"Lazy White Man, not work hard like Chinese"

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Douglas Hicks

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Several months ago I went to clean a Chinese place. I was w/o a helper, a fact that was quickly noted by Teem. He asked if I was alone and I told him how difficult it was to hire people to clean exhaust systems. Teem agreed help was hard to find. He told me "White man lazy, not work hard like chinese" I agreed Chinese worked hard. He asked what I paid, I told him. Teem looked thoughtful, and asked if I would hire him to clean his system. I told him yes, and that it was time to go to work. I had the hoods draped, the water supply run to the van, so all we had to do was go on the roof. He did not understand why we had to go on the roof. I explained the process, and we climbed the ladder and went up to metal roof to the peak. He did not like the ladder, he liked the roof less and especially did not like standing on the ridge, balanced like a monkey. I explained how to balance and not to step in the water, the grease on the roof and especially in the chemical, or he might slip and not stop until he hit the ground. Teem was liking this job less and less. After about 45 minutes, he looked at me and said, "My wife call, she need me, I go" I did not hear anyone calling him, I did not hear the phone ringing, but he did. His phone was in the kitchen, his wife was home. His hearing must be much better than mine. Of course I stayed, did the job by myself, w/o help. So much for the "lazy white man, not work hard like chinese".

Douglas Hicks, lazy white man
General Fire Equipment Co of Eastern Oregon, Inc
 
That story is priceless!

The grease is a little harder than it looks huh???
Multiply that by workin graveyard at those types of jobs (not even all Chinese jobs) 4-5 nights a week. It adds up fast.
 
Shoulda pressed your cell phone to your ear and then tell him that his wife no longer needs him, and will see him in the morning. Then tie a small cord around his waist and inform him you are going to lower him into the duct with a scraper, head-first. It would be worth the pay just to see his face! Next time be sure to secure yourself on the roof to keep from falling off from laughter.

Richard
 
http://jflores.com/jokes/chowmein.htm

OK, so I stole this from some roof cleaner from over on the Grime Scene. I did a lot of work in a Mexican Resturant, owned by Roberto Muy Grande. A real tall guy. My cohort was Roberto the Cubano. One night Roberto Muy Grande took us to Fong's for dinner. Roberto the Cubano started stirring his dinner, muttering "El Gato, El Gato" Even w/the language barrier, the 3 of us got a laugh.

Douglas Hicks
General Fire Equipment Co of Eastern Oregon, Inc
 
Speaking of oriental, a buddy recently got into the restaurant biz and the location he picked up is a you guessed it, a former viet restaurant. He asked us to take a look at cleaning the mess. The few eastern restaurants from our experience were serviced occasionally. This place is amazing, I mean that in the bad sense. I used my handy razor scraper in the ducts-so that's cool, the filters are trash and we will be buy new, heat and chem works on the plenum but the 2 fans are rediculous. There are large cup size balls of that black sticky grease in the bottom of the bowl and around the blades, not to mention the black crap build up around the sides of the bowls. I'd take a picture only it's just black crap in dark tight spaces. It makes sense to replace the fans - I'm a big believer in that. Since walking away is not an option, what works to ungunk oriental fans and make them presentable and useable.
 
Douglas is still around I'm sure of it....lost his number , damn-it.
 
We clean the best of the best out in my area and the only thing that works that we feel is safe is a small putty knife with a small notch cut into it at the top to insert into each blade of the squirrel cage fan, if its a dome then just do the same but with with appropriate scraper. I also carry a cheap metal file with me to sharpen my scrapers fairly constantly especially if scraping galvanized or aluminium. Every putty knife is as sharp as a decent kitchen knife with a decent edge. I could apply some chemical to it but currently the only thing that cuts the china mans grease is cold american putty knife steel.

Good Luck.
 
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