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The Steel Will Not Work

The Steel Will Not Work

RE: The Steel Will Not Work

BT,DT.  Tnx.
 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: The Steel Will Not Work

I think I've had that conversation....more than once.

RE: The Steel Will Not Work

What I hate more is when the modification is done, and you are the last to find out, after the fact.  

That is when the fat lady sings.  And man does she sing!

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

RE: The Steel Will Not Work

Been there too.

One thing though - I've never met an ironworker who ever said steel unlease it had an a in it.

RE: The Steel Will Not Work

bridgebuster, I see what you did there.

My favorite gross misspellings are on job applications.  At the last shop at which I worked, there was a welder who couldn't read.  He knew it, I knew it, everyone else knew it, but it was never mentioned.  He may not have been able to read, but he was an amazing welder.  I think a good foreman is able to use the resources at his disposal to make chicken soup out of chicken <insert base vernacular for feces>.

/I can absolutely kill a metaphor.

RE: The Steel Will Not Work

My favorite one was getting a call that my erection drawings had some "mistakes" only to go out in the field and find out the iron workers had shortened some braces "to make them work".
 

RE: The Steel Will Not Work

I needed a good laugh.. painful but true!!!

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