Is It Really A Lunch Order If It’s Not Written On A Shingle?
Pshaw. OK, that’s a pretty skilled operator there. Man knows his hydraulics, I’ll give him that. But the guy will never make it in the construction industry until he learns to write the lunch orders on a shingle first.
(Thanks to longtime contributor H.J. Briscoe for sending that one along.)
3 thoughts on “Is It Really A Lunch Order If It’s Not Written On A Shingle?”
I hired a backhoe operator once to replace a culvert under my road. I had heard that he was so good he could pick his teeth with it.
He was. The phone company never showed up, so he dug under/around the buried wires, pulled the old rotten culvert out, put the new one in (under the phone line), did the backfill and fixed the road.
The phone still worked.
I once saw a toolpusher perform some repair work on equipment 90 feet up from the brake handle he was operating on the rig floor. He had a very delicate touch- especially considering how many tons of equipment and the 90 feet of height he dealt with.
( Toopusher: supervisor for drilling company operations on oil drilling rig. Oil company has its own supervisor- company man.)
Further comment on backhoe operator. A cousin is an artist of sorts- some painting but also does picture framing. A friend told her she had the motor skills to be a backhoe operator. Hand-eye coordination can be used in many ways.