I adopted the, "you're asking somebody who is 10 years your junior how to do the basics at a job you say you're time served in and then you still can't get it right.......and then you go on to look at me like an idiot when I explain my reasoning for doing a job a certain way and undermine me by taking out your tape measure to verify that there will be a clash if we don't do it that way? Are you for f**king real man? You are taking the p*ss right?"
To which he replied that he wasn't undermining me.
"I'm pretty certain that when you come up onto somebody else's job and then start asking them what they are doing, look at them like an idiot when they explain their method and then get your tape out to verify that the measurements given are true, it is most definitely undermining and a down right cheek coming from somebody who couldn't even fit a pipe in a snowman's mouth."
He then uttered something about not havinh this and storming off the scaffold and returning a couple of minutes later with the chargehand.
The chargehand had half a smirk on his face as he knows this fella is useless and just made a joke of the whole thing.
To be fair this guy has hung himself already, I got told today that once his first trip appraisal goes in then he won't be back.
Another bonus is that I'm being given my own project to work on by myself and it's the highest profile and priority job on the rig. The baboon is now somebody else's problem!