Good job you're a big, strong boy...
Good job we have half hour break between shifts so I don't have to see him.
The reason a clutch wasn't supplied is because the stores that supplies parts, doesn't supply the engineer I am working for at the moment as he is a different cost centre, we had been allowed a clutch a couple of weeks ago which should have been replaced, which it wasn't, so they refused to supply another. But that didn't stop them from ordering one out of the main stores themselves.
We got one within an hour or so of the start of the shift, which I fitted, had to wait for a different engineer to check all components were correct, just incase there was anything obvious as to why the clutch had been destroyed after just 2 or 3 weeks. My foreman did suggest leaving the rest of the assembly for the lazy git on late shift, but I couldn't do that, knowing my luck he would have somehow left it for me for Monday afternoon anyway.
To top it all off he broke a pressure fitting on the exhaust when he moved the gearbox housing out onto the floor. I had to remap that and fix it. I wouldn't mind but I had already fixed that once yesterday morning after he had broken it the day before.
The engineer I work with was working from home today, so I emailed him to let him know when we were up and running again and back in test.
Got a very nice reply from him thanking me for everything I had done including a turbo problem we had yesterday. Reading between the lines, I think he has sussed onto the fact that the got on the other shift isn't just lazy, but difficult to work with, just as the previous engineer found out.
Still once this work is done, I think I maybe returning to my previous test cell. Not sure where the lazy git will end up, best place I can think of is head first in the lake at the back of the estate.