I have an electric motor shop customer that is weird picky like that.
You take in some of their parts they were in a hurry for and they act like a teacher giving you a grade on it.
This summer it has been so hot that the shop foreman won't get out of the office from sniffing the secretaries ass.
Then he come out and finger fucks the parts trying to find something wrong.
Hell, he can't even read digital calipers, but tries to feel of bearing fits that are +/- .0002. ( like he can feel if they are out of spec)
I think he wants to find fault with the parts so he can goof off longer and not have to work.
A while back I took in a part with a bearing nut on it. One of the workers remarked how smooth it went on, ( He said it felt like it was on bearings).
Well, about 2 hours later foreman had it locked up halfway on there. I went and looked at it, and you could see where there was a yellow thread off of his glove caught between the nut and shaft. < (Along with a gallon of locktite). I said I could take it, and try to get it off, or machine it off.
He said he could heat it up enough with a torch to melt the locktite and screw it the rest of the way on with a pipe wrench.
He always wears gloves for everything. Rubber surgical gloves, with leather Harbor Freight gloves over that if it looks very dirty.
I make a lot of money off of this guy removing broken EZ-outs and taps.
One day he wanted me to tap a hole for him. It was a metric size that I wasn't familiar with. I asked if he had a tap chart to see what the drill size was. He looked at me like there were snakes coming out of my ears.
After explaining it he still didn't believe me. A week later I took him a tap chart that he could keep. He thinks I had the Starrett company print that up just to mess with him.
There are some like that. Work is too scarce around here to run one of them off.
I just charge accordingly. If he wants space shuttle tolerances on a latch for a gate post, then give it to him.
JB,
I didn't mean to steal your thread. Thanks for starting this, it helped me vent.
That guy aggravated me last Thursday, and I was pissed all weekend.
As for him talking about your Dad
. I would have to laugh and say "It's not as bad as stuff that has been said about you" .
Leave it there. He'll shut up and quit talking about your Dad, quit bringing work to you, or get mad and you can kick his ass.
I'll bet he quits mouthing your Dad.
Let me know how it pans out.
JAckal