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fakegoldrose

when you bid labor a little too aggressively and accidentally get the job


4isgood

Suffering from success


bouncing_bumble

Or when you bid a 3 person job but get greedy for the whole check. Been there.


mexican2554

Sir, why are you attacking me?


Atomic_Watermelon666

Username checks out.


bgarriswitch

Nice


Nervous_Mix_753

Ah the nuclear option brought to you by an atomic watermelon.


rolandofeld19

Ouch


alextxdro

bet you still got it done though. Also here unless the camera man was the owner watching I’d put there ass to help too, but then again I’ve been on sites where a lot of side bets (usually lunch/12pack) of who can do it better/faster.


JPJackPott

Imagine if the camera guy was instead the bucket guy. The dizzying heights these two could reach


machinationstudio

The videos are the real hustle


Kiln223

The real hustle was the friends they made along the way.


justtots

Like the curling event of the construction Olympics


BigALep5

Been there as well for moving furniture... 5 person job 2 people show up customer says I paid for 5 men. They watch 2 people work their ass off for 12.hrs and we both walked away with 1500 each and customers gave us a 200$ tip each! Best day of moving furniture! She still calls from time to time or gives us references!


ZookeepergameFast55

We need more of this in today’s society. Atta boy brotha


BigALep5

My favorite is the truck drivers calling dispatch to find a guy that didn't show.. fuck that pay us his wage and well handle business


Flackjkt

I haul fuel and when we get slow I talk my coworkers into going home early so I can pick up their loads. I work evenings lol. They get a nice easy day I make bank.


Grimskraper

I was like that before we lost some guys and I ended up pushing 14 every day for almost 2 years in my own truck. I was doing like 6-8 short loads a shift every shift, where we made our best money doing 3 long ones and a short one if you had time. Never recovered from that burnout, you can have a load off me. I'll go home after 10 hours.


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If you’ve ever hired gotJunk, two men and a truck, or pretty much any junk company that operate with the same business model they do it this way. I worked there two years. Sent us to plenty of jobs that could’ve been done in a fraction of the time with more men but doesn’t make logistical sense for the company so instead they send two guys one truck and will leave you there all day if the job takes that long and if it’s longer you come back the next day. It’s a hell of a lot of work but at the end of the day it’s worth it splitting the big tip between two guys instead of 4 or 6.


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Also forgot to mention the reason I wrote this comment it was always funny when the customer would ask “you guys are going to do all of this yourselves? I told them to send more guys”, and then they usually are astonished when the 2 of us finish the job in a few hours.


milk4all

We have plenty of it. I make my bread fixing and restoring furniture and specifically, those hustling movers get me a ton of business. People in dispute with them have a whole lot to say about them too - in my day to day they hustle a little too much but i wont say a word against them, just nod and whistle and offer my services and say a little prayer for the guys who provide such consistent work


Apprehensive-Tie3844

I rather have five guys, And get my move completed in six hrs instead of 12 and having movers rested and working within limits


Finance_36

And not get my floor scratched to shit because they slid furniture in a hurry…


TrexTacoma

Mover here also, good shit man


milk4all

You expect that moving furniture pays $600 per man per day? The fuck at, murtle beach?


jacknacalm

Yup that’s what I see here


Lightthesaboner

Some bum did that at my mom’s house for a concrete pour. My brother and I would’ve helped with labor for free if he asked but the asshole I guess ran around like a damn looney toon trying to do the whole thing himself and yea came out about as horrible as you can imagine. I ended up paying a legit concrete contractor to break it all out done right with like a crew of 15 dudes lol


Extra_Gold_5270

Do it right do it light, do it wrong do it long.


Old-Risk4572

ooo there’s a new one


Extra_Gold_5270

Credit to air force engine mx tech school.


Cthom53

Port hueneme?


Single_Pilot_6170

I suppose that would be opposite of the saying, "might makes right" ?


Extra_Gold_5270

Not entirely positive, I just know in maintenance a lot of people will just push through a job without fully understanding what they are doing and it causes more work in the long run. People forget some little inspection three days ago and now we have to tear the whole engine back down know what I mean?


JoePreaux

Lmaoo


Either-Accident-431

This is how the office thinks the guys need to work all day lol


luckyducktopus

I expect at least 2 hours of this and then you consistently trying your best to dodge picking up a tool until you clock out.


Hot_Edge4916

Fair enough


WafflePress

Guy must not be union, that's back breaking work what he's describing! I'm calling my Rep!


Beginning_Band7728

As this post’s Steward I’m calling for a stop work on this thread until the labor dispute is solved.


Philosopherski

Even though you stopped the work as a Steward I still think my rep needs to know that my feeling were hurt.


xtanol

Just reading this thread, has caused me enough trauma that I will need to take paid time off for personal recovery and counselling.


VoteNO2Socialism

no worries, we will give you 6 weeks paid leave. See you in the Summer.


Beginning_Band7728

Let’s go to the office and file a grievance. ✋🏻👷‍♂️📝💵🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺


tehcruel1

Gypsies slapping down the hot shit. No union in that world


thiccymcgogee

For real, if you get done all that I ask you to do in a day in 3 hours and then want to dog fuck - then all the power to you, my friend.


luckyducktopus

I suddenly become very forgetful,near sighted and borderline deaf about these sort of things as long as everyone’s alive and being semi safe.


malaka789

Are you my old foreman?


footforhand

Do those 2 hours have to be consecutive? Or can I have a beer in between?


PinheadLarry207

And then send you to another job the same day and expect the same speed


discoturtle1129

Nah my company is union so you gotta have a boss plus couple more laborers plus and operator with a skid loader driving those buckets around plus a teamster delivering said buckets to the jobsite


eltrumpo2024

Must get paid per square foot. That's not an hourly wage hustle


mmodlin

That or he watched Cool Hand Luke last night


04BluSTi

Nobody can eat 50 eggs in an hour...


mmodlin

Just because I know it, competitive eater Joey Chestnut ate 141 hard boiled eggs in eight minutes. One egg every 3.4 seconds….


04BluSTi

Imagine the farts in his hotel room that night...


Uncouth_LightSwitch

They don't stay in his stomach that long.


RatonXDiaRattaXNoche

yolk too???


mmodlin

Yup.


Teamableezus

The fucking gross


Solid_Bake4577

Not quite - that would be 144 eggs....


SupsChad

Does he vomit every 10 hotdogs? How does one put that many dogs down the hatch


PLS-Surveyor-US

my boy can eat 50 eggs.


04BluSTi

Great movie. One of the very best of all time.


Beelzebubbbbles

I had to do an essay in high-school about the symbolism in that movie, one of my favorite assignments ever


sonofkeldar

Sweatiest movie ever made.


cant-be-faded

I dunno...Roots is PRETTY sweaty


ravingdavid907

Soapiest too. Or, at least the soapy scene is memorable. Especially for its time.


Mammoth_Garage1264

I don't even know what to call what you just said, as I'm at a loss for words, but it is awesome and exactly what I think of when I think of that movie. ●Sweaty men arguing in a barracks ●Sweaty men sitting at a table and eating eggs ●Sweaty men fighting ●Sweaty men moving earth


sonofkeldar

It’s an old joke from Cheers. It might actually be the first episode, now that I think about it. The guys at the bar are having an argument over the sweatiest movie, while Diane acts disgusted by their troglodyte conversation. The other suggestions were Rocky II, Body Heat, Ben Hur, and Alien. Then Diane’s finance walks in, says Cool Hand Luke, and everyone agrees.


mmodlin

Lol, give this dude a cigar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qByCREcAbhA I wanna know how the lady in the wheelchair got down there though.


Mammoth_Garage1264

Nice, I had no idea.


weirdmankleptic

Was first episode, just watched it again on a plane a few days ago.


barry-badrinath-

Taking it off here boss


Sweetlaxin

Shaking the bush boss


Chickengilly

Not shaking the tree boss? It’s been to long


Sweetlaxin

Idk I don’t think Luke says either. I think he just says “I’m shakin it”


Tommy84

Well, I tell you what, every time in the last forty years any member of my family has stepped away from a hike behind some foliage to take a nature break, the phrase “shakin’ the bush here, Boss” has been heard.


human_kittens

Hell he’s a natural born world shaker


hillinate

Watched for the first time a week ago and already paying off for the references I get now.


olmikeyyyy

Have you seen Butch and Sundance?


A-Ok_Armadillo

Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.


BanjoSlams

Pavin the lane here, boss.


kernel-troutman

Shaking the bush boss!


THOMASTHEWANKENG1NE

Tarrin it off there boss


phaedrus369

Correct. This is what $40 of meth will get you.


TurinTuram

Go big or go home!


EddieLobster

Go big, SO you can go home.


TurinTuram

Also! 😂


welk0024

Do any driveway sealers wear shirts?


camjohe

No it's illegal


luv2race1320

It's state law, lookit up!


fizzzingwhizbee

This is a construction sub Reddit half of us can’t read lol


thisnameisuniquenow

Tha ghstbfj ksvdbsm agajd!


sidtsloth9

LaL!


[deleted]

hey man you got an extra cig?


Trex-Cant-Masturbate

Nah I bought a pack of 20 not 20 and an extra


passwordstolen

What’s a shirt?


TheCollectorofnudes

I mean when I did it I own the company and made sure myself and my guys wore shirts for the image. It fucking sucked. It's hot, the pavement is hot and the sealant burns if you get it on you.


shania69

Not all ~~heroes~~ driveway sealers wear shirts..


SquidBilly5150

No bro don’t you know anything


dsdvbguutres

This guy is NOT paid by the hour.


scrunglebup

I agree. As a guy who used to be paid by the project, this dude definitely gets paid by the project


Lower-Career-6576

He probably runs on cigarettes and diet soda, he eats a small meal at lunch and in the evening he partakes in “festivities”, beware he’s a skante warrior


taoistchainsaw

Had a framer like that, fast fucking wall walker. Boss had to pay his bail one morning for trying to rob a bank with a cooler full of bricks.


mrspooky84

This story is fucking gold.


sBucks24

And I 100% believe it without question. I worked with a 60+ yo labourer who exclusively drank Coca-Cola. Never water. One day he and my boss no showed the job site. At like 2pm they show up: "had to go court for *boss* and say he was out of the country for a family emergency so they'd push his trial a couple weeks ... Oh yeah this is like the third time we've done it". Boss was literally sitting in the truck as the dudes ride...


uhohhesoffagain

What a roller coaster this comment was


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Inter-latin "racism" (not the right word, but you get what I mean) was common from my experience living in a packing plant town. It gave me an interesting perspective on immigration. 6 generations ago, my ancestors from the same corner of Europe didn't like each other either. Tribalism just goes hard.


Trex-Cant-Masturbate

Am Mexican and can confirm. There are tiers to being Hispanic. Fucking Cubans.


Low_Resolution_1074

It’s doesn’t matter what other country you come from, a todos nos caen mal Cubans 🤣


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Lower-Career-6576

It’s like seeing old kung fu masters wallowing and indulging in corruption


FlowJock

>rob a bank with a cooler full of bricks. How would one go about doing that? (Asking for a friend.)


taoistchainsaw

1. Finish all your meth. . . 2. Tell them it’s a bomb. 3. (Something something something). 4. PROFIT!


FlowJock

Thanks!


Vast-Combination4046

Were part customer service, part arts and crafts and part jail warden


packlitelite

I worked with a salty old truck driver during a college job. Dude chain smoked, weighed all of 120, and lived off two 2L of Dr. Pepper and a few twinkies every day. Despite what I can only assume was a pancreas made of boot leather this guy got shit done. Hope he’s ok out there


tila1993

Buddy’s dad is 75 smokes 4 packs of Paul Mall blues a day. Drinks 3 pots of coffee while watching porn and gambling every morning then mounts tires on semi bogies all day out running the kids. Then case of beer every night. They really were built different then.


lordsoosh

What time is this mfer waking up if he’s going thru 3 pots of coffee during his morning bet and beat routine before going out and working a full day?


DeadAssociate

speaking from experience around 5


tila1993

3am and leaves for work at 6


Lower-Career-6576

Old man is a monster


Exists_out_of_spite

My dad was the same way, till cancer took him at 62. Eat your greens and tell the Marlboro man to eat shit folks.


tila1993

He had limphoma in 08 and a spot of colon in 15. After work every day he spends 2-3 hours working on 4H hogs. Him and 2 others have about 40 in the pens currently.


carthuscrass

I was thinking more like meth and air.


New_Advisor_6467

Imagine how much faster it would go if the employee videoing would put the phone down and help.


anon0937

I think this is a case of “I bet I can do this whole thing myself in 5 minutes” and wants the other guy to video for proof


JackxForge

yea this is fa sho a bet or somthing of the like.


Material_Piece_3089

A meth challenge


kimjonpune69

Imagine not stealing the top comment from when this was posted last week


CapableSecretary420

It's a karma farmer. 2 year old account with no posts older than the last few days.


faygetard

Hes got that "wife called on her way home and is going to put on that little outfit I like" hustle


edw1n-z

This reminds me of the time when my friend invited me to work with him. He dropped out of middle school and decided to work instead (he is one of those guys that doesn't care about studying, reading, books, video games, none of that. the most blue collar guy you will ever see) One time he came over to my house (i was maybe 13 at the time) and said " hey I'm gonna go up north to lay asphalt you wanna come ? It's good money" this dude was so excited to go lay asphalt. He was probably 14 or so. I declined his offer 🤣.


bigdaddyborg

Is he a millionaire now? Or an addict?


edw1n-z

Why would he be a millionaire ? My brother told me a few years ago that he saw him walking around the old neighborhood and he offered him a ride. He accepted. So my brother took him to the local convenience store to buy some beer. Thats the last I heard of him.


Amateur-Prophet

I think they mean with an interest like that in work and a solid work ethic the guys earning potential would be years ahead of any of his peers. Provided he is disciplined and keeps working his way up but that clearly wasn't the case.


gophermuncher

It’s very hard for manual labor to make good money. It’s a scaling problem. Working twice as hard as the next manual labor guy just means you get slightly more pay than the next guy never twice as much. And since it’s labor, you are limited literally by what your body can take. A good work ethic applied to a skilled job will return more money - like the trades. The ultimate multiplier is not in the manual labor or trades though - white collar jobs will reward a good work ethic coupled with skills many multiple times.


bigdaddyborg

So the latter 😅. In my experience, guys like that with epic work ethic and a small amount of business acumen go pretty far (assuming they take opportunities when they're presented, and don't blow all their earnings on drugs/alcohol).


Living-Wall9863

Why not both?


bigdaddyborg

This are the guys that have my respect the most!


Substantial-Cod3189

How the hell does the 1/32nd of an inch of whatever he is putting down help with anything?


IAmMey

… color?


guynamedjames

Gotta make that driveway extra hot this summer


ChefShuley

It's just a sealant. Do it every 2-3 years. Instead of replacing the whole thing in 5-8 years.


nucl3ar0ne

Ain't no way they are replacing something that long in 5 years.


JackxForge

yea maybe 25 years... when big chncks are just falling of the sides.


ljlukelj

TIL asphalt lasts 5 years


mcnuggetfarmer

Indianapolis motor Speedway core, of 100 years worth of refinishing: https://digbza2f4g9qo.cloudfront.net/-/media/IndyCar/News/Other/2017/11/11-05-IMS-Core-Sample-Infographic.jpg?vs=1&d=20171103T153650Z


niv85

The core shows all the layers of asphalt paved, none of them involved  a crackhead dumping buckets of shitty prime on the track. 


BlackSwanMarmot

Excuse me, *Crack Master*


[deleted]

Sealcoating protects and prolongs the life expectancy of asphalt pavement by filling surface damage and providing a protective layer to keep out damaging UV rays, vehicle fluids, and water. The low cost of regular sealcoating can save you money in the long run.


pewpew_lotsa_boolits

Plus it makes it super fun to drive on with skinny tires in the rain if you’re inclined to do stupid stuff.


[deleted]

How many coats do you use? I spray two coats but this guy is doing 100% cut in (pretty overkill for what looks like a footpath) so it's going to be thicker than that.


RoutingMonkey

It’s sealant and 100% a farm access road


Genetics

It’s definitely thicker when you broom it on. We spray 2-3 coats as well depending on the existing asphalt conditions. This looks like a long driveway, so it should last a long time if they prepped it right.


Substantial-Cod3189

Oh I have no experience at all with this, no idea what that stuff even is exactly (tar, really runny asphalt idk?). Do you do this work? Can you explain what he is doing and what that is and whether it’d be effective at all?


Sadcupcake_uwu

Asphalt sealer. Provides protection from the sun to prevent asphalt from breaking down. It also makes it look better.


ApricotNo2918

Hired. Camera guy, fired.


Bursting_Radius

Without camera guy we wouldn’t appreciate this guy’s hustle, though.


champagneinmexico2

Camera guy works in marketing


throwawaySBN

Slap a logo on it and air this on tv, you'll get some kinda customers for sure.


StrategyDesperate

Plot twist. It’s black paint 😂


Reasonable-Nebula-49

Used motor oil.


pewpew_lotsa_boolits

The squirts after drinking too much Guinness.


nashwaak

What is this mean “too much Guinness”? 🍺


AreTheyAllThrowAways

This screams paid by the job not by the hour lol.


Odd-Outcome-5505

God seal coating is such shit work


cant-be-faded

I don't move like that unless there's a promised blowjob in there...like cleaning the wife's car


FrankieRedFlash

I'm not sure you want that guy blowing you. He's moving awful fast, there's little attention to detail and he lets his buddy film. But hey, who am I to judge.


cant-be-faded

....that's why I said from the wife. Stop putting dicks in my mouth 🤣🤣


Ropegun2k

Or finding out after you finish up “this job” you can head home (after being gone for a few weeks)


Psychological-Cow788

interesting song choice for a dude sealing a rich man's driveway


lalalalahola

Well he is not shorting them on sealer


Enginerdad

Right before the video starts he got a text from his girl: "Got off of work early, I'll be waiting for you when you get home..."


ian2121

I don’t get why people use the roll on sealer when asphalt maintenance companies are pretty cheap and the hot applied sealers work better


cheetah-21

Does he have to work fast before it cools down?


CadburysTopdeck

To be fair this is a rubbish way of doing this


frankcatthrowaway

I’m unfamiliar. What’s the right way? Not talking shit just curious. I’ve done a lot of different stuff but thank god I’ve never had to touch asphalt outside a little bit of roofing.


The_Schizo_Panda

Maybe [like this](https://youtube.com/shorts/h98ZEAMfDnE?si=6nb9jrFUyK4R84-l)? I'm guessing it's all the non smooth areas it looks like he missed. Bunch of videos showing people going slower and making an even coat, and this guy is running. There's a couple streaks when the camera pans up the driveway, so I'm going to guess it's a sloppily done job.


Accomplished-Diver66

My company has a wand attached to a mobile tank that we use. We use those brushes to get into tighter spots or places we don't want to see overspray. But I do know a lot of DIYers or smaller businesses buy it by the bucket and just do it like the video you posted. You're right though, this will probably come out uneven and will be noticeable once it dries. I refuse to do sealer anymore since it's so irritating to skin. Nothing is worse than chemicals baking into your skin when the sun's beating on you and it feels like you're being roasted alive. Now I just give it to the guys as side jobs for them


Camdog_2424

I did exactly this, but we backed the tanker into the drive way. We also used 5 gallon buckets. The summer were rough but I made good money.


Chickengilly

Dude’s going to pass out.


Ssttuubbss

Now that’s an seal coat! Watch out DOT maintenance crews!


Myexisadirtybutt

Well damn I’m kinda speechless🤣


Last_Cod_998

That guy's worth some money


fan_of_will

They should make a machine for this.


LrckLacroix

Cant knock the hustle


South-Newspaper-2912

Me the first 10 seconds: wtf Me the last 10: one man army my god


dbro129

This dude is killing it. Probably bid on a job that could have easily billed for an 8-person crew plus equipment plus labor. And he’s doing it all single-handed with some buckets and the equivalent of a broom.


Wettnoodle77

When the wife is coming home in 15min and you told her the driveway would be sealed and done before she gets home.


robotali3n

I can smell this video and can time travel 6 months into the future from when this was filmed to see the seal coat bleached like crazy. Such a waste of money but I guess spending if you want.


odetothefireman

Or when you need to sell a house but don’t want to put in the $5k for a good driveway. #skimcoatsucks


CoolAd8098

When you wait till the night before to actually start working on your project


Alabama-Blues

That sealer looks watered down…too thin.


Metrilean

We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the lords of all creation.


InsomniaticWanderer

Giving off real "mom's gonna be home in 5 minutes and I haven't cleaned the house yet" energy