This is 99.9% spot on. The one thing is it's not the 20 year old equipment it's user error after having used everyday for 20 years. You're right there is no way I would know how this thing works. Lol.
@@xxx0ox0 and half the time the journeymen are stuck helping the apprentices do their job and as annoying as it is we all know it’s more the companies fault and not necessarily the apprentices.
It's also a question of how much apprentices care. My company has some apprentices who pick up quickly and get good at the job, and others who are close to applying for license exams despite still being basically day 1 apprentices in reality. As far as my apprenticeship, I basically just got "I'll show you this once, don't screw it up or I'm kicking you off the job," and boy did it work lol
We usually just fight where no one can see us. Don't ask, don't tell, nobody saw anything. How did you get hurt the bossman asks? ON the job tripping over something of course!
Dude, the accuracy is impeccable. This UTuber really does have construction experience! Been following for a couple yrs, and I was skeptical, because if someone on my jobsite, pulled out their phone to take a video, while working, I would've slapped it right out of theirs hands! I'M SO DAMN PROUD!
I have never dropped you a line before. Way past due. You are one of my favorite YT subscriptions. ❤ We usually watch you on TV. You are fricking hilarious as is your buddy! I get a kick out of your pull tab investing. And your buddy calling the corrugated metal on the bar wall “insiding” about split our guts. 😂 Love your fun T-shirts & funny personality! More bar scenes please! (I bartended for 15 years in my former life.) Hubby & I never go anymore but sure fun to watch you & your buds. We would have been buds had you been my patron. No doubt. 😊 You betcha! Yeah! ❤🎉
Truest vid on YT. Load the generator in the truck when it's dark in the AM. Roll out by the time the sun comes up. If the roach coach dosen't show up you starve all day. Roll up before you can't see you hand in front of your face. Stop for 18 hot wings a half pound of curly fries an 2 personal pitchers of beer on the way home. Once home start the laundry for work the next day. Some liquor shots of choice in the shower. Wake up in 5 hours, or 4 hours and 45 mins if you gotta get gas so you're not late. Saturdays are mandatory. You think you're making money, but it all goes to bills and the only reason you have any "extra cash" is you do nothing and have no time to spend money. If you sleep in on Sunday, you gotta be in bed in 12 hours. The American Dream. Only vacation you get is quitting and hoping you find a new gig before you loose everything. Suppose you could always work at a grocery store on sunday for some more "extra cash" Unreal.
Took me a long time to realize we are nothing but a number, before I retired every job I had kept promoting me and giving me raises, until one day a new hire told me what he was hired in at, and it was the same pay it took me years to work up to,...
I'm an electrician... Owners REFUSE to buy a powered crimper... Insist we use the old hand pump Burndy even though it takes 3x as long... And destroys your elbows. But they saved enough money to buy new pickups for themselves.
The old equipment reminds me of some of the machines we use at work. We've got a thirty year old machine where the lettering for the functions of the various switches and buttons have long since worn off and every 6 months or so they have to go back and write in sharpie what they do for new hires so they don't fuck anything up. Could they just install a new operator panel for the machine? Of course. Do they? Of course not.
My family has many construction workers. I laughed so hard at this. Subscribed about a minute in. Just realized how much my husband appreciates me making his lunches. Great job on this video 👍👍
And I especially love it when you have been doing something the exact same way for the last 15 years and the boss walks in trying to be a hero and says…"Here son, let me show you how to do it"…..and then you say, that’s exactly how i have always done it!…. And he says ,,Yeah sure thing squirt, just do it the way i just showed you…… omg
I just started this and it is so relatable. I did my best at work, worked for them for 2 years, and I still got fired all because I wanted to go into EMS instead of continuing to work in construction. They didn't even wait for me to finish school, which was crappy. I am working in EMS now and am planning to go to fire next and I can say this life is so much better than being a carpenter. Edit: This video is so accurate it hurts. Construction/trades is an extremely important career field but dang does everybody that work in trades get treated like crap. It could be worse tho, it was better than my time in the Army, sometimes.
Well played, more people need to see and understand this! I work in an office environment at an engineering firm. In particular the part about working late and not worrying about your son's basketball game is spot on! At your funeral no-one is going to remember that you came in on Saturday to get the job done.
This has been my take at a job I’ve been at. As long as i get paid for the work time, and the company gets paid for the change order i can swap outlets/lights all month lol.
1:32 this hit hard 😂 can’t tell you how many times I had to redo my ductwork, because bossman and/or the GC says its in the way of the electricians, even tho it belongs there anyways and we set our stuff up while the electricians were on their 3rd lunch break 🤦♂️😂
My husband has been a Union sprinklerfitter for a little over 25yrs now & aside from the "yeah, I'd love to work late" and "20yr old tools" i think I've heard them all 😂 Our middle son, who is about to turn 28yrs old, just started his 3rd yr of apprenticeship and is a hard ass worker like my hubby yet he's already feelin' a lot od these 🤣