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re: Are Mexican landscapers the hardest working group of people in America?
Posted on 1/9/14 at 7:47 am to choupiquesushi
Posted on 1/9/14 at 7:47 am to choupiquesushi
Mexican Roofers and it isn't close. Have you ever picked up a bundle of shingles and felt how heavy it is? The tiniest mexican roofer slings those around like they're pillows. They also walk on a steep roof like mountain goats.
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Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:06 am to yellowfin
quote:They work the hardest. Landscaping is easy, and besides, they all take a hour nap during the day
Mexican farm hands
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:08 am to choupiquesushi
Guatemalans who plant tree seedlings
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:10 am to UFownstSECsince1950
I will say one thing. If I could make my current salary cutting grass I would. Im not trying to do major garden work. Just upkeep maybe some tree removal. I love it. Especially edging my parents quarter mile long driveway when I visit. There yard takes me about 3 hours as I push the front and ride for the backyard.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:37 am to TigerHam85
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Mexican roofers
I did a day volunteering at a Habitat for Humanity jobsite last month. They had two Mexican roofers there. They were like a fricking blur up there on that roof.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:37 am to choupiquesushi
My roofers get after it
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:40 am to UFownstSECsince1950
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landscapers
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or a shittier job
Roofing is way worse than landscaping.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:44 am to UFownstSECsince1950
I had a summer job back in college working for a concrete construction company. They built roads, curbs, etc. All of the hard labor was done by a crew of Mexicans. They were damn hard workers and overall good people in general.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:46 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Concrete crews. By far.
The good ones bust serious arse. Makes me tired just thinking about it.
The good ones bust serious arse. Makes me tired just thinking about it.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:47 am to UFownstSECsince1950
I recently finished building a house and I can tell you in my area, the Mexicans and central Americans are doing by far the best work in the trades, and for the best price.
Framers, roofers, landscaping, etc were all TOP notch people, very efficient, great value etc. We had a husband and wife painting crew from Mexico that were the best painters I have ever seen. Amazingly clean, efficient and fast.
Whites and blacks in this country are getting beaten out badly when it comes to doing real work.
Framers, roofers, landscaping, etc were all TOP notch people, very efficient, great value etc. We had a husband and wife painting crew from Mexico that were the best painters I have ever seen. Amazingly clean, efficient and fast.
Whites and blacks in this country are getting beaten out badly when it comes to doing real work.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:52 am to TigerRad
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Whites and blacks in this country are getting beaten out badly when it comes to doing real work.
There is one area of construction where Mexicans & Latin Americans are still lagging... That's in earthmoving construction. I hear a lot from my customers how they make really shitty equipment operators.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:54 am to Darth_Vader
yeah I will say the heavy equipment and concrete stuff was mostly whites. Overall masonry and tile work was all EXPERT hispanics though.
Plumbing and electricity all whites.
Plumbing and electricity all whites.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:55 am to elprez00
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Concrete crews. By far.
I had a crew of Mexican replace my driveway and they did and excellent job, done by noon the day they started. Plus they were half the price of the other places I called
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:57 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Landscaping isn't hard. Roofing is hard.
Mexican Roofers. Or Mexican scaffold builders offshore. I've seen roofers take two bags of shingles up on a ladder 15 foot. That's not easy. Also offshore I watched mexicans hang off of one runner while trying to attach a 12' leg. The guys just don't care about getting hurt. The scaffold was over the water and about 190' in the air. It was also about 119 outside.
Mexican Roofers. Or Mexican scaffold builders offshore. I've seen roofers take two bags of shingles up on a ladder 15 foot. That's not easy. Also offshore I watched mexicans hang off of one runner while trying to attach a 12' leg. The guys just don't care about getting hurt. The scaffold was over the water and about 190' in the air. It was also about 119 outside.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 9:03 am to wheelr
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All of the hard labor was done by a crew of Mexicans
When I was younger I remember going up north for a summer and seeing white guys pour concrete foundations. I was a kid but had never seen that done by anyone other than a black crew. Now it's only Mexicans.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 9:07 am to TigerRad
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yeah I will say the heavy equipment and concrete stuff was mostly whites
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.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 9:12 am to TigerRad
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Whites and blacks in this country are getting beaten out badly when it comes to doing real work.
This, but the Mescins that have been here more than 1 generation with all their family in the states can be just as lazy, if not more so. It's the ones fresh from the border crossing still sending their cash back to the motherland that are the hard working frickers.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 9:13 am to choupiquesushi
yes, my family in lousiana makes fun of us in texas for all the mexicans and i always LOL because they have never been around them.
they are the hardest working people in america and almost everyone that i know that is hispanic is super nice and friendly. very good morals and work ethic
give me mexican as the largest minority in my state over black 100 out of 100 times
they are the hardest working people in america and almost everyone that i know that is hispanic is super nice and friendly. very good morals and work ethic
give me mexican as the largest minority in my state over black 100 out of 100 times
Posted on 1/9/14 at 9:39 am to MWP
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This, but the Mescins that have been here more than 1 generation with all their family in the states can be just as lazy, if not more so. It's the ones fresh from the border crossing still sending their cash back to the motherland that are the hard working frickers.
This. My aunt owns a nursery and I decided to take a trip to Sarasota Fl, with her a few years ago to look at the quality of trees she would be receiving bc some of the palm trees were coming in bad shape. I was only in high school then but I came back from that trip thinking hispanic workers were the laziest people in America.
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