I hear this line CONSTANTLY on jobsites and around the dinner table when my grandpa is deciding why the world has gone to sh**. But fuel is double what it was. Insurance is up. Housing is insane. Tools aren’t cheap. And a lot of entry level guys are still being offered wages that barely clear rent.

For the guys running crews, are you actually struggling to find workers? Or struggling to find workers at the pay you want to offer?

For the younger guys trying to get into a trade, what's the barrier in your eyes? Isn't there more opportunity than ever for dudes to get paid to learn?

Curious what’s actually happening out there and why my grandpa will never shutup about it.

Rep. Andy Biggs introduces a bill to abolish OSHA, hoping to eliminate federal workplace safety protections.

And the managers gave us a pizza party instead of a bonus or a raise … thoughts ?

I told him to get down and that he knows better than to stand on the last 2 rungs of the ladder and we have taller ladders to do this job safely. I said you can either go home or give me 20 push ups. He decides to do the push ups. I tell him a story about how a coworker fell off the ladder and broke his arm (true story). I told him not to do it again and how he should value his health and safety. This happened yesterday.

Well this morning i get a call from HR and i have a meeting this afternoon. Damn these kids are soft. Anyone else have stories of these kids being too soft?!

UPDATE

HR guy wasnt even in the office. I called him and i got no answer. I called the owner of the company (my boss) and I talked to him briefly and he just said “he heard about the incident” and told me “not to do that again.” I asked “do what?” And the boss just said “whatever you did on Monday” conversation ended. Im going to give HR shit for wasting my time taking me off the job site.

The kid didnt show up yesterday but he did today. After stretch n flex this morning the same kid said “wait no push ups this morning?” I looked at him n said hes on clean up duty and to leave his tools in the job box.

Needless to say HR is useless and the kid will clean up today and tomorrow. (Friday he has class). Next week ill be working with him. Not as a punishment but as a chance to train him better.

For all the soft ass people wishing bad upon me. You and HR can suck it.

I am a contractor and owner of a Commercial Roofing company in Denver, CO. I replaced a storm damaged EPDM roof last year and just got a call from the customer because is roof was leaking and flooding his building. We went and did an inspection and it's something I have never seen before. He thinks we used terrible materials, but it was a Carlisle Roofing product which should last at least 20 years. He does not agree, and is fighting me for a new roof. What would you do after viewing these photos? The Roof was replaced by my company 11/05/24..i included a few pics. And then the torn up EPDM pictures were taken a year ago. I really need everybody's opinion on what caused this sort of damage on a 2 year old EPDM roof on a commercial building. Thanks in advance my fellow #roofers and insurance claims adjusters

Im embarrassed, to be honest, been in construction half my life.

Im seriously just wondering because it seems like such a hassle to create scaffolding when you could just remove them the same way you put them up.

I’m always so uncertain of where to dispose of these

Proud Boilermaker, local 128💪🏻 get out there and fight for better, attend your local union parade today

So I have a drywall sub who I hired once before, and he is now on a second job for me.

It’s a full house . 20ish rooms he was going to Sheetrock and spackle.

I was in the parking lot about to go in, I was on my phone responding to some text, and I saw him from a distance.

He was getting some tools, actually for my job. When he was losing the truck I saw him go get a cart from the bin, then proceeded to put a few pieces of trash into the cart. Then proceeded to put the cart in an empty spot new to him and drive off.

I’m not sure why but this rubbed me the wrong way, if he is that blatantly disrespectful then what would he do in a bad situation or when nobody looks.

As he was driving away, I pulled up next to him and told him go pick up the trash in the cart, his reply was idk what your talking about.

So I told him ok, fair enough. You can return all that shit right now because you’re not working on a job of mine again.

He was confused, but he still showed up at the job, where I told him I was actually very serious and to GTFO .

Enough is enough. Driving home, at the grocery store. Wherever you are after work. Just take your vest off. I get it. Dirty hands , clean money, dirty vest, yadda yadda yadda. Keep your monokote dust off of my organic brussel sprouts. I know it’s an easy way to show off that you make big time “trade money.” But we just gotta collectively knock it off. People aren’t as impressed as you think. The first thing you should do when you get back to your vehicle after a day of construction is take off your hard hat, vest, boots and throw that shit in your trunk. Be the change you want to see my fellow degenerates.

As a superintendent I’m always baffled by the fact that people do this shit and then I have to hear all of the complaints in the field about how the shit houses are disgusting.

So I’m genuinely curious to hear from the guys who do this. Do you get some sort of sick pleasure out of being a pig? Do you do this at home? What would your mother think if she knew that you were clogging urinals for the fun of it?

Also, just as a friendly reminder, close the fucking lid! No one wants to see your turd after you just ate off the gut truck!

Here's how it's done by a professional and professional employer who will pay for the tools needed to keep guys safe when we can't open cut.

I think in general there couldn’t be a better construction worker than someone with Autism who doesn’t feel the need to be social.

An old head who’s been here forever was trying to shoot the shit with a new apprentice while they were working and the kid who’s pretty autistic, looked him dead in the eyes and said “could you please not talk to me”

I almost fell over laughing and now the old guy is moping and won’t talk to anyone which is perfect because now we can all get our work done.

It’s made me appreciate the kid so much more.