End of a long day temper tantrums

[Mikey P]

We all get em..

Has the client or thier neighbor ever caught you cussing at your hose or tossing your plugged Oreck into the yard?

What gets you going the most...

Sticky coiled pressure hose?

Tangle or pinched vac hose?

Tank fills with two feet left?

Hose stuck under front door?

Pressure spray won't put out ( for Matt)

Stuck QCs?


Some days it's all of the above and I just need to go fetal.

 

[Old Coastie]

The rest of this thread will be like:

 

[Sierra Clean Care]

I used to work with this native dude.... I was his foreman..... I'd get worked up, and he'd say to me 'oooooooossssssaaaaahhhhhh....... calm blue ocean boss...........' most times, it would piss me off even more, but sometimes, i'd think, you know what, he's right........

 

[hogjowl]

Phone calls waking me up from my nap

 

[Nate The Great]

No electricity on high rise jobs....

Run out of propane with the living room left..

Having to use a wand...!

 

[SamIam]

Stupid helpers doing dumb crap!

Makes me mumble and sing songs of disgust.

 

[SamIam]

Or 4 sq feet left and no place to dump after machine shuts down!

 

[SamIam]

We all get em..

Has the client or thier neighbor ever caught you cussing at your hose or tossing your plugged Oreck into the yard?

What gets you going the most...

Sticky coiled pressure hose?

Tangle or pinched vac hose?

Tank fills with two feet left?

Hose stuck under front door?

Pressure spray won't put out ( for Matt)

Stuck QCs?


Some days it's all of the above and I just need to go fetal.

Your orecks plugged?

 

[Old Coastie]

...being laid up going on three weeks with at least two more to go and reading all yalls pixie-bitching about getting to work hard...

 

[Mikey P]

Your orecks plugged

not mine, I'm not an apartment hack...

 

[Zee]

Yesterday.... At my last job: it starts pouring rain 5 minutes before I was done.
To most of you, it means nothing....but around here people come out and take pictures and videos of it -that's how rare it is.

I was thinking to myself: how the heck do you rainy weather guys do this all the time?? I was so mad being soaked...all my hoses, my 360xl, crb, vacuum cleaner, everything got drenched as I'm trying to pack up and of course my vac hose comes apart as I roll it up the reel because another part got stuck behind the customer's Infinity's tire in the garage...etc.

I can't stand working in the rain!!

 

[Able 1]

Helpers pulling too much hose can really piss me off..

The "can you go over this area one more time" then you do, and it doesn't look any different, and they say "oh, that's much better"!

I hate "wow that was fast" after I told them exactly how long it was going to take..

 

[Tony Wilson]

First job of the day and truck mount won't start. Check everything twice. Still nothing. Then realizing after a good cussing fit that the float switch in the tank is stuck in the up position!

 

[bob vawter]

I got in a fist fight wit a customer that ran over my hose trying to squeeze past me to put his car in the garage. ..

 

[Mikey P]

I got in a fist fight wit a customer that ran over my hose trying to squeeze past me to put his car in the garage. ..

how long were you out for?

 

[Mikey P]

 

[Fat Mike]

called cops on a freak lol

only situation like that ever and i knew there would be problems when he called to hire us

 

[Mark Saiger]

Right now with our busy time....

There are so many moments....just so many moments I just keep pushing through....

Going on 12:30 am in the morning...haven't stopped moving since 5 am....

Got 4 hour sleep last night...probably the same again tonight as soon as I chill out a bit....

Super huge commercial jog again tomorrow and I shouldn't complain as I am very fortunate to have such great work and guys and family....

but as a person gets tired....throwing something sure can feel good

 

[Dolly Llama]

stupidity and damaged equipment/tools due to stupidity

.L.T.A.

 

[steve_64]

Yesterday.... At my last job: it starts pouring rain 5 minutes before I was done.
To most of you, it means nothing....but around here people come out and take pictures and videos of it -that's how rare it is.

I was thinking to myself: how the heck do you rainy weather guys do this all the time?? I was so mad being soaked...all my hoses, my 360xl, crb, vacuum cleaner, everything got drenched as I'm trying to pack up and of course my vac hose comes apart as I roll it up the reel because another part got stuck behind the customer's Infinity's tire in the garage...etc.

I can't stand working in the rain!!

That's how I clean my hoses.

 

[jcooper]

Vac and solution hose pulling on the wand/tool


when doing the last flight of stairs. I sometime imagine I had a helper and will yell at him in my head!

I can't stand working in the rain!!

You would love the snow and cold then!

 

[SamIam]

not mine, I'm not an apartment hack...

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Is it Damon's?

 

[Mikey P]

no

 

[SamIam]

My helpers a few years ago opposite side of town 30 miles away, when they were driving the 175 clipped a brass fitting on a water softener and disconnected the water.

Well they try to start machine it's drained got gas but died and wind start plugged into water and it on!

Never checked the water box!

So the drive to my guy in Santa Clarita he spots the problem in two minutes another 40 minutes back to the job!

That's the day my other helper Ryan decides Phil drives to crazy and prefers not to work with him!

 

[SamIam]

They also checked the radiator for water, looked everywhere but the water box!

 

[bob vawter]

how long were you out for?

thats back when i USED to be crazy...you remember!

stupidity and damaged equipment/tools due to stupidity

Larr....quit working solo and hire a helper!

 

[Dolly Llama]

Larr....quit working solo and hire a helper!

gots'ta admit, that made me chuckle

..L.T.A.

 

[bob vawter]

Pssssst.....did ya listen to Puddles yet. ....great for the humility. ...!

 

[Jeremy N]

Having a helper that continually agrees to do something that he wasn't authorized to agree to while I'm gone. Super nice guy that can't say no.

Getting so pissed at him that you try to throw the very heavy ladder in the truck from the porch. When it takes about 5 throws to finally make it in the truck and you're breathing hard when it is over it doesn't look good.

 

[ruff]

I've been doing this for a long time.
Nothing and I mean Nothing pieces me off.

Unless, of course, things don't turn out exactly as I wished.