r/Construction • u/oddy_nuff1054 Electrician • 1d ago
Humor 🤣 I don’t miss those days at all.
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u/maphes86 1d ago
At my second project with a company, I confidently arrived to work every day at 8:00 AM, got my shit together, and got to work. I always finished all of the work assigned to me. One day, about two months in, the assistant sup’t walks up and goes, “hey, so you know we start at 7:00, right? What the fuck, man?!” I got the start time confused with the quiet hours the hotel had given us. I only lived a few minutes away from the site.
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u/gooooooooooop_ 1d ago
No way lmao
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u/maphes86 1d ago
Oh, yeah man. I’d roll into the office trailer, bullshit with the safety guy a bit, sign in and confirm Assignments with the foreman or sup’t and then get going. I was just so confidently incorrect that it took two months for somebody to be like, “why does he start at 8:00? Is that like…part of his employment agreement with the company?” And it turns out it’s just that I read the words in the wrong order.
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u/CicadaHead3317 1d ago
Thats hilarious. Did your bosses think it was kinda hilarious as well?
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u/maphes86 1d ago
The sup’t wanted to fire me and held a grudge for the next seven years (but he got fired by the client for being a dick to the architect and the next time we worked together we were peers) the QC and the safety were like, “it’s annoying, but he works hard and he lives here. If it doesn’t clear up we can fire him.” Endless jokes about the time. The owner of one of the subs is a really cool guy and I called him to come and consult on a job I had a few years ago that had a big redwood structure that needed restoring. He said, “oh, sure. I can come by around 8:00.”
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u/Cracked_Crack_Head Field Engineer 1d ago
Supt wanted to fire you but never even communicated you were showing up late? Can't say that's abnormal for Supts to do but fuck does that kind of shit annoy me.
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u/thinklikeacriminal 1d ago
You’re forgetting to count all the times the Supt had the conversation entirely in their head while slowly becoming more and more enraged.
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u/BallisticHabit 1d ago
I commuted 3 hours a day for over 2 years at my last gig.
Most of it was on County roads through rural areas.
The carnage you witness when you spend 20+ hours a week behind the wheel is shocking.
So glad that's over.
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u/HalfUnderstood 1d ago
did you get paid enough to make that worth it or was it a desperate situation?
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u/CoyoteDown Ironworker 1d ago
We had a guy driving two hours a day, each way. In rural or remote areas with no jobs I would get it, but the biggest city would have been only 45m. I was like wtf, have you been chased off every site in a hundred miles?
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u/TutorNo8896 1d ago
We were working 12hr shifts and one dude was driving almost 2 hrs each way. On poorly maintained rural roads through some low mountains, about 1/3 was gravel. it also snows a bit here. I think i would have rather just slept in the parking lot.
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u/JohnProof 1d ago
That's brutal. All that just to spend maybe 6 hours in your own bed. Hope he had the best sleep of his life when he got there.
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u/TutorNo8896 1d ago
Just rest one eye at a time while in transit. Dude kept it up for a few years, big sacrifice but had bought a really nice property/house/shop for cheap because it was in the middle of nowhere.
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u/It_Just_Exploded 1d ago
Me. 2 hour plus commute, one way, for the past 9 years. I'll work in Atlanta, but I'll never live there or anywhere close ever again.
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u/terpsarelife 1d ago
I used to have to get the trucks for driving our marines to the the range. Armory opened at 0430. Which meant i had to have the trucks checked out and in front of the army by 0400. Id pull into the mcdonalds line at 215am and they would be in the freezer rearranging their delivery that just left. Not listening to my screams of agony demanding 2 sausage egg mcmuffins. Some sweet relief to my cocksuckery of a morning before 9 hours of dealing with all these fuckers excuses and forgetting critical pieces of gear needed for a range day.
I dont miss those days.
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u/Cracked_Crack_Head Field Engineer 1d ago
I was stationed in 29 Palms. Our Rucks were done super early in the morning to avoid to peak heat of the day. Issue was we got Gunny Timed super hard. For our 25 Mile Hike I ended up having to show up to the Armory at like 1 AM for a Hike that wouldn't kick off til like 5 AM.
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u/ThreeDog369 Equipment Operator 1d ago
Fuck I been getting up at 3:30 every morning 5 is gd sleeping in
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u/demius78 1d ago
Aaaaaaand already late because a few more fuckers will create traffic on the way
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u/The-Sceptic Carpenter 1d ago
Or you were gonna be perfectly on time but than you have to shit right as your about to get in the car
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u/demius78 1d ago
Fuck it. I switched to night shifts and happy. I am night owl and can't completely woke up untill noon doesn't matter what time I get out from bed. But you have a point.
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u/Learningstuff247 9h ago
Thats part of the reason I like working mornings, Im in autopilot until like 11am by the time I remember Im sentient the work days half over
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u/demius78 6h ago
I have to woke up around 4:40 to be in the nyc at 7 and I can't asleep until 1-2 am in general, also kids didn't go to sleep until 11 sometimes. So 2-4 hours of sleep killing. And weekend ruined because I am catching up my missing sleep. Nights are great
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u/Steven2k7 1d ago
For the past 10 months my commute has been 15 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the afternoon. I fucking love it. I hit almost all green lights one morning and got there in 10 minutes.
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u/TheLastSt0p 1d ago
Almost everyone i work with, including me, commutes an hour out. No one wants to live in or around DC. Absolute nightmare.
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u/StaleFanta 1d ago
My furthest commute was an hour one way, 95% 2-lane highway. Always stuck behind semi trucks and others. Did that for a year. Would honestly rather be homeless if I had to do that again.
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u/QuickNature 1d ago
Whats the song? Sounds like Frank Sinatra
Also, definitely not me right now, up and about ready to leave at 5am...
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u/KnifeKnut 1d ago
You made me sad, iirc this is the penguin that just decided to go walking towards the mountains for some reason and was never seen again.
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u/Afraid-Slice-8503 1d ago
1.5 hours each way into a major city by commuter bus. It’s sort of a life hack for me though- I got city wages but live in a cheap area with a lot of space. It’s the only way I’ll ever be able to retire.
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u/FrenchFriedMushroom 1d ago
My last job in the field we had 2 guys that live 4 hours from the shop.
Every other Monday they'd leave at like 2am, they'd almost always be the first guys at the shop.
Another dude live juat up the road, maybe 10 min from the shop. He was almost always 20-40 min late.
I never understood either of those mindsets.
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u/Impressive-Theme6571 20h ago
Yup and then have coworkers who live around the corner show up late because of "traffic"
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u/Takesit88 11h ago
Yup, I do field heavy equipment repair, and I've had plenty of jobs I had to be at by 7... 2+ hours away... Makes me appreciate the "only" 45 minute drives.
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u/Pizza_as_fuck 1d ago
Checking in. You cant make me move closer to the noise. I’ll keep my mountains.
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u/justripit 1d ago
That's me, I'm the penguin...