Casheesh

Been a while since I posted anything. First off, I got paid on Friday(13). It was a nice feeling to have money coming in finally. However, that money is one of the only things keeping me going. I started getting fed up with the way my boss was treating me and talking to me. I'm not gonna get into it because he has more or less stopped. To me anyway. He still yells at his son all the time. It was weird though because Thursday after work I said something to my parents about how he was treating me and then the next day he was nice to me, and this whole week he's been a lot nicer to me. I get the feeling he was trying to see how dedicated to learning the trade I was. See if I would quit. But I haven't. Came close, but no dice. I do need to work for another company though. I hate renovations so much, and he told me that he hates doing new construction because he finds it "boring". COME ON. Ugh. But ya it's driving me nuts. These idiots that think they know electrical and just mess everything up and then we come in and have to try and figure out what they were thinking when they did it, and then fix it all. Also I found out that the one house we worked in two weeks or so ago, definitely had asbestos in it. And I got thinking, oh was that the stuff that I was working around and hitting and breathing in without a mask on? Yupp. So happy days. Shortly after that my throat started hurting and it hasn't stopped. It still hurts right now. It's probably from a combination of the asbestos, various insulations, possible mold, old animal droppings, possible dead animals, all other forms of dust that I have been breathing without wearing a mask. These houses are old. Should be wearing an N95 while I'm working. This house that we've been at for the past few days is total crap. The idiot owner decided to renovate the place himself. A regular "handyman". So far we've had to almost re-wire everything that he did. Only reason we haven't re-wired everything is because we haven't gotten to everything yet. There's always something else wrong that we find. The one task James keeps getting me to do is trying to get rid of all the junction boxes the guy used. So far we've found 4 that were sealed in the ceiling in one room. That was after James got mad and just started ripping finished painted drywall off the ceiling. He gets to do all the fun stuff. We've already been at this place for 3 days or maybe 4, and we still have lots to do. If the place would have been gutted and we were able to do it all new, we would have had it completely done in 3. maybe even 2. James had me and Junior checking receptacles on the main floor and he ended up telling us to just rip them out box and all. He did the first one and caused a lot of damage to the surrounding drywall. He said that it was ok, so i had no problem when I ripped a box out and took a big chunk or drywall with it. We rewired the boxes, put them back in and replaced a few that got destroyed from the removal. The owners gonna have to fix the walls. And the ceiling James ripped down. As James told me, sometimes you need to teach these guys a lesson. I've sustained a number of injuries since my last post. I don't remember most of them. A lot of cuts. I do remember punching a tree, but not on purpose. I was digging a trench for some PVC conduit and it was right by a tree and the shovel threw my hand forward right into the tree. That hurt and bled. Oh, and Junior and I were running cable for the meters at this house and my fist ended up inside the one multiple times. I was feeding the wire down the conduit and it got caught but then in gave way and smack right against all the nice hard-edged metal in the box. And then I did it a couple more times.