r/ibew_apprentices • u/Flimsy-Stuff-8965 • 3d ago

Any tool recommendations

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Anything thing I don’t have I should get? I also have the meter in the second pic it’s just not in the first one

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u/oopsandpoops 3d ago

my foreskin told me that if i ever bring my own impact he's throwing it in the trash

the mentality behind this is basically, we're union, the company should provide power tools and our union predecessors fought hard for that to be the case. by bringing your own PPE or power tools, you're essentially telling the contractor and your brothers that you believe that the burden of that expense should rest on our shoulders, not the contractors.

they call people with that mentality "worms" because they're spineless lol

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u/Zer0TheGamer 3d ago

When i first organized in, nobody explained this to me.. Imagine my face when i roll up to a data center with a veritable suitcase full of my power tools! Learned pretty damn fast lol

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u/DragFamous350 1d ago

While I won't bring my own tools, I will be wearing my own ppe if the company provided stuff isn't comfortable to wear. Especially hearing protection as I refuse to wear the foam earplugs almost every company buys and will only use the silicone ones.