u/Shooshplz

I saw a YouTube video recently where this guy was installing an electric compressor from Amazon on his honda basically just retrofitting a new ac system to it, i thought that was kinda interesting. I also know that you can buy those ac kits for classic cars. My 85 has AC but it doesn't work, and like I could fix it, or i could find another way. Just curious if anyone has found alternative AC options. Also, for anyone who doesn't have AC and lives in a place that can get pretty hot (like up to 100°f), whats that experience like. I really just don't want to have AC because it's another system I have to spend money on and take care of, but i dont live somewhere thats always nice weather. I do have vent windows and a back window on my truck, but idk, it gets pretty hot out here sometimes.

Well maybe it does a little but, not like i thought tho. I wish i had never looked up what type of insects and stuff permethrin effects. I would prefer to still be ignorant.

Im a big outdoorsman typa guy, but ive always had arachnophobia and that tends to be severely counterintuitive to being such an outdoorsy person, and i recently learned about permethrin and got super stoked cuz im going on another backpacking trip soon and i thought, "this stuff is so dope, i wont have to worry about spiders crawling on me so much", but today i got curious and actually looked it up, and it turns out thats not true. It is what it is. Ultimately i can thug out my irrational fears pretty well when i know there is nothing i can really do about it. At least the ticks and mosquitoes will piss off.

Been working at a tire shop for about a month. Its my first "manly blue collar hell hea brother" kind of job, at least with other guys. Previously ive just done handyman shit for family friends and stuff, but that was all solo.

Anyways, im having a hard time getting into the work culture and stuff. I mean the guys treat me like im the worlds #1 retard, which is probably just cuz im the new guy, but then they say shit like "well it makes sense you dont know everything or whatever cuz you just started" but then when i dont know something im a fucking moron i guess.

I know alot of that is probably unserious but its hard to tell how much of it is just them busting my balls and how much is actual resentment from me messing up.

Also, the general work culture is like insults and being a dick but its always a joke tho, and i dont have that skill. Unfortunately for me my parents raised me to be like a "kind empathetic man" or whatever, which is great in theory, but in the real world with other men its mostly just a handicap.

How much of this shit is just part of the new guy ritual experience, and would any of you have any advice for how to become a well liked member of the crew as i level up from "new guy" to just another guy that works there. Or are you always the new guy till someone else gets hired. I don't fucking know. Sometimes work is chill and sometimes i feel like im the dumbest motherfucker to walk the earth when im there.

Another thing. If i dont talk unless i need to but i get my work done, does that make me look like an autistic freak, or just a chill guy. Cuz im an introvert and i dont usually talk unless i actually got something to say, so like when theres not much going on and the other guys are talking im just like off sweeping or something. But when i try to get in the group, i cant ever get a shot to talk.

So far the guys seem to think im actually sped, cuz when someone says something to me i usually dont hear them and i say "huh" but how tf can i hear them when its so loud in the shop all the time.

Tried to ask my dad about this shit but he's always been like a computer programmer guy so he doesn't get it.