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So I did not think I had a breaking point with the company I work for but I guess after today that is not true. I was just informed by one of my three bosses that I would be on rough in’s till I got the hang of it and could do them quickly and with relative ease. For those of you un-familiar with the phases of plumbing construction allow me to explain. There are four basic levels of plumbing construction and although I am qualified to do all three I have been doing multi-family condos for over a year now and have not placed much time into the other areas thus forgetting many shortcuts. ANY way you have rough in that is where I come out and the only part of your home that is there is a thin line of cinder block it is my job to pull the carpentry walls and get the plumbing pipes where they belong. Btw all this is done in the scorching summer sun and temperatures in excess of 95 degrees with little to no breeze and no shade any where. This is where they want to move me to for the next Oh I do not know indefinitely. Then you have the next phase with is tub set/ second rough this is where the house has walls, and a roof and I come and stub out the drains and water lines for the sinks, put your tub, laundry machine hookup, shower valve in place before the drywall goes up. Essentially what I have been doing for oh the last two years and know like the back of my hand. Then you have sewer and water where we set you up to get water into the house and sewage away from your house, which I can do. And finally final finish, when I come in and put the sinks and dishwasher and shower heads and toilets into place, something else I can do just do not have a lot of practice at it. Now of the four stages of construction for plumbing I can do each I am better at some than others but I can do each. I know what you are thinking; there is a but in this somewhere. You are right, despite knowing how to do all four phases I really only like doing three of the four. On top of that every time I get a helper/apprentice and I have him trained to the point he is good enough for me to trust he is not going to screw something up, they give him to someone else and give me the newest, least trained person they have and bitch when my productivity goes down. Well I am tired of it, I am done being taken advantage of and especially done being yelled at every day by a man who has no people skills and questionable plumbing knowledge. ~end rant~

On the plus side I have a few decent job offers I am investigating and things are looking up.