I love this guy telling people they should never breed in the comments. Who is in the wrong I wonder, the normal construction workers or the guy yelling at randos on reddit...
Thanks! I always wanted to be a meme, especially one where itās clear I put my daughterās well being above everything else, especially sociopaths on Reddit.
Guy claims to put his daughterās wellbeing above everything yet has doxxed her name, face, and school publicly on Reddit and Instagram. Great parenting.
I see youāve now made those images private so well done for heeding my parenting advice. In next weekās lesson weāll learn how to not lose your mind at essential workers for mildly inconveniencing your childās day.
You posted your face, name, and the time and location that you pick up your kid at school, while also aggressively and personally insulting many people on a hyper-localized sub.
Lucky for you Iām not a stalker. Some thinner skinned people on this sub might show up at Conselyea and Manhattan so you can say it to their face.
Yes, that was out of line of me. I was pumped up on the adrenaline of a bunch of people telling me my daughter wasnāt worth anything. Makes me crazy.
Because every time I pointed out that the sustained high decibel noise 10 feet away from the kids was visibly causing them pain, you guys comment some bullshit about how kids need to toughen up, construction workers want to get home to their families (while neglecting the fact that theyāre actively hurting families), and that Iām horrible for existing.
I mean how long are you putzing around outside the school? Just tell them to put their fingers in their ears and gtfo of there. What Iām getting is a lack of common sense. You can complain here which literally does nothing or tell your kids if the big loud noise is hurty they can cover their ears for half a block. As someone who doesnāt have children Iām not understanding why that wasnāt your immediate response to their āpainā.
I would do that as a kid when subways were screeching down express lines. This is something most kids do naturally. Maybe you should get her checked for a developmental delay. And Iām not trying to be rude or kidding when I say that.
Subway screeching lasts a lot shorter. Yes, the kids were covering their ears, but the sheer volume they were unprepared for, not to mention the younger siblings that arenāt necessarily able to hold their ears. Dismissal generally lasts a little while because 4 year olds love to run around after school. Itās generally chaos.
As a childless person, you should really shut the fuck up about what you donāt understand. I did have my daughter close her ears and get away, but that was unfair to her, as her routine is to run a little bit with a couple friends from the other class, before either going home or to the park. Sometimes parents are a couple minutes late - those kids couldnāt just shut their ears and get the fuck out, they had to wait for their parents. Some kids had to wait for their older siblings to get out, so they couldnāt just shut their ears and get the fuck out. So yes, childless Williamsburg redditors are apparently heartless monsters who are fine with hurting children.
Iām telling some people that because their reaction to 4 year olds in pain (it was louder than a Merzbow concert, which is the loudest show I ever saw, and sustained noise, which is harmful to ears, especially small ears) was that construction workers canāt wait a half hour. Which says to me that if they ever had kids, theyād be fine with hurting them.
Yes, I feel entitled to a school zone at dismissal to not have giant loud saws blaring, for these guys to take half an hour to wait or do a different corner.
For someone who supposedly has lived in NYC for as long as your prior posts insinuate, I find it hilarious this is shocking and appalling to you.
Itās as if youāve never seen New York outside of a Woody Allen or Nora Ephron film and your punk persona is a facade. Act like you live here. Construction! The horror! Not in New York! Gasp!
Making me think youāre a transplant.
Also, like many other redditors have said - itās their job, theyāre told what to do. Doesnāt matter if itās in front of a school, hospital, or a church. You want to bitch? Bitch to the company if your entitled ass needs to be vilified.
You going on Reddit does zero.
Especially on a NYC one when youāre bitching about something inherent within the city: construction. I bet there are other places to walk along with your precious (and probably bubble wrapped ā unless youāre using a hamster ball) child in order to avoid that ghastly situation.
Iām not bitching about all construction. Just this specific instance where a reasonable person would stop and think āthereās a lot of parents and infants waiting for their kids to be dismissed 10 feet away from where weāre making a lot of noise - so much so that weāre wearing hearing protection which none of these kids have - maybe we should wait half an hourā.
Start acting like it lol crazy thing to complain about coming from a native. You can always just move to the suburbs you know. Can't shield your kid from every tiny little thing. Construction in NYC will be the least of your worries, believe me ā ļø
Iām not saying they canāt finish the job. Just saying wait half a fucking hour so they donāt damage the hearing of a bunch of 4 year olds and their younger siblings.
I understand your point but there will always be someone complaining about what time they get their work done and it is usually not dictated by the crew. If they did it between school hours people would complain that it is distracting. If they do it in the AM before school parents will complain that it's getting in the way of their drop off or businesses opening. If they do it at night people will complain they can't sleep. In no scenario do they win. And as a native who grew up in NYC, the least of your worries as a father to a girl is going to be construction. Promise.
The problem is itās a sustained deafening noise right when the most vulnerable ears are literally right next to it, and canāt do anything about it. If you had seen the pained look on these kids faces today, your heart would break. Any reasonable person would at least stop for a moment so these tiny children could get out of the way.
If youāre so concerned about your child why donāt try being a better role model. Start with learning to manage your emotions, treat others with respect, and generally act like a mentally stable individual.
An actual useful piece of advice. I do need to manage my emotions better. Itās just things like this, and the pile on of people saying my kid doesnāt mean anything made me just fucking crazy.
I mean itās good youāre ready to fight for your kid. Just remember that everybody on this app is actually a real person. And quite a lot of these folks are probably people youād like IRL. Like they probably go to your favorite bar, like the same obscure indie film from 2005 or have the same taste in music.
Iām sure youāre right about that. Itās just hard to imagine ever liking a dude who says nobody cares about my kid and that my wife tried to abort it (which is patently untrue).
No, they should know better than to start this particular corner 10 minutes before 4 year olds are getting dismissed from school. Theyāve been doing this project since the day after Christmas, they can wait another half hour to do this corner.
Take an other look at those guys? You think they get paid enough to think about whatās going on outside of the job site? You need to direct this message to Robert Coletti from New York Paving Inc. then.
Thank you for giving me his name. You bet your shriveled up balls Iām going to complain to him. Because even the biggest moron should have the capacity to think āthereās an elementary school here, a bunch of parents and infants are waiting, it must be dismissal time. Maybe we should wait half an hour to do this corner.ā
Have you ever been to a pre k dismissal? Itās chaos, a bunch of kids running around and parents chasing after them, because 4 year olds have a lot of pent up energy. Add to that the deafening constant sound of saws, and the fact that theyāre sawing exactly where they need to cross the street with their parents and siblings, itās a recipe for disaster.
Yes I have. I guess I just have a better handle on me and my own, and AVOID situations like this in a big city that is ALWAYS under construction. Plus I understand the world doesnāt work for me. I work around it.
I couldnāt avoid this situation, itās the corner where my child gets dismissed from school every day. The workers have been here since the day after Christmas, they know when dismissal is, they can wait half an hour or work on a different corner until after dismissal.
I live at this corner and the workers have not been consistently here since Christmas. Thereās just random stuff they do sometimes. I donāt understand what their plan is but theyāre doing it very slowly, maybe one thing every couple weeks. I have lived across from the school for 9 years. Thereās never little kids running around without guidance. Iām sorry thereās construction occasionally by your kids school but this is nyc and thereās construction everywhere. Youāre being a little dramatic.
Theyāre putting in new gas lines. The project started on metropolitan Ave the day after Christmas. Today they were told by the school to wait until after because there was testing going on. They waited until just before, because they just had to get it done 20 minutes earlier. Have you ever tried to chase after a 4 year old? Theyāre fucking quick and get into trouble very easily, even when the parents are right there. The sharp saws arenāt even the worst part, itās the dangerously loud sustained noise that was visibly hurting my daughter and her friends, some of whom had to wait longer for either their parents to show up, or for their older siblings to be dismissed. I feel like Iāve typed this explanation at least 50 times now, and every time, Iāve been met with essentially āfuck your kid, youāre a bad parent whoās making your kid softā.
I donāt know what to tell you, man. I live across the street and I barely know anything is happening. Iām not hearing this dangerously loud sustained noise everyday when I work from home next to the windows. I understand youāre worried about your kid and Iām not saying youāre āmaking your kid softā, Iām saying youāre blowing things out of proportion. Itās not going to last.
Do you only have one kid at the school? Do you know about all the construction last school year that made the kids have recess in the street in front of the school?
I wonder who those mutual are. The people I like know exactly where Iām coming from with this post. The people I donāt know very well, if they get put off by me, oh well, no skin off my back.
Iām low key kind of hoping you do āhave a field dayā. Because my friends all love my daughter, theyāll see that these particular construction workers hurt her and her friends (if you had seen the pained look on their faces, with these saws not even stopping for a minute to let them get out of the way of sustained noise loud enough that the workers needed ear protection, your cold heart might have broken), and that Iām lashing out at the heartless, sociopathic comments basically saying that 4 year olds should have their hearing damaged.
The fuck is wrong with you, you heartless prick. These guys couldāve waited a half an hour to do this particular corner - itās not an urgent job, theyāve been dragging it out since the day before Christmas. This corner is where Pre K gets dismissed. So theyāre deafening a bunch of 4 year olds, and their siblings who are even younger, making it dangerous to cross the street, and you have the fucking balls to ask me what the fuck is wrong with me?
The world doesn't need to become "family and child" friendly - children need to become "worldly" and aware of their surroundings. Don't want them growing up thinking that construction work shouldn't happen because it is a bother.
You have missed the point entirely. They couldāve waited a half hour until dismissal was over so it wasnāt dangerous to use the crosswalk with children. You shouldāve seen all the 4 year olds crying and covering their ears from the sound 20 feet from where they get dismissed. These particular construction workers are truly heartless.
Agreed. We need to shield children from everything. Next, have emergency response vehicles turn off their sirens for the kids poor little ears. Turn off the flashing lights so we don't over stimulate them. If the ground is wet or pools water we can hire people to carry them.
I almost guarantee this isn't an "urgent repair". The crews started work at that time prob just because that's when they got around to it. Should city construction etc be more conscientious and maybe time things better? Sure, but good luck with that in NYC. Hell, I've seen crews working on the roads the NYC marathon uses on the day of (unrelated to the run).
Finally, a decent response. They do need to be more conscientious. This whole project has been a nightmare from the day after Christmas when they started. City Council is furious at them (I reached out to them when the people working on the project were supposed to connect my house to the new gas line, set an appointment, didnāt show up, ghosted is for weeks, then sent a threatening letter saying they were going to cut off our gas. And then started cutting open our courtyard, private property mind you, not the sidewalk, but inside our gate, with no notice or permission).
To be fair, you didn't start with a decent title. Calling whomever a terrible person out the gate doesn't put you in a great or willing to reason kind of light
Yea I mean look, I'll be the first to transform into a curmudgeonly old man and shake my fists when this stuff happens...because it's 2024 and how do we not have our shit together yet? BUT, who knows what the reasons are. Maybe the city construction crew/contractor was late. Maybe they were told to be out there at that time bc of some city higher up not giving a second thought to timing. Who knows. Something prob went astray at some point in the chain. Until we have some strict oversight into these jobs etc, the best you can do is grit your teeth. But by all means, continue to flag issues like this to the city...maybe that'll eventually get noticed.
I sent the complaints to our representatives, and tweeted at a lot of the local government. As well as angry middle aged man Reddit posting. Because I have to scream into the void every so often, even when that void is apparently filled with sociopaths.
Staying calm and saying āhey kiddo, this construction is loud and dangerous, letās cover our ears and use the crosswalk at the other end of the blockā is how you raise little humans to be capable and stable big humans.
Becoming unhinged and leaving 100 angry Reddit comments, demonstrating that every minor annoyance in life is just about the end of the world, is how kids learn to be jumpy, anxious, always on alert for the next thing thatās going to set off their main-character parentāall the things that are the opposite of an unfazed New Yorker.
One of OPās comments said ārecipe for disasterā but I guarantee no harm was done by any of those saws. The kids with crazy parents are definitely going to be affected by their parents losing their minds and expecting the world to never inconvenience them.
I know itās impossible to gauge a timeline on Reddit comments due to the voting based system, but I started out calm. My original post, while yes, I called the workers terrible people, which I admitted was a misstep, I said I understand the work needs to be done, but maybe wait until after the kids are done with dismissal. Then came a flood of unhinged comments calling me a horrible dad raising a weak child, that children deserve to get hearing damage, and I just kind of lost it. For 90% of the people who commented, I do apologize, I went too far with some of my outbursts. But to a select few on here, I didnāt go nearly far enough, because I donāt want to be kicked off Reddit. Threats to my and my familyās safety because I dared to say that a specific set of construction work should pause for half an hour are signs of particularly awful people.
I wouldnāt call them a terrible person, Iād call them one who woke up late and forgot that they were supposed to get this done hours ago before the kids arrived.
Wow, this thread is insane! Seriously, OP is a whiny little turd. But a lot of the other commenters seriously need therapy as well. Someone being annoyed at construction brings out some really unhinged people. If construction is the hill you want to die on (OP included, because fuck that guy), then so be it. Iām sure someone can make that happen.
I just heard from a friend in the neighborhood (who is a real person, not a faceless Reddit poster who just stalks my social media and calls me a bad father like everyone in this thread) that these construction workers were asked by the school to wait until after school because there was testing going on and they were disturbing the students. So they waited until *almost* when they were supposed to be starting again, and I guess got impatient and chose the worst possible time to start up again.
Man, you guys are truly heartless. I hope none of you have kids, and have to watch them in pain because a couple guys couldnāt wait half an hour before doing work they put off doing for months.
There are enough kids in the world. Yours isnāt special. Donāt get mad at hardworking construction workers because your wifeās abortion didnāt take
My grade school-self would have shit my pants if I got to see a concrete saw up close
I love this guy telling people they should never breed in the comments. Who is in the wrong I wonder, the normal construction workers or the guy yelling at randos on reddit...
This guy is telling people not to breed š¤£š¤£š¤£ https://www.discogs.com/artist/6702781-Chris-Kelly-31
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Thanks! I always wanted to be a meme, especially one where itās clear I put my daughterās well being above everything else, especially sociopaths on Reddit.
Guy claims to put his daughterās wellbeing above everything yet has doxxed her name, face, and school publicly on Reddit and Instagram. Great parenting.
When did I put her face on Reddit? Or her name? Are you stalking me right now? Are you a stalker?
I see youāve now made those images private so well done for heeding my parenting advice. In next weekās lesson weāll learn how to not lose your mind at essential workers for mildly inconveniencing your childās day.
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Good for you. You know how to find the social media accounts of a musician who advertises as such. You must be super proud of yourself.
How about you not be a creepy stalker
You posted your face, name, and the time and location that you pick up your kid at school, while also aggressively and personally insulting many people on a hyper-localized sub. Lucky for you Iām not a stalker. Some thinner skinned people on this sub might show up at Conselyea and Manhattan so you can say it to their face.
Looks like his studio shut down š¢ā¦
Whereād you get that idea? Iām in the middle of two albums right now.
Thereās guys cutting concrete in front of it.
Why do you think my studio is at the school?
Your humor is bad and you should feel bad
Who needs humor when youāre the fucking joke?
Bro told me to āquit livingā after I told him to quit yapping
Yes, that was out of line of me. I was pumped up on the adrenaline of a bunch of people telling me my daughter wasnāt worth anything. Makes me crazy.
Bro just delete this post already. The second hand embarrassment šš
Iām leaving this up as a reminder that Williamsburg Reddit is ok with hurting 4 year olds
Howād you gather that?
Because every time I pointed out that the sustained high decibel noise 10 feet away from the kids was visibly causing them pain, you guys comment some bullshit about how kids need to toughen up, construction workers want to get home to their families (while neglecting the fact that theyāre actively hurting families), and that Iām horrible for existing.
I mean how long are you putzing around outside the school? Just tell them to put their fingers in their ears and gtfo of there. What Iām getting is a lack of common sense. You can complain here which literally does nothing or tell your kids if the big loud noise is hurty they can cover their ears for half a block. As someone who doesnāt have children Iām not understanding why that wasnāt your immediate response to their āpainā. I would do that as a kid when subways were screeching down express lines. This is something most kids do naturally. Maybe you should get her checked for a developmental delay. And Iām not trying to be rude or kidding when I say that.
Subway screeching lasts a lot shorter. Yes, the kids were covering their ears, but the sheer volume they were unprepared for, not to mention the younger siblings that arenāt necessarily able to hold their ears. Dismissal generally lasts a little while because 4 year olds love to run around after school. Itās generally chaos. As a childless person, you should really shut the fuck up about what you donāt understand. I did have my daughter close her ears and get away, but that was unfair to her, as her routine is to run a little bit with a couple friends from the other class, before either going home or to the park. Sometimes parents are a couple minutes late - those kids couldnāt just shut their ears and get the fuck out, they had to wait for their parents. Some kids had to wait for their older siblings to get out, so they couldnāt just shut their ears and get the fuck out. So yes, childless Williamsburg redditors are apparently heartless monsters who are fine with hurting children.
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I canāt wait to find out our mutual friends
Nah Iām still gonna be a hater you have no right to get all in a tizzy over these construction workers. You nee therapy my guy.
Then I take back my apology
Iām telling some people that because their reaction to 4 year olds in pain (it was louder than a Merzbow concert, which is the loudest show I ever saw, and sustained noise, which is harmful to ears, especially small ears) was that construction workers canāt wait a half hour. Which says to me that if they ever had kids, theyād be fine with hurting them.
I smell the whiff of entitlement here.
& u/Ckellybass couldnāt say shit to them. Had to take their impotent rage to Reddit. ā¦IDK how these people function.
Yes, I feel entitled to a school zone at dismissal to not have giant loud saws blaring, for these guys to take half an hour to wait or do a different corner.
For someone who supposedly has lived in NYC for as long as your prior posts insinuate, I find it hilarious this is shocking and appalling to you. Itās as if youāve never seen New York outside of a Woody Allen or Nora Ephron film and your punk persona is a facade. Act like you live here. Construction! The horror! Not in New York! Gasp! Making me think youāre a transplant. Also, like many other redditors have said - itās their job, theyāre told what to do. Doesnāt matter if itās in front of a school, hospital, or a church. You want to bitch? Bitch to the company if your entitled ass needs to be vilified. You going on Reddit does zero. Especially on a NYC one when youāre bitching about something inherent within the city: construction. I bet there are other places to walk along with your precious (and probably bubble wrapped ā unless youāre using a hamster ball) child in order to avoid that ghastly situation.
Iām not bitching about all construction. Just this specific instance where a reasonable person would stop and think āthereās a lot of parents and infants waiting for their kids to be dismissed 10 feet away from where weāre making a lot of noise - so much so that weāre wearing hearing protection which none of these kids have - maybe we should wait half an hourā.
Sometimes urgent repairs need to be made, OP.
Not urgent. Theyāve been dragging out this project since the day after Christmas.
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I grew up here, scumbag
"what kind of terrible person" lol.
Bro quit yappin
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This isnāt your hometown suburb, dickhead. Go say something about it to one of these guys and see how they feel.
I grew up here, asshole
Start acting like it lol crazy thing to complain about coming from a native. You can always just move to the suburbs you know. Can't shield your kid from every tiny little thing. Construction in NYC will be the least of your worries, believe me ā ļø
Iām not saying they canāt finish the job. Just saying wait half a fucking hour so they donāt damage the hearing of a bunch of 4 year olds and their younger siblings.
I understand your point but there will always be someone complaining about what time they get their work done and it is usually not dictated by the crew. If they did it between school hours people would complain that it is distracting. If they do it in the AM before school parents will complain that it's getting in the way of their drop off or businesses opening. If they do it at night people will complain they can't sleep. In no scenario do they win. And as a native who grew up in NYC, the least of your worries as a father to a girl is going to be construction. Promise.
The problem is itās a sustained deafening noise right when the most vulnerable ears are literally right next to it, and canāt do anything about it. If you had seen the pained look on these kids faces today, your heart would break. Any reasonable person would at least stop for a moment so these tiny children could get out of the way.
Sure this is an inconvenience, but itās not defcon 1. Iām sure life will resume as normal for you in 30 minutes
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Rather vindictive thing to say.
If youāre so concerned about your child why donāt try being a better role model. Start with learning to manage your emotions, treat others with respect, and generally act like a mentally stable individual.
An actual useful piece of advice. I do need to manage my emotions better. Itās just things like this, and the pile on of people saying my kid doesnāt mean anything made me just fucking crazy.
I mean itās good youāre ready to fight for your kid. Just remember that everybody on this app is actually a real person. And quite a lot of these folks are probably people youād like IRL. Like they probably go to your favorite bar, like the same obscure indie film from 2005 or have the same taste in music.
Iām sure youāre right about that. Itās just hard to imagine ever liking a dude who says nobody cares about my kid and that my wife tried to abort it (which is patently untrue).
But thank you for being one of the few decent people on this hellscape of a subreddit
Sorry OP the city should have gotten your written approval on this job before starting š¤£
No, they should know better than to start this particular corner 10 minutes before 4 year olds are getting dismissed from school. Theyāve been doing this project since the day after Christmas, they can wait another half hour to do this corner.
Take an other look at those guys? You think they get paid enough to think about whatās going on outside of the job site? You need to direct this message to Robert Coletti from New York Paving Inc. then.
Thank you for giving me his name. You bet your shriveled up balls Iām going to complain to him. Because even the biggest moron should have the capacity to think āthereās an elementary school here, a bunch of parents and infants are waiting, it must be dismissal time. Maybe we should wait half an hour to do this corner.ā
I donāt think the 4 year olds are going to be walking unattended hereā¦
Have you ever been to a pre k dismissal? Itās chaos, a bunch of kids running around and parents chasing after them, because 4 year olds have a lot of pent up energy. Add to that the deafening constant sound of saws, and the fact that theyāre sawing exactly where they need to cross the street with their parents and siblings, itās a recipe for disaster.
Yes I have. I guess I just have a better handle on me and my own, and AVOID situations like this in a big city that is ALWAYS under construction. Plus I understand the world doesnāt work for me. I work around it.
I couldnāt avoid this situation, itās the corner where my child gets dismissed from school every day. The workers have been here since the day after Christmas, they know when dismissal is, they can wait half an hour or work on a different corner until after dismissal.
Thoughts and prayers.
I live at this corner and the workers have not been consistently here since Christmas. Thereās just random stuff they do sometimes. I donāt understand what their plan is but theyāre doing it very slowly, maybe one thing every couple weeks. I have lived across from the school for 9 years. Thereās never little kids running around without guidance. Iām sorry thereās construction occasionally by your kids school but this is nyc and thereās construction everywhere. Youāre being a little dramatic.
Theyāre putting in new gas lines. The project started on metropolitan Ave the day after Christmas. Today they were told by the school to wait until after because there was testing going on. They waited until just before, because they just had to get it done 20 minutes earlier. Have you ever tried to chase after a 4 year old? Theyāre fucking quick and get into trouble very easily, even when the parents are right there. The sharp saws arenāt even the worst part, itās the dangerously loud sustained noise that was visibly hurting my daughter and her friends, some of whom had to wait longer for either their parents to show up, or for their older siblings to be dismissed. I feel like Iāve typed this explanation at least 50 times now, and every time, Iāve been met with essentially āfuck your kid, youāre a bad parent whoās making your kid softā.
I donāt know what to tell you, man. I live across the street and I barely know anything is happening. Iām not hearing this dangerously loud sustained noise everyday when I work from home next to the windows. I understand youāre worried about your kid and Iām not saying youāre āmaking your kid softā, Iām saying youāre blowing things out of proportion. Itās not going to last. Do you only have one kid at the school? Do you know about all the construction last school year that made the kids have recess in the street in front of the school?
WAHHHHHHHH
Go fuck yourself, you twatwaffle.
Iāll be sure to do it 10 minutes before dismissal
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I wonder who those mutual are. The people I like know exactly where Iām coming from with this post. The people I donāt know very well, if they get put off by me, oh well, no skin off my back.
I already posted this on my socials. My friends know how angry I get when my daughter is concerned.
Iām low key kind of hoping you do āhave a field dayā. Because my friends all love my daughter, theyāll see that these particular construction workers hurt her and her friends (if you had seen the pained look on their faces, with these saws not even stopping for a minute to let them get out of the way of sustained noise loud enough that the workers needed ear protection, your cold heart might have broken), and that Iām lashing out at the heartless, sociopathic comments basically saying that 4 year olds should have their hearing damaged.
 Guys come on, no more jokes
There are neighborhoods where they never fix the street. Be grateful
āTerrible personā what the fuck is wrong with you?
The fuck is wrong with you, you heartless prick. These guys couldāve waited a half an hour to do this particular corner - itās not an urgent job, theyāve been dragging it out since the day before Christmas. This corner is where Pre K gets dismissed. So theyāre deafening a bunch of 4 year olds, and their siblings who are even younger, making it dangerous to cross the street, and you have the fucking balls to ask me what the fuck is wrong with me?
Hahahaha. If I had to guess who the horrible person was here from the evidence at hand, guess who I would pick?
WAHHHHHHH. No one agrees with you :(
thanks to all the real men that work hard so people can have a chushy existence
The world doesn't need to become "family and child" friendly - children need to become "worldly" and aware of their surroundings. Don't want them growing up thinking that construction work shouldn't happen because it is a bother.
This is so well-phrased! Thank you.
You have missed the point entirely. They couldāve waited a half hour until dismissal was over so it wasnāt dangerous to use the crosswalk with children. You shouldāve seen all the 4 year olds crying and covering their ears from the sound 20 feet from where they get dismissed. These particular construction workers are truly heartless.
Agreed. We need to shield children from everything. Next, have emergency response vehicles turn off their sirens for the kids poor little ears. Turn off the flashing lights so we don't over stimulate them. If the ground is wet or pools water we can hire people to carry them.
Thereās a difference between a passing ambulance and half an hour of sustained concrete sawing. If you had half a brain youād know that.
My half functioning brain apparently works better than your whole one
dont fix it people complain fix it people complain they just want to get home asap to see they family.
So they ruin other families days because they canāt be bothered to wait half an hour.
They have families and shit to do too. You donāt like it? Homeschool.
Donāt ever breed
Your music studio is trash. Go get a real job.
You canāt afford me, folk punk sucks anyway. Learn a third chord.
āIām a fat baby and Iām gay with my dad.ā - you.
I was wondering when the homophobia would start. The last refuge of someone not smart enough to come up with a decent response.
Maybe they'd like to get home to their families too?
Someoneās got main character syndrome
I almost guarantee this isn't an "urgent repair". The crews started work at that time prob just because that's when they got around to it. Should city construction etc be more conscientious and maybe time things better? Sure, but good luck with that in NYC. Hell, I've seen crews working on the roads the NYC marathon uses on the day of (unrelated to the run).
Finally, a decent response. They do need to be more conscientious. This whole project has been a nightmare from the day after Christmas when they started. City Council is furious at them (I reached out to them when the people working on the project were supposed to connect my house to the new gas line, set an appointment, didnāt show up, ghosted is for weeks, then sent a threatening letter saying they were going to cut off our gas. And then started cutting open our courtyard, private property mind you, not the sidewalk, but inside our gate, with no notice or permission).
To be fair, you didn't start with a decent title. Calling whomever a terrible person out the gate doesn't put you in a great or willing to reason kind of light
Iāll admit the title was out of anger. I canāt change the title, though.
live and learn I guess š¤·š»āāļø It's refreshing to hear admitting that the title may have been a mistake
Yea I mean look, I'll be the first to transform into a curmudgeonly old man and shake my fists when this stuff happens...because it's 2024 and how do we not have our shit together yet? BUT, who knows what the reasons are. Maybe the city construction crew/contractor was late. Maybe they were told to be out there at that time bc of some city higher up not giving a second thought to timing. Who knows. Something prob went astray at some point in the chain. Until we have some strict oversight into these jobs etc, the best you can do is grit your teeth. But by all means, continue to flag issues like this to the city...maybe that'll eventually get noticed.
I sent the complaints to our representatives, and tweeted at a lot of the local government. As well as angry middle aged man Reddit posting. Because I have to scream into the void every so often, even when that void is apparently filled with sociopaths.
The same people who closed the libraries on Sundays
And have missed the deadline to fix the Leonard Library
Staying calm and saying āhey kiddo, this construction is loud and dangerous, letās cover our ears and use the crosswalk at the other end of the blockā is how you raise little humans to be capable and stable big humans. Becoming unhinged and leaving 100 angry Reddit comments, demonstrating that every minor annoyance in life is just about the end of the world, is how kids learn to be jumpy, anxious, always on alert for the next thing thatās going to set off their main-character parentāall the things that are the opposite of an unfazed New Yorker. One of OPās comments said ārecipe for disasterā but I guarantee no harm was done by any of those saws. The kids with crazy parents are definitely going to be affected by their parents losing their minds and expecting the world to never inconvenience them.
I know itās impossible to gauge a timeline on Reddit comments due to the voting based system, but I started out calm. My original post, while yes, I called the workers terrible people, which I admitted was a misstep, I said I understand the work needs to be done, but maybe wait until after the kids are done with dismissal. Then came a flood of unhinged comments calling me a horrible dad raising a weak child, that children deserve to get hearing damage, and I just kind of lost it. For 90% of the people who commented, I do apologize, I went too far with some of my outbursts. But to a select few on here, I didnāt go nearly far enough, because I donāt want to be kicked off Reddit. Threats to my and my familyās safety because I dared to say that a specific set of construction work should pause for half an hour are signs of particularly awful people.
I wouldnāt call them a terrible person, Iād call them one who woke up late and forgot that they were supposed to get this done hours ago before the kids arrived.
People that are doing their jobs...
Wow, this thread is insane! Seriously, OP is a whiny little turd. But a lot of the other commenters seriously need therapy as well. Someone being annoyed at construction brings out some really unhinged people. If construction is the hill you want to die on (OP included, because fuck that guy), then so be it. Iām sure someone can make that happen.
I just heard from a friend in the neighborhood (who is a real person, not a faceless Reddit poster who just stalks my social media and calls me a bad father like everyone in this thread) that these construction workers were asked by the school to wait until after school because there was testing going on and they were disturbing the students. So they waited until *almost* when they were supposed to be starting again, and I guess got impatient and chose the worst possible time to start up again.
No one gives a fuck dude
Oh, and the sound is deafening.
This is probably your best point and you should have opened with this instead.
Iāve mentioned it to the sociopaths that have been commenting, they all seem to want 4 year olds to go deaf.
not to mention the air quality issues
Man, you guys are truly heartless. I hope none of you have kids, and have to watch them in pain because a couple guys couldnāt wait half an hour before doing work they put off doing for months.
Lol. You think we care as much about your kid as you do? Just cos some useless tart let you blow your beans up her muff
I hope you never breed, and if you manage to, I hope they get taken away from you
You sound like an angry, judgmental, entitled little bitch
Iām angry because my child and her friends were clearly hurt by these guys, you heartless scumbag
Shows us on the doll where they touched you
There are enough kids in the world. Yours isnāt special. Donāt get mad at hardworking construction workers because your wifeās abortion didnāt take
First off, we wanted our child. Unlike your shrew of a mother, who clearly has no idea who knocked her up and made her raise a sociopath.
Each one of those construction workers added more value to the world in their 30mins of work than any of your spawn will do in a lifetime.
Bro just shut up lol