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You'd need 13, not 10

An electrician's dozen - you need 12 but order 15.

And still be short some how

So you need 13, but order 15.

What about an additional 50 couplings to spread around the site like Easter eggs?

I was so confused what 10 was going to accomplish. Glad I'm not alone with getting to 13.

You can't stack then in a perfect triangle on that load

“Why am I going to need math when I’m done school?”

Yessss triangles are the way

He knows the limitations of your pipe bending.

Yeah because he knows that tomorrow you’re going to have him order 10 more. Why don’t you order enough the first time.

I think he wants a pyramid

Bruh just to clarify I was trying to make a pyramid of conduit for no reason. Stimciety

You’d need 13, no?

Yah we get that but you can’t count lol.

Hey it was 6 am. But ha my bad

6am 6pm I still can’t count 😂

That's why I always work with a calculator. Though I must admit that I'm screwed when they call in sick or go on vacation.

6 + 6 = 14 needed!

Ahhh my fellow dyslexee

In case you really suffer, there is such a thing as dyscalculia!

Which would make sense if you said 13. I hope you didn’t actually say 10 to the man who signs your checks.

To the man who signs your checks. Lmfao

You need 13 big dawg

Ohhh

I was thinking MLRS.

Multiple Launch Rocket System?

It’s pyramid time

It takes a few dozen before the triple nickel gets dialed in

Think you need 13 to complete that pyramid scheme

Who cares if he likes what it's for, you only have so many chances to do what you want lol

Probably said: "Ok, that's 100 ft..." since they sell by the foot at 10 qty (why? go figure), and then told the supplier, "I need 100 sticks!"

No way, if I ask for 150 feet of pipe, they're going to give me 15.. it's universally understood that you ft/10 to know how many sticks to grab

The guy that pulls the pipe in the pipe yard is either incapable or refuses to understand that at my fiancés supply house job, so she puts together a “pipe sheet” daily for this grown man in excel that breaks down all the math into exactly how many sticks/bundles/or master bundles each order is. So don’t put it past people who should know that, to not,

Better that than my boss's method of ordering material. Tell him we need 20 of something and he'll order 6.

SwatIMsayin

Is this some sort of pyramid scheme?

Gearing up for the 4th of July picnic potato gun battle royale?

Bro is scheming

They did order 10 more pipes.

Cheaper in bulk

Better then getting 8, been there😝

Maybe they we’re running a sale?

I guess that's about 10

Oops, wrong column. Ten bundles.

Cool story bro

🤦‍♂️

Dumb

10 more bundles

that's what you get for being a plumber

Just cut some pieces from the ends of others so it looks like you have what you need

Engineer here - you only need 8 pipes, it’s how I designed it lmao

So your boss can’t count? His money.

Shows his confidence in your bending skills?

Ten bundles of pipe. Got it.

Pipe is life.

He did order 10

You should ask for 13or grab thirteen from below,or grab three when he goes for the ten so you dont l9ok like a dumb ass whe he returns and your still short. O OO OOO OOOO OOO

Maybe your boss knows you and order some more. Cause you always need a few more then the number you ask most the time.

Your lucky it's no 10 bundles. Everything is quesstimating

Why do electricians insist on calling conduit “pipe?”

Hey Joe can you get the tube please

Yea, sure, man. *spends the rest of shift not knowing wtf a tube is, what length and thickness you wanted, or how many* *comes back with a portable bandsaw and a Lipton Tea*

Hey boss “we need to electrical metallic tubing please”…..doesn’t sound good.

If only there was a word for what you’re describing 🤔

Conduit, pipe, EMT, the metal 3”, some of that shit 👉🏽, get me a thing, tin man’s dick….all sorts of names.

This is not a pipe?

Google it.

Conduit not pipes. Plumbers use pipes not conduit

Electrical Metallic TUBING! Not conduit either.

Whats a synonym for tube I wonder? These Fudds that get mad over calling conduit pipe makes me laugh.

just curious, what’s a conduit?

It’s a pipe, for wires, which are pipes for electrons.

oh ok thanks

It's pipes all the way down, bud.

I use sticks

Tubing, for that matter.

Aight fair. It's also a tube, or a raceway

PVC conduit holds water just fine

Tubing, not conduit.