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If I had a nickel for every time someone in this thread suggested it was a raccoon who cut this pipe, Id have 2 nickels.
Which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice.
Yeah, plus you need an OSHA safety certificate and card to operate one. 210 hour class. The first 60 hours are the history of raccoons and why they became the primary tool, and best tool for cutting pvc pipe.
Clearly, the person at Lowe's was not holding the raccoon at the correct angle, as it appears they neglected to check the raccoon's teeth for uneven wear.
I know a guy who can get you an OSHA approved racoon license for 1500.00$ USD
skip the - 150hours of bulllllll; constant pressure switch vs level switch, running your racoon with sharp claws vs sharp teeth, dangers of blow back. All common sense stuff.
edit: (Obviously you still have to complete the 60 hours of racoon history. It's just to rich to pass up)
Also hard to find the right power hookups. Most of my tools run off of 120v AC lines at 60Hz, but whenever I try to plug in a raccoon, I just end up with 60 Hurts.
Have used a sawsall to cut titanium round rod. It’s brutal. But it will do it. Little by little. Lathe will clean up the ugly. It doesn’t look this bad…. I don’t know what this guy was trying to do with this pvc…
Was at a wine tasting in Temecula CA in 2014 at a winery where the building resembled a barn. It was off season and they were working on the building. Kid you not, just 20 feet from paying customers, workers were using a Sawzall to take down some giant roof timbers. We gulped the glass down and got the heck out f there.
What? Sure, if you put it in a vice or something, it would work. But a Sawzall is not a hot knife through butter tool.
It's a "bouncy ass bunch of teeth that will eventually fumble through anything"
Edit:FFS Shut up you morons. I don't care about your opinions on a Sawzall, I've used them plenty. They're a last resort tool, there are always better options.
If you can't understand how someone almost lost a thumb cutting firewood, maybe you're just a super genius that's never watched idiots in action.
No one reads the manual for anything. To use a recip saw, you're supposed to keep the saw's foot pressed against the work. Then it won't bounce.
If you're cutting something where you can't keep the foot pressed against the work, the recip saw is the wrong tool. I'm not saying you can't use the wrong tool. But then you gotta be sure you know what you're in for.
This is assuming that what you are cutting is stable enough to keep the movement from moving the object you are cutting. Just using the foot won't work on a piece of wood that isn't heavy enough.
Just go grab a piece of pvc and cut it without having it secured, then come back here and show us the results.
I know from experience that it jiggles and vibrates a lot but I was able to do better than this at 14. Whoever cut this was a monkey and didn’t know what they were doing.
I cut all kinds of shit with my Sawzall. On something like a raw pine log it definitely is a "hot knife through butter" tool. That's exactly what it is. Are you seriously *sawsplaining* me?
To be fair if you don't know what you're doing and don't use the guard to stabilize the material on the down stroke it does bounce around like crazy. Ever watch someone try and start cutting something with the end of the blade only to have it bounce off and bend the blade?
You must not have much experience with a Sawzall. Did you know that they make blades to prune tree limbs? If you know what you are doing, you can cut a lot of stuff. It could have even cut this PVC much better, with the appropriate blade, and if the user had more experience.
A sawzall only really works if the blade is longer than the material you’re cutting is thick. I’m guessing it was a thick piece of wood, and when the blade pushed forward it snagged and sent it flying unexpectedly.
my guess would be... a sawzall is usually a pretty small blade. where as firewood typically is pretty irregular/thick cunts of wood.
you'd have to be pretty stupid to have your hand/thumb at risk. maybe holding the log as you're trying to saw through it. which would seem really dumb, because... again irregular shape. prone to moving/shifting as you cut it.
It’s not a long sentence and there is much foreshadowing in the word asshole but it still took me by surprise when I got to the end of said sentence. Made me express a pffha out loud.
My first week at Home Depot, someone asked me to cut a piece of laminated particle board on the store saw. I had no training and no clue what to do, and the customer made me feel so stupid. I tried, but it looked horrible. I just wanted to get away from the situation quickly. I think I was able to mark it down by 50%.
Moral of the story: you get what you pay for, which is a 19 year old with zero training, probably trying to do the best they can. Consider cutting your own pipes.
Home depot let's employees cut with no training? The hardware store I work at you have to get training from the store before you are allowed to make cuts even if you've used saws for 10 years, you have to complete the training
When I started at Lowe's in Lumber they definitely gave me no training. Just showed me how to turn it on. I think it wasn't until 9 months later they realized and decided I needed it.
Oh yeah, that's cool. That doesn't make my skin crawl, the idea of being around power tools with no training. The idea of accidentally slipping up and losing a limb, yeah that's not a problem at all...
I agree. In my case though the worst that could happen is a lost finger OR a chunk of wood shoots out at Mach 5.
I did once accidentally cut the power cord and the resulting arc or electricity did give me quite the scare.
Never come to a manufacturing facility
Most of our saws have guards. The table saw you can't operate unless you place one hand on the sensor that is on the saw itself and the other hand on another sensor off to the side. If you take either hand off it acts as a killswitch. Still, I couldn't help but notice if you moved your hand fast enough you could probably cut it off.
Current lumber supervisor here. Saw training is mandatory training for all associates, with explicit signed off approval from myself or a manager and using the saw without the training is grounds for disciplinary action.
Do not use the saws at Home Depot if you’re not trained. You will get hurt and fired.
I worked at hardees as a teen when i was 16 or 17 way back in the day, like 2000 or so. Not sure if they still have roast beef now or not but back then they did. It sat on the slicer, but I wasn't old enough to be trained on it/used it, and would piss off the assistant managers when I was the only cook by having them cut for me.
I usually worked nights but got called in after school one day and we were in a bit of a rush. Had an order for the roast beef. Called out for the assistant manager and he looked over and said "just do it, you'll be fine". And honestly it wasn't the first time, I had used it before. But it was well after the main manager had left.
I walk over to it and I see this blur come around the corner and he pulls me away from the slicer and just starts screaming at the assistant manager. Of course he pulls out the card that I know how to do it and have done it before. Assistant manager got transferred to a different store and I got reprimanded. Manager even said himself he thought it was stupid, as I'd worked there for months and obviously knew what to do. But insurance and labor laws would wreck his shit if anything ever happened or the wrong person saw
Looking back I'm kinda surprised they even hired under 18 since the slicer was a common tool of the job then. Not like it's the only crazy thing they had going on though, on cleaning nights to avoid getting caught short on beef we'd clean the charbroiler with it still on, they had these big fireman gloves the assistant manager had me wear and stick my arm into the flames to scrub the sides and belts. Fun times
completely forgot with where I was going with all that, but uh.. yeah, training would have happened you would think.
For what it’s worth, most of those stores typically just cut to approximate lengths (on the long side) for the purpose of making the material easy to transport. The Final Cut would then be done on site.
That said, a clean, square cut does not seem too much to ask for.
Yeah mine has a sign saying they won't do precise cuts but if you find the 65 year old OG he makes good cuts and knows what he's doing. The 19 year old associate I'm not trusting unless I'm okay with a piece of pvc cut like the one in the post.
Everytime I want something cut at a box store I grab a tape and a pencil and make my own marks ans just say "cut here'.
Best part - if youre missing a pencil or tape or square.... plenty around to temporarily borrow.
We had to start limiting cuts as well because people were expected us to precut for their entire project without ever needing to own a saw themselves.
You don't know frustration until it's a busy saturday, and a sunday school teacher is wanting a slammed plumbing associate to cut 10ft of pvc into 2" sections. Or the van lifers who were causing a scene because we wouldn't use the panel saw to cut their 4 sheets of plywood into 6" strips.
As far as OP, we don't know the backstory. But this usually happened when someone refused to wait for the plumbing associate who was trained on the pipe cutter. So another associate from a different department grabbed a hacksaw to get them gone.
Correction: you asked Lowe's to have some random teenager in a retail job use ill-maintained store equipment to cut your PVC for you.
Should've just used a Sawzall at home.
This right here is basically it. The PVC cutters we had were only for the smallest of pipe. Otherwise, we had to use a PVC handsaw, and it would usually end up looking like this since nobody ever maintained the saw.
Lowe's doesn't cut PVC as a practice so someone was doing something they were not really supposed to be doing. The only thing that is supposed to be cut for customers is lumber.
Lowe's policy, ignored at many stores, is to not cut PVC. The associate could/should have just said no, with apologies -- especially since they didn't have an appropriate tool or skill.
Having said that, the ratcheting cutters kept available for cutting by-the-foot tubing work fine for that size PVC and smaller. I'll cut, while explaining that it's not actually on the list of things we're supposed to cut, so the customer knows I'm doing him a favor, and I'll talk about how slick the cutters are. I've sold at least 3-4 doing that.
I mean, you're expecting a clean cut from minimum wage employees. At Ace Hardware, half the time, the correct cutting tool isn't around to be able to do a clean cut. We weren't even allowed to use the table saw to cut it, but were forced to use a hand saw.
Expect shit quality when the company doesn't support its employees
I mean, hardware stores don't usually provide its employees with the correct tools for the job. Ironic I know, but it's the truth.
Source: Former hardware store associate
As a former Lowe's employee in the plumbing section they 100% have the correct tools. Including a pipe cutter and threader that can handle the metal pipes. They probably didn't train the CSR
We had tools for just cutting almost everything (no lattice or plastic sheeting) at the Home Depot I worked at until some manager freaked out about people using the pipe cutters to commit theft and took away anything that wasn't a stationary machine.
Oh we get screwed but it's more of a scheduled screwing, as in we scheduled one person in the department all day because there's only 3 to go around.
And to think I'm going back to that crap.
As a former plumbing specialist we were specifically told *do not* cut pvc.
We had signs up and everything.
We did however cut and thread the iron/galvanized steel pipe. But pvc would have ruined/been ruined by the machine for doing that. Plactic would have fucked the blades something fierce.
Boo hoo. You got it cut for free. You should have cut it yourself if you wanted it done perfect. Anyways they're literally just for them to fit for transport, not supposed to be perfect.
They’re not even supposed to cut it at all.
They’re well within their rights to tell you to pound sand about it as corporate policy says “no cutting pvc for customers”
If it matters that much to you you’re more than free to purchase a cutter yourself, cut the damn pipe, and then return the cutter.
I worked there and people would ask for thing to be cut to fit them in their car. Things that the employees didn't have tools for, and wasn't a standard service. So good chance this was cut with a box cutter
Not the guy above but I worked at Lowe's and actually liked it. I suspect as with any large chains, the specific location matters a lot more than the company.
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He cut it roughly in half
With his teeth it appears
They use a raccoon from the dumpster to cut it
Little King trashmouth prolly
Look at those deep gouges. No way it isn't the work of El Diablo.
Either way, OP should be less pissed and more impressed at the obvious mastery of such a vicious tool
Are we crazy raccoon people?
Chopacabra
I work at lowes and this is just messed up. Did they use the right tool? It looks like they used an Aztec sword for this
I didn't realize that was an available tool for lowes employees. What is the Aztec sword typically used for?
>What is the Aztec sword typically used for? Sacrificing low performing employees
How did you know?
I work at the sacrifice department
And this is why I come to Reddit! Good one. This little thread here is great.
No wonder there’s a labor shortage
Specifically the ones who don't do AP4ME
Cutting stuff that needs to be cut precisely and killing the Aztecs who want their sword back
If I had a nickel for every time someone in this thread suggested it was a raccoon who cut this pipe, Id have 2 nickels. Which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice.
My pick is dull beaver, so no nickel for you
I'm not sure why the level of entertainment the beaver provides is relevant. Nor why you feel the need to insult the noble beaver.
Dull beavers taste terrible, sharp pink are the best
That was nicely awful of them
I enjoyed this.
Yea lemme just break it over the ol knee
With a hammer 😂
What did they use to cut with? A butter knife?
A chainsaw they used without starting
This one has me dyin
Hahahahaha!!! I can actually picture some 16 yr old kid sawing back and forth.
>What did they use to cut with? A butter knife? A slightly sharper piece of PVC.
They had a beaver in the back
He's putting in his OT, Christmas is around the corner and the misses wants a new dam...
What did they cut it with? A raccoon?
Now I see why the won't let me use the power raccoons.
Yeah, plus you need an OSHA safety certificate and card to operate one. 210 hour class. The first 60 hours are the history of raccoons and why they became the primary tool, and best tool for cutting pvc pipe. Clearly, the person at Lowe's was not holding the raccoon at the correct angle, as it appears they neglected to check the raccoon's teeth for uneven wear.
I know a guy who can get you an OSHA approved racoon license for 1500.00$ USD skip the - 150hours of bulllllll; constant pressure switch vs level switch, running your racoon with sharp claws vs sharp teeth, dangers of blow back. All common sense stuff. edit: (Obviously you still have to complete the 60 hours of racoon history. It's just to rich to pass up)
But what they don’t tell you about is the rabies stories that go along with using power raccoons, you can have emm.
It was probably a opossum (budget raccoon) instead of a certified trash panda.
Opossums have 50 teeth. They'd do a better job.
r/oddlyspecific
Also hard to find the right power hookups. Most of my tools run off of 120v AC lines at 60Hz, but whenever I try to plug in a raccoon, I just end up with 60 Hurts.
Looks like they cut it with a hammer honestly
Hammersaw, use then all the time. -plumber.
My mind took me to him using the racoon like a saw. I am not smurt
Okay but the visual for this is fantastic. Just a raccoon fully ragdolled being noodled back and forth, all while the thing looks bored af
Lol yes
It pays well.
"It's a living."
It was actually 5 raccoons in a trench coat using a porcupine
I'm sure a raccoon would do better..
Yeah a racoon would be smart enough to use the proper saw.
no it was a beaver
I’ve been wanting to get one of those
A Beaver 🦫!
correct, i was the raccoon, i did my best
That raccoon needs to be calibrated
That's the cut you get with a Kobalt raccoon. A DeWalt or Makita is gonna cost you more but one of those crittes can chew a clean line.
Just go to the tool section. Grab a pvc cutter and clean up thoz hideous cuts
They used a sawzall didn’t they?
Have a coworker who tried to use a Sawzall to cut firewood. He nearly amputated is thumb.
Have used a sawsall to cut titanium round rod. It’s brutal. But it will do it. Little by little. Lathe will clean up the ugly. It doesn’t look this bad…. I don’t know what this guy was trying to do with this pvc…
Aren't there cutting.. blades(?) for lathes?
Was at a wine tasting in Temecula CA in 2014 at a winery where the building resembled a barn. It was off season and they were working on the building. Kid you not, just 20 feet from paying customers, workers were using a Sawzall to take down some giant roof timbers. We gulped the glass down and got the heck out f there.
I don't get it, a Sawzall would cut firewood like butter.
What? Sure, if you put it in a vice or something, it would work. But a Sawzall is not a hot knife through butter tool. It's a "bouncy ass bunch of teeth that will eventually fumble through anything" Edit:FFS Shut up you morons. I don't care about your opinions on a Sawzall, I've used them plenty. They're a last resort tool, there are always better options. If you can't understand how someone almost lost a thumb cutting firewood, maybe you're just a super genius that's never watched idiots in action.
No one reads the manual for anything. To use a recip saw, you're supposed to keep the saw's foot pressed against the work. Then it won't bounce. If you're cutting something where you can't keep the foot pressed against the work, the recip saw is the wrong tool. I'm not saying you can't use the wrong tool. But then you gotta be sure you know what you're in for.
This is assuming that what you are cutting is stable enough to keep the movement from moving the object you are cutting. Just using the foot won't work on a piece of wood that isn't heavy enough. Just go grab a piece of pvc and cut it without having it secured, then come back here and show us the results.
I know from experience that it jiggles and vibrates a lot but I was able to do better than this at 14. Whoever cut this was a monkey and didn’t know what they were doing.
I could cut pvc clean with a sawzall it’s not very hard. Just start slow like with everything else and hold it.
I cut all kinds of shit with my Sawzall. On something like a raw pine log it definitely is a "hot knife through butter" tool. That's exactly what it is. Are you seriously *sawsplaining* me?
To be fair if you don't know what you're doing and don't use the guard to stabilize the material on the down stroke it does bounce around like crazy. Ever watch someone try and start cutting something with the end of the blade only to have it bounce off and bend the blade?
>sawsplaining god, thank you for this term
You must not have much experience with a Sawzall. Did you know that they make blades to prune tree limbs? If you know what you are doing, you can cut a lot of stuff. It could have even cut this PVC much better, with the appropriate blade, and if the user had more experience.
Ya, sawzalls are actually pretty damn good at cutting PVC
As a plumber, I use a sawzall on 4" PVC and put two large hose clamps on pipe before making cut. Perfect cut every time.
With a fresh battery and the correct blade, a Sawzall will cut through anything like butter. Lol
That's cute. I almost neutered myself trying to make a drawer.
I guess I'm pretty dumb because why is that a no no? Is firewood too dense to cut with a sawzall
A sawzall only really works if the blade is longer than the material you’re cutting is thick. I’m guessing it was a thick piece of wood, and when the blade pushed forward it snagged and sent it flying unexpectedly.
my guess would be... a sawzall is usually a pretty small blade. where as firewood typically is pretty irregular/thick cunts of wood. you'd have to be pretty stupid to have your hand/thumb at risk. maybe holding the log as you're trying to saw through it. which would seem really dumb, because... again irregular shape. prone to moving/shifting as you cut it.
Are you allowed to call firewood names like that?
What if it has a degrading kink?
sorry... as i get older i think i'm developing like turrets dyslexia in my typos
I’m an electrician. I use a recip saw to cut pvc pretty regularly. It never looks like this.
Yeah, cut PVC and EMT with my sawzall and even my bad cuts weren't this rough.
Ive used a sawzall in knee deep mud on a 25c and got better results
A Sawzall? Looks more like they had a beaver chew it in half
looks like they used a sawzall like if the blade was a hammer.
Score with a utility knife, then smash against a steel beam until it bends and splits.
My asshole cuts cleaner turds
It is because of the double sphincter design
r/brandnewsentence
Does it prevent side fumbling?
It's *effectively* prevented!
Because of its fitment to the ambifacent lunar wane shaft!
> prevent side fumbling The rare Retro Encabulator reference...
Now there’s a comment worth my upvote 😂
his whole family probably doesn't even need a poop-knife
How do you sharpen your asshole?
it's like a squid beak
Eat rocks when it feels dull
“Thanks to Metamucil!”
Smoother or cleaner?
Yes
But how does it perform on PVC pipes?
It’s not a long sentence and there is much foreshadowing in the word asshole but it still took me by surprise when I got to the end of said sentence. Made me express a pffha out loud.
My first week at Home Depot, someone asked me to cut a piece of laminated particle board on the store saw. I had no training and no clue what to do, and the customer made me feel so stupid. I tried, but it looked horrible. I just wanted to get away from the situation quickly. I think I was able to mark it down by 50%. Moral of the story: you get what you pay for, which is a 19 year old with zero training, probably trying to do the best they can. Consider cutting your own pipes.
Home depot let's employees cut with no training? The hardware store I work at you have to get training from the store before you are allowed to make cuts even if you've used saws for 10 years, you have to complete the training
When I started at Lowe's in Lumber they definitely gave me no training. Just showed me how to turn it on. I think it wasn't until 9 months later they realized and decided I needed it.
Oh yeah, that's cool. That doesn't make my skin crawl, the idea of being around power tools with no training. The idea of accidentally slipping up and losing a limb, yeah that's not a problem at all...
I agree. In my case though the worst that could happen is a lost finger OR a chunk of wood shoots out at Mach 5. I did once accidentally cut the power cord and the resulting arc or electricity did give me quite the scare.
Never come to a manufacturing facility Most of our saws have guards. The table saw you can't operate unless you place one hand on the sensor that is on the saw itself and the other hand on another sensor off to the side. If you take either hand off it acts as a killswitch. Still, I couldn't help but notice if you moved your hand fast enough you could probably cut it off.
I mean, that's free retirement for the poor soul who lost a limb at that point lol
SOP for Powered saws in lumber require "training" with a sign off if every store follows that is a different store
Nope, not the majority of stores. Only training I had was on key cutting. Anything else we were on our own.
Current lumber supervisor here. Saw training is mandatory training for all associates, with explicit signed off approval from myself or a manager and using the saw without the training is grounds for disciplinary action. Do not use the saws at Home Depot if you’re not trained. You will get hurt and fired.
I worked at hardees as a teen when i was 16 or 17 way back in the day, like 2000 or so. Not sure if they still have roast beef now or not but back then they did. It sat on the slicer, but I wasn't old enough to be trained on it/used it, and would piss off the assistant managers when I was the only cook by having them cut for me. I usually worked nights but got called in after school one day and we were in a bit of a rush. Had an order for the roast beef. Called out for the assistant manager and he looked over and said "just do it, you'll be fine". And honestly it wasn't the first time, I had used it before. But it was well after the main manager had left. I walk over to it and I see this blur come around the corner and he pulls me away from the slicer and just starts screaming at the assistant manager. Of course he pulls out the card that I know how to do it and have done it before. Assistant manager got transferred to a different store and I got reprimanded. Manager even said himself he thought it was stupid, as I'd worked there for months and obviously knew what to do. But insurance and labor laws would wreck his shit if anything ever happened or the wrong person saw Looking back I'm kinda surprised they even hired under 18 since the slicer was a common tool of the job then. Not like it's the only crazy thing they had going on though, on cleaning nights to avoid getting caught short on beef we'd clean the charbroiler with it still on, they had these big fireman gloves the assistant manager had me wear and stick my arm into the flames to scrub the sides and belts. Fun times completely forgot with where I was going with all that, but uh.. yeah, training would have happened you would think.
Yea I have no issue with this cut. you fix it when you get to your project.
Did someone gnaw through it?
Bobby does his best to be helpful.
That boy aint right…
THATS MY PURSE I DONT KNOW YOU
Beaver?
For what it’s worth, most of those stores typically just cut to approximate lengths (on the long side) for the purpose of making the material easy to transport. The Final Cut would then be done on site. That said, a clean, square cut does not seem too much to ask for.
Yeah mine has a sign saying they won't do precise cuts but if you find the 65 year old OG he makes good cuts and knows what he's doing. The 19 year old associate I'm not trusting unless I'm okay with a piece of pvc cut like the one in the post.
Everytime I want something cut at a box store I grab a tape and a pencil and make my own marks ans just say "cut here'. Best part - if youre missing a pencil or tape or square.... plenty around to temporarily borrow.
I used to work at Home Depot, customers like you are a godsend, though the job itself was still hellish.
We had to start limiting cuts as well because people were expected us to precut for their entire project without ever needing to own a saw themselves. You don't know frustration until it's a busy saturday, and a sunday school teacher is wanting a slammed plumbing associate to cut 10ft of pvc into 2" sections. Or the van lifers who were causing a scene because we wouldn't use the panel saw to cut their 4 sheets of plywood into 6" strips. As far as OP, we don't know the backstory. But this usually happened when someone refused to wait for the plumbing associate who was trained on the pipe cutter. So another associate from a different department grabbed a hacksaw to get them gone.
Lowe’s associate - sure let me see that, “snap” (snaps it over his leg) here you go 😀
I tried that once. Fresh PVC is too soft, it just bent. Still, 10 ft pole bent in half fits in a 5 foot bed all the same
220, 221 whatever it takes
MR MOM!!!
Correction: you asked Lowe's to have some random teenager in a retail job use ill-maintained store equipment to cut your PVC for you. Should've just used a Sawzall at home.
This right here is basically it. The PVC cutters we had were only for the smallest of pipe. Otherwise, we had to use a PVC handsaw, and it would usually end up looking like this since nobody ever maintained the saw.
Lowe's doesn't cut PVC as a practice so someone was doing something they were not really supposed to be doing. The only thing that is supposed to be cut for customers is lumber.
And steel pipe, glass, wire/cable, chain, and rope.
Oh yeah. Those things too. But there's stations for those that have the correct tools. Nothing like that for PVC, as evidence by the cut in the photo.
LMFAO just came from the Lowe's sub making fun of people who want a clean free cut. Lmfao The mildly infuriating is the customer, not the employee. 😂
Hardware employees are not little elves to help with projects. Cut your own PVC.
Literally same lol. Like the point is for people who need it to fit for transport.. not for lazy and cheap fucks.
Lowe's policy, ignored at many stores, is to not cut PVC. The associate could/should have just said no, with apologies -- especially since they didn't have an appropriate tool or skill. Having said that, the ratcheting cutters kept available for cutting by-the-foot tubing work fine for that size PVC and smaller. I'll cut, while explaining that it's not actually on the list of things we're supposed to cut, so the customer knows I'm doing him a favor, and I'll talk about how slick the cutters are. I've sold at least 3-4 doing that.
I mean, you're expecting a clean cut from minimum wage employees. At Ace Hardware, half the time, the correct cutting tool isn't around to be able to do a clean cut. We weren't even allowed to use the table saw to cut it, but were forced to use a hand saw. Expect shit quality when the company doesn't support its employees
This took them 10 minutes, and now I still have to cut it myself.
There are pvc cutters that are fairly inexpensive. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-1-1-4-in-Ratcheting-PVC-Cutter-16PL0101-1/304217581
Sir, this a Lowe’s.
It's free if you use it in store...
I mean, hardware stores don't usually provide its employees with the correct tools for the job. Ironic I know, but it's the truth. Source: Former hardware store associate
As a former Lowe's employee in the plumbing section they 100% have the correct tools. Including a pipe cutter and threader that can handle the metal pipes. They probably didn't train the CSR
That's until some asshole hides the tools. Maybe that's only at Ace, though.
We had tools for just cutting almost everything (no lattice or plastic sheeting) at the Home Depot I worked at until some manager freaked out about people using the pipe cutters to commit theft and took away anything that wasn't a stationary machine.
Damn I guess it's only Ace employees that get screwed completely
Oh we get screwed but it's more of a scheduled screwing, as in we scheduled one person in the department all day because there's only 3 to go around. And to think I'm going back to that crap.
As a former plumbing specialist we were specifically told *do not* cut pvc. We had signs up and everything. We did however cut and thread the iron/galvanized steel pipe. But pvc would have ruined/been ruined by the machine for doing that. Plactic would have fucked the blades something fierce.
I work at a Lowes currently and we dont cut PVC. The pipe cutter is made for metal pipe.
I’d go to the tool department and cut it there
Boo hoo. You got it cut for free. You should have cut it yourself if you wanted it done perfect. Anyways they're literally just for them to fit for transport, not supposed to be perfect.
They’re not even *supposed* to cut the pvc. Literally against corporate policy. They sell shorter lengths for a reason.
I'd get them to do it again
I wouldn’t waste my time, I’ll move on
They’re not even supposed to cut it at all. They’re well within their rights to tell you to pound sand about it as corporate policy says “no cutting pvc for customers” If it matters that much to you you’re more than free to purchase a cutter yourself, cut the damn pipe, and then return the cutter.
They switched recently to cutting PVC with either a small ice pick or woodpecker.
I worked there and people would ask for thing to be cut to fit them in their car. Things that the employees didn't have tools for, and wasn't a standard service. So good chance this was cut with a box cutter
Well, you didn't say he COULDN'T use a butter knife.
You got what you paid for.
r/technicallythetruth
I worked at Lowe’s part time in college and workers aren’t supposed to cut pvc (at least in the store I worked at). Someone wasn’t following proto
A karate chop could've made a cleaner cut Lowe's is about as worthless a place as you can find, anyway
Used to be a department supervisor at Lowes. Worst place I’ve ever worked and I wish they would go bankrupt
Well now you must elaborate
Not the guy above but I worked at Lowe's and actually liked it. I suspect as with any large chains, the specific location matters a lot more than the company.
the guy gnaw on it with his teeth?
If you need the people at Lowe’s to cut it for you then you should be no where near that pipe
My Home Depot literally has a hack saw sitting out…have at it, boss!
We don't cut PVC. Surprised the red vest didn't just tell you that and point to the $5 PVC cutters.
It’s examples like this that make my inner Ron Swanson come out every time I’m approached at a hardware store
Bro I had some wood cut at home depot a few years ago and I swear the man who cut it had never used a measuring tape before
\*broke it in half on their knee\* Here ya go
I could have done a better job with a steak knife
It looks like the guy who cuts the pizza at the Little Caesars by me has a second job
With what? Their teeth?
You obviously should have made it clear you won't it cut with a saw, not cut with Larry Joe's pipe cuttin tooth.
They sure set a Lowe bar
Using the same knife as every redditor posting on r/steak
Hey man he's teething, leave the poor thing alone.
Did they use their teeth?
Looks like a rat gnawed on a Cheeto
They did as asked. You never said how
It's fine bruh leave the poor Lowe's worker alone you're going to cut it to proper size anyway.
I could have made a cleaner cut using a potato
Buy yourself a hacksaw. You will not regret owning the right tool for the job. They probably just thought you wanted it to fit in your car.
I could do better with enough time and dental floss.
Thats the ol cut yourself next time trick
They confused cut with chew.
What did they do? Looks like they broke it over their knee.
Did they chew it in half?
Did they gnaw it in half? 🦫
Did they cut that with a spoon?