re: Are Mexican landscapers the hardest working group of people in America?

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yeah I will say the heavy equipment and concrete stuff was mostly whites

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I actually like seeing Mexicans running heavy equipment for my customers. Being that they don't know what they're doing, they tend to tear shite up in spectacular fashion.

One good example that comes to mind happened at a recycling place a little north of B'ham a year or two ago. They had hired this Mexican operator to run the Cat 245 material handler (grapple type). For some reason he though the hydraulic filter was getting clogged up so this dumb bastard goes and takes the main hydraulic filter out and throws it away. Only problem was that he did not make sure they had another filter on the shelf... which they didn't. This was a real problem as it was Saturday afternoon and we were closed until Monday. So this dumb bastard goes and finds the stuffing out of an old car seat and stuffs that shite down into the filter housing, thinking that will somehow act as a makeshift filter until Monday. Well of course it did not work. Instead of filtering the hydraulic oil, this stuffing shite spread throughout the whole hydraulic system. It gets into all the valves, pumps, hoses, cylinders... everything. The whole system is fricked. By the time everything is said and done, this idiot cost them just over $60,000.00 in repairs to this hydraulic system.

I should have sent him a fruit basket or something as a thank you.