>need 1 pressure treated 2ftx6ftx53inches6/16ths of an inch
>HD has radials, perfect I can quickly replace this and frick off
>head over to HD to replace a treadmill for old deck tread split on my dog's chain somehow.
> grab a 2x6x6 and ask to have it cut down to 53inches and 6/16ths
>this b***h I shit you not quadruple checked this shit and said she's made a million cuts and she's the "cut girl"
>she made the cut and grab it, paid and dipped after a weird ass situation I can explain if interested
>come home and the fricking longest piece she "cut" for me was 49inches and something.
>what the frick?
>go back to complain how they fricked the cut
>some random npc processed the return
>after I explained what happened she started refunding me and I shit you not , I watched npc #2 just muscle memory fricking scan both ends of the cut wood that was one piece
>it actually double refunded me lmao
>npc is so oblivious, she has no idea what she even did. She just saw a barcode and "processed" me
>was an amazing experience
>grabbed a second piece
>went to same cut lady
>explained what happened
>I watched as it completely broke her and will now forever question how she fricked it up
> told her to check for herself as customer service desk
>bruh soon as I said that she literally was max ags specced out with jmaul max hit frozen in time
Are these the people that build these fricking houses, because fricking hell, I'm selling this piece of shit and building my own shot only from now on. If I didn't see you do it, I don't trust you.
Teddy k was right you know.
>need 1 pressure treated 2ftx6ftx53inches6/16ths of an inch
>HD has radials, perfect I can quickly replace this and frick off
>head over to HD to replace a treadmill for old deck tread split on my dog's chain somehow.
> grab a 2x6x6 and ask to have it cut down to 53inches and 6/16ths
>this b***h I shit you not quadruple checked this shit and said she's made a million cuts and she's the "cut girl"
>she made the cut and grab it, paid and dipped after a weird ass situation I can explain if interested
>come home and the fricking longest piece she "cut" for me was 49inches and something.
>what the frick?
>go back to complain how they fricked the cut
>some random npc processed the return
>after I explained what happened she started refunding me and I shit you not , I watched npc #2 just muscle memory fricking scan both ends of the cut wood that was one piece
>it actually double refunded me lmao
>npc is so oblivious, she has no idea what she even did. She just saw a barcode and "processed" me
>was an amazing experience
>grabbed a second piece
>went to same cut lady
>explained what happened
>I watched as it completely broke her and will now forever question how she fricked it up
> told her to check for herself as customer service desk
>bruh soon as I said that she literally was max ags specced out with jmaul max hit frozen in time
Are these the people that build these fricking houses, because fricking hell, I'm selling this piece of shit and building my own shot only from now on. If I didn't see you do it, I don't trust you.
Teddy k was right you know.
The people who work in retail PrepHole stores don’t know anything unless they are boomers. The worst is Canadian tire, all of the people are kids and have no fricking clue what any tool is called.
I don't believe you. Nobody is too stupid to cut 49 instead of 56. I do not believe the human race has degenerated to that state yet
Why would you go to a hardware store and expect nice cuts, fricking idioto
I'm not saying that is wrong, I'm saying that margin to be off that much and done twice, I cannot believe that. Either you're lying or you live in a crack city
I'd say OP is a total moron and a nightmare customer, dnno why stores cater to these people
>I'd say OP is a total moron
Hmmmm...
>calls out 3/8" as "6/16"
>watches girl struggle/do it wrong, says nothing
> GOES HOME WITHOUT CHECKING THE CUT
>has to make a return trip
>spent more in wasted time and gas money than just buying a hand saw on trip #1 that would make that cut in less than a minute
It's probably also a pretty safe bet that he's using 16ths so he can get that piece nice and tight with no room for expansion.
>dipped after a weird ass situation I can explain if interested
Oh please do.
It was a combination of the weird units and the mumbling.
>the weird unit
why do you feel the need to bring OP's dick into the conversation?
How am I a nightmarish customer, I told her the measurement and stood back and let her do her thing.
Why would I help someone who claims to have made a million cuts and is the "cut girl".
Explain to me what I did wrong other than having her measure again before I left moron
>I told her the measurement
You told her a nonstandard measurement, and got exactly what you asked for.
A nonstandard cut
I literally showed her this picture, if your so fricking stupid you don't know what 53 inches is, I don't know what to tell you.
Looks like 53-5/16" to me
Snapchat. You sound like a zoomer gay putting your life on the internet.
Rental deck?
Jesus Christ. So your a b***h and a pussy that can't operate tools on your own
53 and one half inches, moron.
come in with a proper measurement. showing me a tape measure with you finger molesting all the various notches does nothing for me. and had it been me, i would have clarified with your Black person mind exactly what fraction of a millimeter you wanted, and yes, you read that correctly, i'll frick with you since you're not using standard measurements, by converting it into metric just to confuse you.
He's wearing a dress
troony gay
WHY'D YOU DO IT REIMU
youkai are my enemies
you are a youkai
>instead of 56.
you just goofed lol. thats how it happens: very easily.
when you get timber cut (i don't i cut it at home i can put any size wood i can buy on my car roof - i'v had 4.8m timber, 5m long roof sheets legally before no problem (16ft5inch)) ask them BEFORE hand you won't mind if i check it before i go right and make them watch you check it. simple.
I have seen a professional contractor frick up an cement foundation by measuring 4’4” as 44”. Human stupidity is limitless.
Almost any door/window retailer will have a few bargain bin items where someone confused the traditional ft + inches width/height callouts for inches
ie a 24" door is a 2 0, a 28" is a 2 4, 32" is a 2 8, 36" is a 3 0, 48" is 4 0, etc.
Standard door height of 80" is 6' 8" so you also get people ordering 8 foot tall doors for standard openings and what were supposed to be 8 0 (full 8' high) door orders come in at 80".
I've cut and blocked so many 8' slab doors down to 6' 8" in door shops, it's not even funny.
Best part is that when you try to make sure and insist on calling the stuff off out loud as you do the order (which usually catches the errors), everyone gets all huffy like you are challenging their intelligence. They demand that you "just give me what I wrote down on that paper" and not ask questions so you make a photcopy of it to shove back in their face to show that they did indeed order 80" and not 8 0 doors.
The companies in my town are opposite in what they consider right-hand swing and left-hand swing.
Yep, manufacturers are that way too and that definitely accounts for orders getting screwed up when people assume that there's only one "right" way to call out handing and don't literally spell/draw it out to avoid confusion.
I work for a door company. We have people that go out and measure houses on standardised paperwork and every single one of them has a different interpretation of how you're supposed to specify which way a door swings
There is literally one standard way to do this, at least at our company, but these people cannot be taught. Some of them put hinge side, some of them put lock side, some of them go outside looking in, some of them go inside looking out, some of them go from where they'll be looking at the front of the door (they're for screened enclosures / patios and shit so sometimes this changes).
Then you get to double doors. For some people, "right hand" means the lock is on the right hand side of the left hand door. For some people it means the lock goes on the right hand door. Again it all depends on where they think this should be specified from, inside, outside, front of door, standing from where the door swings out, in, balancing on your head facing due southwest, usually from memory when you call them because they forgot to put it on the paperwork
They all draw diagrams, and somehow that doesn't even help. We've had diagrams drawn bottom up. We had a diagram once that looked like the standard way doors are drawn on floorplans, i.e. the two lines for the closed doors with arcs tracing the direction the doors swing open. Turns out the arcs were supposed to be your arms if you went to push both the doors open, so the exact opposite. And somehow these guys all have 30 years of experience.
>some of them go outside looking in, some of them go inside looking out, some of them go from where they'll be looking at the front of the door
by the way, none of them seem to understand these things conceptually and when asked they will explain these in completely concrete experiential ways that require you to fully understand everything about the product that they do to even have a chance of deciphering. This means that we have people with enough knowledge and training to be actually out doing this shit that just have to sit in an office and decode salesmen's paperwork
Like they'll tell you that they want the drop bolt on the left panel when you're standing looking at the hinge knuckles, but that's the back of the door so you don't see the drop bolt from that side.
The average office staff understand just enough to think they know what this means, but just not quite enough to know that it means the exact opposite of what they think it means
Proof of metric superiority. Mistakes like these are impossible.
That will come in handy next time the seethe from some ancient slight you cant get over escalates and you and all your regional "neighbors" blast each others infrastructure to smithereens and you need to rebuild.
At our factory, we get university students as help during summer holidays. I've actually watched one struggle to calculate how much change he needs to take from the lunch money pile. Calculators have dumbed down the current generations.
I used to run a lumber dept at HD years ago.
Trust me, it happens. Cant imagine how bad it is now.
I worked in construction for 10 years and 95% of the people I worked with could not read a tape measure if their life depended on it.
Did you seriously pay for a single cut when you could have bought an 8' board for less than $10 and cut it at your house and then took up a whole thread on PrepHole to complain about something you could have easily done yourself
Really makes you think who is the true NPC of the story
They've never charged me for cuts, though (RL boards). I have also used their saws because I couldn't find an employee to do it for me.
The PIN is usually the store number. Same with straw trailers, propane cages, wire and carpet carousels.
>ask to have it cut down
and that is why you fail. NEVER have HD cut your wood.
@2425341
6/16ths? And it appears that board isn't a 2x, more like a fence slat. You got your replies, but seriously, this is 1/10 for effort. I'll go 2/10 for making me respond though.
OP's a potato, but Home Depot can frick things up like no other. Best HD experience I ever had was trying to get a key replicated. Nothing special, just an 80's GM ignition key. Of course the automated key cutter didn't have the blank for it, so I had to use the "real" key cutter.
>Find key cutting station, fully automated but not a vending machine so it needs an operator
>Very obviously works by inserting the key to be copied, inserting the correct blank as requested on the screen, and pressing GO
>Employees Only, have to find someone to work it
>Grab random dude in orange vest, ask him to help with making a key
>He tries, but instead of reading the screen for the correct blank he keeps trying to feed it a house key blank
>Machine keeps throwing an error about the blank being wrong, which he can't understand
>Calls another employee over
>And another
>And another
>And another
>Finally radios for that "one woman" who can operate the machine well. She can't figure it out either
>At start of COVID so I'm thankful for the mask hiding the huge grin I'm now wearing
>Finally younger guy who can read a screen appears, shows all the others how to use the correct blank that the machine is asking for, and gets the key made. They all act like he's a wizard.
It took almost half an hour for them to get this right.
Before I had a truck I had them rip a piece of plywood into four 2'x4' pieces. Turns out their fricking machine wasn't square. I got them home and they were half an inch out of square.
Literally impossible for you to get 4 2' by 4' pieces from a sheet
a standard piece of ply is 8 x 4 = 32 sq ft. 32 / 4 = 8. 8 = 4 x 2. you're a moron
>doesn't factor in saw kerfs
>calls others morons
The odd time Ive had to make a cut at hd I just tell them I should check first because "my tape is old, better be sure".
>6/16ths
..but why?
Because OP failed basic math and doesnt understand how a tape measure works
Because he doesn't realize the benefits of calling that dimension out as 9.525 mm, which far easier and more intuitive?
>oh wow metric
>now you have to multiply all your measurements (in inches) by 2.54 to get centimeters
>you must also now have to do even more moronic math if you measure in feet/yards or using millimeters/meters etc.
>great system yes much easier than dividing or multiplying by 2
>12 base is better than 10 base
go back to Ur
People who gloat about metric either never do DIY or work in HVAC. I fully enjoy metric and use it from time to time, but if you don't see the benefits/reasons for Imperial, fahrenheit, U.S liquid systems, you're doomed.
People who talk about metric all the time are doing it just to shit on 'murica. I've read that metric is better for measurements of distance and mass, but that Fahrenheit is better for measuring comfort.
It's better for measuring distance, however foot/mile measures more distance than meter/kilo.
I do like using centimeters in terms of scaling for small projects, but I'm not going to ask the rookie to cut a 4.148 meter 2x4 when I need a 13f6in. Fahrenheit has a wider range than celsius. The difference between 80F and 90F is less than 5 degrees C. It's bunk, and no one who uses celsius uses the decimals that follow.
>muh 0 degree freeze 100 degree boil
32F Freeze 212F Boil wow that range, nearly twice as many numbers to be twice as precise.
> I'm not going to ask the rookie to cut a 4.148 meter 2x4 when I need a 13f6in.
how is that an argument moron?
it’s like saying “im not gonna ask for a 13’1.48” when I need a 4m.
dumb fricking idiot
If you need that much granularity in temperature the euros use Kelvin.
The scale resolution between freezing and boiling in kelvins is identical to Celsius, 100 units-
"The freezing point of water on the Kelvin scale is 273.15 K while the boiling point is 373.15 K."
>The euros use kelvin
>The same fricking scale but 273.15 higher
Honestly how are you this much of a moron
some things are standardized in imperial (e. g. some plumbing)
but metric is just easier
no need to overcomplicate life
t. engineer
HVAC must only be baby-tier stuff then, actual thermodynamics is a fricking nightmare in imperial. Power is measured in horsepower, BTUs, or Watts, lengths and volumes have no relationship to each other or to energy/power, mass has no obvious relation to any of those, you calculate COP/EER by dividing two powers measured in different units, it's utterly fricking awful. The insanity of imperial really comes forward best when you do electrics, because there you do use sane units. How many horsepower is 1A at 3.7V anyway?
1 hp is 745 watt
1 * 3.7=3.7watt
Yeah but that's not a failure of the metric system, it's a failure of the American education system.
not knocking the metric system it has it's points, but the people i knew who went on about how pointless the imperial measurements are were also the same people who wanted to go on about how amazing communism is. people who had way too much free time and money and wanted to dictate how people with more than they do should live. the negative shit only affected anyone who had more than they did, but when someone with less came along and expected some redistribution of wealth, it never applied.
The only people that believe this failed to learn fractions.
why would he need french communists to cut his lumber for him?
>53 6/16th
Stopped reading there.
>2ftx6ftx53inches
>6/16ths
>doesn't own his own circular saw
You're no better than them.
>6/16"
>doesn't own saw
>bruh
0/10
>6/16ths
3/8ths in woodworker.
Hey OP, here is a third grade fraction lesson for you
She assumed the board was as long as it's nominal value and subtracted? Or some slipped HD a chinese tape measure as a prank? How could it get that fricked up?
>>bruh soon as I said that she literally was max ags specced out with jmaul max hit frozen in time
what
runescape lingo
>he doesn't cut his own shit at home and calls out measurements as 6/16ths.
You probably counted each 16th on the tape until the 6th one didn't you, moron.
Real chads own saws but make the orange jerseys cut everything to exact length anyway.
Also why would I use my tools if I don't have too? I just bought new carbide blades and didn't feel like harsh chemicals touching my blades that I won't be using for the next couple of months
Why buy blades to sit on the shelf???
Stop being a poor. Blades are meant to be used
Fricking hate americans
>working on american engine-powered equipment
>"ah its american so it must be a 3/8 bolt"
>whoops, its actually 10mm :trollface:
>another bolt, 12mm doesn't fit
>ah shieeet lemme get my 13mm spammer
>nope, 1/2 inch
americans are fricking moronic, cant even stick with their own system. this is why I stick with japanese equipment at home and dont bother buying any imperial sockets and wrenches
>he actually has a 10mm socket that the gremlins havent taken when he needs it
Fricking how?
i dont let other people use my stuff
Home Depot is a retail job
Its no different than working at a grocery store or a walmart.
The fact you came in and confused the poor girl working, you deserved it to be cut wrong.
Sorry OP, no precision cuts.
Op here, you gays made me laugh pretty hard, thank you.
I know it's my own fault for not bringing a measuring tape, but it's a rental deck. I really do not care.
Bruh the funniest shit, I'm pretty sure that b***h has no idea what kerf is, pretty sure she made a scribe line and cut right down the middle.
And I said 6/16ths because I know how stupid people are in my town and how HD hires dropouts and crackhead.
Oh well.
>6/16ths
is this some kind of troll measurement?
no, this is like the third post op has made about it, he literally cannot figure out how to divide by two and come up with a correct, 3/8ths like a normal human.
Imagine owning a miter saw and doing it yourself
I fricking hate morons like you who think we have some precision cabinet saw for our shitty curved lumber. I tell anyone who comes up and asks for 9/32" or some stupid shit that we make cuts to the nearest inch and that's it. we're not a cabinet shop, we're not even a lumber yard who will entertain such bullshit. if you want precision cuts buy a skilsaw and do it yourself.
>if you want precision cuts buy a skilsaw
So what you're saying is that besides not being able to make cuts with greater than +/-1" accuracy, you are clueless about tool selection (and upselling) as well.
inb4 "I'm a framer and I make accurate cuts all day long with muh
model 77 b***h we're not making a piano here and if you do make pianos you're a gayet"
also inb4 "frick you I don't care if someone buys a hatchet or a pair of scissors to make "accurate" cuts in lumber, being an asset who upsells a customer who wants accuracy to a chop saw that would stop this scenario from happening rather than banking petty grievances to justify my churlish attitude is a boomer thing and I'm a victim of boomers who is ENTITLED to my seething rage towards them"
>So what you're saying is that besides not being able to make cuts with greater than +/-1" accuracy, you are clueless about tool selection (and upselling) as well.
It's not a matter of whether I can you fricking mong.
>muh upsell
that's not my department and I don't get paid on commission. didn't read the rest of your boomer word vomit, have a nice day.
thanks for proving the point, sad little snowflake being victimized by the mean old boomers and your shitty job you wont move on from or get better at.
Fricking KEK, love seeing you idiots crowing like roosters about how you are lazy and useless and so ineffectual that you can"t escape the evil boomers who *gasp* ask you questions at your low level wagie hardware store job.
Poor, poor thing...how terrible that you live in a time when ambition and competence mean nothing and seeking to establish ever greater victimhood is the only worthy career goal to strive for.
jesus you sad frick get a grip. you're just embarrassing yourself crying about some random unrelated shit now. I get it, you hate that you wasted your life inhaling leaded gas fumes and are mad at the younger generation who still have potential...take it out in some other thread man not here.
LOL. Someone's triggered.
Poor, poor victim of *words,*.
>schizoboomer malding and seething that a college kid he'll never meet doesn't want to cut his shitty warped plywood down to 37 15/32" because the equipment isn't good enough for it
pic rel: your next reply
>seething that a college kid he'll never meet doesn't want to cut his shitty warped plywood down to 37 15/32" because the equipment isn't good enough for it
I own my own saws and am smarter than to expect some petulant, entitled zoomer moron who is perpetually angry at the world to actually help me at his low end job that he hates but is too dumb or too big of a pussy to leave.
That said, not all of them are like that, which is really what sticks in your craw- it's your peers who arent like that and prove what a pathetic self centered lout you are who are your real nemesis.
That's why you rail against "boomers" and see them everywhere, you can't compete with young people who are REALIZING their potential and showing initiative instead of crying about boomers.
They expose your whole shtick but you can't even begin to fight back, so issuing toothless commands telling your boogeyman to shut up is all you can do.
Boo hoo.
Everyone would have an easier time if you just used metric.
>mad at the younger generation who still have potential
>that's not my department and I don't get paid on commission
What a visionary, such potential!
>Are these the people that build these fricking houses
>do these minimum wage home depot employees build houses?
You're a fricking moron and you deserve what happened. Like bruh you're incapable of cutting a plank?
>need 1 pressure treated 2ftx6ftx53inches6/16ths of an inch
Yeah, you're a home depot customer alright.
>t. lumber associate who listens to bullshit measurements like this all day
>Are these the people that build these fricking houses
No, they're the people who work at a retail store.
>Go to Menards for 4ft of 6x6 cedar
>Pro Desk: "We don't have any in stock."
the frick you don't, the phone says you're holding
>"You have 8ft pieces. I'll cut one in half and you can sell it to me as a 4ft"
>We can't do that.
It's been a couple weeks. I should take the 4ft of leftover back for my $45.
>bruh soon as I said that she literally was max ags specced out with jmaul max hit frozen in time
Wtf does this mean?
I think it's an AI shitposting.
it's zoomer moron speak
Did it ever occur to you that see gave you the excess she cut of instead of the length you wanted?
>have it cut down to 53inches and 6/16ths
>paid and dipped after a weird ass situation I can explain
>it actually double refunded me lmao
So, you swagger your no-saw-having slumlord ass into HD and ask the trained monkey to cut you something, gave her a measurement ending in 6/16 like a c**t, watched her cut it wrong, DIDN'T MEASURE IT BEFORE YOU PAID, drove all the way back and like an even bigger c**t you let them double refund you because in your head you deserve the extra money for your trouble. THEN you post your moronation here expecting anons to sympathize with your plight?
>she made the cut and grab it, paid and dipped after a weird ass situation I can explain if interested
You tried to hit on her, didn't you? Then you had to grab your shit and leave in a hurry because of the embarrassment.
>be me
>need a new cordless drill
>going in looking for something plain in the $50-100 range
>all the power tools are locked behind cages
>can't even browse at what they have because it's all on the bottom two shelves hidden in shadow
>every brand sells cordless drill PLUS impact wrench combo pack for $300+
>nowhere in sight are indiviual drills sold
>"frick it I'll get one at another store later"
>gather the rest of my supplies
>suddely spot a row of pallets in the middle of the aisle next to the lawn/barbeque section
>more drills and impact wrenches
>same brands as in the power tools section but now they actually have all the products they advertise
>not even locked behind the cages
>>not even locked behind the cages
All the crap on the racetrack is on wingstacks and there is no real way to cage those up. The stuff on the wingstacks is *supposed to be* spider-wrapped but there's no alarms at the doors so the wraps will only sound an alarm once you cut the cable, which you can do miles away. Which is why they've moved to caging everything.
>2ftx6ftx53inches6/16ths of an inch
What is this in real units
Amazing how the people who b***h about these box stores manage to outdumb the remarkably dumb employees
>imperial
>work at HD
>not in the lumber department but always asked to cut wood due to understaffing
>remember this post
>cut it wrong on purpose knowing i will face no consequences
>bruh soon as I said that she literally was max ags specced out with jmaul max hit frozen in time
wtf am i reading?
witnessed
>49 1/4"
NICE. I just swapped in new drag link and tie rods in my trugg and that was the total length from stud to stud.
my local Home Depots don't even stock pressure treated, you have to go to Lowe's
Pressure treated lumber? You must be a big time contractor. HD specializes in diy. Faux barn wood held together with your Ryobi hot glue gun will look much better.
>Expecting anyone here to be able to actually coherently tell a girl anything, let alone something like precise measurements.
>Some worker had to figure out what "Um I uM Need *huuuu* Need YOU, UM i'M UNCUT, BUT CUT THis just the tip ;)"
OP probably scared the girl into just making a cut and getting the fedora tipper away from her.
>the fedora tipper
FYI, I reflexively kicked my heels up while lauging out loud at the blindingly accurate mental picture you painted, well done anon!
>2'x6'x53.375"
It looks like none of your dimensions are right to me.
Jesus christ, its been a month. You fricking morons will defend the blue hair brigade until you die.
>6/16ths
>3/8th
>ACTUALLY UR FINGER IS ON 5/16THS!!!!
Who fricking cares, the fact you cant cut a 53 inch piece and end up double refunding me is the reason you work at hd you uneducated crackheads. Stay mad.
>you uneducated crackheads
hey now anon, not all of us can afford fancy private schools and powder cocaine
I hardly ever browse PrepHole but it's funny because I happened to check it today, and yesterday I had a similar experience. Needed a 4x8 sheet of ply cross-cut on the panel saw. Told the guy the exact measurements I was looking for, and said if he could just go 1/4" above them then no big deal, I'll trim it up when I get home. Dude cut them like 1/2" short of every dim I asked for. He was nice enough tough and cut another sheet for me, correctly the second time.
I need a fricking garage and table saw asap
Rip that shit with a circ in the parking lot.
>Are these the people that build these fricking houses,
No. The people building houses are paid much better than retail clerks. That's the main difference.
the boomer tears ITT are delicious
lamo cut yourself gayboy
>she literally was max ags specced out with jmaul max hit frozen in time
What the frick is this guy saying?