Say hello to my little buddy Jesse.
We used to work at the same place but he got himself canned for telling a forklift driver who wasn’t being safe to watch what the fuck he was doing and said dumbass got his panties in a bunch and reported him to HR.
Of course nothing was said to the unsafe driver but God Forbid you cuss, right?
Anyway, he is a great kid.
I kind of took him under my wing while he was there and was teaching him stuff. Since then I have had him over to the house several times and worked his narrow little ass off.
Today we went to a Pick-N-Pull wrecking yard and he helped me take some seats out of some KIA, load them in a cart and drag them up to the office so I could pay for them, then load and unload them into my truck and set them in the car. I am going to have to modify the mounts but I’ll get to that with his help.
After all that work, it was time to play for a change.
Here is a You Tube Short of him using my bench top milling machine.
For a First Timer I think he did a pretty damn good job.
Hi Cederq!!!,
YOU did GOOD!!!!!!
skybill
Wrong tricked again
Thank you but that is Phil and his newest buddy… I have been replaced and it is only a short time Jesse takes my place a sub-host.
Thanks for mentoring that kid. Wish my pair had attitudes that would encourage someone to want to mentor them.
Well done! A place I worked at (decades ago) had its own job shop, the lone guy that ran it came out of WWII, got an apprenticeship at GE and worked there for ages as a tool & die maker before being hired at our shop. I was loaned to him as a helper many occasions and loved it. The guy was an encyclopedia of knowledge and wasn’t afraid to share it. I once asked him to teach me the “tricks of the trade” and in John’s usual sarcastic tone he replied: “Learn the trade!” but he’d happily teach you anything mechanical or machine shop you needed. I learned all sorts of stuff that helped me later on in the industrial maintenance world.
You’re a good man Phil, some of us knew that.
The Bible says train em up in the way they should go. Good onya Phil.
went to work at a dental lab as a delivery boy (age 13½), asked the owner if I could learn something of the trade (in the time spent waiting to take the next delivery somewhere). I was placed at the plaster mixing bench learning how to mix plaster and investment properly for the next five weeks – and clean the bench properly (to the owner’s very exacting standards). It wasn’t even the bottom rung; I was still standing on the floor.
Forklift driver wouldn’t last long where I work. Most of us are veterans, and we talk like it. Except around the gals, of course–we’re also mostly Southerners, and we were raised with manners.
Good to see t he torch being passed, Phil – Good On Ya !!