Wait, you gonna sign me out a cutter and (one) cutting disk, then you going to put a lock on the tool room and disappear for a couple hours? Yeah, no problem,, Tightwad Toolman. Gotcha. Wait 5 minutes. Brief grinding noises. What's that? The tool room was left wide open? No one knows where Teddy Toolman is? Don't know what to tell you, Bossman. I'm up here 8 flights up. With all my PPO and safety harnesses and my cutting tool and 10 cutting disks and getting my dam job done. Soons I finish, I'll climb down, bring all my gear and tools and I'll help you look for 'the most important person on this job-site" who has gone and left his post and left all that valuable inventory wide open. Oh, oh, you think maybe Toolroom Teddy needs a break from his inventory issues, and maybe could use a couple days or weeks working as a helper to our older hands? Maybe we start developing a backup for the toolroom position? Well, you ARE the boss man. Sounds like a dam fine idea to me.
“Now I’m going to go disappear for 2 hours without telling anyone where I’m at and taking the only key” if there was ever more truth spoken I have not heard it 🤣. The tool room guy must go into the dimension of lost socks or some crap cause I worked contractor work for a little bit and it seamed like anytime you needed a tool asap the tool room guy was out and no where to be found and I’m standing there thinking “you have one job, ONE job…”
Hey now, we all know full well he's got to keep the safety man in tip top shape, can't have that guy trying to play red-rover 8 storys in the air cause he found a bunch of hot sweaty men bent over.
This is exactly how our parts guy is. He’s a self entitled old man who locks up everything from toilet and garbage bags to steel stock and electrical tape. Then he always goes out to lunch with vendors and doesn’t bring us anything back
The second he said it's 50 bucks. I just thought. That's practically a free tool set right there. I'll hire out a nail gun, circular saw, hammer drill and maybe a couple extras...
I was thinking on taking the whole tool box just say u need a lot of tools for the job and I don’t want to keep coming back and forth ik u don’t do that but still u steal one at a time
Where did Ricky find the directions to the other tool room? I thought that place was just a myth or a joke, like taking the elevator to the onsite pool, or finding a board stretcher you'd send the rookies to look for....
Everything is real if you know the right people, for example the bighead screw you need if you countersunk too much ("Sonderschraube BigHead" at eteltuning... They also have 90° bits and buckets of compressed air, truly a one stop shop for all you need)
Goddamn that's spot on tool room guy! when I worked for cat global mining it was exactly the same way they'd rather pay a man to spend hours aday walking back and forth from the dragline to toolroom cuz the toolroom guy was just like this!! Consumables gloves,disk, cutting shields,tips,masks that always broke the company
Once worked at a Site at Bayer. Someone had the great Idea that all Tool requests need to be given in writing a day in advance. And then that same guy (i assume) had the other great Idea to put the one analphabet in the 300+ crew in the Tool room. It went worse than you could imagine. Boss broke out of the Contract and didnt have to pay a single cent for breaking the Contract. Thats how bad the situation was.
Lmao, "tool room". Us automotive techs have to buy our tools ourselves. But hey, I got a bunch of quality stuff. Plus I get to take em with me and use them as I see fit.
You seem to know what every heavy industry goes through and the people who work it. I love when something at work and you deliver a video that I can pass to the other guys.
Y'know... I have had to deliver materials to these gigantic worksites before. You almost need a road map to get around some of these places. I feel your pain, Ricky.
I worked on a job in an old high-rise, 16 stories. No elevators(being re cabled), only had power on every fourth floor. And only one stair case built in 1903, narrow and had a landing and turn every 6 steps. I watched, over a week period, 9 iron workers drag a Miller diesel welder up those stairs. I nearly died just dragging my two tool bags up every day, and they only weighed about 60lbs combined.
Yo this was my life for 3 years. Arguing with tool room for tools I didn't have AFTER telling my bosses boss. I bought my own tools and he goes "where's all the tools" I told him "if u quit smoking so much damn pot ur old ass would remember me coming to u for months saying shits missing
Once Browny (our tool room guy) died, heart attack on the job , they replaced him with a computer. It checked out all the supplies and reordered automatically. Costs plummeted, turned outBrowny had been making off with thousands of dollars worth of inventory 😂
Every time I go to the tool crib I gotta listen to the same story about how he was a once a contractor in Iraq during the Iraq war or his experience working for Saudi Aramco back in the 70's. Atleast they had a coffee machine down there. The key is getting on his good side so when the project starts winding down and the shortages start you can still get material.
Hey man I just gotta say I love your videos. My dad and I watch you everytime you post a new one. He swears up and down that he worked with your characters on his last job. We get a good laugh out of you. Keep the videos coming man. Really appreciate it.
I was really hoping there was a continuation/ reaction from Ricky after the tool guy Aka 'most important person on the job' said he was going to dissappear for 2 hours. Lol Did he get his blades? Don't leave us hanging! 🤪😄😅
I used to work tool room at a regional airline maintenance hanger and this video is hilarious as fuck and totally true 🤣 🤣. That one time the mechanics are asked me to order 11 pairs $30 polarized sunglasses for them. I was like fuckit no promises but I’ll try! I never seen the manager at my window so fast asking wtf is this and why don’t we have tinted safety glasses (I got 2 boxes of those sir but these would be way better) 🤣 the answer was NO btw.. 2 hour lunch break every day that part is totally true
Stepping over Dollars to pick up Dimes, while Superintendents have a compnay credit card that they're spending $1,000's a week on at the bars with their buddies😂
This shit is so spot on that I'm having a hard time catching my breath from laughing so hard. I was out in upstate New York (04-05) when we had a whole tool room trailer that went missing at the end of the job. Lol. The people responsible for "cleaning" up the jobsite, definitely cleaned out the jobsite. Lol.
What Ricky doesn't get is that the tool room guy wants a bribe for those cutting disks. A cheeseburger here, a snicker there along with a energy drinks goes a long way.
Having been the shop tool cage attendant I have had these kinds of conversations with the guys. There's some items that you can have as many of as you ask for such as earplugs, and some things you can't have a new one unless you turn in an old one such as grinder disks. I actually had a guy who wanted new welding gloves rip the old ones right in front of me.
The tool pusher in the last shop I worked in would ration EVERYTHING, even earplugs. It was a machine shop and we got 1 insert at a time, if it got chipped he would inspect it and if he thought you could get more out of it you didn't get a new one.
@@mattsirmans9146 Earplugs was one thing you could have as many pairs as you wanted, all you had to do was tell me how many you want. Safety glasses and face shields were also available without turning an old one in. Welding tips and cutting torch tips were definitely something you had to exchange an old one for a new one. There was one guy that I was certain he pulled old welding tips out of the trash because every very few days he'd turn in about 20 or so. I didn't care though, I'd let him exchange as many as he'd turn in.
I was a tool room guy but I was never given rules like this from the company so I didn’t even care. All I had to care about were the calibrated tools. (Multimeters, torque wrenches, dial indicators etc..) consumables, Fuckit. I might bitch a little for making me get up that’s all. “That’s the 5th cutting wheel today wtf are you doing out there? (Here you go take 2 more)” or I’d even give them tips how to help me get them new stuff. “This drill sucks the bushings are worn” but the company doesn’t do anything to repair drills they just replace when destroyed. So drop the drill in a fuel tank and I can buy a new one.
All our consumables and safety gear are in a vending machine. Swipe your badge and get what you need. Gloves were limited to two pair a week and safety glasses 1 pair every two weeks.
As a green horn I got "promoted" to tool room duty. Boss told me it was because I was honest and knew how to follow rules.. After a few months I was robbing Peter to pay Paul, falsifying documents, showing favoritism and counterfeiting tool chits! whatever it took to keep production going, lol. I do remember at one point thinking I was the most important job on site too!!!
He comes out of the second building saying he thinks he needs to turn right.... immediately turns left. Then, after turning at the third pine towards the North Star (during the day) doesn't get him there, he wonders if maybe he should have turned left (right) all along. This one as very well done! Nice!
I used to be an archaeologist. Our tool guy constantly tried to dictate everything about the tools, such as demanding they be hauled back everyday from our site even though our bosses and clients said we could leave them there. He was straight up on a power trip
Man you are by far the funniest guy on RU-vid!! I don’t see how you don’t have millions of followers because you make those other few country comics on here look even less funny than they already are!!!
I've been factory floor grunt, and consumables Charlie at different times in my life. But my own variation on this was while working as a mechanical engineer for a trailer manufacturer. Bished and bished to IT about my computer being slow - for 3 months. Doing line layouts for a full production changeover in a building that covered 4 city blocks. Complained to boss several times. Nothing. Then bosses boss came by, sat with me, because there were some (small changes) he wanted to make. ( ummm, yeeeaahhh. . ). I input 2 of his 12 changes, and hit "refresh" to show how they would impact the line layout. I then got up, walked across the office, got a cup of coffee, asked bosses boss if he wanted a cup, started a new pot, sauntered back, told bosses boss his coffee would be ready in 5 minutes. He is staring at me this whole time like I had dragged his dead dog up his driveway. What the hell is that?!?! Oh, the refresh will finish about the time your coffee is ready. Whaaa??? You have been sitting here for 5 to 10 minutes every time you do ANYTHING on this layout? . . . New computer next day. Extraordinarily overloaded CAD document with details down to the freaking gear teeth on machines up and down a million square feet of production line - quietly stored away, and much more "friendly" document pulled up for later big-boy meetings.
Our tool room guy had been with the company for 40 years but my lead man still knew how to make his head explode. Lead: Tom I’m gonna need one of those high lock tools. Tool room Tom: damit I am sure I already gave you one and the bin is almost empty! I don’t know what you guys do with this stuff but I’ve ordered enough for every guy in the hanger to have two so there’s no way we should be out. Lead: well Tom there’s a problem, you should order three for everyone in the hanger so that I have one for my toolbox here, one for my toolbox at home, and one to give my neighbor.
lol great video. Reminds me of when I ran the grinder at the meat factory. Had to change the blade 1-2 times on a regular day, 2-3 times on beef days. Every time the blade went dull, you had to take the machine apart, take the blade off and head on down to the "maintenance" room. It's either a ghost-town in there, or there's 6 guys hangin' out, only one of whom would actually get you a new blade. And don't even ask for two blades, because that's "against company policy". Doesn't matter that it's beef day, doesn't matter that you're delaying production by coming down here and dealing with these guys. You're getting one blade, and you're gonna be happy with it.
I went to the warehouse with this dude one time. He needed rivets for his trailer. The warehouse lady looked up the trailer he was working on and said "oh, it says here you only need 6"... he uses 24 on them.. and thats the way how we was told how many are needed... he only got 50 for the month...
My tool room guy is the same. keeps rubber earplugs locked in a cabinet and if you ask for some he'll question what happened to the one pair he gave you last week.
i remember loosing a 1 7/16 socket from the tool room.the tool guy was the owners grandson of the company.dude was like 19 or 20.was mad cos he said his grandpa would be mad and that it cost money and he looses profit.i went out and bought one at napa.a better one.gave it to him and just told him"if it dont brake me.it wont brake ur daddys bank account"dude was heated.
Tool room guy here, DON'T SHOOT!!! if you need that tool its your, have fun and be safe with it. need 10 cutting disc? no problem here you go bro! but don't come crying to me when the boss bills you for a Metabo you never brought back, or starts asking why you go through 100 disk a week. the computer will tattle tell on you every time. I really do like my co workers and I give you as many breaks as I can, but at the end of the day I can only do so much.
Most accurate thing I've seen in a while!🤣😂 On another note, maybe our tool room guys are just lonely, need a friend and just too grumpy to make it happen! Or jerks...
Our equipment manager thought that cutting disks were an extravagance we couldn’t afford so I spent 8 hours cutting a beam in half with a hacksaw. He was mad as hell when he asked what I did all day and showed him lol. I told him it woulda been 15 min with a cutting disk but I couldn’t live with knowing I was bankrupting the company with my cutting disc. He was throwing shit all across the shop lol
But Ricky came back with a story about how he got funky with the stewardess on the flight and he was gonna be partying with her all weekend. Roscoe sits quietly, waits for Ricky to leave, then mentions how he knew that stewardess back before her name was Danni-Elle. When it was Daniel. And ( HE) had been a union painter. And how disappointed it is that Ricky is hooking up with a painter.
I swear when I asked for a new air compressor the company was making a big deal out of $200. Maybe stop buying old power plants before you sell half the land on the rest you owned
That reminds me of when India was a British colony. There were lots of cobras around to the point of being a real threat so the British said they would pay for every snake killed. Naturally, the locals started breeding snakes as well as killing the wild ones in order to make as much as they could which ended up making the cobra population go up rather than down. The British realized they were getting fleeced and canceled the reward so the locals released their now worthless collections of cobras...
Probably 8 plus years ago maybe even 10. I climbed the tool room cage age to get a chain chain to pull some press dies bunched tight together out the way or parts. These f****** a******* put grease on the top of the entire fence.
I need to see more of the tool room fella ...he is exactly the guy that ran the tool room at several fab shops I've been over the years...in both looks and persona
Iunno what's up with tool room guys, but if I'm at a hard labor construction site and I get to be indoors, possibly in AC, I'll find ya whatever ya need cause them working efficiently means I stay employed, they don't hate me, and since they're workin' efficiently, we all get a bit more time to goof off.
If this ain't the damn truth! I worked for a company that built industrial fans for agricultural/warehouse settings and my job was to run the balancer and balance these fan blade assemblies. I'd have to drill into the aluminum disks to mount weights to balance these fans, and some of those discs were three inches thick. The company had these cheap ass drill bits that would wear out or break about every thirty or so holes drilled. While I was usually able to get the assemblies in tolerance about 90% of the time by mounting only one weight, sometimes it would take two weights, three at the most ((the more difficult fans were because whoever was weighing out the sets of fan blades (6 per set of equal weight) had fucked up and there was one or two heavier/lighter blades than the rest)). I'd balance at least 200 assemblies every day, so I always needed bits. My boss would hand me two at the beginning of my shift and he was certainly stingy about handing out any more than that. Ffs, I couldn't get him to understand why he needed to just go ahead and give me a ten pack... One day I had had enough of chasing him down throughout the building for bits and went to the owner himself and explained my case. He shook his head and couldn't believe that the boss man was ordering such cheap bits and being stingy about it. Come to find out, somehow my boss was skimming money off the materials budget, ordering the cheap shit but claiming to have ordered the more expensive ones and pocketing the difference. Needless to say, I had a new boss after that (and got a hefty boost for that year's Christmas bonus) and never had an issue getting the high quality bits, and as many as I needed at that. Definitely made my job a hell of a lot easier and allowed me to be able to bump up my numbers for balanced assemblies.
If people could see how many times I’ve watched these compilations…. I’d either get a restraining order on my ass or quality as crazy psycho stalker of the month! But the truth of the matter is these are funny as hell ‘cause the virus of “stupid” is out spreading covid and I get a sadistic joy out of seeing it play out with Ricky thrown in!!
