Could be. He had all the rigger gear on though. I hate to tell people how to do their jobs … it’s kinda disrespectful, but that’s what it boiled down to and he didn’t even want to speak to me after that. I was getting mad. Took an hour to get that sh*t off. I think the zoom boom op even understood the sitch as he signed the paperwork.
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OK, maybe just an a-hole then. The trick is to not let them drag you down to their level.
I’m quite familiar with dealing with idiots. This guy was a level below idiot. 
Insanity is the only word I can use to explain what I experienced with this guy. 
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Man i HATE days like that @Elby. I feel for you mate. Building sites and quarries are the absolute worst places to take a lorry.
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I really don’t mind construction sites. They give you a contact number for the foreman so you just call him and he tells you where to go and calls in the riggers. Then they always have traffic management people to help you get in and out. Also, I find Canadian construction workers to be really fun to work with … always cracking jokes and whatnot.
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To start out the year (or the wrap up 2022) I built this thing in the schoolyard:
The planks are upcycled hardwood decking that I got on a bargain. I even have a couple m2 left of them for later projects 
Today I had my kids try it out, and they approve. The place it’s in, is, as you can see, very muddy. The tree is a territorial b’stard that doesn’t even allow grass to grow near it. So I traced out where grass did grow, and used that as a rough outline for the play deck thing.
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I can totally see myself sitting on that tree porch, back against the trunk, sipping coffee!
I have lots of trees in my yard, but they’re all on a slope…
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This is probably going to raise more than a few eyebrows but on my second try I’ve finally managed to (almost¹) transition to neovim. After a full work day I can still notice that i fatigue way more, just because I have to think about editing and not just programming. It will take a few weeks to build the muscle memory, but it’s a lot of fun and I’m already not far off from being more productive than with a conventional editor.
¹ I haven’t gotten to set up debugging and version control, so I’m still relying on my old tools in this regard.
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Congratulations! The Dude abides. As a die hard Vim user this is heartwarming news. I think I have to do the transition to Neovim someday also. For the version control Fugitive is amazing.
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I think the init.lua template I used even comes with fugitive, it’s just that I need to get really good at the fundamentals before I transition into yet more commands. You can fry an egg on my forehead when I’m working currently.
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I’m a long time vim user as well. Do all my text and coding work in there . I got into vim as a cross-platform tool years ago. I was tired of learning different editors and wanted one that worked everywhere.
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Nooooooooooooooooo. sobek, don’t go to the dark side…
All the cool kids use Atom
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Electron causes me to have ekzema, i’m sorry.
I am the least cool coder here, I mostly use Notepad++ (or in fact VisualStudio 2008 for older C projects) and when I am on one of our Linux machines and just need to edit something quickly I just use joe or even vi (no joke, those are even installed on most embedded Linux, like busybox).
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Nerds, get a room!
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You know, even the regular nerds name call the Vim users ‘nerds’. Doesn’t it negate the meaning? 
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good job everyone! 
when I think about it I used to use it in some previous job. I mean I like to talk to computers in their language.
they are like dogs, even sometimes better. they dont bark, dont need go out to do poopoo. they sit there waiting for the instructions and orders.
when I think about it, some time ago we had horses and dogs to do the work for us, now we have computers
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Congrats @sobek ! I will follow you someday, but for now I am just a “regular nerd” who loves PyCharm and other JetBrains IDEs. When I don’t have a JetBrains IDE for a language, I just use VS Code (blurred for @sobek , do not watch for health reasons), but with JetBrains-style keyboard shortcuts, font and Darcula color theme.
On servers, I know how to exit vim and install nano and that’s enough for now. I have plenty of other things to learn. Need to finish a Kubernetes course but I need to learn about Unix networking and iptables to understand it properly.
Translation for normal people: I admire sobek for his resilience and I too strive to learn the dark arts of Vim someday. Vim is an omnipresent and very powerful text editor, especially for programming, but very difficult to learn. I am focusing my learning on other difficult and essential parts of computers for now: I only know how to evade Vim when it jumps at me.
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Iptables is a magnificient can of worms.
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You know there’s a vim plugin for vsc, right? Supposedly the easy way to learn the movements…
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