As an electrician, I actually touched a broom for the first time the other day. I was moving it cause it was leaning against the chair I wanted to sit on but I call that progress
As an equipment opt I can tell you I work damn hard!!! Makeing sure I got my blue tooth connected right... makeing sure the ac vents are facing the right direction. Watching idiots work in the hot sun. I mean its really hard work.
As a union electrician I can almost guarantee you that I’ve probably picked up after myself at least once. I mean, I don’t remember doing it but I’m sure I accidentally did it once or twice when I wasn’t paying attention. 🤷🏼♂️
It's against union rules to use a broom, as that's a laborer tool and we don't want to anger the laborer union. Pretty sure the IBEW has an agreement with the Laborers union outlining the relationship.
As a painter I am extremely offended I always leave the house I'm painting in perfect condition. Just beautifuly artfull strokes covering up everyone else's screwups. I take extreme pride in how much trash I can leave in their yard at the end. y'all don't know the balls you gotta have to leave nine foot strips of plastic on the only tree on the property of a three million dollar house.
Ahhhh residential is alot different than new construction. You have to protect most surrounding. Commercial you can be a little messier as long as you have a tight system on where not to get paint. Hats off to you sir , that was always my Achilles heel......painting. I didnt like a job where I spent more focusing on what not to do than what to do. Being a little older i may enjoy it abit more. I needed a job where my body moved like my brain. My motto was always GO HARD OR GO HOME.............PLAY HARD , WORK HARDER.
I love it! I’m a crane operator and it’s hard! I mean I’ve got to keep an eye out for the lighting. If it’s 20 miles out I shut it down. And don’t even get me started on the phone. I’m running out of things to watch. It’s now become a major struggle to stay awake. Lmfao!
Once got a great Crane Operator. While swinging in the Wind in that extremly rusty Working Cage he brought with him i got an "important" Message on the Radio. I need to look down. So i looked down at him, putting his Magazine on the Glass of his Cabin while he told me "you can look up to her gums" ...yes you could. Damn that poor Bastard had it really hard, but somehow he got through these days ....
I tried tower crane operating for about a month as I had some time in the seat previously, had a knack for it I was told. But couldn't deal with sitting in a box 12+ hours a day not to mention everyone screaming at you needing picks. Besides the initial climb in the am it's not physically demanding but mentally demanding for sure! You either have the mental fortitude of a psychiatrist or you have to be wacked in the head to do that job. My ADHD did not allow me to make career of it killer money though! TIP: always make friends with the operators/ don't strain use the crane ! 😂
I dont know, our job sight about had a lynching the other day when an asshole drywaller decided to take a power sander to the walls and fill the ENTIRE unventilated building with thick, choking, drywall dust. He came in moving peoples stuff around, closing doors, and didn't say a danged word. Moved one of the AC guys ladders while he was still up in the rafters and turned the machine one and no one knew he was up there until he was gagging and spitting up there. He was wearing a serious respirator and was making people move while he trashed the place and didn't even move any of the fans to blow the dust out. After he made it half way through the building, the super had to yell at him to stop and unplug his sander to get him to stop. He refused to answer anybody telling him to stop using the excuse " no habla". Yeah, he figured out how pissed everyone was after an electrician chucked his gear out the door. Later, speaking perfect English, he complained to the super for being interrupted. If that sob tries another stunt like that, he will be wishing he was back home in Guatemala.
@@tanneredge9774more to love on until she dies at a young age of a heart attack and complications from diabetes. Thats just disgusting to watch her flab flap around and she cant hardly move on your dick cuz shes too fat to move her fat ass. It’s nasty to see people do that to their bodies
As a former sandblaster and painter, I thought that was pretty hilarious. I'm now an inspector and I immediately thought that inspectors are the enemy, but I'm glad it's just the painters.
@@Noneyabiz001 I was working on some conduit when I got asked how things were going... responded with "it would be going better if the engineer was wasn't blind and a dumbass!" I look up to find my boss standing with 4 guys and one of them being the electrical engineer... the block manager was giggling and my boss looking at me like I'm a retard lol I stand by my words though seriously how do they come up with those terrible designs that manage to eliminate basically any way to get it done without majorly violating safety regulations. Or my personal favorite insisting they checked it out and it's possible even though the space available isn't big enough to fit a 3/4 inch much less a 2"so then they spend days before okaying a reroute. There is also when they put a system so close together that running anything to where it needs to go requires a certain amount of knowledge of force application and physics.
@@Noneyabiz001 There is a note on rev 38 of drawing 5109-E-6105 that references a standard that references another standard that clearly spells out what you were supposed to do. What, you have rev 37? Rev 37 references a IOM that was never issued that is wrong anyways. Rev 38 was issued 12 minutes ago, I can't be expected to keep to up to date on everything. Also, the SOW clearly states that anything wrong is your fault, even if I told you to do it.
Before I started trucking, I did road construction (pipe crew) for ten years. I spent 3 years on the ground before I got a shot at being an operator. I gotta say I never had it so easy. There was more responsibility but it was worth it. Not to mention I made 3 times more than when I was a laborer once I became certified.
Retired lady HEO here. The company I worked for never purchased new equipment when used would do. I had more down time than work time. If a piece had a bad limp, I broke it. If a truck was bad, roll it thru a scale house. Safety first right? Protecting my crew...
I love the comment about the GPS. Those guys are just seat warmers. A real operator can feel a 1/4” grade in his butt with an open ROPS. Painters! For sure!
Painters get all the bad rap. I once had an old man go over the job after we were done. He was legit blind. MF was using a magnifying glass 1/2 inch from the wall and his nose 1 inch from the glass. Took him 3 hours to mark with a pencil anything he didn't like. Which was 6 micro spots from poor drywall finishers. Yeah painters hear all the crap. Have to admit though it was funny to see a helper "drop" a bucket of paint down his stairs to the landing. That was glorious to see him absolutely lose his mind.
Don’t worry as a 22 yr drywall finisher we hate you too . We do all the work and some spray machine comes along in 4 hrs does a whole floor . Then complain when there’s a few pinholes or a stop mark . Lucky for me I’m the best and I don’t leave problems .
@@gerryhazelton9569 never said I hated drywall finishers. I do alot of that myself, and I never use sprayers. I've got them but inside I always do it old school. My comment was that painters take alot of crap for bad work done by others. I will admit that there's some sh!%%y painters out there too.
Hahahaha. I wish only the best for you and your family son. You have touched so many aspects of that life and are spot on. Unfortunately I've never been The Offical Boss. Many stood and couldnt determine on their own but not offically. I guess I've always been the Ricky hahaha. Wild crazy and natural firecracker. Many never agreed with me and my actions but could always say ITS DONE ISNT IT, NO ONE HURT, NOTHING ON FIRE.....WE GOOD! Now I'm 45 this year and with all of the young bucks I'm feeling like Rosco. Guys work 30 continus min in the sun and need a weeks vacation. Thank you sir and keep them coming.
Sad as fuck we feel old as Roscoe at 45 man. I mean shit, I’ll take just feeling old over actually being old any day. Roscoe still pillin splinters from his wooden underwear he had back in the day. No thanks. 🤣
I'm a union equipment operator and yeah we do well. The bigger the machine the better the AC works, the smaller units don't quite keep up when it's real hot. We still work in inclement weather like rain and snow as long as it doesn't effect the job and we've got the appropriate gear to work. Honestly it's nice to have a job where the employer appreciates what we do.
As a Union equipment Operator I have to say that I agree with Ricky. I replaced the factory John Deere radio in my hoe with a DEA 500 from a peterbilt. It has Bluetooth, Sirius radio, aux inputs, and a microphone so I can take calls while I’m digging and the call goes thru the stereo speakers. The A/C pumps some cold ass air, and while I don’t have an amplifier or extra speakers, the music is plenty loud.
I’ve never heard anyone complain as much as a crane operator I worked with once, I could build him a road from the parking lot to the crane and he would complain about the dust on his boots
As a full time commercial painter, I have to disagree. Yeah we dropped paint here and there, but how many holes do the electricians make in the drywall? How many holes do the plumbers make in the drywall? All after final paint. FFE Destroy the walls in the entry way and every door they come in contact with. And the GC, always thinks we can just repaint it real fast. When you're working for a resort, on a time line that never changes, Paint is one of the most frustrating jobs.
yeah you guys all have it rough, I have been a commercial flooring contractor for 53 years and guess who gets to see all the messes that every trade leaves behind, 99% of the painters that I work with are great as are almost all the other trades, but every trade seems to have one or two people floating around that seem to mess up and make a whole trade look bad. Usually when I am starting a small job as the painters are finishing up, I talk to them to coordinate so we can both work efficiently and keep on rolling.
I have never understood why gcs call for final paint on the main corridor 6mo before job completion like every square inch of paint on the mf isnt gonna get fucked up. Then blame everyone like it wasn't the most retarded decision made
@@TheHillbillyEngineer carpet Guy's are the most disrespectful ones always trashing the base and case gouging the walls ripping the door's off the hinges parking on driveways that were just poured the day before and I have never seen one that can run a vacuum
As an equipment operator I agree with every part of this video 😂😂 every single part cuz some of us get screwed on equipment and some of us might as well be in a mansion kicked back by the pool
I was on a job that had a few pumps running on a generator and they had a 150 guy in his personal truck next to it overnight for 12hrs on Double bubble. We had 10 light wagons and 5 more operators to fuel them too. Don't hate they have a hell of a contract.
The reason electricians always work in pairs is because one is the doer, and the other is the thinker. Thinker comes up with the plan, and the doer does it. Now, if you get a pair of thinkers, nothing gets done. They just argue over the best way to wire something until its break, lunch, or time to go home. Get 2 doers together, and you'll have a plastic shitter wired for 3ph 480v, and total confusion over why their hands are dyed blue
Non-union industrial so I work alone but you're dead on when the local is in for shutdowns. Even better if you get an apprentice in the mix, then you have a thinker, a doer and a scapegoat.
I call bullshit on that. I give kudos to my heavy equipment mechanics. Nobody works or meets the quotas without the mechanics doing what they do. Just saying.
Scaffold builder in the laborers union in alaska. North slope prudhoe bay oil fields right now. It’s dead as F up here thanks to Biden. Let’s go brandon
As a 15 year old who tried equipment operating its 100% very hard, sitting in a seat with suspension and ac and jamming to music with the CAT BT. Very hard as you could see.
My hubby is a HEO on a mine site, and he said if you follow that GPS to the letter ppl will die lol There is like 3 pieces of equipment in the entire mine with A/C (at least working. Even most of the site pickups have broke ass A/C). And he’s in his 30’s and needs a chiro 2x a week bc of all the damage to his spine from riding in equipment all day. But to be fair, his equipment is bigger than a 2 story house, so when it shakes it shimmies lol
Lol. The operators at our open pit requested better seats for their backs..the mine manager asked every operator to stand up and look at each other and see what they had in common..they laughed and said our huge guts. They were told they already have the best seats, and to start exercising and lose some belly. 😁 They never brought up the issue again.
I got in a dozer for one of the first times last week. The guy who I took over from legit said “oh yeah you just push this button and the machine automatically levels the ground for you based on the gps. You just drive forward kinda slow then back up and do it again” and I was shocked. But hey sometimes connecting to the Bluetooth on my radio is hard! Or when you gotta put the AC in just the right spot so you don’t get too cold or hot. Some stuff is real loud though 😂
Are you kidding me?!!! I have been in the business for 35 years, yes Roscoe and I apprenticed together, but Painters? Whine and complain the most, that is true. But the biggest mess maker is sheetrockers and finishers, make mess and walk away.
I’m a heavy equipment operator been one for 20 years, this was pretty spot on 🤣🤣 my favorite saying “ it is what it is”💪 just like a laborer to be bitching bout how good we got it sittin on our asses all day 😆
Had one mention that to me during the last heat wave.. like I wasn't out there the last 15 years lmao.. first ones to forget where ya come from are the ones still there lol
I had to rescue a painter today. He borrowed MY scissor lift and got stuck up high when it wouldn't come down. I'm convinced he is the stupidest person on Earth. I have never seen anyone, even a painter, make as big a mess as this guy makes.
being an electrician, working with an hvac friend, the jobs item was so messy, I totally lost my mind and picked up a broom and started sweeping, it took me awhile to learn how to use the broom, although I managed. to my surprise my hvac friend didnot know what a broom was or what it looked like,
i am sorry i know it is funny to make fun of electricians, but as a person that went to the union electricians apprentice program, LET ME TELL YOU A FEW THINGS... 1- the amount of math is advanced as in math, calc, algebra, geometry, triganometry, and using all forms of theorums, and LAWS. you almost get a math degree in it. 2- even a small wire being pulled a long distance with several 90s and bends become extremely difficult. 3- you will know what work is when you have 75 people stretched out over 1/4 mile to pull a wire that is 2" diameter and each foot of wire wieghs 50+lbs... and 4- bending pipe is heavy math coupled with doing it right. 5- ALL electricians AND apprentices HAVE to know how to read blue prints and we are REQUIRED to know all symbols for ALL crafts so we do not conflict or mess up others jobs... 6- a lot of jobs require one to be able to map out on thier own a way to run, hang and hook up both pipes, and wires... 7- working on live wires..scary..... 8- building conduit trays, running the wires then having to strap them all down with zip ties, then having to cut the tails off... you have to be EXTREMELY SMART, EXTREMELY FIT, AND EXTREMELY STRONG to be an electrician.. and LINEMEN are even more impressive... so i DARE you to mock a REAL electrician to his face, them boys will destroy you....
I think you are getting construction and manufacturing mixed up. I know it's not a trade skill, but I'm a die-caster and machine operator in an aluminum foundry and we work in any temperature (gets down to 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer indoors). As for quotas... in a 24hr day at 1 machine (our plant has 15 die-cast machines running at the same time) small castings (10 to 15 lbs) we make 1500 a day, medium castings (20 to 30 lbs) we make 1200 a day, and large castings (60lbs) we make 700 a day and we work all of those casting up by hand before packing and moving them to the machining center. Adding insult to injury the place I work at gave us no time off up until earlier this year. (Like we had to actively use the 13day labor law to get 1 day off work every 2 weeks before we switched to 12hr shifts and we weren't getting double time either since we start working on mondays, but our work week starts on sundays because of managment decisions) I love watching ur stuff, but man this skit got me so triggered that I just had to rant in a comment that you won't read while boosting the algorythm in your favor. 🤣
uggg over spray Hubby parked in the wrong spot (shipyard worker) when they were cleaning up some stuff after the hurricane. His car and 8 others ended up with a light misting from the painters. Obviously they had never painted outdoors and failed to consider the wind. Most of the car owners didn't mind because their beat up trucks and cars could use a drop of paint, but it landed on the windshields. It had 8hrs to bake. You could see to drive but most of them took the time after work to get it off since paint remover was just sitting there. The painters left everything, even the sprayers , right where they were working when it was quitting time. They complained about the cars, nothing came of it (of course) The next time they left their equipment out Hubby's foreman took it all and locked it up. The tool ticket was under the painters' names. If they couldn't find it, if it walked off, then they had to pay for it. He let them stew in their own juices until lunch.
I worked at an aluminum cast house and one of my favorite jobs was running the front loader for scrap, especially in the winter. Damn thing had Bluetooth, nice AC and heating, and a comfy as hell seat.
Being a Master Electrician is so easy, even 8 welders, 4 plumbers, 6 Carpenters, 11 Heavy Equipment Operators and 2 Dozen Painters together couldn't pass the Journeyman's Exam. Just saying. Keep the videos coming though they're funny !!!
Bro I passed with a finger in my butt. That shit is easy. Definitely explains why we have so many "sparkies" that don't know shit. At my last job we went through FOUR of them in two weeks because they didn't know shit about how DC motor controllers worked but they refuse to do any research on their own. We went through seven $5,000 controllers in the span of 4 days because these retards didn't know how to read a basic electrical schematic.
So easy they can tell me I don't know what I'm doing when I tell them their Neutral CT for the Main in the gear they just installed is bad or the breaker phase CTs are out. It's the same as any ol' GFCI in their panel at home. Of course their Neutral current being equal to their line currents is normal. Isn't a failed ground fault protection system at all. Nope. That 13 grand breaker and 90 grand switchgear line-up is the same as that 20-amp single pole GFCI in their 20 breaker panel box. Yup.
Yeah, I honestly thought that the safety man and the equipment operators must have an...*ahem*..."outside-of-work" relationship. And I mean, what you do on your own time is fine, but don't bring those monkeyshines or monkeypox or whatever monkey business it is to the jobsite.
I dunno what jobsites ya'll been on but every painter I've ever known or seen is the poor bastard who has to clean up after the electricians and carpenters just to start their work so they dont get sawdust and wire trimmings into the baseboards and wall texture lol
Only equipment that doesnt have a air conditioner is the skid steer because it has a wide ass open front. The excavators have nice radios and air conditioning no way your hot unless your boss a dick and tells ya to keep the windows open to hear us
Shit none of y’all never worked with my old man painting a house. He made sure we didn’t leave a bit of nothing on the job site , now as far as the road went , that’s not the job site lol
As an Electrician, I will testify that I don't leave any shit laying around job sites. I ALWAYS look for your lunch box to leave MY shit in. The sad part is you guys don't bother looking before you chow down. New meaning to your shit eating grins🤣🤣 Keep it up! Your awesome.
Bullshit with the heavy equipment operator, lol it's general labor is the hardest workers we do hands on clean up work , using leveling equipment, using shovels , rakes come on man I can go on and on
So true about heavy equip operators! As for the painters, they probably let them get away with that on commercial projects, but that dog doesn't hunt on my USACE and NAVFAC projects. I will send you home!
as someone who paints steel in a shop, I take slight offense to the painter remark.....until I heard 7 gallons of overspray. on a typical busy day, I can go through about 5 gallons in a day. the most I've done was about 13 gallons in a day (granted, it was outside at our old shop, no wind, sunny day, no moisture with a LOT of stuff to paint)
Yeah I don't really like when people insult trades in a fashion of playing there useless or whatever. I've done a lot of different trades and I'll tell you every one of them has their own problems. I'm sure a Handy Andy might be able to do more trade than another but he's still going to do it shitty nine times out of 10
Loudest piece of equipment I've run out here is an ol Cat D11 with a cab so old everything inside shakes so violently it's amazing it's all still together
Im surprised he didnt mention mudders. Globs of mud all over the jobsite and they dont even pick it up, just for someone to slip it later. I swear, when the mudders show up, every jobsite turns into a minefield of mud
Oh mud daubers are the worse. Filling in electrical boxes. You have to take a hammer and chisel to clean out the switch and out boxes that is if you can even find them. Had one crew of mud daubers fill the boxes in so complete it took days to find all the boxes and we were not 100% that we ever got them all.
@ ricky breadsticks, yall need to do one on marine surveyors, I climb 50 ft tanks like a treadmill, crew boats to barges like I own the boat, don't get me started on Jacob's ladders (mop handle and some string 100 ft above surface)
Lmao! Painters are the most hated trade. My senior got into it with a bunch of them. We were pulling face plates off the walls and marking them temporarily for a new install of data lines. Pull the plates, set it on the floor next to the old jack. They were numbered to match our print. After lunch, we go in to start roughing lines and the painter scooped them all up and tossed them in a five gal bucket. I thought fists would fly. And after we put in new stuff, they painted over the cover plates and the jacks, gumming them up. Had to replace half of them.
We just got a new building where I work, painters didn't even bother with the faceplates, just left them installed. More than half of all of our data faceplates had to be re-terminated because the holes had been completely filled with paint.
man I wish the equipment at my job had the fancy bells and whistles. apparently there are k loaders that have laser guidelines to tell you how far you are to an object and if you're pulling up straight. we gotta eyeball it with our loaders. but most of our loaders turn on at least, which is more than I can say for the rest of the equipment at my job
I have to say that you have the best skits and really well edited videos. I’m a huge fan. When this recession lets up I’ll be able to be a patron. Til then keep up the good work!
Yes. I saw a building a while back that had just been repainted some new colours. YOU ARE *NOT* SUPPOSED TO PAINT THE FUCKING WINDOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some of Us Do Work...I Love You Crane Operators But I Can Shut The Yard Down Being An Electrican...You Guys Are Next...We Have To Work Together And No One Appreciate Us.
As someone who has painted for 24 yrs. Bite my ass. Electricians fuck up everything we do and then we have to fix it. And yes, we do have to clean up our mess. However I got away from painting commercial buildings 15 years ago and moved on to painting 60 million dollar private jets. Ironically the painter blame is still just a prevalent.
What the hell kind of painters are y'all dealing with in Arkansas anyways if they get 7 gallons over spray around what they're spraying if I got over spray on anything at a job site I'd have to redo it lose my paycheck and I wouldn't have a job the next day
I have yet to see equipment, other than a dump truck, on a job site that is so high tech that it will tell the operator if they’re off an inch, or that it’s got AC or whatever cushy stuff you’re claiming. Are these videos just tutorials on how to be idiotic employees and how to argue with your boss?
All of it exists, its a matter of does the company want to pay for its inclusion on already $300,000+ machines. Also AC has been in large equipment forever.
I worked for a guy that wouldn't fix windshield wiper juicers. Hold your hand out with a Windex bottle!! And take a 100 ft extension cord to a job with a heater in the winter to run a 18ton Grove crane coz the heater didn't work. Damn near got laughed off the job. Full blowed Carhartt onesy just to drive to a job in winter!! Oh yeah.... Fun times
Y'all ever ridden a forklift on an open dock in the winter? I'm originally from New York but hell just a Tennessee winter on a forklift I discovered new areas of my body to be cold. Shit ain't fun.
