Random Rants

[Giles]

Well done for sticking it out.

[WhiskeySandwich]

There was a lot on the line and it was worth putting up a fight. It seems once an organization reaches a certain size, they adopt a policy of fuck-the-pawns by default. It was almost too easy once I got above that threshold....weird

[Giles]

The obvious point here is. If I knew the name of the company you worked for, them fucking you over is probably all I would know/remember about them.....

[WhiskeySandwich]

well we cant have that now

[flannel slut]

Building a very small deck for my entry way and needed a little bit of lumber. I know better than to go to Lowe’s for this but I have a location near my house and thought I could make do being a small project. The collection of damaged and warped boards was mind boggling… after over an hour of sifting through a pile of misfits and then being told they had “plastic?!?” joist hangers in stock (somehow they were out of galvanized steel hangers ) I got the fuck out of there and went to an independent lumber dealer. Over an hour drive away but quality product and there was a grizzly 70 year old with 3 lifetimes of knowledge working there that I could have kissed.
Fuck off Lowes

[steelworker]

[mclaincausey]

@steelworker my mantra these days

[Tago Mago]

Topography of Terror is sickening, much like the concentration camps I have visited.

The „master race“ in full flow:

I’ll refrain from posting anything else because if I did I’d have to ban myself

[WhiskeySandwich]

@flannel-slut yeah Lowe’s lumber is pretty shit. I’ve found a better spot, closer to home, but they charge a good 30% more. Fuhhhhh

[flannel slut]

@WhiskeySandwich seriously. the %30 increase is no joke man but definitely money well spent.

[chrisjohnnick]

A couple years back, I wanted to build some picnic tables for my backyard. We have a pretty big outdoor patio area, so they needed to be at least 10 or 12 feet long or else they’d look like toddler tables. I found some plans online that I altered to work, and when I tried pricing out wood locally the costs were astronomical. I was hard set on having cedar and nothing else. I finally just reached out directly to some local cedar mills about an hour or two outside of town and got a direct price from them. $700 delivered on a flatbed trailer to my driveway. Other high-end lumber dealers in the Nashville area were charging me $1500-$2000 just to pick it up at their warehouse.

Didn’t even bother wasting my time going to Lowe’s or Home Depot, as I knew their choices for wood would’ve been absolute shit, let alone overpriced.