I take my smoke breaks driving from building to building when I go close out workorders placed by the people at the buildings. When they have lights out and things like that. Techincally my job title is building engineer.

Ooh, I get it now -- you're the manliest man some of these chicks see, in their women-centric cushy office jobs. You're the guy who comes around every once in a while and is willing to get on a ladder and lift the suspended ceiling to see where the AC leak is. And if they have guys around, they are cushy metrosexual office guys, who don't even know how to lift a suspended ceiling.

So you're like the women's designated "dangerous guy target", and a certain percentage of women are kinda driven to go after that. And the bad news is, the ones who go after that with the most desperation are also the ones most likely to be totally nuts.

Refer them to the UPS guy. He's single, and he's got thighs to last all night.

Funny but yeah that's pretty much how it is. And yeah I do that sort of too and I fix their desks too when they have power issues with their cubes so I have to crawl under their desks and stuff.

And yes there are some that are kinda nuts that's why it was funny when someone said I must work at a female looney bin.

But I do really really like my job. There's a lot of chill time and I get to work with my hands and they pay isn't to shabby either. There is good money in mynline of work specially if you re HVAC certified which I am.

It's funny because I kind of thought, if I had to do it over again, HVAC. At first I thought electrician, because I've always liked hardware and circuits. But then I realized, in HVAC you have to know pretty much everything: electrical, mechanical, all kinds of construction, a little plumbing even. It has to be valuable.

So the other day I had AC trouble, and the guy who runs his own HVAC business came out. And I asked him about how it must be hard to do HVAC, because you have to know everything. Yeah, he said, it's impossible to find good people. Tells me a story.

At one point he was working with a guy, trying to run a pipe from the basement to the first floor. He wasn't exactly sure where he'd wind up when drilling through the basement ceiling, but he made the very best measurements he could, and put an X on the ceiling where he thought it should go. Then he told his assistant: I'm not sure where the hole will be, but I'll walk up to the first floor, you drill on the X, and I'll watch for the drill coming through.

So he goes up and watches the spot where he thinks it will land, and he hears the drill going... but he never sees anything. He goes back down to his assistant to find out WTF, and the guy has drilled the hole about a foot and a half away from where the X is marked.

Asks him what the hell, and the guy just shrugs... I thought that would be a better spot...

My background was originally in plumbing. I did that for about 6 years. And I kind of fell into this job which they paid to have me HVAC certified. And they upped my salary as soon as a get the cert. Which was awesome I have been doing it for about 2 years now and it's great and a good percentage of the time I don't have to work on the units because they are under warranty I only so far do small stuff like change the filters and clean out the coils and I do have to respond to some alarms after hours every now and again. So it's not too bad. I mainly handle plumbing issues and or water leaks and some electrical problems. It's an awesome job....an oh yeah did i mention it pays very well.

The story is awesome.....Maybe even classic people do some stupid shit sometimes.

He-ey Mr ThatGuy, I'm actually on your side. I was genuinely thinking how unjust that your job should be threatened by this woman's inappropriate sexual overtures to you. But I was also genuinely making the point that women suffer this wrong-thinking and no-one notices. "Oh, you're asecretary and your boss is coming on to you and HR won't help? Well, you'll just have to look for another job". Whut?!?!?!?
(By the way I'm a girlie!).

Oh ok got cha sorry. Oh and your a girl too man i feel like a douche now.....sorry bout that. But yeah i get your point now. But after hearing the advice of some folks here and being told that i might be getting canned in the near future i decided to go up to the HR manger again today and he has let me know that there is a possiblity that "she" will be transferring to another location very soon because she is getting promoted!!! WTF!!! He couldnt tell me where of course...But its out of Florida!!!! I think i just lucked out. Because i really like my job.

You didn't mention - does it pay well? ;):stickpoke:biggrinje

Oh really i didnt mention??? And i forgot to say that it pays well???? :D

I'm sorry, I didn;t quite catch that: did you say it pays quite poorly?

Oh what you didnt catch that either. What! Ok give me a few mintues and i will write the whole thing over again :D:compute:

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