Cheaters never prosper

[meaneyedcatz]

Something happened at work that everyone loved.
Fictitious names here.

Service tech Bob thinks he’s the cats rear end and everyone else is inferior to him. Everyone else’s rules don’t apply to him. Well, it turns out Bob was swiping air tool oil from Zeke.
Zeke did what he should do and told Bob to knock it off. Not real expensive but it’s the principle, stealing is stealing. Bob told Zeke to go kick rocks. The oil theft continued.

Zeke purchased a replacement can of oil and kept it hidden under lock and key. The original container was left where it always was.
Eventually Bob’s impact wrench locked up. After disassembly it was determined crazy glue was in the wrench. Zeke had added it to his donor oil.
So obviously Bob goes to the service manager like bully children do and complains. Zeke is called in and the entire situation is revealed.
Bob claims the business owes him a wrench and the service manager correctly states to go pound sand.

When word about this got out everyone died of laughter as Bob got his just desserts. Zeke was the shop hero for quite awhile.

 

[Rudi]

HAHAHA!! Crazy Glue can really be fun.

 

[arjay]

Welp,Bob is one cheap *** lol

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[ColbyBruce]

The first post office I worked at had one carrier who was straight out of Hell. Bob was moody and argumentative to most everyone, especially new people. He was also the Union steward so most everyone had to interact with him at some point. Bob took an instant dislike to a man named Issac and rode him hard. Issac never said much about it.

One afternoon I went into the locker room to stow my rain gear in my locker and saw Issac swirling Bob’s coffee mug in the toilet. Issac then carried the mug back to Bob’s work station and put it back on the shelf where Bob kept it.

 

[Breakaway500]

Air tool oil?? Hell..I'd have given the guy the bottle. Most tool vendors will give them away and pray you use it.

Going into another mans tool box without permission would have been what pissed me off.

Stealing air tool oil...now I've heard it all.

 

[chief38]

Stealing air tool oil is pretty low! I could see asking to borrow a few drops if he ran out - but it's cheap enough to buy a new one when the tool guy comes around - or just get a bottle in the big box store.

The only Crazy/Super glue worth a damn is the Locktite Professional. That actually works more often than not. The stuff in the lipstick sized container and the TV ad stuff is garbage IMO - except for fingers of course!

 

[Exmilcop]

Karma! Has anyone else ever read Richard Hayduke's books, "Don't get mad, get even"?

 

[Greyman50]

Dont ask me how I know but “residue “from a surface grinder in oil works well too.

 

[mmb617]

I once worked at a factory where one guy kept a tupperware bowl of snacks at his machine and he'd munch on them throughout the day. The guy who worked beside him would always help himself to those snacks even after being asked not to do that.

So the first guy filled the bowl with dog treats and waited. The joke was on him though as the second guy didn't seem to mind eating them.

 

[Jessie]

I never realized this side of air tool behavior.

 

[Krogen]

Air tool oil?? Hell..I'd have given the guy the bottle. Most tool vendors will give them away and pray you use it.

Going into another mans tool box without permission would have been what pissed me off.

Stealing air tool oil...now I've heard it all.

Another man’s tool box. Yep. I encountered that early in my career. Our e-lab was poorly stocked with tools, so most of us bought our own. A co worker from “a communist country” figured what was mine was his too. He started raiding my toolbox until I put a lock on it. The’s a lock on the toolbox, he spouted. “The” toolbox? It didn’t even occur to him it wasn’t “the” toolbox; it was mine. I guess it’s how you grow up. But if you move to a foreign country, one would do well to learn their ways.

 

[Toolguy]

It's Karma, what goes around comes around, the Golden Rule, whatever you want to call it. I think it's a law of the universe, kind of like gravity. There's no escaping it. Sometimes people do something to get back at the perpetrator, but I've seen many times when something bad happened to the bad actor without anyone else doing it to them.

 

[ColbyBruce]

I never realized this side of air tool behavior.

When someone makes a living with their tools they have a right to expect others to not touch them.

 

[Eagle 477]

For many years my brother would Borrow my tools mostly when I wasn't home. occasionally I would go to his house with a 5 gallon pail and retrieve the often neglected tools. I finally purchased a large tool cabinet from Harbor Freight and put all the GOOD QUALITY tools under lock and KEY..
The other tools were in the garage and became loaners. When the brothers or neighbors want to borrow a tool they can use Garage tools. Amazing how the cheaper stuff gets returned..

Rob

 

[THE PILGRIM]

My Grandson is Morphing into a CAR GUY!
So for Christmas I bought him a new Tool Bag, a few new tools and filled that bag with some of my used tools.
My Dau had apparently never seen a Tool bag and said, is that a Purse?
No! I bought it at Harbor Freight. I don’t think they sell purses.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

When I was foreman over a 5 man crew, There could be fist fights over "Borrowing" someone's tool without permission. I had my own closed in office, so I see nothing, NOTHING!

I had dummies that would ask to borrow my tools and not return them! I warned everybody on both teams that on payday your check would be missing until my tools came home. One jerk pushed it, one time, and lost!

In my opinion, the shop should provide "consumables" like lubricating products. I would issue whole containers of such to each man. Same with disposable gloves, but my boss only ordered one box of a smaller size per month for the whole shop. I bought my own, in a different color! (sickly green!)

Ivan

 

[steelslaver]

Keep your mitts out of other peoples tool boxes and lunch boxes. Hanging offense.

 

[alwslate]

One guy I used to work with would never spend any money on lunch. He would wait until lunch time was over and then go around to all the trash cans in the building getting people’s left over fries, pizza and partially eaten sandwiches from all the fast food bags. He seemed to prosper as he was over weight

 

[Skeet 028]

When I worked in the fire dept...food was the great problem. We played a lot of cards...sometimes for a lot of money. Go out on a call and nothing happened to the money...go on watch(we had a watch tower on the airport) and food(deserts) would disappear. One guy was really bad..then someone made brownies with chocolate exlax...Then locked all the toilet stalls from the inside. Food going missing stopped. Playing cards was my 2nd income...Cops were terrible card players. But we DID give them free coffee and sometimes they ate with us...for free

 

[Nevada Ed]

One thing that I never had to worry abut was fellow workers not returning tools or making me mad,
If I some how dropped a tool and it fell...........
I just yelled "Headache" and reached for my back up cresent wrench.

I mean.................
would you want to be on bad terms with a guy ten stories up, on red iron
bolting , welding or connecting the iron as it came up with the crane ?? !!

Hellow...............

 

[Autonomous]

We had a guy, an evil piece of work. One of his many sins was, for sport, to make things so bad for contractors 'under' him they'd quit.
One trashy co-worker stole $20,000 from him and nobody badmouthed her for it. He stole much more from the company and union.
It got to where folks would wipe the chocolates he'd steal on their *****s or their ****s in his coffee mug. He had it coming.
He was cagey so the company took their time making a case against him with a team of investigators and lawyers. Good riddance.

 

[steelslaver]

Years ago I was fitting pipe during a refinery shutdown. I had a long drop coming off a column and had fit 2 40' pieces of 4" together and welder had the root in and had done part of the hot pass when management came to get him. He had been stealing lunches from the plant operators refrigerator and they had it on camera. Fired him, and rightly so. By the time it was over, shift ended and night shift finished weld and it had a serious dog leg from being partially welded and let completely cool. I really bugged me looking at it hanging off that column.

Foreman who was a real piece of work had his favorite whipping boy. Constantly calling him "the dummy". A work order came in to replace a run of pipe. First order of business was to verify the existing piping. Foreman does it and has "the dummy" hold the "dumb" end of the tape. They spend a day at this. Then, foreman makes up iso drawings and has the fitters and welders make up all the pieces. Crew demos old piping. Then when doing the install almost nothing fits, everything is a few inches long or short. Management is not happy. Lot of time and money in fabrication, system is going to be down way longer than planned while revisions are made. Foreman feet get held to the fire because new piping matches his verification, but, is all wrong. Foreman is no longer foreman. The dummy who had burned or shorted the "dumb end" of the tape on the measurements, goes to ex foreman and says "dumb end of the tape, huh?"

 

[StrawHat]

As a finish carpenter, I carried two sets of tools, mine and the ones I would lend out. One fellow did not like the circular saw I lent him and reached for my Porter Cable. A hammer handle to his bicep stopped that idea. He complained to the boss and was asked where his tools were. “I don’t bring my tools to work!”

“You’re fired.”

Kevin

 

[chief38]

I have certain tools that I am willing to lend out and many I will not. When a friend asks me to borrow a tool that I will not lend out, I wind up going to his house and doing the job for him. I'd say half the time that friend that watches me use my tools will go out and purchase one. The other half of the time they won't - their loss!

Stealing is stealing - regardless if it is a gold bracelet or an ounce of oil!

At this exact time my wife and I are staying with my best friend of 65 years. We both purchased new construction homes ( a few houses away from each other ) and ours is still not done - (hopefully within two weeks it will be - delays due to construction supplies and materials). Since he has not officially moved into his new home yet, he gave us full run of his home. Even though they are not locked, I will NOT enter his bedroom, his bathroom his office, etc. Anytime we need to find something I will call him up and ask, hey where's the dust pan and brush, where do you keep the whatever. Other items we will just go out and buy even though I'm sure they are here - but I will not go through his personal draws and closets.

And this is my best friend and his wife - not a work associate. That said, we are still trying very diligently NOT to intrude on their personal space even though they have been here only a few days out of our 1 month stay.

At the end of the day........ I supposed THAT IS WHY manufacturers install locks on their tool boxes!

 

[Tom K]

My wife started work as an aerospace R&D tool builder (fiberglass molds and such) in the '80s. She kept her tools from being "borrowed" by painting them all pink.

 

[steelslaver]

The tools in my fitters box all have some OD green paint on them.

The underside of the lids has a set of rules applying to my tools. Large print in black magic marker. Most of the people I work with have good tools. If they do need something I have that they so not, I will lend it to them. But, in my trade being known to not return, replace another tools or far worse steal someones personal tools would be a HUGE BLACK MARK and it would get around.