The Real Bev wrote:
On 09/01/2016 09:48 AM, downhill wrote:

I get asked tech questions in Home Depot all the time. My response is I
am not wearing any Orange and I am a consultant and will want a CC on
file before I answer any tech questions.

I'm curious. What kind of questions and why YOU? I've asked guys who
looked like they knew what they were doing (tool belt, butt crack, etc.)
questions and it's never seemed to bother them.


I have low thresh hold for idiots, if you can not figure out who works
there. Why bother me?

Two if you have done your work and understand what your doing your
questions would be reasonable and minimal. Not like the question I heard
at the bait store today, can you filet my 40 lb fish I do not know how.

An example I am loading 20 60lb bags of cement on a cart, and a guy
comes over and asks me how to fix a crack in his cement. I am sweating
like a pig covered in dust and I want to stop and answer questions of
which the only answer involves more questions.

Other time I am picking out ring terminals for heavy gauge wire, used on
master switches in race cars. Guy comes over with junction boxes,
switches and something else and asks me if it right for the job.
Seriously I am to tell you what is up to code.

Often guys in the trades wearing toolbelts are looking for side work,
and HD is a fertile place for people that need work. The clients I seek
are not normally found in HD, and frequently the type that are asking
questions are not the sharpest utensils in the drawer.