Shop I work in now, back when I started had a growly curmudgeon that groaned and whined about everything, mostly him first type. He did have a heckuva set of tools, lots of little oddball stuff that made things easier. If you got the nerve to ask to borrow something, he would flip open a little tablet, ring binder type, write your name down, make model and markings on the tool borrowed, date it, and you had to sign it, the book was old and was about half full. Made you kinda pucker when he walked over to ask for it back. And he made it a point, borrow it twice, and you need to buy one, NOW.