Lends itself to tunnel vision on "how do we make this work with what we got" with no consideration of just getting a few additional parts that would make it work.
I feel like I’m the only person who didn’t get the real coke experience when I tried it…
Spent a lot of money on it to try it, even bought a testing kit to make sure it was legit, and my nephew who procured it (he’s only a year younger than me, basically my second brother) was hyped up on it, and so was his stripped ex-wife….
Meanwhile I was just walking around thinking “this is like a worse version of adderall, because at least adderall makes me productive”.
I’m kind of glad though, because if I liked it too much it would have been an issue.
Never been officially diagnosed, been meaning to do it but keep putting it off... Used to have someone who got 90 each month and would give me 30... COVID took her unfortunately :(
Like if it was some amateur job like I've experienced fixing my Dad's shit I could kind of understand it without the meth, but if you actually paid some "professional" to do this other than meth I don't know how this is possible...prions?
Either that or upset with the house owner, I’ve seen some fun work done by upset tradesmen. I was working on a shutdown at an oil refinery and hear my site supervisor just lose his shit laughing for like a solid 10 minutes. He stops our entire crew and has a meeting just because he found it so funny and wanted to share the story. Apparently on the site next to ours a crew had been laid off without reason but still contractually had to finish the job they were on so the entire crew ignored their drawings and just started randomly welding pipes to each other. The new crew came in and done an initial site inspection and about 700m of pipe work looked to be in the right place until he looked closer and found it just does a full circle of the site then joins back to the start again.
I suddenly have a new understanding of the Kool aid man just busting through walls all through the 90's. That makes so much sense now!! Truly thank you for your insight.
I use to work with a Mechanical Fitter who was a lifestyle meth user. (We worked 3 weeks on 3 weeks off).
And on our RnR, he would do some side jobs. Geared up, and off his gourd. I can 100% see him using the same thought process. SMASH REH BITCH! LET'S GOOOO!
Hope you're OK Mickey! Gifted fitter, loves the drugs.
There’s a lot specific plumbing code for routing and the amount of offsets you can use and the sloping of the pipe. Could explain why they don’t go around but if you’re going to go through a wall you core drill it and not hit it with a sledge hammer 😂
Only on Reddit could you find someone who has enough plumbing experience to understand why this should not have happened AND enough drug experience to understand why it did. Thanks for the insight! Lol
Not only doing it high on meth is a likely scenario but also believing what youve just done was a stroke of genius. Meth is horrible but in the moment youre king of the world.
I feel like the added paranoia would have me freaking out about clogged pipes with the bends too sharp so id come to the "logical" decision of making holes to achive maximum laminar flow lol
That's honestly a pretty reasonable answer, because this entirely looks like people who can plumb a bit but have no concept of adaptation or nuance other than how can we make it work with what we have and not just get a couple fucking 90 degree elbows.
You've never worked in construction if you don't believe that one trade would create days of unnecessary work for another discipline to save themselves a two hour round trip to go get the right parts or tools.
Here in Chile we had worse not long ago, a woman made a hole in a structural wall on the 4 floor of a, I belive, 16 floor building compormising the safety of the whole construction, was sued, the fix was deemed to cost around 60k usd
I mean that doesn’t seem worse, atleast she actually hat a legit reason (a very dumb one) but she and a reason to break through the wall since what she wanted to do could not have been achieved without doing that. Here they could have just used the hole right next to the structural support
But I want it now!! It’s my deck, I can do what I want!!! Insert loud foot stomping. Those are the same people who stiff you on the bill because they don’t think what you accomplished was worth the price. No lady, you are buying my 30+ years of experience and parts 😠
My dad's best friend is a plumber and I've worked with him and his crew a lot during summer holidays and such, all great people, sometimes the occasional brick. I think this here is a special case of "fuck it he will never notice and I'm off to the dispensary/bar/pipe/needle quicker.
Look it's not his fault he saw concrete and thought he could get some free rock...nobody recommends his lifestyle but you don't have to be rude about it.
Bad plumbers and bad electricians tend to have the mentality of "I'll run my line through here and let someone else fix it". I've seen wooden main support beams with holes in them to run wire or pipe. They do whatever gets them to their beer the fastest
There's no fucking way lol. I'm absolutely an amateur plumber, but I just had to get pretty invested in some shit at my Dad's house and got a bit of a 101 course in this stuff...I literally only got done fixing that shit on Saturday. The way the pipe is supported in the first image if fucking laughable, and I know that despite not dealing with a run of pipe that required support. Also I'm assuming these idiots never heard of a 90 degree elbow. What pipe did they lay that would have been so inconvenient to simply remove and replace that they chose to start busting holes in a concrete foundation? It's like a trip to the hardware store and 5 minutes with some glue and sawzall.
I wish I could say this right next to you, buddy, but over the past 10 years it does not seem to matter how much money I give a work crew, I come back to shit just like this.
Nope. I can easily see it. They're the type of people who go in do their job and do any means to get the money out of your hand even if it's shady. I've seen it way more than you think. It's not that they're bad but it's more it's not their problem if they don't get caught.
Actually, this is extremely common. A lot of homes with this style of foundation, very common in Tennessee, used shit quality bricks combined with the ground shifting which weaken the breaks to the point that barely touching them causes them to shatter like glass.. You go to drill into the brick with proper tools and bits, and a 2 x 2 area just shatters. I'm not saying your plumbers weren't at fault, but that this type of thing happens so often that the fix for it is pretty standard. Ask the plumbers to rent a jack, lift the floor, and reinforce it. If they refuse, then give them an ultimatum: fix their fuck up or you will hire someone to do it and they can pay for it.
You could also do it yourself and bill them for it, maybe even get the plumbing work for free if they want to be dicks about it. I've done it many times, it is nothing to it, I promise you. It just looks intimidating.
I have heard that in America there isn't as much of an education and exam path for tradesman and a lot of people who do that job are autodidacts or learnt it by just working somewhere with no way to know if they learn shit
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It’s hard for me to believe a sane coherent person did this.