I am discombobulated to no end if I lose a tool. If I'm on a job and I laid down a tool someplace then When I go to the location I thought it was and it's not there, I might as well go home for the day. That is what I feel like anyway. I do work through it but it is in the back of my mind all day like a mosquito buzzing my brain until I find it or buy another.
It screws up my workflow and my process thinking so bad I have to start on another completely different task or sit down and think. If I sit down and think it's kind of like me taking a break. I don't take breaks, because I don't let my mind rest because I'm thinking what I have to do next, where that damn tool is, what I can do to bypass using the tool, etc. That is why I have bought multiples of tools over the years, to replace the ones I lost, then found.
I lost a multimeter once. Pissed me off so bad I had to take a long lunch break and go buy another one just like it but had to upgrade because they didn't make my model anymore. I didn't like the first two I bought then finally found one on ebay and it was in worse shape than my old one and I didn't trust it.
I had a drill driver stolen on the job when I was in another part of the building. I walked back to get it and couldn't find it. Then I heard a bunch of them were missing and the GC was aware and wanted a list so he could replace all of them. Nice guy! They even bought me a better brand of drill bits than I had. We found out later it was a thing that happened whenever the Rice company came in with their day laborers and escaped convicts to assemble furniture and cubes. I watched mine like a hawk whenever they were on site anywhere I worked.
It screws up my workflow and my process thinking so bad I have to start on another completely different task or sit down and think. If I sit down and think it's kind of like me taking a break. I don't take breaks, because I don't let my mind rest because I'm thinking what I have to do next, where that damn tool is, what I can do to bypass using the tool, etc. That is why I have bought multiples of tools over the years, to replace the ones I lost, then found.
I lost a multimeter once. Pissed me off so bad I had to take a long lunch break and go buy another one just like it but had to upgrade because they didn't make my model anymore. I didn't like the first two I bought then finally found one on ebay and it was in worse shape than my old one and I didn't trust it.
I had a drill driver stolen on the job when I was in another part of the building. I walked back to get it and couldn't find it. Then I heard a bunch of them were missing and the GC was aware and wanted a list so he could replace all of them. Nice guy! They even bought me a better brand of drill bits than I had. We found out later it was a thing that happened whenever the Rice company came in with their day laborers and escaped convicts to assemble furniture and cubes. I watched mine like a hawk whenever they were on site anywhere I worked.
