Nope were not :-) J/K Larry
C'mon we have all had the instance where your drilling with the widow maker and the 2x4 spits S**t . Or you get all the way to the end of an attic or crawl space to realize you just bonked your maglight and now your in a black abiss that you can't see anything . F8@k and as we know drywall is not sound proof . Cussing on the job happens and I'm sure anyone out their has done their share . Three inch splinter from pressure treated wood . M.F.S.B. somone please take this out of my back .

Ouch! How about the mistakes I've seen others do? Like drilling up through a floor one foot away from a wall the hole should have gone into. Or breaking out a foot-square piece of drywall when trying to cut out a single-gang-box hole.

Just remember the punch line to a joke my mom told me when I was little. (Okay, young, maybe, not little) "Mother-flushing cop-socker!"

Larry
www.fineelectricco.com

Well this thread has gotten a bit off course but I would like to add to it's intended purpose.

Anytime myself or my "custom" installers has to rig, or run a wire someplace typically unacceptable, or when we see the homeowner has ran a wire with staples up his wall to his rear speaker, or those hidious self installed dishes with coax drooping across the lawn from the dish being mounted on the swingset we have only one word for it:

"Custom"

Almost daily one of my guys will come up to me and say "oh man I saw the ultimate custom today..." and a hilarious story ensues about a mass market store's install, or a customer's wire splicing techniques. And the other typical use is when I ask how one of my guys got around a tough problem and their response may be "I customed it a bit" in which case I know it works, but I don't want to know how.

Exactly Kabster....it's not like we walk around scratching our armpits and other, more, inappropriate, places....there are just some times when something goes wrong, you get PO'd and have to use a naughty word to relieve some stress. If everything went right on all your installs, then yeah, the jobsite would be friendlier on the ears. But things don't always go as planned, and those times, it's just safer to let out a little bit of language, than to go persuade it with a BFH.

But a BFH can be a blast too :-)

You cant forget about the lil guy you put in the attics an crall spaces.

" attic monkey "

I had this name for a long time.

or attic rat

Picture this you have a cool customer (all mine are or I don't want them as a customer)
The wife is in the house with you and one of your guys is climbing around in the attic customer is unaware of this.
Your talking to her and she say's "what was that ?"
I say "what was what ?" she say's "that noise" I say "what noise ?" Her "shhh listen" clunk scrapeing sounds coming from attic , me "oh that . I think it might be a big rat"
the look of perplexed look of horror on her face makes me talk to the rat "Hello rat in the attic can you hear me ?" Attic rat "yeah what do you need"
customer "kevin that's not funny" as she laughs

Or pretend you don't hear the noise at all lol

Don't forget:

"Clusterf*ck" - Any job inherited from another company or clueless installer where things are... well, clusterf*cked.

"Abortion" - A job where nothing goes right.

"Smokie Joe" - The guy on the prewire who cops a squat and smokes more than he pulls wire.

I am not in the business but when I got out of the Navy I was doing some work in HVAC with a friend...

I was working with some heating elements (less than fun) and I wasn't having an easy time. My buddy told me I looked like a monkey f'ing a football. So now everytime I see someone struggling with something I think of that saying.

Thanks to all of you guy's.
I just read this thread and laughed my a*s off.
I worked my way into this business via C-Band satellite. Many of these satellite receivers would say Not On Sat if the dish was not correctly pointing at a satellite. After seing this one of my Lady customers told me her system would Not Work on Saturdays.
And yes while running speaker wire for a ceiling speaker I mistakenly drilling a hole thru the next floor and carpet and did cuss, but I would have suppressed it if the customer was around. (I Think)






Larry
www.Audio-Video.tv

Not to go back on an old subject but after reading this whole page I came up with a great idea. Why don't we all set up "Cuss Jars" at our job sites and then we can use the money it earns each friday to buy beers at lunch! he he he

We did have a client that used to make us nachos with this killer cheese dip and offer us Corona's. And an Indian family we worked for used to fill the basement fridge with beer every friday for the workers. But they would say they didn't want the workers drinking on the job, it was for them to take home.

I like the story about the carpet installer. He finished doing the living room, and then noticed a lump in the middle of the floor. Feeling his empty shirt pocket, he thought, "there goes another pack of cigarettes!"

He got his hammer, and pounded the lump flat, which was a lot easier than reinstalling the carpeting. When returning his tools to his van, he noticed his cigarettes on his seat.

Just as he pondered the flattened lump, the homeowner came running out of the house and asked if he'd seen her parakeet!

Larry
www.fineelectricco.com

I can't read any more of these, my eyes are all goofed up from laughing so hard.
Thanks!

Just had to read something light... It's been too serious in here.

Anything new?

This message was edited by Jay In Chicago on 04/10/05 23:27 ET.

Ever had a "defective customer"??