the year before over 110k, and to think we could have went to college to make 50k.......

Here's one we all do to equipment to make it do what
we want it to do "Button F**K

Hey chrsb let me know where it is that Installers make that much money???

Michigan, except I am a master electrican, and we do the data work also along with the speaker wiring. We are all unionized up here though. The pure data guys make anywhere from 15-32 a hour. Us electricans range from 18-37.

If you made 37 dollars an hour and worked 5 days a week and didn't have any taxes taken out you would have made $76,960.00, how is it that you were able to make 33 grand a year more than that? I am curious because that sound like the money I want to make.

Do Tell!!! Please!!

Well most days are 10-12 hours, everything over 8 hours is time and a half, we worked 7/12's 2 months straight last year, dont forget saturdays are time and a half, plus sundays are double time. It not all what it seems though, we work hard probally 80% of the year, the other we are slow. Take right now, 4 out of 5 of us are layed off and have been for a month. We do get sub pay to make up for what unemployment dosnt pay for, but I would rather be working. Please dont think I was talking about regular cable/data guys making that kind of money. I also dont want to seem like I am bragging either, I was just upset when I read that one message, I hate it what people degrade someone for what they do for a living.

Well that makes alot more sense then.I also dont appreciate it when someone degrades someone for attending college, which I am. Maybe I will make 50 or so after college but I will be able to work my way up just like everyone else in the world. Someone like yourself has probably worked for over ten years to get where you are at because I figure you cant become a Master electrician in a short time. It is a little contradicting to say that you dont like it when people cut on what another person does for a living but you cut on the way they get there.

We can't forget the "famous" "Short between the button and the floor" for all those "service calls" we make when they can't remember how to work their toys!

Lou