All accurate. The only thing that makes you unbelievable as a construction worker is you seem like a genuinely happy person and still have somewhat of a will to live
@Brian Malone Most of them think admitting that working a grueling job at the expense of your physical health might be making them depressed isn't manly, so they just mask it with alcohol, cigarettes, and junk food. You see it all the time.
Man I wish I had a cool ass nickname, we need them at my job. There’s 2 other Cody’s and it gets confusing. Everybody calls this guy I work with dip because he played high school baseball and had a dip in and swallowed it during a game and puked. Been called that for years
Haha as a project engineer, i hate that shit lol. If they're fucking up, i always just get the superintendent to make them do something instead of me telling them to do it.
If we were on a job more than 2 days we knew the gas stations attendants by first and last name. If we were there for a week we were sending their kids birthday cards.
@@darebear2438 I know thats right , was on a large slip job on an access road of 2 gas pads for 8 months and the amish ladies had a store at the bottom of the entrance road , think my boss had a thing for 1 of them
@@invasive175 Got constantly called youth, boy and kid by my 45-60year old coworkers at a former job at 26 years of age, quit that place because of shitty pay/terms though. But it was kinda annoying ngl.
I was never a construction worker, but one day my boss (fishing/fish market) didn’t have anything for us to do so he had us help the crew building his new house. They talked shit to us for 8 hours straight. Most fun I’ve ever had working.
@@mr.reality9741 bold of you to assume they trusted us to make cuts 🤣. We were only trusted to hand them boards and sheets of plywood. They did “let us” hammer a few nails. The first thing they told us when we got there was that we were probably too dumb for any skill work 😂
Lmao!! I work in a warehouse and we rent part of it to another company. Anyway the next door warehouse staff are constantly shit talking to each other, which occasionally makes me laugh my ass off since I’m the only warehouse staff for my company. Definitely a lot more fun having them around lmao
You forgot the biggest one of them all. "Hey how's it going?"..."oh you know just living the dream" also substituable with "just another day in paradise"
I don't work construction, but one of the managers at my job used to always say, "Another day in the salt mines" or "Another day on the cotton fields" 😂
As a gas station clerk, I heard whiney ex stories from blue collar workers all day. Why? I happen to be of the female persuasion and probably trigger the poor bastards.
I used to work outside and everyone pretty much ate lunch at gas stations Monday-Friday unless the boss took everyone out to eat. I still have a guilty pleasure of getting gas station lunches, it so cheap and pretty good
I worked on a site in my early 20's that had a small crew of guys. The first guy ever hired was named Brandon. Because of this , the old man who owned the company called everyone Brandon. Sadly, we all knew which "Brandon" he was talking to based on the amount of cuss words he used and the octave of "Brandon!" He yelled. One glorious summer day, I made the mistake of informing the "old man" that my name was Josh. He put me in my place immediately. I'll never forget the look of outright rage in his blood filled face , spit flying from his lips as he yelled " I know your godda*n name Brandon!!!" Such fond memories...
Sounds like a small-minded moronic manchild that is used to throwing hissy fits snd mistreating people his whole life, with such little care for others that he can't even find it in himself to call someone by their name, the most basic of decency.
Lol as a boss I love the "lot of windshield time for that guy" quote, and for my guys it isn't going to the gas station 10x a day, it's going to Home Depot 10x to pick up a single 2x4 or one ABS fitting at a time.
That's the way my company works. It takes 6-8 trips to Home Depot to build one wall because nobody can think ahead and make a list. I try to tell them you don't go to Home Depot in the middle of a work day unless you work there.
@@harrywinslow3946 if you're shopping for work you do. If you don't want them to go just tell them that, no need for the fallacy. Better yet; *you* should go out and buy the materials your employees need in order to do their job. That way you can be as efficient as you like
@@cry1459 That's exactly what I do. But I think ahead. I stop at HD either on my way to work for that day, or on my way home for the next day. Never in the middle of a job.
@@harrywinslow3946 Good thing you got ole' Bezos here to tell you how to run your company, otherwise you might just get lost on the way to home depot! Hahaha! Cheers from Memphis!
Ah fuck, we're outa fucking tapcons again. Better make another run to Farrell quick. I should be back before break so try to have xxxx done by the time I get back.
only addition I'd make to the gas station part is after someone says "yeah, grab me a monster and a 5 hour".... you have have to ask what color monster they want.... not flavor... what color... also applies to powerade
I've been with this company for a decade and was transferred to a new building. The FNG calls out all proud "low man takes out the trash." He volunteered himself. Little POS.
I was with a guy mowing lawns and he'd always stop off at a Holiday to get a Dr. Pepper and Marlboro Reds. Every single morning...and he would smoke the whole pack by 6:00 PM.
I'm like three months in, but they stopped fucking with me by the end of the first week lol. When I'm half the size and rip cabinets off the wall like it's nothing I got the respect quick.
I worked in construction for 7 years and pretty much lived off of gas station food. I think the hard labor counteracted all the awful food I ate and kept it neutral. Also, complaining about the boss was a daily occurence for all of us.
Everybody's got that one lunchbox in their car from when they actually brought lunch 3 weeks ago still full of the Tupperware your girl has been looking for, an empty pack of smokes, and a crushed can cause youre gonna scrap those when you "get a chance". The other cooler's always got a 6 pack ready, 3 handfuls of ice, and the shop rag you lay over them for insulation because of that cracked lid you got trying to sit on it during break 4 summers ago. Cause no one uses years, they use their least favorite season as a measuring tool for time. And it's always either 2 or 5 of them ago when you're trying to remember when you did that one job for that bombshell blonde. Now what the fuck happened to my pencil? Tacklebox!!
Lol I swear I cant keep a pencil to save my life had the same hammer for 15 years tape has no paint on the underside ..brand new pencil after every break spent more on those than all my tools over the years
haha I went from construction/mill work to a research lab and boy let me tell you, there was quite the learning curve on proper etiquette while at work.
My husband is an electrician. All the men he works with have the same names: Jim, Bob, Joe, Tom. And Dave. And Tim. Seriously. These are the only names I hear. 😂
Most of my crew is Juan-powerd. Jose and David oversee. And we have more homemade Tacos and Tamales than imaginable, unless we're going to Ojos Locos for lunch.. 🤠
We once had four Mikes working with us. The first one, we called Blue. The rest were Mike 2, Mike 3 and Mike 4. Eventually we got a new super named Mike, so we called him Fake Mike.
Myles' dad is a cement / concrete contractor. Myles worked on the sites growing up. This is pure first hand knowledge. And probably on location at his dad's site! 😁
Definitely felt the nickname one. On my first day a boilermaker said “you need a nickname.... I’m gonna call you Fudge.” 6 years and two companies later I am still Fudge.
3:47 this is completely accurate. Our tackle box is a guy named Stephen, anytime I get ordered to do some bullshit work I just say “nah that’s stephen work”
Not really. If it's not a boss that's working next to the guys, some of which know just as much as the boss as far as the field work is concerned, then it's a boss that's gone all the time. New guys are generally taught things by the whole crew depending on what he's doing and who he's working with. Maybe more of a "battle plan" type situation, like a unit commander or some such. But not really a "coaching a sports team" type situation. I'm sure I'll get shit, but that's been my experience. I never saw the boss the same way I saw my sports coaches, it's mostly different.
@@maximusdesimus1943 i assume u have worked on sites, so I really can’t argue with u. I haven’t, and I’ll admit I don’t know much about what happens on the sites, but from watching this video it reminded me a lot about my hockey team and coach in high school.
@@AC_VC That's just my experience though. There are similarities of course. Like a hierarchy. The boss is the boss. I mostly worked on scab crews (non- unionized). I know unionized and government funded is a while different world, something I can only speculate about. Imo, scab crews are more lenient on hiring practices, up to the boss who he puts on. Felons. Illegals. Seasoned. Green thumbs. Whatever.
If you ever hear go get the board stretcher, do what I did go find a building to smoke behind for about 35 minutes, poor some water in your hand, flick some on your face and walk back out of breath and be like, "I've been all over the jobsite and I still can't find it"
My favorite FNG (f’ing new guy) years ago was named click-clack on day one because he didn’t have steel toes so he had to wear the aluminum toe covers over his boots. He eventually graduated to Pockets and worked his way up to JR Leadman and now full fledged Leadman. Quite the blossomer.
As an industrial electrician I can honestly this is the most accurate video depiction of construction workers ever... especially with that specific kind of monster
The nickname thing, lol. My husband was known as “animal.” He worked with one dude called “turbo”, others called “studly”, “pork chop”, “brown eye”, “moose”, “shady”, and “jack wagon.” LOL
@@Deezuzjohn yeah but to who ever ur working for will see clean boots and maybe think that you have never done this before and not even give u a shot at it
I loved making nicknames for the new guys. My favorite one was "Magneto" given to a kid that lived down the street from me. He got the job working with me during one summer because his dad worked with us too. Magneto would constantly lose or drop the screws, connectors, anything metal really. Still get a kick telling that story. A good worker. My nickname was "Light Show". I got it because I was tasked to tie up temp lights down a hall of offices. I got 3 lines up there when the site supervisor comes in the see if it's done and I replied "Are you ready for the light show?" What I didn't know was he was giving a tour of the the progress to the employees who would work in the building. I get the extension cord from the generator, climb up the ladder to the nearest plug from the temp lights - the ends are both female ends. I had to flip the entire light string while everyone else had a good laugh. As far as hazing goes, If someone was in the portacan too long, I''d tie the door shut with jet line. Not very tight, just enough to get your hand out the door.
I've had many nicknames in my time, but people like my first name too much so nicknames never stick to me. I work telecom, though, and we use low voltage cable scissors all the time (usually just "snips"). A common prank is for guys to take your snips out of your tool belt when you're focused on something, then tape them shut with electrical tape and place them back. Never fails to get a good laugh, be it the first time it ever happens to you or the hundredth.
"Tacklebox went to the shitter," "Hide his tool bag!" "Park the backhoe in front of the door!" "Nail his tool bag to the floor!" "Steel all the material from his cart!" "Put trash in his tool box!"
Pump some liquid nails in his tool bags Grab the hot sauce out the truck and rub it all over his steering wheel Sneak up behind him and toe nail his boot sole to the floor with the framing gun.
Lmfao, I got ratchet strapped in a shitter on an airport runway, hundreds of feet away from anyone else, at night. I had to fucking pry myself out of the top half of the door
@@mards2479 lol that's awesome. I was on a high rise job where they have those half shitters. This apprentice got in to take a shit (rookie move). Once he sat down we pushed the shitter to the man lift and called the operator "down on 20" lol he was screaming the whole time.
@@mattdg1981 hahaha dang you guys ain't messing around. I seen two guys fight cause the one guy hit his new boots with pink upside spray paint. I can imagine what would happen with a nail gun lol
Worked with an oliver that we called Oscar. Totally accurate. Oliver unfortunately has passed, so this helps remember him fondly. RIP Oliver, gone too soon.
Being the new guy at a construction site, showed up the first week wearing neck gators, got the name chapo from it. No one knows my actual name now it’s just chapo
We only stop at gas stations on Friday’s to fill up the crew truck, but when we do, you betcha the boys are getting energy drinks, it’s like a treat to the crew
Bricklayer since I was 19, love how accurate this is. Especially hazing the new guy, and nicknames. I've been called Hollywood, buttons, lumberjack, Johnson, Bricker, brown bear, wild man, and I'm sure a few more I can't remember right now lol. Good shit 👍
My dads been a construction worker his whole life and now hes the boss man, when i was younger i used to ride in his work truck with him and listen to him complain about how useless his laborers were hahaha
When asked how much of a gap do you have on your side the new guy answered "about three centimeters" and now six years later he's still known as "Metric man" lol
I was at a hot dog stand last week and 6 construction workers were in line. one asked the vendor if there were 'any monsters today' the answer was no and they all left. My husband being one of them. I was visiting my husband on his lunch.
One job I did a couple years ago, a different electrical contractor subbed mine out for help. There were 9 guys combined and 6 of us were named John including the boss. It was last names only.
Those liqour store/gas station trips for redbulls and smokes are usually the time I cry. Get back in the truck, down a redbull and 5 slim Jim's and get back to it bayybeee!
We used to have a guy that would kill a 36 pack of Natty Light each night. Dude was a straight up alcoholic. If you gave him a ride home you'd have to stop at the nearest store so he could fuel up with beer b/c he was close to DT's. He always liked riding home with me b/c I'd let him drink on the ride home. A lot of the other guys wouldn't b/c it was a company truck. He used to take a styrofoam cup from the gas station, put a beer can in it, surround it with ice, and then put on the lid and a straw so he could drink at work. Dude would drink beer through a friggin' straw. We got called in one weekend on an emergency roof job and he's so drunk that he can't even stand up. I never understood how someone could live like that. But, he was always a good worker and knew his shit.
Hahahaha so true. Had a boss once who got a DUI, so he bought an electric scooter to get around. When he got his license back he sold it to one of the guys who couldn't afford a car because he had child support for like 4 kids. THAT guy got in a drunk fight with his girlfriend one night, took the scooter out, and got a DUI on the scooter.
I’d start the day close to empty every time I could, and just put $20 in the tank. Can make more gas station stops. Plus their bathrooms are a lot better than at the siteb
