Unique characters that show up once in a rare while are the spice of life. I can completely see Portajon Jim coming back in a few months to pick that sucker up and being pissed it was moved.
back in the 70's I saw one of the hippy laborers go into the plastic thunder mug and then a smart ass plumber grabbed the high forklift and ran it up about 2 stories and then shut it down, but he slowly lowered it to about one inch off of the ground before we all left for lunch and he was screaming and yelling even after we came back and let him out, he was more embarrassed that he didn't open the door to see where he was. :)
I duct taped a painter who went to sleep inside of the portajohn , everyone walking by laughed and kept going. Job site superintendent had to cut him loose. I lost that job.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Didn't care either.
You forgot the other options. 1. As far away from the smoke break area so everyone goes in there to smoke. 2. 10 of them right next to the lunch area so everyone can smell them when eating. 3. My personal favorite- where it has to get craned to get to its location, right before the cranes get super busy, so they forget about it and never have time to get it to the cleaning truck.
I once saw a Porto John cleaning specialist using a vacuum truck to clean out a porta John. He had black rubber gloves on and was eating a sandwich with those gloves while he was cleaning everyone's manure out of the porta johns. I told my boss "look at that" he just shook his head and said "either that man has an incredible immune system or it's actually a pretty clean job despite the rumors"
Hauling hog, or cow shit, I didn't wear gloves. Wipe my hands on my dirty jeans and eat my sammiches. Lol Us farm boys have a damn good immune system. Well trained. 😂😂
If I had to do that job, I don't think I'd ever eat lunch again. I'm not saying I would never do it. Back in 2010 I learned a valuable lesson. Never say what you WON"T DO. I would have taken that job in a heartbeat.
Best part about working in a chemical plant, they actually cleaned the portajons once a week like they said they would. The worst part was they caught fire at least once a year.
Had one dropped off on a jobsite and it was right by the gate entrance which was about a 4-500 yards from the actual site we were working. You don't know fear until you get the urge to go have to go and you have to run/waddle to the John and only to find it occupied
Long time ago, the company that was supposed to be looking after the little blue houses forgot to service one they'd put within sprinting distance of 2 jobs, in a ditch. It was winter and -30, so smell's not an issue. Well, they might have forgotten about it but we didn't and in short order we'd filled the main tank up to the seat with piss. They still never came. Didn't take long to fill the little urinal on the side up to overflowing. At some point it warmed up and melted some of the snow outside so someone propped the door open and then everything froze again so you had just enough room to get inside and add to the slowly growing yellow skating rink that spread our around it. Finally they sent a couple of guys in with chipping bars and a bobcat to get it out of there and I still feel a bit of pity for the poor bugger who probably had to go in there with a steam wand to clean it out. That or they just left it on its side in a field until late spring and the block melted, we never did find out.
@@rehfeldt12 Someone possessed both enough strength of arms and spirit to pinch one out onto the solid block the tank had become a couple days before it was finally removed, and at that point I'd say yes because a steamin' warm log in a semi-confined space will add a lot more "ambience" than any amount of frozen piss ever could.
Wow this hot the nail on the head. Especially on the once a week . We have one right now that my boss has called for 2 weeks and haven't seen anyone yet . We have probably 5 or 6 jobs going and it's like that on all of them . I told him to stop paying and when they call you then you can tell them that it hasn't been clean and a while and that's not in the contract and you are going somewhere else . He has done business with them for probably 30 years and has always paid . But love your videos all are spot on .
Watched last winter as the driver would write "frozen" on the service record and leave it dirty, it was 40° or warmer during the day when he showed up.
So freaking true so freaking true. I found when the crap is higher than the seat if you start spreading rumors of PVC glue and a match they show up to clean them fast.
Personally , I love the Porta John's that are wheelchair accessible...!! I find it's spacious and roomy...perfect for the cold winter days when I've got to shed layers of FR's and overalls!!! So convenient!!!!
@@andiward7068 so , I love the roominess...under a pipe rack in winter...can't beat being able to strip ..lol..I'm 6'4 250..so yeah , gimme some ROOM!! LOL
😂🤣😂 There's nothing funnier than true stories of "work life struggles". When you're having a cluster of a day at work, a few good laughs with Breadstick Ricky & the crew, will carry you through to the end.
I work for a construction equipment rental company. Hand to God I'm about to start telling all my new hires to subscribe to your channel so they have a sense of what our customers are actually dealing with all the damn time. These clips are so damn accurate.
As a pipefitter myself, all of us in the different trades relate to Ricky and all the bs that goes with the job. There is at the very least one video he has done that we have personally experienced ourselves; its that comical and sad at the same time.
I always just put a rock and left it cracked and when I get to the job site I leave the door open, but now ima start taking those gd springs off idk why we need them to be closed all day let it air out, also I’m an insulator too, cool.
I swear there's nothing I love more than a new breadstick Ricky and the boss video at 5am..... John Michael, please keep doing this. It gives me a great start to my day. I could even stand to see longer videos/episodes. That'd be great too. Thank you for what ya do my dude. -Chris
infront of work. seen a cement truck knock one over with the shute down and some dude in it on its door. scared me everytime i had to use one after that.
Or opposite the employee parking g fence lol had a guy leave his sunroof open and wind flipped the Porta Jon onto the roof of his car. Was karma he sucked as a worker.
They also like to put them as far as fuckin possible away from the job site... Or as close as possible to the office/break area. We liked to use leftover canvas materials or camo netting to make a little shade over them and dump about 30-40 urinal cakes in there since it was usually about 3-4 months between cleanings.
The most important guy in the jobsite even higher than the owners themselves is... The portajohn guy. By far! You'll move your car, machines just for him! A clean bathroom is a blessing on a jobsite! 🙏
Nah, the best placement I've seen is right next to a building under an exhaust fan, so all the fumes from the chimney would blow right back into the toilet. You can only imagine how bad it got in the summer sun. Remember to shut the lid, ya'll!
Somehow it seems every portajohn I've used the toilet paper is always either wet, water damaged beyond use, or empty. I don't recal a single instance where there was a useable roll in any portajohn I've been in. At this point I'm pretty sure the water damaged tp and/or empty tp rolls come as a default with portajohns.
Yea wet if that eases your mind. Lol It doesnt rain in them things. Lol If any way posiable I'll find me a tree or pull a old painters trick ,carry a roll of tp in a empty one gallon paint can and a 5 gal bucket and a a few wet paint signs to close of a secluded room. Lol Figured this one out when we had to clear a room to lay a floor.
Man i can't tell ya how much i love these vids. Best of all, we all know you're the real deal because EVERY damn topic is spot the fu$k on. Can't teach it, ya gotta live and experience it. Thank ya sir, keep it up
got love it when you open a door you think is unlocked cuz the green panel says open and bammmmm. There is a person from a different country standing on the seat squatting down and repainting everything but the blue water. gotta love a good portajohn
Insider info from me, a portapooper tech: we try to find the places where we can reach it with our truck, which usually have 15-20 feet of hose, and also where nobody will park in front of it and block it when we need to clean it. If you don’t like where it is, we’re totally cool with it getting moved (they’re only about 100lbs, and have skids specifically for sliding around), so long as it’s where we can get to it. We don’t want to screw around with putting it in puddles, and we don’t want them to be too hot inside because we have to go inside them too. And we also have up to 100 more stops to make in a day, so we’re in a hurry.
Got 20 years of military experience agreeing with those options, when we go to the field we're told oh yeah portajohns are close, 1800 meters uphill from our area, that's when we just break out the mre box, the ammo crate, put one leg on the field chair, or squat against the tree.
When I went to the Flight 93 memorial, there were about 10 portajon's out on the edge of the parking lot. Every single one of them had shit and trash piled higher than the seat. I called the company and left the most descriptive message I could about it. Then I emailed them the same message. This video couldn't be more accurate.
I have seen whole rows of Portajons with amazing piles coming up toward the middle of the seat. I have seen them serviced and 2 days later not a roll of paper in the whole show. I have seen them blown over and properly plastered with . . . on the inside. I have seen them in Arizona in the summer heat. And I have had deep religious discussions on their walls. I have used them on the side of the road 30 miles from the nearest gas station. I have heard of having lunch, resting, having s*x, sleeping, and hiding in a Portajon. Some people just have strong stomachs.
Well at at least the military Portajon came out to clean them regular (except during FTXs). Though they will set them out in the blazing hit instead of in the woodline.
I remember the porta shipping container they put down on site for a store remodel while they were working on the bathrooms. They worst thing I saw was an overnight security guy brush his teeth using the sinks in there.
@@sethraiche425 Yeah buddy! Office buildings and stores tend to rent the air conditioned, radio-playing, sink-having portajohn trailers. Ever since an old office got one that’s been my trick for getting good crews to work on rental properties-a contract to put a plumbed, cooled shitter in the driveway is the best rush payment! Plus it keeps em from overloading the concrete, work trucks park happily on the street when the driveway is blocked by the oasis…
Better make sure the guy driving that honey wagon doesn't have to drag his hose more than one length from the truck or that sweatbox isn't getting cleaned.
This is the truest thing I have ever heard and seen. Doing construction for 17 years. Hell, half the time, we piss behind the John saying it has a leak or something it's so bad.
Them ole Jon’s feel great in the dead ass winter 🥶 around noon after the suns been on it all day.. The summer time I skip the PJ and drive my happy ass to the store. Side Note: always bring your own TP.
We shut down and moved a boom truck once so he could clean the four "field offices" behind it. Ahh those summertime smells next to where you're working.
Everything you said in this video is so true we definitely had one one time where we had to hover to take a s*** and we was out of toilet paper and we hade to use paper towels
Rosco is correct, I've had to move a porta Jon mainly times because of bad placement. I'm sure Ricky would agree, the best revenge is when you park something in front of a potr Jon. Trapping someone inside when it's hot and nasty.
Back in 70s I was on a job were we had about 20 porta John’s that they would not keep clean. Then one day they all caught on fire. They kept the replacements clean.
Struth! They work the same way at festivals too. 2000 constantly-drunk pirate cosplayers eating nothing but chili and hotdogs do some terrible things. You can only shake a portashitter so much, and when the truck only comes every other day despite being needed twice a day, it's worth going into town and having people pass out when you walk past.
Two things that I remember about them. One was the version on wheels that was open top and only came to below your shoulders when sitting down. They were used while building condos since you couldn't get to the ground floor via buckhoist or stairs in time. Absolutely no privacy since it was always placed in the main walkway. Secondly, I once made the mistake of asking the portajon guy "What's the worst thing that you have ever pulled out of one of these"? He said....."a baby that someone didn't want"....jeesh
Pro tip! Never ever take a dump in a clean one. WITHOUT throwing a whole crap load of tp in there first! To all you youngsters, it stops all that god awful dye from splashing your undercarriage. AND for the love of god dont touch the smelly rings they put in there. These are things you only make one mistake on. Dont believe me.... well send it!😜
Yeah hi this is John from the job site Yeah we are putting a stop payment On our port pot unless your here before end of the day to clean it out OK appreciate you Truly appreciate it
That’s what a skid steer/ bobcat is best used for just moving it to the shade even when the supervisor says otherwise. I’ve done this hundreds of times
