I mentioned we have a shop dumbass in the minor rant thread. Last week I witnessed the most hilarious exchange and thought I would share it with you. I'm sure some of you can relate. I think for this story we'll call the dumbass Bobo.
So part of Bobo's job is to cut a groove in the back of certain pieces and glue in a reinforcing rod. This is not a very difficult job but Bobo finds a way to get it wrong 90% of the time.
The boss comes over to Bobo with a couple of small pieces. He tells him that he needs a couple grooves cut in the back and they have to be exact. He's doing something special with them and he reiterates that it's imperative that these cuts are straight and exact. He says he's in a rush for them. He gives him some measurements and walks away.
I watch with great amusement as Bobo scratches his head for about three minutes and fiddles with his tape measure. Now marking and cutting a couple grooves should only take about three minutes. And sure enough the boss comes running back around the corner screaming why hasn't he heard the saw yet.
Bobo says "I uh, I forgot the measurements you told me".
I volunteer "You know he can't read a tape measure, want me to do it"?
Boss says "Here I'll mark it for you".
So as the boss starts marking the pieces, Bobo walks over to grab the saw. As he is walking back he trips and drops the saw bending the fence and breaking off the set screw. I, being the shop shiny happy person, bust out laughing.
The boss spends about twenty minutes trying to fix the saw. Having no luck drilling and tapping for a new set screw he finally breaks up some wood shims and jams them into the new fence, hands it to Bobo and walks off.
I'm thinking this isn't going to end well.
Bobo fiddles around with it for a couple more minutes then finally starts cutting. He then stops, right in the middle of doing this job that the boss was in a rush for almost a half hour ago, to go use the restroom. Fifteen minutes later he comes back and finishes the cuts.
He takes them over to the boss's truck and walks away.
Boss comes out and starts cussing and throwing his arms up and down. I knew without even looking what happened. Bobo can cut a straight line. I've seen him do it before. But if you tell him it has to be straight it's going to come out looking like /. Guaranteed. Every time.
I had to go see what it looked like.
After all the talk of how important that the cuts be right on the marks.
Almost an hour into at most five minute job.
This is the results.
I think the berkeleyer closed his eyes.
