Catching Up

I most humbly apologize to anyone who follows this blog for dropping off the map like I did. I had a few days work with Bill and then my father died and I kind of dropped off the map anywhere.
I realized how lax my updating had become and hereafter vow to do a better job. So Let's get right back into Bill Bashing.
Personally my favorite sport of them all when I'm stuck at work.

The last time I was unfortunate enough to be paid $9.00 and hour for his company he had asked Nate to drill a hole through a pipe, which wasn't working as nate realized as it was a tempered steel pipe which most people know is notoriously difficult and nearly impossible to just casually drill a hole through. So after Nate expressed issues with this the Almighty Bill himself came back to the shop to do it.
He asked me to hold the pipe still so it didn't spin. Note: here he did not ask my opinion thusly I never gave it. I DID however watch him melt two drill bits trying to drill a hole through this pipe. Bill then came to the conclusion that there must be something wrong with the pipe. He proceeded to pick up another tempered steel pipe and melt another drill bit on that pipe. he then picked up a third pipe which was NOT tempered drilled his hole and left.
Bill came back three minutes later and asked me to drill a second hole through the first half of the pipe because the bolt was actually going in at an angle and he required a second hole to make this work. I did it and he left again.

I'm pretty sure he gave me choice of work at this point and I chose rather than weave ugly yarn into a chicken wire tree to drill holes into two large three feet circles for some sort of weird Jail that Bill was constructing for the show.
Now if I had not myself seen Nate constructing the bottom of the platform for this Jail I never would have set foot on the thing. It stands about 13 feet off the stage and the actor is required to climb a very weird Jilty ladder made of metal to get to it. It doesn't look safe and probably isn't all that safe. But Nate built the support structure for it so I trusted standing on it.
Bill asked me to stand on the base for it and hold up one of the giant circles I had helped drill holes through above my head ( it needed to be 7 feet up I am only 6 feet tall) so he could attach some sort of clamp from it to a pipe hanging off the proscenium arch. It went miserably.

We barely got the entire ugly contraption up and working but because he screwed in his little holder somewhere other than centered the weight of the circle was causing it to tilt forward and the steel bars he was using for the jail were falling out with nothing else to keep them in place.
Bill set up a one sided ladder for me to climb down on to because we were done for the day.
I commented that it didn't look very stable and he told me that it was because only the left side of the ladder was actually on the ground, the other half was hanging off the stage but if I just keep all my weight on the left side of the ladder I will be fine.

Bill is an idiot with ladders.

I thought before that it doesn't take a genius to set up a ladder you put one end on the ground and the other against the stationary wall and bam, it's done. Bill never learned how to do this I guess. I declined climbing down his unstable ladder worked my way slowly down the 100% vertical jilty metal ladder and left for the day.

He has e-mail me a few times since then to do some hours. I think my favorite instance is him e-mailing me a nasty e-mail telling me that I can't just not show up for work without ever telling me that I had hours and also without calling me to inform me I was scheduled.

But that's just Bill.