Minor Pleasures (12 Viewers)

[ann post]

This one is small and light enough for the pocket.
If I'm at height, I won't be using those tools.

I was more looking at how fast tools walk - but rigging is more 13/15's or something as far as i remember?

 

[seanc]

I was more looking at how fast tools walk - but rigging is more 13/15's or something as far as i remember?

Oh I see. It's a small team in soccerball world. They all have own Wera's.

It'll probably never come to Event type work.

 

[GO]

I had a lovely set of filling knives swiped on me on a big site 4 years ago and it still annoys me

 

[Deadmanposting]

Oh I see. It's a small team in soccerball world. They all have own Wera's.

It'll probably never come to Event type work.

How difficult is it to get hired to do this work?

 

[seanc]

Which one?

It's not hard over here, ut Ireland is a bit of a closed shop.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Which one?

Gigs working in stadiums setting up and pulling down, I imagine?

Temp platforms, staging and seating etc?

Probably a big learning curve on it. But when you have a job that never ends, hearing about one with definite starts and stops is very attractive.

 

[seanc]

Very true. Though I'm a grown up now at least some of the time.

The labouring "local crew" (hate that phrase) is just meat for the grinder. You can learn as little or as much as you like.

 

[egg_]

when you have a job that never ends, hearing about one with definite starts and stops is very attractive.

The job might end, but the work never ends, amirite @seanc

 

[Deadmanposting]

The job might end, but the work never ends, amirite @seanc

Ah, I've done both types of work.
Just teh idea of clocking out and being done for the day is something I remember fondly

A lad here just quit to go work in Italy doing something unrelated to his field. Some people are doing it.

 

[seanc]

The job might end, but the work never ends, amirite @seanc

Well it's a funny old thing the crewing business. If DMP is saying what I think he is, he could indeed just rock up, do the hours, leave.
But he's probably too concientious and mature for that, and he'll get sucked in, like me.

Now sometimes I'm the grownup in the room. Today was another nice one at first glance; Turn up, turn it on, watch and wait, turn it off, go home. Three hours, but also six conversations and a hundred emails, and they still fecked it up.

Being a humble box pusher does have a certain appeal.

 

[seanc]

The pub here played "For Whom The Bell Tolls".

I got a little excited, but there's a little Daschund doggo that, totally on cue, started barking rythmically and incessantly. At least until the chorus.

Me and one other guy who's a drummer (there's only ten people here), we're laughing and nodding our heads, and no one else got it. "But the dog knows the song!". That dog definitely knew what it was doing.

 

[therealjohnny]

I had breakfast in a rural pub yesterday and they played Rory Gallagher's Moonchild and Ozzy Osborne's Crazy Train. That was unexpected. No dogs were involved though.

 

[Deadmanposting]

This made me laugh

 

[seanc]

This is a weird wake.

As it's not a wake, it's Halloween with sandwiches and sausage rolls. But also it's a wake, but there's face painting. And people who are here, but not here for the wake, because it's not a wake.

It's probably what Chris would have wanted.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Halloween's over, so no one can complain about Christmas deccies anymore

The moaners and whingers are on the back foot.

This is our time, the joyful shall reign!


Tell 'em, Mariah!

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[magicbastarder]

This is a weird wake.

As it's not a wake, it's Halloween with sandwiches and sausage rolls. But also it's a wake, but there's face painting. And people who are here, but not here for the wake, because it's not a wake.

It's probably what Chris would have wanted.

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[GARYXKNIFEDX]

The only thing good about Christmas is the thumped Christmas party.

 

[seanc]

Doing a search, looking through past posts... I've forgotten what my m1nor complaint was.

Thanks guys.