User Panel
Quoted: My hands are pretty scarred up. First major one was from a box cutter a friend was operating when I was 16 working at a grocery store & helping him throw out frozen. 6 stitches on the second knuckle. That same finger decades later got majorly tore up when I was cutting some sheet metal & I gave myself a huge gash on my last knuckle. Over a year before the tendons healed & I could straighten it. I’ve cut through work gloves so often I don’t even bother wearing them. Fine control is more advantageous to me than minor protection. View Quote Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of scar tissue...I'm one of those who, if I do get cut, ends up not noticing immediately. I understand dexterity; there are some tasks best left to a non-gloved hand. When the gloves are mandatory, I like employment more than dexterity. I'm just saying, I doubt anyone can tell much from a cursory examination of my hands; because at most, that's all you're getting...if that. I think it'd be a weird request from an interviewer. |
|
Quoted: Because they don’t actually want to be working in that field, just like the girls in these videos. I was in the Infantry and now own a construction company. No women Infantry when I was in, but we occasionally had female FOs attached to us. Those did their job and didn’t fuck our guys and create a bunch of drama. No issues other than one of the married joes sniffing around on deployment and we shut that shit down right away. In my business, I employ a few women. The ones in the field last an average of 2 weeks. The ones in the office do their jobs and don’t fuck the guys. So no, I’m not talking about all women. I do paint with a broad brush. It’s called generalizing. It’s not always true but it usually is. All humans do this. I’ll also go on record as saying most no-beans chili eaters are losers. So yes, in general, women are not the best electricians. Or Infantrymen. Or weightlifters. Prove me wrong. I disagree on everything they do or don’t do being judged as being a female. The issue specific to this thread- making dancing tiktok videos while taking your clothes off at work- is something I’ve only seen from women. I think I already addressed your “3 posts down” point. It’s up to the supervisors to shit it down. There will always be horny men and there will always be women that exploit it. Both suck and need to control that shit at work. I do have positive thoughts on women, that’s just not the threads created here. Notice I never create these. All of the threads about women on this site are either about dating tips or complaining about them(divorce, mgtow, etc). So this isn’t the place for pats on the back for being a woman. That’s what Reddit is for. My thoughts on gender are as follows: men are physically stronger and generally better at logical decision making. Women are better at overall communication and nurturing. Both are required. If this offends you then, again, Reddit. View Quote This is the first even-handed post on women I've ever seen from you. I'm the first one to say there's nothing wrong with male or female oriented jobs and they're that way for a reason. Not offended in the least. |
|
Originally Posted By OnlineAllTheTime: This is the first even-handed post on women I've ever seen from you. I'm the first one to say there's nothing wrong with male or female oriented jobs and they're that way for a reason. Not offended in the least. View Quote Well I don’t like making posts that long. I’m sure that explained my viewpoint better though. Women like your daughter are not the ones I’m talking about when I’m saying these things. It’s the ones in these videos I’m referring to, which happens to be how many behave. If hoes wanna hoe, great! Just don’t go play dress up as an Infantryman and get people killed because you want attention. I don’t know what the equivalent for a man would be. If I became a nurse just because I could get a lot of female attention even though I would be horrible at that job? (I would, too) |
|
Quoted: /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/illallowit-195.gif I'm ok with this. Anything that shines a positive light on Trades. View Quote Yeah, as long as I don't have to work with them. |
|
|
|
Quoted: Well I don’t like making posts that long. I’m sure that explained my viewpoint better though. Women like your daughter are not the ones I’m talking about when I’m saying these things. It’s the ones in these videos I’m referring to, which happens to be how many behave. If hoes wanna hoe, great! Just don’t go play dress up as an Infantryman and get people killed because you want attention. I don’t know what the equivalent for a man would be. If I became a nurse just because I could get a lot of female attention even though I would be horrible at that job? (I would, too) View Quote It did, thank you. Nothing to disagree with here either. |
|
Quoted: I've met exactly one competent female electrician in 20+ years in the industry. Women usually don't have the physical strength to do the heavy lifting and that is 100% required to get the respect of the people you work with. Laziness or inability to do any part of the job is called out harshly. Of the 5 or so women I've met at work, only 1 is an actual electrician and still works as one. The mental stuff isn't an issue but if you can't do the whole job you're worthless to us. View Quote My 40 years of experience has been that their brains aren't wired for troubleshooting. Deductive reasoning and map reading must use the same part of the brain. |
|
Those look like real electricians, just like the IDF girls thread.
|
|
Quoted: https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/electrician-woman-comp-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1488 https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/electrician-woman-06.jpg https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/female-sparky-shocks-006_3523714.jpg View Quote Third photo. Doll's eyes. The look you'll see when she's connecting the electrodes to your nads. Attached File |
|
Quoted: Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of scar tissue...I'm one of those who, if I do get cut, ends up not noticing immediately. I understand dexterity; there are some tasks best left to a non-gloved hand. When the gloves are mandatory, I like employment more than dexterity. I'm just saying, I doubt anyone can tell much from a cursory examination of my hands; because at most, that's all you're getting...if that. I think it'd be a weird request from an interviewer. View Quote You're overthinking it. That's not something you ask everyone, just people you're suspicious of. Me: How much experience do you have? Interviewee: 10 years. Me: Why do your hands look like you work in a bank? Interviewee: I, uh, we'll, um... Me: Let's go in the shop. I want to see you bend a 4" rigid conduit: Interviewee: We'll, I haven't done much of that you see... Me: Next! |
|
That’s all well and good till we start running 4 inch rigid. Then we find out who’s going to run the oiler while the rest of us run pipe.
I’m not saying there are not women who can be master electricians or be project managers. There are. But electrical work is hard heavy work in nasty conditions and is suited to men. I have worked with women electricians and none of them could keep up when the going got even halfway tough. |
|
Simps will be the death of us.
And women shouldn't be doing fucking electrical work. |
|
Quoted: You're overthinking it. That's not something you ask everyone, just people you're suspicious of. Me: How much experience do you have? Interviewee: 10 years. Me: Why do your hands look like you work in a bank? Interviewee: I, uh, we'll, um... Me: Let's go in the shop. I want to see you bend a 4" rigid conduit: Interviewee: We'll, I haven't done much of that you see... Me: Next! View Quote Gotcha. In that particular scenario, I'd be thinking to myself, "wtf do they have the bender set up in the shop...who the hell prefabs 4" rigid...probably not a place I want to work...next." I'm interviewing the employer as much as the employer is interviewing me... |
|
Quoted: I've met exactly one competent female electrician in 20+ years in the industry. Women usually don't have the physical strength to do the heavy lifting and that is 100% required to get the respect of the people you work with. Laziness or inability to do any part of the job is called out harshly. Of the 5 or so women I've met at work, only 1 is an actual electrician and still works as one. The mental stuff isn't an issue but if you can't do the whole job you're worthless to us. View Quote This, I want to see them bending 3/4-1” conduit and pulling some 500 MCM through conduit. |
|
Quoted: If they are in fact Electricians, I'll guarantee they don't do any work. I've worked on commercial jobsites that had a reasonably attractive woman as a helper/laborer. She didn't have to do shit! Guys from other trades would rush over to "help" her lift, carry or move any material. Even guys that weren't even in the same trade! It was funny as well as pathetic. Like when a woman comes into GD. View Quote Sadly, this is WAY to true and it's the tarded [boomer] older men that are far worse then the younger ones as far as doing their work for them. PS, I'm a late boomer but never bought into that shit, equal pay for equal work is what you wanted, that is what you should get. If you hire females in a physical labor work environment, you HAVE to put them to work immediately exactly like the guys and make sure the guys aren't going the work, if you don't, you will have a very hard time dealing with both the males and the females and you will, if you put your foot down later, probably have a harassment claim made against you. |
|
|
Quoted: Our oldest is going into a male dominated field and we've had discussions about ways to earn respect and ways to lose it. Things she'll have to be extra cognizant of, things to avoid, etc. She was encouraged by one of her professors to attend a conference for women in the industry that was supposedly covering the ^^^^ same things. She came home and was not in a good mood. She tossed the goody bag they gave her onto the couch and looked at us like . It was a pink tool kit filled with pink tools. View Quote You gotta be kidding me. If your daughter was nine years old, pink tools would be cute. Since she is approaching adulthood, that just plain insulting. |
|
Quoted: You gotta be kidding me. If your daughter was nine years old, pink tools would be cute. Since she is approaching adulthood, that just plain insulting. View Quote |
|
|
|
Quoted: Gotcha. In that particular scenario, I'd be thinking to myself, "wtf do they have the bender set up in the shop...who the hell prefabs 4" rigid...probably not a place I want to work...next." I'm interviewing the employer as much as the employer is interviewing me... View Quote We do plenty of prefab for medium voltage jobs. |
|
|
Beavis And Butthead - Boing! |
|
Quoted: You gotta be kidding me. If your daughter was nine years old, pink tools would be cute. Since she is approaching adulthood, that just plain insulting. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Our oldest is going into a male dominated field and we've had discussions about ways to earn respect and ways to lose it. Things she'll have to be extra cognizant of, things to avoid, etc. She was encouraged by one of her professors to attend a conference for women in the industry that was supposedly covering the ^^^^ same things. She came home and was not in a good mood. She tossed the goody bag they gave her onto the couch and looked at us like . It was a pink tool kit filled with pink tools. You gotta be kidding me. If your daughter was nine years old, pink tools would be cute. Since she is approaching adulthood, that just plain insulting. Oh, they were all adults. She was also irritated at me before she went because I made her go buy something professional to wear. She texted me when she got there, "I feel so out of place. Everyone else is in summer dresses or jeans and I look like an idiot in my pantsuit." I texted back that she's going to make a good impression on the people who count (obviously before either of us knew the pink tool kits were coming ). She relented when she later got pointed out as an example of how to dress properly for the job interviews they'd be going on. Me: Attached File |
|
|
Quoted: /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/illallowit-195.gif I'm ok with this. Anything that shines a positive light on Trades. View Quote Attached File |
|
Quoted: She’s holding a part of the iron that gets extremely hot. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: She’s holding a part of the iron that gets extremely hot. It really drives home how hard she must work to have calluses that will stand up to 400 degrees! |
|
Quoted: Gotcha. In that particular scenario, I'd be thinking to myself, "wtf do they have the bender set up in the shop...who the hell prefabs 4" rigid...probably not a place I want to work...next." I'm interviewing the employer as much as the employer is interviewing me... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: You're overthinking it. That's not something you ask everyone, just people you're suspicious of. Me: How much experience do you have? Interviewee: 10 years. Me: Why do your hands look like you work in a bank? Interviewee: I, uh, we'll, um... Me: Let's go in the shop. I want to see you bend a 4" rigid conduit: Interviewee: We'll, I haven't done much of that you see... Me: Next! Gotcha. In that particular scenario, I'd be thinking to myself, "wtf do they have the bender set up in the shop...who the hell prefabs 4" rigid...probably not a place I want to work...next." I'm interviewing the employer as much as the employer is interviewing me... |
|
Quoted: We do plenty of prefab for medium voltage jobs. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Gotcha. In that particular scenario, I'd be thinking to myself, "wtf do they have the bender set up in the shop...who the hell prefabs 4" rigid...probably not a place I want to work...next." I'm interviewing the employer as much as the employer is interviewing me... We do plenty of prefab for medium voltage jobs. We'll send the 300s out to the field with 141 and a pony on a small job, or send another 1224 and an electric bender out on a big one. He must be used to small shop operations. |
|
|
Quoted: Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of scar tissue...I'm one of those who, if I do get cut, ends up not noticing immediately. I understand dexterity; there are some tasks best left to a non-gloved hand. When the gloves are mandatory, I like employment more than dexterity. I'm just saying, I doubt anyone can tell much from a cursory examination of my hands; because at most, that's all you're getting...if that. I think it'd be a weird request from an interviewer. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: My hands are pretty scarred up. First major one was from a box cutter a friend was operating when I was 16 working at a grocery store & helping him throw out frozen. 6 stitches on the second knuckle. That same finger decades later got majorly tore up when I was cutting some sheet metal & I gave myself a huge gash on my last knuckle. Over a year before the tendons healed & I could straighten it. I’ve cut through work gloves so often I don’t even bother wearing them. Fine control is more advantageous to me than minor protection. Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of scar tissue...I'm one of those who, if I do get cut, ends up not noticing immediately. I understand dexterity; there are some tasks best left to a non-gloved hand. When the gloves are mandatory, I like employment more than dexterity. I'm just saying, I doubt anyone can tell much from a cursory examination of my hands; because at most, that's all you're getting...if that. I think it'd be a weird request from an interviewer. I agree. An interviewer asking to see your hands as part of the process and to determine your worthiness is a huge liability to the company. “I would be interested in some feedback on why I was passed up for the role, please.” “You are qualified in every way, but because I’m both psychic and qualified to determine your value based on not only physical traits, but the level of damage to them over your entire lifetime, I just didn’t like the look of your hands.” “Hello, is this Jim Adler the high power ambulance chasing attorney who goes by The Texas Hammer? I’d like to discuss a discrimination lawsuit with you.” |
|
|
Quoted: It really drives home how hard she must work to have calluses that will stand up to 400 degrees! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: She’s holding a part of the iron that gets extremely hot. It really drives home how hard she must work to have calluses that will stand up to 400 degrees! I’d force her to show me her hands if I was interviewing her… |
|
Quoted: I agree. An interviewer asking to see your hands as part of the process and to determine your worthiness is a huge liability to the company. “I would be interested in some feedback on why I was passed up for the role, please.” “You are qualified in every way, but because I’m both psychic and qualified to determine your value based on not only physical traits, but the level of damage to them over your entire lifetime, I just didn’t like the look of your hands.” “Hello, is this Jim Adler the high power ambulance chasing attorney who goes by The Texas Hammer? I’d like to discuss a discrimination lawsuit with you.” View Quote That's quite the masturbatory fantasy you have. That's not how it works in our industry. |
|
I know a very pretty woman electrician
Inherited the business from her dad |
|
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.