Lost tools

Hitch · Post by **Hitch** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:24 pm

Dont you just hate it when you loose a tool, especially if its a nice one.

Not lost anything for a long time, now i cant find my x-outs or my veritas flush cut saw

We have a most recently bought tool thread.... how about a most recently lost

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:39 pm

and a most recently found (as in "I just found this tool and never knew I even had on")

Only-Me · Post by **Only-Me** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:08 pm

Need a dozy Pillock Thread.

Hitch.......you start it off

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:56 pm

I loose tools all the time, well I don't loose them I lend them out and forget who I lent them to.

Then in five years I will remember and ask for it back and the person I lent it to thinks that it is theirs because they have had it so long

Wood Magnet · Post by **Wood Magnet** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:03 pm

Must admit i never lend tools out, if anyone asks i tell them "sorry but i don't" but i will offer to do the job for them.

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:07 pm

pitbull wrote:Must admit i never lend tools out, if anyone asks i tell them "sorry but i don't" but i will offer to do the job for them.

Because I don't do jobs for anyone they usally ask me and I normally say " I can lend you the tools and you can do it yourself". My scaffold tower and cement mixer are hardly ever in my possession

jason123 · Post by **jason123** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:26 pm

An engineering manager of mine got the hump when I wouldnt lend him some allen keys and a couple of spanners. I jokingly suggested he give me a £50 deposit so I could replace them when he forgets to give them back. He refused that offer so I stood by my decision. He said you are being rediculous, I said, I have offered to do the job, you are not borrowing my tools. He still had a shitty on about it. I said take it to personnel, see what they say.

I was summoned to personnel, why wont you lend ** your tools, because he has a habit of not returning them, and denies ever having borrowed them when you ask for them back, I asked for a £50 deposit for the replacement costs of the tools, he refused, I offered to do the job, he didnt want me to do it. What should I do.

We think you should let him borrow your tools. Ok, can I make him sign for them? No thats not really fair, he only wants to borrow them.

Borrowing implys returning, borrowing without returning is theft, should I raise a greivance against ** everytime he steals peoples tools.

Im getting bored now, but you get the gist, he didnt borrow my tools, and personnel advised him not to ask again.

bathstyle · Post by **bathstyle** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:46 pm

I think it's only right you phone him up and apologise Jase

stevemastic · Post by **stevemastic** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:56 pm

not lost. but burnt out an extreme 2 masonary bit

that counts as lost to me

tim'll fix it · Post by **tim'll fix it** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:32 am

i lose no end

i have lost tools on jobs and checked everywhere but not found them

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:25 am

I tend to lose clothing! Had a tendency to visit potential customers, have a meeting and then leave a coat or similar behind - sometimes realise in time, other times it has meant a special journey back

Wood Magnet · Post by **Wood Magnet** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:08 pm

Hoovie leaves his kecks behind at customers houses!

Slugster · Post by **Slugster** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:35 pm

When somebody ask me for a loaner, the stock response is

"Sorry but no. I once lost a grand piano that way"

Tends to shut them up whilst they figure it out.

Hitch · Post by **Hitch** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:20 pm

Hitch · Post by **Hitch** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:27 pm

If im in the workshop, i dont mind people using something of mine now and then, as long as its not something simplem they should have, like a hammer or square.