I loved running cable.
Climbing telephone poles, battling tight spaces in the deepest assholes of the nastiest houses I've ever seen in my life, same for the attics, same for the crawlspaces below houses/trailers, etc etc.
I drilled so many holes in so many peoples houses. Some of the houses were 5+ million dollars worth of house, and I drilled holes in those fuckers, too. From the attic down, from the crawlspace up, from the inside out, and from the outside in.
I saw drug deals go wrong right infront of me, I saw lots of domestic violence, saw lots of Houston's wards.. I got to see something that really confused me, too..
New neighborhoods with brand new houses that are pretty decent.. EXCEPT, the entire neighborhood is filled with black people that came straight out of a rap video about crack, prostitutes, and "thug life!".
Makes me wonder, "How, ya'll, did Tyrone Biggums get a brand new house, two brand new vehicles, brand new clothes, and brand new cable when he is still dealing drugs out of his FUCKING DRIVEWAY?"
I dunno, but he didn't have any weed or anything else I might be interested in, so I just hooked up his cable and left before I got robbed.
Couple of instances where I was really considering shooting someone.. Here's one.
I was hooking up cable for another group of "social setbacks" (someone who is in every sense of the word, a leach on society) when their neighbor drove over with his friend and loudmouthed wife in two vehicles and boxed my truck in. I thought, "Shit, I'm going to have to shoot these people."
They were complaining about their service not working, but they were with AT&T, so I very unpolitely suggested that they get the fuck away from my truck, and call AT&T to deal with their shit, and to not ever scare someone like that again because, shit.. Don't mess with a man's truck, especially not when he's carrying 20k worth of equipment in the fucking ghetto.
A man in the ghetto must be armed and alarmed.
I was making about 70k a year at that job. Bossman ran it into the ground with imported labor. My job went from awesome to nightmare in just a couple of days.
It aint fun cleaning up the messes of 35 "professional" technicians that don't know how to do their jobs. Especially when not being compensated for the work being done, gas being spent, etc etc.
Last edited by WinchesterAA; 04-22-2010 at 08:47 AM..
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