respect your tile helper

[tilesnake]

Don't know why I feel the need to confess this but back when I was a tile helper we had this one setter that hated everything and every body..and me! he would routinely yell at me and try to make my job miserable So being the irish little shithead I am I would piss in his thinset, throw cigeratte butts and chewing gum in his mud then watch him freak when he found these foriegn objects:drool2: ! helpers revenge!

[Sponsored Links]

[jjwq8]

Enlighten me please.
How did he find the urine in the thinset ?

[John Bridge]

What is the point here. If you did that to me I'd run you down the road. ;)

[tileguytodd]

Tile helpers earn respect just like anyone else.its not an automatic.Helpers are learning a trade that will take care of them and thier family the rest of thier lives if they are not complete boneheads.To top it off,they get paid while learning the trade.Many proffessionals pay for trade school's, college etc,go 8 hours a day and then go to a job to pay for all that training.
A tile helpers life is not too bad afterall is it ;)

Like John,i'd tell him to hit the bricks if he pulled stunts like that.
One thing i dont tolerate on my jobsites is practical jokes either.People get hurt and sorry dont cut it!!

[RandyL]

i think Tilesnake is saying that its hard to give respect when you get none back in return.....funny about the respect thing though. I give everyone 100% respect from the 1st second I meet them, but if they loose it thats their problem. I jsut dont think that it should be "earned" it should be given, then......taketh awayeth if necessary.
You dont like practical jokes Todd? I work alone so I have to play practical jokes on myself. :) Sometimes i like to pee in my own thinset......go for a smoke...come back and sniff it.....then look around aimlessly and say "hey.......who pee'd in my thinset?" :D :p

[jjwq8]

Tilesnake, the point is that are not effecting your boss when you do something like that. You are damaging your Client, who has done nothing more wrong than employ you.

If your boss is an anal orifice, then get even with him, not your Client.

I know of one Resident Engineer who was a 5 star SOB and treated all his team abominably. When he worked late he insisted that the entire team work late as well. On such occassions he would order in Pizza for himself and expect the office boy to pay for it out of petty cash. Being universally adored by his staff they each took turns to masturbate over his pizza, which was then reheated before delivery to him.

Now that is getting even, without damaging you Client.

[WilliamL]

jjwq8,that belongs on a bathroom wall,completly offensive.I think I might have kicked the hell out of somebody for that "joke".Man,what ever happened to just putting bbs into your buddies thinset and laughing at him as he bitched about what you did to him,or throwing his smokes in the grout water,or putting thinset on the bottom of the trowel handle.All harmless and fun.

[sdaniels7114]

What William said. It's not like it takes forever to find replacement work. I'd just move on to a setter that appreciated me.

I had a tile job where the money was good and I had a friend who needed a little help. So I put him to work for a couple of days. My favorite joke was leaving a little dollop of thinset right next to the saw, or in the mixing area. Even though it was always in plain view, he steped in it every time :D I'm sure y'all know what that feels like to step in. Even though it's a lot more sanitary, it still gives you the shivers.

[John Bridge]

I like to sprinkle a floor before I sweep it up. Keeps the dust down. I always manage to sprinkle Albert a little and act like I'm not aware of it. :D

'Course, he's gotten me a couple times, too. :)

[WilliamL]

then there is always(forgive me)the fart game.

[RandyL]

Geez Jeremy........thats nasty..........heating up a pizza thats been cooled down and pretending that is fresh out of the oven.......!? :(
Tilesnake is probably wishing that he didn't start this. :D Mind you he was probably just a young lad when he did that stuff. Hey guys ...remember when you used to wrap your friends house up in "Police line....Do Not Cross" tape then hide in the bushes when he came home? It was so funny to see them crashing through the front door then come out side where you'd be standing there laughing your ass off, then he'd chase you for 18 blocks, beat the crap out of you then you'd all go for beers.........ah......the good ol' days.......:o

[Ron]

A couple of years ago,a bunch of guys were making fun of my Buddy Holly-style safety glasses.Next thing I know,I've got two black circles around my eyes after using the wet saw.One of them had put black shoe polish on them. :) I thought it was funny too.On that same job,someone had been pouring coffee into my wet saw.Really started to smell badly after a few days.That,I didn't find funny.

[jjwq8]

Hey, I'm not condoning what those goys did to the Engineer, honest:D but ......

Mean tricks?

How about getting a groom falling down drunk on his stag night, then delivering him to his brides house, stripping him naked and decorating his wedding tackle with a blue ribbon, standing him in an emptied trash can, in front of the front door at three a.m. ringing the door bell and diving out of sight?
Father answers the door, looks the groom up and down then calmly calls back over his shoulder ,"Linda....it's for you!".
Now that was a classy guy:D:D:D

[John Bridge]

Jeremy,

You're going from bad to worse, man. :(

[jjwq8]

Well I do have a record to maintain:D

The mean trick? Well lets just say that was the last time I was best man :D

[Albert]

i dun lots of things to john but i aint bout to tellem hear.

albert

[RandyL]

Ok......here's a good one that I just played on my wife a couple hours ago.. We were driving home and she was dozing off with her head beside the window. So I screamed as loud as I could while I was slamming on the brakes...:D She didn't find it funny at first but after a few minutes she saw the humour. Try it out yourself on your next dozing off victim. :)

[cx]

Damn! :eek:

You off your meds again, Randy? :rolleyes:



You gonna go to sleep inna same house with her tonight? :D

[RandyL]

I guess I'm just easily amused. Again last night, we were in Home Depot looking for deals cus they just switched from Mapei to Customs up here. And one thing I hate is when people leave their carts in the middle of the aisle. So what you do is plow right into it .....I mean hit her hard (not the lady...the cart) then just keep walking :D Don't look back, just keep on truckin'
Pathetic humour I know....maybe I should be on some special meds..? :confused:

[jjwq8]

Randy are you a cabbie on your days off?:D

[tileguytodd]

Prozak anyone :D :D :D

[tilesnake]

Not to keep the dark side of settin going, but back when I was about eighteen my employer set tile tile for this builder who could of been in the hall of fame for a--holes! always freaked out about something!.. anyway, the usual problem.. people peeing in the sump pump, It stunk so this guy goes on a rampage yelling at every tradesman he could find! he finally leaves only to come back the next day and find that somebody shit in the sump pump!
Oh boy.....

And NO it wasn't me!

[WilliamL]

Lets see what I have in my bag of dirty tricks...Take you nippers and break off the leg on the light switch if the electricians get wire snips in the ungroutes tile,if they reall piss you off,pull the wires out of the outlet box and cut the wires so they have to rewire a brand new house.Plumbers...marbles in the pipes,bag of concrete down the sack.I did a hospital in Prescott, Arizona where some people shit in every non working new toilet in the wing,just so they didnt have to go down a set of stairs and use the port a potty.The funny thing is-there was no toilet paper in the bowls!

[John Bridge]

This thing's goin' downhill in a hurry. Let's try to get back on the lighter side, gents. We have ladies around here -- real ladies. :)

[WilliamL]

My apologies if I offended anybody.Point well taken John.

[John Bridge]

I'm not pointing fingers, William. I could have just closed the thread, but we do cherish free speech around here.

Pretty much. ;)

[WilliamL]

I know big guy,I agree with you.I was being sincere.

[tilesnake]

Ok let's clean er up a bit.. How can you tell if a blonde has been baking chocolate chip cookies... You find MM shells all over the kitchen!... see it just doesn't have the same effect as crap in the sump pump!
No offense to blondes my favorite

[doitright]

Just when I was going to share my story with the stucco guys encounter with a bidet..........nevermind.

[jjwq8]

Ever noticed how rapidly any subject is reduced to matters nitrogenous when guys are leading the discussion? :D

[RandyL]

maybe we should start a forum for non-gents and ladies. We could call it the "Enter At Your Own Risk Forum..........:D

[sdaniels7114]

Man, do I ever have a hard drive full of stuff for that potential forum:D

[kkowal]

actually, i found this stuff funny. i work predominately with men so you get used to the 'gassy' humor. nothing wrong with a little comedy relief. you gotta have some fun on the job (leave the client out and the bodily fluids too). kathleen

[tilesnake]

Are you married Kathy...............

[kkowal]

:) yes and happily too, can't take life too seriously!!!!!!!!!!

[opiethetileman]

Well I will tell a funny tile helper story for ya. I worked for a guy ( forrm the ole school) of tile setting. This guy was a major buttmunch. I have 8 years of medical background. So one day I came to work with sprite this guy loved sprite. So I added Go-Litely to it. Which is what we use in the medical field to clean you out quick. He drank it and sat in the port to let for hours.


And another job I was on we had some real big dudes trying to puch the tile guys around. So I put pills in the food. Thesse pills make your urine trun blue. They use them in the medical field for kidney stones. They freaked when they were peeing blue.


So what I tell everyone bigger or smaller than me I might not kill ya but I definalty will clean you out for sure. I have many mnay tricks I learned they wont get ya sick but I do earn respect when Im done.

[jjwq8]

This seems appropriate

[John Bridge]

Most of you know I like to have a good time, and we are not prudes around here. I do want to enforce certain loose rules of decorum, though. We won't allow indecent speech or indecent images. I'm not going to even attempt to define what I've just said. The Supreme Court has tried and failed. I can't do it.

Just watch it. ;)

[opiethetileman]

Not making fun of you john by all means. But maybe you need the dream team to straighten them out. please this is humor not a nasty remark.

[Mike2]

Very well put John. You have a great way of making a point without coming across in a pontificating manner. I hope can do equally as well by just saying; Even though this is the Mud Box, all of us and certainly including myself just need to be aware that mixed company will eventually come down here, either out of curiosity or for some light hearted entertainment. Attracting new members and keeping them coming back is a role we can all play. :)

[Davy]

Mike, that was well put too.:)

[opiethetileman]

Wow mike did you find that line in a fortune cookie or what????? lmao

[flatfloor]

Opie, he was serious. :nod:

[Steven Hauser]

Yep and Jim is serious too Dan.

Steven:x:

[opiethetileman]

I was talking about the duck quote on his signature. I was being seriours here.

[doitright]

Thanks for clarifying Dan. :)

Too many things being misconstrued around here. :crazy:

I think everyone's trying to say: Don't let the :devil: take control over you around here, or else you might be seeing one of these: :wave:

[cx]

The Devil lurks around here? :eek:

Y'all sure?





Hell, I thought the Tile Ranger was bad enough. :D

[jjwq8]

OK:noid:

Everyone step up to the mirror forthwith!

Check behind your ears.

Apart from cabbages and potatos.......Anyone see a backwards 666?


Course if you did we wouldn't expect you to fess up :D