New Job

I have a meeting for a new job doing sales for a Glass company.
Custom glass, showers, mirrors, railings.
Doing measurements on sites/homes.

I have done sales before and have the experience. But I don't have a lot of experience doing measurements and having to be super accurate in this field. Is taking measurements super difficult for this job? I am freaking out over the idea of screwing up measurements etc.

I am not sure if they use lasers and or just tape measures.
I need to get one of those EZ read tape measures.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How hard could it be just get accurate measurements and I'm sure they will give you some training

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I need to get one of those EZ read tape measures.
    You're one of THOSE guys

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    That is literally one of the first things they will tell you. Ask what your coworker recommends and then get that.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Things to look out for

    DO NOT use a laser, jesus fricking christ those things are good 99 percent of time, but that 1 percent whoops its a half inch off for no god damn reason, and it wont be when your cutting a 2x4

    look at pic related: You see that worthless gap before zero? well guess what. That shit will ass rape your measurements. You will be off by however much that gay ass gap is if you use the ruler to but into a wall and take a measurement.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      to combat this get a combination square, just a 12 dollar piece of shit s good enough.

      you need one of these to take proper inside measurments

      follow pic related

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Who the frick would measure a shower with a ruler

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        hey you fricking moronic pile of ass. you would measure tiles with a ruler. so you can also scrie

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        or maybe you need to find the center of a pipe and in order to do that you have to butt a tape measure into the wall but there is some shit in the way and a tape measure wont fit so you would use a ruler

        there are shit loads of reasons why a ruler is often better than a tape.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Where won't a tape measure fit?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            when you have shit in the way. Like any sort of shit, maybe you have a valve in the way maybe you have tile in the way

            maybe its a piece of trim

            perhaps its a pile of fricking thinset that you could chip off but frick it your ruler will fit so why bother

            could be that you want a set of measurments to stay on the ground and your tape measre wants to fall over well guess what a ruler wont fall over cuz its already fricking over.

            a ruler is flat while a tape measure blade is round which makes it less accurate for marking with.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This sounds less like a gotcha and more like a fundamental misapplication of a ruler instead of a tape measure. What do you do, make a pencil mark at the end so you know where to put the ruler to measure the next foot?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        no you do what I already said which is to buy a combination square and use the ruler it comes with, because it starts a zero like a ruler fricking should

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I know I said dont get lasers and what I mean is dont by a laser measure

    DO buy as many laser levers as you can possibly afford

    DO get a laser square

    DO get a laser plumb bob

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >DO get a laser plumb bob
      Why would you get a plumb bob that takes batteries? What's wrong with a regular bob?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you dont need to have a anchoring point on the ceiling to use a laser

        its a million times faster

        they are not affected by wind

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I use mine to mark ceiling junction boxes center onto the floor, then I board over them and then I put the laser back on the floor mark and now I know where the center is on the board.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lol Jesus dude. Measure twice and mark down your on your note pad.

    I've worked construction sales for 10 years. Shit is not hard.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Measure twice
      Meaning take the measurement and do it again from the other end, if possible, for you complete fricking morons.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >measurements
    Pffft. Just pull sting to length and cut it. Then put all the strings completely unlabelled into a single envelope. Write the (job number + the current date - your phone number ÷ π) on the envelope. And mail it COD.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is it renewal by andersen?

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OP when in doubt, ask a colleague. Don't try to wing it.

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