Hardhat Sticker Shock 

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I've been working as a construction inspector and I totally agree with your sentiment. Construction workers are some of the most genuine people I've met in my life and I love working alongside them even if I'm a white-hat (although mine is orange). The culture surrounding stickers is one of my favorite parts of working and I've started to collect some myself between projects I'm on, my university, and other stuff. Keep up the great work, Paige!

I once saw an old man on the subway with a hardhat sticker that said "weed is bad" but the rest of it was obscured. When he got up to get off the train the rest of the sticker said "we should burn it"

For a second I thought I was going to be judged on my laptop stickers

Love that statement "Just weren't dealt that hand of cards that would lead to an awokening" I took a while to realise this fact about so many people when I struggled to understand anti-liberal views which to me just seemed plain stupid. I think the wave of neo-liberalism (which isn't liberalism at all) that has swept the western world is really to blame leaving too many people out in the cold and open to embracing ideas that give them some power.

I love blue collar workers. They're harder to offend, so you can talk freely and discuss stuff and have meaningful conversations. White collar and university trained has a lot more... "Politics"... probably something to do with how people get ahead in many business environments. Way more peer stress, just like back in school. Usually if you chat up the well trained blue collar workers, like HVAC, Electricians, etc, you'll find out that they absolutely love thinky stuff like hard sci-fi. I found a banter-buddy to chat with about the TV show, The Expanse, at the local plumbing place. There seem to be a lot of deep thinkers in that group, though not necessarily conforming to what is socially acceptable or is common university culture. There's a very prevalent ethos among all of them, though - work hard, do quality work, do it fast.

I proudly had my 🏳️‍🌈 gay stickers on my hardhat. My RIGID toolbox was full of the more "aggressively gay" stickers. It's hilarious to see the guys who would dish it, but couldn't take it. Most of our stickers on the hardhat were for utilitarian purposes ("Forklift Trained", CPR, Years with the Comp.)

This is a great video. But the title doesn't do it justice

Such a wonderful episode and a unique topic to cover! Thank you :)

I often think and wonder about this cool subculture whenever I see a construction worker on the train. Really cool to see a video on it!

Well observed, well reasoned. I preach intersectionality every chance I get. We're looking for points of commonality, not points of contention.

ten years as an electrician. The two most prominent stickers on my hardhat say “ACAB” and “protect trans youth”

Absolutely love the conclusion of the video I am 100% an artsy fartsy pretentious type, but I've had to do some of that mean ass manual labor Shit breaks down your body, breaks down your soul I cope with that harsh reality of life by making videos about music or whatever, other people do it by drinking a cold one with their friends and watching football It's hard to understand someone when you purposely draw lines to say "I'm not like THEM" but really it's easier than you think If someone is open to talking to you, open to them back, is what I say We all like looking at butts at the end of the day Right? Also, this video's current title is not good. I'm not going to lie. I love this video alot bc it got me interested in a topic I didn't even consider so I'd really want to see more people watch it. That video title enticed me just because I thought it was a weird purposeful grammar error or something I'm not sure what you should change it to, but I say to try and experiment

Damn it, Paige! Ya got me a little teary at the end there!

I gotta say... Tools are expensive. There are only a few people I'm ok with having open access to my toolbox 😅 The stickers are absolutely a political statement. My toolbox has linux, brewery, electric car, and Australian flag stickers on it. (I'm in Canada) It's a constantly evolving canvas haha

I echo what some others have said: very orignal and compelling video, but with a confusing title. If it weren't for the Paige Saunders Seal of Quality™ I don't know that it would have occurred to me to click EDIT: looks like the title has been changed, I hereby retract my comment 😅

pretty cool that batman took time off from being a white man vigilante to help you with this video

Nice work paige 5 stars

I'm a little surprised just how much I like this video

Lol, yeah, I used to work in the office of a big construction company, and safety culture is at their corr so much that we even had "safety moment"s at some of our big meetings. My brother (mech systems engineer) did some inspection work for them and he even found their safety culture to be a little excessive.

Have you seen developer's laptops? Some plaster their laptops full with conference stickers, with language stickers, it is a personality. I see a line.

I think what is lost is there is a solid layer of bullshit in the trades and blue collar work used as a way to filter out those thay don't belong (ie the white collar folk). Much of the jokes and running gags fall into that. But if you stick atound and listen you will learn a lot as an outsider on how things get done or couod be done more efficiently. I am genuinely glad i got to work so close with folks on the tools in my white collar role.

Love the small-l liberal sentiment. Bit confused by the video's title.

I was taught to never put stickers on hard hats for they affect the effectiveness of the hard hats. So putting stickers on them is not code. I guess nobody enforces that code.

Kia Ora bro I'm a kiwi that now works in the USA 🇺🇸 I put stickers on all my gear..drop me a line..

paige is what happens when you take a robbie nicol and throw him a way to canada

Gearing up to audition for a death metal band, Paige?

First!