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So as The new guy on the site I have been working by way through the posts and adding my own for your all’s LOL’s I was working through the War Stories and came across Irving Patrick Freleigh Numbnut chronicles. I about lost it when Irv said NN was joining the Military, I think I worked with this guy in the Navy.
We called him Sadim, That’s Midas spelt backwards because everything Sadim touched turned to a shit show. Add to that he did not bath, Smoked worse than a 1978 Yugo with an Oil leak, Only drank MNT Dew, or a Coffee/2 cups of sugar/packet of coco concoction, and did not believe in hygiene of any sort. Just as with NN Sadim took forever to accomplish nothing.
Two points to illustrate that, The first one is one day we get a call from a starfish that a printer had stopped working. We send Sadim out since a printer issue is a very low level problem to solve. After about an hour of him trouble shooting he comes back to the shop and announces to us all that the printer in starfish office is DOA and needs to be replaced….. What he did not know was 10 sec after he left starfish’s office, starfish had sent us all an email that ready.
"Dear Geek people Well I have to hand it to him. Sadim really tried and bless his heart, but I found the problem 2 sec after he left… The power was turned off on the surge protector.
Thanks for trying Starfish."
As it was apparent Sadim was useless for his assigned job of doing Tech Support, we put him on Maintenance detail. Well one day a "Hatch" or "Door" for some needed the paint scraped off of it and to be repainted. It’s a Ship you spend most of your time scraping paint and reapplying it. I take Sadim out to said hatch and hand him all the tools he will need, Paint Scraper, Putty Knife, Sandpaper, ect ect. 4 hours later he comes in the shop and starts rummaging around, one of the Coworkers ask him what’s up? He says he can’t find any tools to work on the hatch.....? I come out from behind some gear and ask him what happened to all the tools I gave him 4 hours ago... He gets this dumb glazed look in his eyes and mumbles they disappeared. Seems Sadim wandered off for 3.5 of his 4 hours to spend time smoking, and someone yanked his tools. I know this to be true because when I went to look at the Hatch it had yet to have been touched. Well after much threats to use Mjolnir to end any chance he might have for breeding thus doing society a favor (he thought he might have a chance for some reason) he took off and managed to locate his tools. For several days we would look out the door and see him working on scraping the hatch down the hall. Well the week was coming to a close and I walked on down to see his "Progress" ... that’s when I lost my shit! The Hatched was hardly touched and I could flake the paint off with my finger nail. Well after telling Sadim he had 2 hours to do the job or he would end up cleaning the bilge for the rest of his time on the ship he decided to do some work.
The next day I task him with painting the same hatch. As I did not want him to spend his entire shift looking for paint and paint brushes or a drop cloth (All Located in the same place) I got them for him. I stood him in front of the hatch with all the required items and told him paint it and make it look new and that under no circumstances was he allowed to leave that spot till it was done and I Inspected it.
About 3 hours later there is a knock on the shop door and a Department supervisor (We will call Joker) is standing outside laughing his ass off. I ask what’s the funny, once he catches his breath he regales us with the following.
Seems as Sadim was standing there "Painting" the hatch Joker snuck up behind him all quite (How I have no idea but made a mental note to see if Joker had taken Ninja class's) Joker says he stood behind Sadim for a good 5 minutes watching him. Seems Sadim “Looked” like he was painting from a distance but his paint brush was a full 2 inches away from the door. He was just standing there moving the brush up and down without letting it touch the door, so Joker stood there watching and after 5 min decided to say something which was “Hay Sadim! Working hard or hardly working?” Sadim jumped a good foot off the deck and then started slapping paint on the door as fast as he could. After having a good laugh I walked down to have a chat with Sadim about his future job options in the bilge.
I have many more Sadim stories but they will be for later.
We called him Sadim, That’s Midas spelt backwards because everything Sadim touched turned to a shit show. Add to that he did not bath, Smoked worse than a 1978 Yugo with an Oil leak, Only drank MNT Dew, or a Coffee/2 cups of sugar/packet of coco concoction, and did not believe in hygiene of any sort. Just as with NN Sadim took forever to accomplish nothing.
Two points to illustrate that, The first one is one day we get a call from a starfish that a printer had stopped working. We send Sadim out since a printer issue is a very low level problem to solve. After about an hour of him trouble shooting he comes back to the shop and announces to us all that the printer in starfish office is DOA and needs to be replaced….. What he did not know was 10 sec after he left starfish’s office, starfish had sent us all an email that ready.
"Dear Geek people Well I have to hand it to him. Sadim really tried and bless his heart, but I found the problem 2 sec after he left… The power was turned off on the surge protector.
Thanks for trying Starfish."
As it was apparent Sadim was useless for his assigned job of doing Tech Support, we put him on Maintenance detail. Well one day a "Hatch" or "Door" for some needed the paint scraped off of it and to be repainted. It’s a Ship you spend most of your time scraping paint and reapplying it. I take Sadim out to said hatch and hand him all the tools he will need, Paint Scraper, Putty Knife, Sandpaper, ect ect. 4 hours later he comes in the shop and starts rummaging around, one of the Coworkers ask him what’s up? He says he can’t find any tools to work on the hatch.....? I come out from behind some gear and ask him what happened to all the tools I gave him 4 hours ago... He gets this dumb glazed look in his eyes and mumbles they disappeared. Seems Sadim wandered off for 3.5 of his 4 hours to spend time smoking, and someone yanked his tools. I know this to be true because when I went to look at the Hatch it had yet to have been touched. Well after much threats to use Mjolnir to end any chance he might have for breeding thus doing society a favor (he thought he might have a chance for some reason) he took off and managed to locate his tools. For several days we would look out the door and see him working on scraping the hatch down the hall. Well the week was coming to a close and I walked on down to see his "Progress" ... that’s when I lost my shit! The Hatched was hardly touched and I could flake the paint off with my finger nail. Well after telling Sadim he had 2 hours to do the job or he would end up cleaning the bilge for the rest of his time on the ship he decided to do some work.
The next day I task him with painting the same hatch. As I did not want him to spend his entire shift looking for paint and paint brushes or a drop cloth (All Located in the same place) I got them for him. I stood him in front of the hatch with all the required items and told him paint it and make it look new and that under no circumstances was he allowed to leave that spot till it was done and I Inspected it.
About 3 hours later there is a knock on the shop door and a Department supervisor (We will call Joker) is standing outside laughing his ass off. I ask what’s the funny, once he catches his breath he regales us with the following.
Seems as Sadim was standing there "Painting" the hatch Joker snuck up behind him all quite (How I have no idea but made a mental note to see if Joker had taken Ninja class's) Joker says he stood behind Sadim for a good 5 minutes watching him. Seems Sadim “Looked” like he was painting from a distance but his paint brush was a full 2 inches away from the door. He was just standing there moving the brush up and down without letting it touch the door, so Joker stood there watching and after 5 min decided to say something which was “Hay Sadim! Working hard or hardly working?” Sadim jumped a good foot off the deck and then started slapping paint on the door as fast as he could. After having a good laugh I walked down to have a chat with Sadim about his future job options in the bilge.
I have many more Sadim stories but they will be for later.
What was the point of that?! It would've taken exactly as much work to actually paint the door as to pretend to paint it! It makes no sense whatsoever!
So it's summer, humid and hot, and we're walking all day long and we get back to this giant line of people outside the showers. Um, no. You don't get to change the rules because you are afraid to be naked in front of people of the same gender. If this was a deal-breaker, then maybe the trip wasn't a great choice? Later, my host mom took me to a hot-springs. I'm pretty shy, so I was wary of the whole idea, but it's so very normal that it's hard to stay nervous.
I have a squatty potty and it's awesome!
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