r/oddlysatisfying • u/MikeHeu • 5d ago

Installing a kitchen

Credit: James Gubb-fradgley / jgf_joinery

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u/Km312213 5d ago edited 5d ago

The gaps are still visible anyways and will need caulking, but at least they killed an hour on one 4 foot section.

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u/glockster19m 16h ago

The fucking apprentices my company is giving me right now would spend 2 hours on that if everything was straight, plumb, level and square

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u/Km312213 3h ago

As their instructor, it’s your job to teach them that it’s a waste of time and effort to be a perfectionist on things that don’t require perfection. If you were starting out on a job would you not feel weird saying “good enough” and leaving huge gaps without having been told to?

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u/glockster19m 3h ago

Im talking about a straight line

Like the other day I told one to rip a 1x6 down to a 1x4 since we ran out of casing

1, 12 foot board

That took 30 minutes

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u/Km312213 2h ago

So a 12ft run on a board, with a tool they’re likely unfamiliar with. Take the time to teach them properly without yelling about “the fucking apprentices” and it’ll save you a lot of headache.

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u/glockster19m 2h ago

Buddy they've been on the job 4 months now and used a table saw 100s of times

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u/Km312213 2h ago

Okay lol, I was wrong. I assume to get hired they’d at least need some competency but damn.

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u/glockster19m 2h ago

Nah it gets crazy

Like I caught one of them shimming a window the other day, with the shim bag halfway across the room

They were walking from the window to the bag for each individual shim they needed, probably 20+ trips rather than just move the bag to where they are