How many hardhats does it take to fix a sprinkler leaking
Went to do preventive maintenance on a machine today as it was dangerous to go much further. Icy roads and snow blowing. A smart person would stay close to home in case he went in the ditch. That way it wouldn't be so far to walk.
Anyway the unit I went to was in a grocery store that is undergoing a huge remodel. When I got there, no one was around so I started to PM the system. Soon 3 guys showed up with hardhats and one started to move stuff around.
Yep- the other two had different colored hats so they just stood there!
Soon the 1st guy had enough space to move his man-lift around, he climbs aboard and starts to install of fix a sprinkler. I'm not sure if there was a head unit on the pipe when I got there or not. Anyway he does his thing and when done, he lowers the lift and parks it out f the way.
The 3 then walk off together as if they are best of friends. Of course only one of them has dirty hands from moving all the stuff and then working on the sprinkler.
I go back to my business and the next thing you know, there is a different guy with a mop bucket and he is in a hurry to roll it over to the sprinkler and catch all the water flowing down. Then 2 more guys show up, then 3 more, then 3 or 4 more. Next thing you know, there are 10-12 men standing around looking at the water dripping into one bucket.
There had to be at least 4 different colored hats, so I am guessing there was 3 levels of management.
I almost tapped one guy on the shoulder and pointed to the ceiling to tell them that was the problem.
You see, I have been around long enough, that when you have that many levels of management they never figure out what is going on.
Soon the original guy goes over to his man-lift, fires it up, and moves into position. He draws his hefty pliers out of his pocket and starts to chant, "lefty loosy, righty tighty". I waited for the management team to chime in , but I'm not sure I heard anyone sing.
I do think they hummed a few bars. ( that's management) .
When the dude on the lift was done, he parks the man-lift out of the way and everyone walked off.
As I watched them stroll back to their original hiding place, I noticed that 2 of them had to have come out of retirement to watch over all this action.
Makes ya want to own a pair of pliers don't it?
Anyway the unit I went to was in a grocery store that is undergoing a huge remodel. When I got there, no one was around so I started to PM the system. Soon 3 guys showed up with hardhats and one started to move stuff around.
Yep- the other two had different colored hats so they just stood there!
Soon the 1st guy had enough space to move his man-lift around, he climbs aboard and starts to install of fix a sprinkler. I'm not sure if there was a head unit on the pipe when I got there or not. Anyway he does his thing and when done, he lowers the lift and parks it out f the way.
The 3 then walk off together as if they are best of friends. Of course only one of them has dirty hands from moving all the stuff and then working on the sprinkler.
I go back to my business and the next thing you know, there is a different guy with a mop bucket and he is in a hurry to roll it over to the sprinkler and catch all the water flowing down. Then 2 more guys show up, then 3 more, then 3 or 4 more. Next thing you know, there are 10-12 men standing around looking at the water dripping into one bucket.
There had to be at least 4 different colored hats, so I am guessing there was 3 levels of management.
I almost tapped one guy on the shoulder and pointed to the ceiling to tell them that was the problem.
You see, I have been around long enough, that when you have that many levels of management they never figure out what is going on.
Soon the original guy goes over to his man-lift, fires it up, and moves into position. He draws his hefty pliers out of his pocket and starts to chant, "lefty loosy, righty tighty". I waited for the management team to chime in , but I'm not sure I heard anyone sing.
I do think they hummed a few bars. ( that's management) .
When the dude on the lift was done, he parks the man-lift out of the way and everyone walked off.
As I watched them stroll back to their original hiding place, I noticed that 2 of them had to have come out of retirement to watch over all this action.
Makes ya want to own a pair of pliers don't it?
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