What a tender's job is

There is this guy that I go to school who can be a total douche bag. He’s a good worker but he is just really fucking dense. Today we had a disagreement about what a tenders’ job is supposed to be. I wanted him to know that my job is not to hold his fucking ass up on a mid-water project! So every time I felt him take a strain I would give him one foot. I like to feel my divers at the end of my line/hose. He kept signaling me to take up his slack. Well on an older project that we had done that had meant to bring him up like an elevator. I got tired of bearing the brunt of his weight, and let him go. Arghhh… then he has the audacity to come out of the water and slap me. If I wasn’t at school and cared about my future here, I swear I would’ve punched him, if not pushed him back in the water. But that would’ve been highly dangerous for my career at the school. I have to deal with this fucker for the next four months….. This is my rant for now.