Things you just don't get

[otc]

Moving this over here to not derail the thread about the theocratic assholes on the supreme court:

How exactly do these things end up working?

I assume you have to walk into them, lock the door, and then wait for them to fill. And they look like they are much taller than the average tub, probably so that you can sit upright in them.

I know that old people have nothing but time on their hands, but man...that sounds pretty ******. Sitting there naked while a gigantic tub slowly fills up around you an inch at a time? And then to get out you reverse the process only now you are sitting there naked AND wet?

(And for a cynical note, do old people who can't even use a tub REALLY make purchase decisions based on the presence of a lifetime guarantee? You don't exactly need a tub that's going to last 40 years...)

 

[wklq76a]

Moving this over here to not derail the thread about the theocratic assholes on the supreme court:



How exactly do these things end up working?

I assume you have to walk into them, lock the door, and then wait for them to fill. And they look like they are much taller than the average tub, probably so that you can sit upright in them.

I know that old people have nothing but time on their hands, but man...that sounds pretty ******. Sitting there naked while a gigantic tub slowly fills up around you an inch at a time? And then to get out you repeat the process only now you are sitting there naked AND wet?

(And for a cynical note, do old people who can't even use a tub REALLY make purchase decisions based on the presence of a lifetime guarantee? You don't exactly need a tub that's going to last 40 years...)

Funnily enough I posed this very question and assumption in my workplace a couple years ago.

My colleague asked, "...or what?".

I had nothing to offer.

 

[brandonboot]

Lol, always 2nd place inferiority complex driving these nutjob behaviors.

Otis would beg me to work for them. And you guys couldn’t pass a dam schematic’s math test let alone a elevator mechanics test. I gaurentee at this rate I will be a foreman on big jobs like the other people in my family. We’ve worked at revel casino for years when it was being built making double time 14 hour days 7 days a week. You don’t understand how much money that accumulates too while also having no expenses. My dad was the lead foreman at citizens bank park for years having 40 years of experienced higher pay then me and still working those double time hours/7 days a week. Trust me if you think it’s slave work it sure justifys itself when you see 5K checks every week and don’t have expenses. I’m a more then generous dude. The house I live in has been paid off for 17 years. I don’t know what a expense is if it slapped me in the face. So while I’m trying to pay a ride service … when it doesn’t work out. That **** tilts me

before you pull the family card the only very important role or reason to appreciate having 3 other family memebers in the same work and my dad being higher up then any of them is that it’s very difficult for local 5 to lay us off compared to anybody else. Loyalty goes a long way. I’m not a ******* joke

 

[PhilKenSebben]

8.5 isn’t tiny it’s average lol

Do you live in China? Because that is a bit small in the US

I’m not a ******* joke

Well, you convinced me.

 

[brandonboot]

@bedwet is my call.

This has been debunked … the real question is who do you like more and what did that guy do to you that you could think that’s me? I posts pics of boots in the other threads most of the time. Did he? That ain’t me bedwet isn’t his real name probably .. mine is Brandon. Unless he’s some Biden hater and your trying to piece together my real name being a joke ? Idk ..

I do apologize to anybody that runs into me on the internet however because I don’t know how to come across not controversial or hostile on here even if I tried

 

[Piobaire]

This has been debunked …

Very interesting that you would know that nickname of a prior poster.

 

[jcman311]

And you guys couldn’t pass a dam schematic’s math test let alone a elevator mechanics test.

Full of assumptions.

 

[brandonboot]

Very interesting that you would know that nickname of a prior poster.

I don’t know … his nickname was Brandon? I thought his name was medwed unless somebody sent me a typo.

this is my opinion …if you want to ban me because you think I’m a asshole, I’m really not. But don’t dare ban me because you think I’m mr wed/wet…. That’s giving him to much credit. I don’t know the man. I ask what he’s done and get no answers back so I don’t think I’ll ever actually know why the comparison gets made between us. I just know he’s banned.

I’ll add I’m starting to assume he was involved in the political thread but we have no correlation. I don’t know anything about politics and I don’t even think I come off as somebody that knows about politics. Im sure everybody would agree if I say anything about the topic my post will get met with im stupid or something…. I’m sure he had a agenda but I don’t have any agendas. You can tell…. It’s to a fault but it’s true. What I say is genuine it’s not BS or a lie. I’ll never troll you for interaction’s. I’ll only ever be trolly in a thread I have knowledge about like boots and still I won’t troll I’ll just make a joke when bakers advertises Monroe heritage brand on insta and the caption is “want clean finished work” because that’s a shot at whites so I’ll post it in the whites thread n we have a laugh. I can’t be “ trolly or accepted” in threads like these or particulary the political because I’ll admit I don’t know what I’m talking about. That’s why anything I’d ever post would be a question in the first place. Politics never had a impact on my life until the president that was elected wanted my job to burn to the ground.

 

[ValidusLA]

Bro, you buy OTR for the label, that's why it costs more, and thus a better flex.

Label flexing makes people look poor, yo.

 

[PhilKenSebben]

Label flexing makes people look poor, yo.

I don't know man, this guy looks rich as ****

 

[Numbernine]

Just so everyone is clear on this I've worked with hundreds of elevator guys over the years and the vast majority of of them were good people but every trade has its share of these guys. One in particular I knew was a kid we called Earnie the Gnat. Earnie, Brandon and Earnies namesake all seem to share particularly similar qualities.

 

[venividivicibj]

I’ll be more then happy for y’all to tell me I’m some petty dude that should’ve took the L and kept it moving. I was just so gung-ho with proving my point this wasn’t address I paid for. That I turned into a person that was going to prove that by any means necessary at the time.

This is the problem - you're seeing everything as a 'competition' or a 'battle' that you can win or lose. You're never going to see this guy again - who cares? You don't need to prove anything to a random Uber driver. The fact that you keep arguing on here with people in this thread, talking **** to them, etc - it's your ego man.

 

[brandonboot]

I’m trying to respond to this guy @Numbernine thats trying to normalize what I do

[/QUOTE]
just so we clear this up further … did you and your 100 elevator guys get told what to do and how to do it when you were working with them? I just wanted to be clear since you know that’s what we are doing here.

There’s only a few foreman if not just 1 and a couple mechanics on a job site at any given time on a huge job. That’s me and my family. I don’t know what you do … I’d love to know what local and company you work for. Because you can’t possibly work for “100’s of elevator guys” and I haven’t crossed you. This is surely nothing but talking out your butt here.

If you worked at the job sites I’m at you would answer to me just like I answer to my boss but he’s not at the site unless it’s massive and there’s a foreman present. There’s nobody at any given job site that i show up too that I answer to other then my dad if he’s there and that would be the next casino we’re working on or the next ballpark. Not the target that’s elevator broke down and they need somebody to fix it. For example my dad would be your boss if for some reason you made it past elevator school and passed all your tests and had a good word out in by somebody that you are capable of doing this work and not going to get laid off like all the other normal workers. (You’d be like me) if I liked you enough to back you. You made it seem like the type of work I do 100 other people could do. My moms dad proved he could work at my company for how ever many years he worked. So did her brother and so did my dad and so am I. There’s a reason me and family get paid the money we do. Just trust me on this. There’s only a few people in the world that can do the work I do and I don’t think you or the 100 of people you’re referring to are anything more then “helpers” as we like to call them. They are nice people but they don’t have a van and haven’t passed the mechanics test. (And might not unless they have help from their family in some sort of way.. they could pass and still not get in unfortunately) people like the ones you just described get laid off too often for being normalized and not needing your work because my company needs to pay the people that can go to a location with a broken elevator at it and it get fixed by somebody knowing what they’re doing or what they even need to fix the problem at any given time in the day. I am trying my best to be that person for the company. If I can continue to do this for years hopefully I can be in my dads situation one day and be recognized as that same person who can show up to a job site as the boss, fix the problem but I would be at bigger job sites like casinos or buildings still being built. That’s along way away from now. Not everyone in my family is a foreman. They are all elevator mechanics tho. These 100 people that your failing to normalize are nothing more then people listening to me and cleaning my van or handing me tools I need and hoping one day they don’t get laid off. You can Pass the mechanics tests and start making the big bucks but you still have to go to school the company will put you threw.

exusce me for being skeptical that you did all this and have came in contact with “100 other normal elevators guys” I’ve been a helper myself everybody has to start out somewhere. Local 5 is not a place that accepts “100’s of elevator guys” again there’s a reason why I get such good benefits. People die on these jobs if you aren’t extra safe. There’s a good friend of mine and his dad worked the same compan. He was crushed by an elevator when he was in the pit. I don’t know the story but the elevator came down on him at Harrahs casino in Chester pa. https://www.inquirer.com/philly/new..._tries_to_cut_mayor_s_pay.html?outputType=amp

My dad was the only schindler employee aloud to
Escort police to the scene and run any equipment/the elevator itself because I know it wasn’t fully finished yet to retrieve the body.

There’s a lot of money to be made when your employer can send you to any job site other then some huge time consuming job site that a building isn’t finished being built yet (that I referred to like revel casino in or citizens bank park) and you get the job done. Our company is very good because while Otis is considered “the best” elevator company we still get those HUGE jobs
All the time. And we get paid more then Otis? What’s not to like… other then a little banter when a Otis van pulls next to a Schindler van at a red light.

Look There’s been other deaths and safety has gotten a lot better then it used to be. We need need people like these low experience “helpers” that are aspiring mechanics and foreman’s exc to keep us safe…i was one for years and made penny’s compared to what my dad makes. I still do make penny’s compared to what he makes and 40 years of a pensions going to be a nice cash out for him.

you know this may be a good problem to have in terms of finance’s but …. I’m struggling to separate myself from my work. Everyday I have a decision after work on my free time do I just call my gf on my company iPhone? Or do I call her on my Personal phone? Do I just take the work van to bar/film show or do I go home and use my 2004 Silverado with 13k miles that I bought new in 04 that gets no use ever when I have a gas card and a company issued van. I can use the same card and go spend thousands of dollars at a sears or some place like that and it would be free. Even if I paid my own money my company would reimburse me …

I’m just bringing all this stuff up because your not gonna normalize my job. There’s few and far between people that can do what im aspiring to do at the highest level.

you don’t even want to be in my situation. It’s impossible to work and live a separate life. But it’s worth it if you want your kids to have the best insurance they could possibly have until
Their 26 exc.

The dam audacity

 

[otc]

Ok, but what exactly is "elevator school"?

edit: and I'm not being facetious--I actually think elevators are cool

edit2: except for the touchscreens they put in at my high rise apartment building...those = not cool.

 

[brokencycle]

I don't think your Uber driver made that claim. In fact I don't even think he knows @brokencycle

@bedwet is my call.

No way. He couldn't keep it together that long.