Your a well trained and motivated building professional. Your building resume makes Bob Vila look like three year old that hasn’t mastered Lincoln Logs. What skill could you learn to perk up that career? What could set your crew apart while bringing its members together? What certification, properly framed of course, would add distinction and class to that drafty business office?
Be the first building crew in your area to have this valuable skill set. With this certificate customers will flock to your doorstep. You will be a man among men. A legend in your own time. A hero to children. You might even get a pay raise. As long as you promise not to yodel on the job.
It may also solve certain problems. Customer won’t pay. Pay him regular visits and serenade them with your yodeling skill. For tougher customer bring the entire crew and a few beers. A few 3AM concerts and those checks will start flowing in.
Edited 12/21/2002 3:45:10 PM ET by 4LORN1
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It got rid of the Martians in "Mars Attacks!"
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Your building resume makes Bob Vila look like three year old that hasn't mastered Lincoln Logs.
That pretty much includes everyone I can think of.
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I lived in Interlaken, Switzerland the summer of '96. On weekday mornings we would listen to the 1/2 hour Mike Parkin radio show which was music interspersed with news in English. The problem was, Mike would whisper the news and then say "And now for some traditional Swiss music..." and crank up the volume. I will always hate yodelling and accordians.
Scott
p.s. If you want to see finely built homes, go to Switzerland. The house two doors down from my SOL's was built in 1518. I watched some buildings under construction and was amazed by the quality and also by the short working hours and lack of progress on the projects.
florn.............
why, SPITTING is the tradespersons 2nd skilll for the new millenium.
Just think, the ability of a stuperintendent to pinpoint a haucker right on target saves time getting out his laser pointer and showing the troubler spot.
electricion: "Wher does the cieling fan go?
stuper: ' hhhhaaaaaaauuuuck... pptoooii.!! "Right there!" ( just look at that green slimy snot dripping off a that roof truss)
plumber: " where does the stool, tub and lavies go?????"
stuper: ' hhhhaaaauuuggghhht ppptttooooooiiiii.
'hhhaaaaagghhhttttttt ppppttttooooooiii.
hhaaghht ptooi haauuchht pttooii.
'"right thewr, there, and therer.
I went to a Swedish restaurant in Seattle once. The food was excellent, but the entire time I was there they played yodeling music. I think that qualifies as at least one lifetime's worth.
Must have been a Swiss restaurant. Swedes don't yodel.
But the food's better at the Swedish restarant
;).
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
In heaven, the police are British, the chefs are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian, and everything is organized by the Swiss.
In hell, the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and everything is organized by the Italians.
And, in hell, the stairbuilders are . . . .
Oh, never mind.
Greg.
I'm so glad you didn't say it!.
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
You're right, Swiss. Comes from getting old and taking anthrax shots.
So don't take shots at the ant tracks. Track soup won't put meat on your bones. Shoot the ants instead. Then you'll have a real meal ant won't have to eat out so much.
;).
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
Ah, a fine example of the second lowest form of humor. Happens to be where I hang out all the time. Of course, you realize I was just taking pictures of the ant tracks, not actually shooting them for food. I think I was trying to determine if young ant couples were getting married without their parents' permission and if a lot of ants were walking around worrying about it. In other words, I was tracking the antagonizing antelope situation.
Well, given the communal culture of an ant colony, if I were the pappy ant, I wouldn't worry much about whether my progeny were rubbing antennae with other ants in anticipation of other anterior antics so long as they kept themselves out of the cockroach hotels and didn't set foot into those ant bait stations. .
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
You guys havent heard me in the shower or under the table near the ladies room when Im tieing one on...:>)
At Darkworks Customer satisfaction Job One..Yea yea were all over it , I got my best guys on it.........
I haven't practiced my knot tying for a while...
;).
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius