PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

They deal with hoarder situations, but it's basically removing furniture and stuff. J-Dog also does carpet cleaning franchises, but this franchise owner only does the junk removal; I would rather clear out houses than work some soul-crushing retail job, and I certainly will not detail cars at a dealership ever again! Also, you have me beat; I took a job at a deli in November 2013 and lasted like three hours. The deli was owned by a husband and wife, and went out of business a year or so after I worked there. The husband was very nice for the first two hours or so, and then he turned into an asshole. He started screaming at employees for doing the simplest thing wrong, and I asked one of my soon-to-be former coworkers if he was always like this. He told me yes, and gave me examples of what a hardass the guy was. One such example was that if he found one smudge on the glass sneeze guards, he would make you do it all over again...

I ended up on dish duty; I did okay at first, but up until that point, my idea of "washing dishes" had been putting them in the dishwasher and pressing a button or washing them in the sink one dish at a time on an as-needed basis. I also screamed at by the owner for leaving the sink running for a few minutes. The other employees kept bringing dishes in and putting them in the sink, and I froze up. At that point the owner came in, said that it wasn't going to work out, and told me to leave; I went to my truck and kicked up a nice cloud of dust as I peeled out of the gravel parking lot.

I would find out from the owner's now-ex-wife years later that he was in the early stages of a stroke on the night I worked there; I still think he's just an asshole, and the funny thing is that he's now the manager of a restaurant less than a mile from where I lived now.

 

Yeah, I can understand that.
As for me, I wouldn't have volunteered to help if I knew what I was getting into.

When I say volunteer, I mean the guy was looking for "help on the side" as he was down a few workers and needed to catch up on some jobs.
It wasn't a formal job. Just help for a day and done. Like I say, My friend was helping his friend (guy that owned the business) and I was "helping" my friend.
My buddy understood where I was coming from, he didn't even know what we were getting into. So np hard feelings there.
The woman's son ended up helping out. So the job got done.

But I couldn't do it. I don't care to get dirty. But I can't work in filth.
And the smell made my eyes burn.....It was "bad".

 

I would never, EVER, work for some fly-by-night "junk be gone" business. I only take scrap metal and thankfully nobody has tried to get me to take their garbage; I have had people try to offload wood and plastic on me, but I only take metal. I have rented a UHAUL trailer twice, but as a general rule, I will not take anything that doesn't fit in my truck; I do not mind making multiple trips if the stuff is located within a 5-10 mile radius of my house.

If I could be picky, I would only take air-conditioners and HVAC equipment. Unfortunately, Facebook is flooded with morons who think that a pre-2010 air-conditioner or heat pump is actually worth several hundred dollars just because it (A) works and (B) uses R-22 Freon. There is a 1992 Bryant air-conditioner in Warminster for $350 on Facebook Marketplace for a couple months that nobody wants; I messaged the seller offering fifty bucks, and they read my message, but I haven't heard back.

If I could get my hands on five to ten complete central air-conditioners per week, I wouldn't need to have a "real" job! Unfortunately, getting one's hands on a central air-conditioner is very hard. Getting one for free is virtually impossible, and when somebody lists a central air-conditioner for free, everybody is all over it. I had to drive about an hour from my house to get a free air-conditioner the last time I got one...

 

Good stuff Charlie plus you have a few irons in the fire such as the possibility of NAVMAR.

I don't know much about them myself but sadly it seems like some of those things like Ken's Krew which should be good things are usually virtue signaling by the company, let's just say. Nice that at least the coach took an interest in you and gave a shit.

I know you mentioned seniority but any guess what you'd minimally get for scheduling per week?

 

Not yet. Been super busy with work and life.

Moving later this year, location TBD (still SoCal). Thinking better to purchase once I’m a bit more settled.

 

CO is firmly a place I never want to move. Only place I would ever consider is the Springs.

SoCal is ok. There are worse places to be. The nicer locations are perfectly fine and safe. Just very pricey.

 

your choices arent very convincing there jersey guy

 

Yeah… there’s always a chance, but my interest in CO is very low. Your experiences do not help.

If you get it, you get it

 

Are Spongebob and Patrick supposed to be in North or South Jersey?

 

Definitely fleeing the North for the pine barrens. Maybe Patrick stole some chocolate

 

Maybe they'll find that Russian guy who Paulie and Christopher were shooting at...

 

I was watching some kind of documentary of a crime story in Alaska one time, sounded like they have a huge problem with people going missing all the time.

 

Had the opportunity to drive past our old house today...

 

Went to do dishes this morning and the water was abnormally scalding hot so I bumped the water temp down a few degrees. Few hours later it was still Hot AF, turned the temp down another 10 degrees to no avail. Eventually flipped the breaker off and even 5 hours later its still quite hot, guessing the thermostat and/or heating elements took a dump so will be flipping the breaker on and off to control the temp until I can swap those parts out.

 

Mine was the elements a few yrs ago. Roasted myself taking a shower.

 

Bet that was a fun shower, doing the dishes earlier I could hardly put my hands in the water.

 

At least you guys didn't start the new off by having to replace two water heaters in four days...