Pothole Patchers - Busted on the Job Classics 

Are they hiring? I'm fully qualified for this 🍺😁👍

Wow! What the hell are these guys doing working on the streets? They should be in management!

Jeez, I was definitely born in the wrong generation. Sure wish I could go work in the 80's and 90's for an hour a day and drinking for a paycheck.

My dad retired early got bored and went to work for the county. Said they went to work at 8 left the yard after 9 and drove a 10 wheel dump truck 60 miles to patch pot holes, arriving at about 11 am. At noon it was time for a one hour lunch and then back to work. At 2:30 the boss declared it was time to start back to the yard. This is not just a big city problem because it also happens in rural northern Utah!

You just gotta love the old narration. "he goes over to someones yard and recycles some of that beer"...... "he lets her rip right on the side of the truck". Too funny.

A decade later and nothing has changed... Michigan roads still suck!

As soon as I heard "Detroit" I thought oh ok, now it makes sense.

The boss doesn't care he has a contract with the city he doesn't care if the employees shit in the holes either way he gets paid

Way to keep the stereotype alive and well fellas!

I knew it was Detroit. We have so many potholes it's ridiculous! And when they fill the hole, they can't even fill it correctly. Hole fillers can't even fill holes, go figure!

Too funny I saw cranford and son on door of pickup and laughed to myself i remember Sanford and son that was a very funny comedy show on t.v. years ago

Dont wanna go back smelling of Olde English! LMAO

I would say 'unbelievable', but ....

Of course the Boss doesn't want to see the tape. Those employees are his Brother, his half brother, his step Brother, his cousin and long time friend from the old hood.

It's a sick joke! I used to have a friend that worked for the city and half the time all they ever did was sit at the park and drink beer and smoke weed. The thing is, especially when it comes to government employees, their supervisors know this is what's going on just like they know it doesn't take 15 people to fill a pothole or replace a stop sign but keep them all on the payroll anyway. Even when they sub the work out to privately owned companies, the same standards apply. They hire 3x more than they need and pay them 3x more than they actually earn. That company is getting paid an enormous amount of money basically to do nothing because state and local governments have to find places to spend the money they have so they won't end the year with a budget surplus and lose their grants or have to lower their taxes. So much politics wrapped up in this bullshit and it absolutely amazes me that these are the people and the system that so many Americans want to hand our healthcare over to. *FFS, our government won't even take care of it's veterans and soldiers!* and you want to put *everyone's* healthcare in their hands? Yeah, sure, you do that and then you can complain about your skyrocketing federal income tax so the government can pay legions of nurses who barely passed their exams but got hired anyway because of the color of their skin to sit around and do nothing all day on the government dole.

Well this just proves they're not always lying when they say "dindo nuffn"

Detroit? Yeah, I remember during my Trucking days going to Detroit. I liked Philadelphia and Atlanta better, anyway there were two things I liked about Detroit. The Coney dog places, which were every where, kinda like Starbucks are today, one about every block, sometimes two. And the second thing? Leaving Detroit.

What a great job. Wish I had a job like that.

Idk why I’m binge watching these videos lmao

"10am -- it's Miller time!" 🤣

Is it just me or do city employees in Detroit love to smoke and drink on the job, while avoiding any kind of work possible. Maybe it’s just a coincidence.

The story of my life. All the good jobs are taken, but the shitty jobs where you have to work I get. My co-workers sit around smoking, drinking coffee and bullshitting while I'm working.

What will make you even angrier, is if you go out at your own expense to patch potholes, you’ll get arrested and prosecuted if they catch you at it. And then the city will pay someone to rip out your patch job.

$10 an hour in 1998 in the US? That's actually ok.

Who built the USA and who destroyed it ? . . This country needs a good douching !! Couple of real beauties there

they work harder than congress

Boss man looks like "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"

I didn’t know Fred & Lamont were also pot hole patchers? I seen their truck at :50...Sanford & Son? Hah cool and Lamont said he wanted a second job so he could get married...🥴

And Dettiot wonders why their city has gone to pot. The patches are not even properly patching the roads they didn't prep the potholes and even when the filled the holes the didn't compress the patch so in other words it was a useless patch. Houston has the same problem one guys fill one pothole and takes on average 30 mins then they break for 30th minutes. What a joke accountability needs to be enacted.

Ahhhh, the good ol' days.

Affirmative Action at its finest.

Welcome to Detroit. These guys are union, pimp daddy boss man can't do a damn thing to them..

Wow.. Detroit looks like an awesome city...if you are into suicidal thoughts and depression.

Typical never surpised what the bother thinks what a day of work is bums working 4 bums

Wow! They drink more beer in one day than I do all year.

affirmative action at its best!

similar situation happens in my state, while sitting at a red light I watched 5 state trucks and 13 state employees remove and replace a speed limit sign. I guess it takes one man to do the work and 12 to make sure the work is done correctly. If you need a highway patrol officer just call McDonald's there are usually 4 or 5 hanging out there.

1:48 Is he wearing a shirt and tie under that jacket? Well that's your problem right there.

Id be bored out of my mind doing nothing all day like that.

Are u suprised . They are going to sit on there porch couch soon

DIND UNUF FINN on the job

Is it any coincidence that all of them, including the boss, are black? Just a coincidence?

Affirmative action at its best..................They can careless about there own city pitiful.

That was probably still their most productive day yet. Imagine their unproductive days probably 20 minutes of actual work. Hell why work hard if you can get away with not working. I don't blame them at all. I blame the people that hired them and those that let them slack off without any supervision and overseeing and accountability. Should fire all the whole of them including the higher ups who has to know this is going on but just playing dumb.

"The pay is 10 dollars an hour" I would be doing the same thing as those guys. Get what you pay for.

that looked like that self leveling asphalt I've heard so much about L O L

The Boss looks like TeHee from live and let die. LMFAO Is this the pothole business, or a Bond film? Makes me wonder what else is going on back at the "yard."

these guys must be former politicians or something

Lol at the custom windshield washer and grille

That ain’t repairing potholes! They said “coldpatch”. Well, that’s temporary at best, and still needs to be compacted!

Black dudes, they're good at arguing loud on their phones

The proper way to repair a pothole is with a "hotbox" - that is a heated trailer containing hot asphalt. The hole is first swept of sand (ballast, or small crushed bluestone about an 1to 2 inches can be used as filler). The asphalt is shoveled into the hole and left slightly proud of the surrounding surface. It is then rolled or compacted into the hole. Depending on depth, setting time would be anywhere from 15 minutes to half an hour. Hard to do a good job in heavy traffic without closing off a lane. Ideally, afterwards, a sealer truck would then come and seal the edges to prevent water from seeping in and popping the patch. Cold patch is not asphalt. It's a sticky chemical compound mixed with gravel. It only lasts about a day or two on a moderately traveled street. It is intended to be used as an emergency measure if there isn't a hotbox available. Usually at night or on a weekend. Most often used right after a snowstorm when potholes can appear out of nowhere. Using coldpatch in the manner shown in the video is completely futile. The city is wasting it's time and money.

The people of Detroit need to start sueing the city for the damages to their cars. As the city is responsible for the roads.

Crazy how much time they spend just talking in the their truck. Not scrolling on their phones or watching RU-vid. They might not be the hardest workers, but i bet they were true friends

We totally need Mexicans because if if your tax dollars going to fixing the road blacks never going to get it done just import in some of those hard working Mexicans... 😂 lol

Oh its Detroit, I thought it was Vernon b.c. Canada I've seen potholes there for over 17 years never touched

I own a business and i have some pretty nighmarish stories involving black employees. I basically learned my lesson and don’t hire them anymore. There are plenty of hardworking and honest black folks, but when you get burned so many times, you have to play it safe and just stop hiring from that demographic all together.

And it’s still the same today.

That dam music is on point plus the narrator...lol

If you work at Home Depot on midnights you’ll get away with this and more 😂😂😂

It's a scam that occurs everywhere. Being retired, I sometimes sit outside the building downtown, with other seniors. The topic in the afternoon is usually how many times the same DPW truck going around the block over and over from about 1 pm to quitting time at 3:30. Then you will see the same crew out and "working" on a Saturday, getting over time, probably.

Now let's imagine for a minute if everybody will work like those 2 guys, what will happen to this country? it's ridiculous and outrageous... those guys should be fired immediately starting with their pimp boss. Even the boss was probably playing a game on he's Xbox and that's why he didn't have time to look at the tapes. I hope they all got fired.

What do you think congressmen do all day

This shit got me rollin!!’ “I like a good beer buzz early in the morning” lmfaoooo Haha what is this guy doing? Why is he laughing? Hahaha 😂😭😭

It's no wonder the city went bankrupt.

The boss says look I don't care how many hoes you do just fill the damn things up and I'll give you a buzz later

Wow they worked more than I have ever seen one of them work

Did you really think you would catch them working!

Well the vid says everything I was gonna say but without the words I would use. He threw some dirt in a pothole. Typical city worker,now look up who makes up the demographic of your typical city worker because of afirmative action. The boss knows and is part of ripping you off.

Im starting to think every city in the country has guys like this. I'm still hitting the same fucking holes I was hitting in January

The fact that the boss wouldn't even look at the video is solid proof that he is crooked. I've looked at a lot of these "caught on the job" vids, and the workers that are goofing off most of the day are all black people.

Working hard or hardly working?.. Huh? ..Huh?..Am I right?.. No? Ok 😅

We should just go back to gravel roads and we could save billions of dollars on repaving the roads every 5-6 months. I've seen a few roads that been paved 6 times in a 18 month stretch. Just ridiculous

The fact that this is in Detroit is utterly unsurprising to anyone who has ever once driven there.

My left ear loved this...

In the words of Anderson Silva ... Normal, come on guys Normal ‼️

That 40oz Beer for Black Folks Is like a Water Bottle lol

Nothing new.....it's the American way.... it's like this everywhere!!this is why we pay taxes!!!!!!!

Every time i drive i see city workers standing around watching one guy work no wonder all these highway projects take so long

Did u see that freaking road? WOW! The boss looks like a Pimp. Bet some heads roll after this aired.

This report is so savage!!! I love it! Lol.

ew Detroit looks awful. Glad I live in Canada.

i hope they all did get fired incl the Boss there diddent care, they need to replace them all also the lazy Boss

Why not just call the cops? They're drinking in a city vehicle and driving while intoxicated with open containers. Probably had some crack in the truck, too...

The slackers probably got a promotion. I mean hell that's what happens when you work for the city. You mess up, you get promoted. Right???

he should get him own show.going across the country

Very sad that Detroit and Chicago cannot fix the roads prproperly

Whut be a'matter wit 'dem brutha's? Old English?!?!?........Don't 'dem brutha's know 'dey should be drinkin' Colt 45?!?!?......And 'da boss-man, he be impotent so he's gotts to look impotant........I'm afraid Detroit is lost forever........................

Good investigative work

I never thought about filling pot holes for a living, but after watching this, I'm sold. Where do I sign up? I bet I can out drink and out smoke these clowns. I'm a real dirtbag lol

Its detroit what do you expect

L. O. L. Living off the fat of the taxpayers.

The sorry democrat machine doing what they do best, not a damn thing

Your tax dollars at work

Definitely got the Work / Life balance on point

We should be regularly following civil servants around to find out what they really do including their work comp claims, disability, and contracts. We should include police, fire, courts, judges and the whole schmear. I'm sure everyone would be shocked. It's easy hire a private investigation firm and pay them commission for every one they catch. I mean how hard is it to catch guys saying they're disabled but out playing golf, not hard. Oh yeah then "sue" the fraudster for claims and damages, take their pension or part of it, and tell them if they don't agree you'll pursue criminal charges. That's what the IRS does. They tell you they have the proof and you can agree agree to pay the past due taxes in payments or go to jail. What do you want to do?

Lmfao news back in the day was awesome

What the hell is a party store ?

Why on earth am I busting my ass off at Kroger's for $8.50 an hour, when for $10 an hour I can just slack off and eat all day. It's a literal dream job.

If it's one thing I've learned from Scott's videos, its that Detroit City workers are always getting fucked up on the job.