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construction worker stereotypes and stories... Got any good ones?
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:15 pm
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:15 pm
seems like somebody on every paving crew is watching porn on a phone, cat calling every women they see, sneaking off to smoke a joint
Calling wives/ girlfriends their "ole lady" even though they are 25 years old
Much higher percentage smoke, dip , get drunk, use profanity than most of population.
All construction workers say "I've been doin this all my life" or "I've been doin this 20 years" or "I'm usually over big jobs"... Usually the ones that say that garbage are the ones that mess something up
Heard a rough ole guy tell me a tip regarding marriage... " those first 6 months you will eat her up. Then the next 6 months you will wish you hadn't"
Calling wives/ girlfriends their "ole lady" even though they are 25 years old
Much higher percentage smoke, dip , get drunk, use profanity than most of population.
All construction workers say "I've been doin this all my life" or "I've been doin this 20 years" or "I'm usually over big jobs"... Usually the ones that say that garbage are the ones that mess something up
Heard a rough ole guy tell me a tip regarding marriage... " those first 6 months you will eat her up. Then the next 6 months you will wish you hadn't"
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Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:17 pm to OffroadSportsman89
Most of their women out weigh them. Also they tend to sport goatees
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:19 pm to OffroadSportsman89
Heard a 65 yo construction worker ask me if I have ever seen he movie Pocahontas... He said his wife looked like her 35 years ago when they got married... Hard to imagine what an animated woman looks like
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:19 pm to OffroadSportsman89
¿Hablas español?
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:21 pm to OffroadSportsman89
Heard a concrete finisher say one time... "If ya want yo ole lady to make your lunch... You pack the crack and she'll pack the sack"
"Boy, there are 2 guarantees in life... Concrete is gonna crack and titties are gonna sag"
"Boy, there are 2 guarantees in life... Concrete is gonna crack and titties are gonna sag"
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:21 pm to OffroadSportsman89
I always thought being a flagman would be the best job, just stand there and stop traffic. But somebody told me they're the lowest on the totem pole.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:22 pm to OffroadSportsman89
I work in construction. Oh the stories I could tell...
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:22 pm to OffroadSportsman89
So you work in construction?
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:25 pm to OffroadSportsman89
We have the 248th most desired profession out of the top 250 professions in America.
We also have the largest demand for workers with the least amount of qualified candidates to perform those duties.
We also have the largest demand for workers with the least amount of qualified candidates to perform those duties.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:43 pm to OffroadSportsman89
One time at the job site I walked up to a carpenter and asked him "Hey carpenter, you gotta nail?".
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I guess you had to be there.
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I guess you had to be there.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:50 pm to OffroadSportsman89
Many have been married 3 or 4 times.
Most make great money, but 90 % are broker than you can imagine because they think life is a big pissing match. I'm talking about the fool who pays over $800 for a truck note and begs for a raise.
Bunch of Immature, selfish, children...
Most make great money, but 90 % are broker than you can imagine because they think life is a big pissing match. I'm talking about the fool who pays over $800 for a truck note and begs for a raise.
Bunch of Immature, selfish, children...
Posted on 2/26/15 at 10:06 pm to OffroadSportsman89
I love it when the construction superintendent that's been "doing this for 25 years "knows" more than the senior engineer and informs the client/owner that this foundation/structure/whatever is "vastly over-designed". 
There are a lot of good contractors out there than do fantastic work and I breath a sigh of relief when they get the job... but some...
They underbid the job and try to make it up with bullshite change orders.
There are a lot of good contractors out there than do fantastic work and I breath a sigh of relief when they get the job... but some...
They underbid the job and try to make it up with bullshite change orders.Posted on 2/26/15 at 10:09 pm to OffroadSportsman89
They tend to describe exiting from previous jobs as being "run off" (fired) or they "drug/dragged up" (quit).
Posted on 2/26/15 at 10:16 pm to BoostAddict
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They underbid the job and try to make it up with bullshite change orders.
This. Once they are behind the 8 ball they make the engineers hate their live with change orders, RFI's...
This post was edited on 2/26/15 at 10:17 pm
Posted on 2/26/15 at 10:30 pm to NYNolaguy1
I was on a job with this crazy old hillbilly looking dude that always wore overalls and 2 other guys my age(about 19 at the time). The 2 younger guys start rattling off about how big their dicks are for a few minutes and the hillbilly guy nonchalantly hangs his dick out of the SIDE of his overalls and starts taking a piss. They both took the lords name in vane once they noticed and stfu.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 10:39 pm to sleepytime
sounds like a pipeline job...Posted on 2/26/15 at 11:19 pm to OffroadSportsman89
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"Boy, there are 2 guarantees in life... Concrete is gonna crack and titties are gonna sag"
Other than death and taxes, truer words have never been spoken
Most concrete finishers are alcoholics (the kind with a bottle in the back pocket, not the kind that are still drunk from the night before)
Most painters are drug addicts
All Iron workers have a rap sheet thicker than a phone book.
90% of the hispanic workers that you try to talk to on a jobsite that respond "No Inglés" speak the crap out of some English and there is probably a 50% chance they went to school in the US.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 11:44 pm to BoostAddict
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I love it when the construction superintendent that's been "doing this for 25 years "knows" more than the senior engineer and informs the client/owner that this foundation/structure/whatever is "vastly over-designed"
There are good and bad Engineers just like there are Superintendents. I always think it's funny when an Engineer straight out of school won't listen to a seasoned Superintendent just because he has a degree. You know what, we all frick up a Monday detail once in a while. So I would recommend always giving them the benefit of the doubt before you assume they don't have any clue what they are talking about.
I had a 2 month delay on a project one time for a redesign. My Superintendent (redneck, no college, 30 years experience) pointed out early on in the job that the amount of rebar required for the columns physically would not fit in the concrete column, much less the concrete or aggregate. We finally had to build a mock up onsite so everyone, the developer included, could see. No one wanted to listen to him or any of us. His E&O underwriter wishes they had.
I know plenty of great engineers, and I know plenty of great superintends, but the moral of the story is that being an engineer does not make you an infallible, and being a superintendent does not by any stretch make you unintelligent.
Posted on 2/27/15 at 12:55 am to OffroadSportsman89
I'd rather talk about working on a pipeline where you talk all day with the pusher about joints and dope.
When working construction in Denver one summer the roach coach driver found out I was from Louisiana he asked me if I wrestled gators. I got tagged with the nickname, "Gator" for the rest of the summer.
Regardless of whether it was construction, the pipeline, a welder's helper, or any of the other "Summer jobs" I had, I was always, "The college boy."
When working construction in Denver one summer the roach coach driver found out I was from Louisiana he asked me if I wrestled gators. I got tagged with the nickname, "Gator" for the rest of the summer.
Regardless of whether it was construction, the pipeline, a welder's helper, or any of the other "Summer jobs" I had, I was always, "The college boy."
Posted on 2/27/15 at 4:12 am to WONTONGO
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Posted by WONTONGO
This happens more than you know. If an engineer on a construction site asks you where you got your degree? The next words out of his mouth is invariably something idiotic. Thirty years experience trumps a degree almost everytime.
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