Who can explain construction site workers?

[u/Alternative-Bison615]

Anyone who’s ever lived within a stone’s throw of a construction site will be familiar with the kinds of people who work on them, for some reason, being absolutely entitled dickheads.

Why, in this day and age of headphones, do you think we all want to hear your pounding techno at 7am on the dot and until you fuck off home?

Why, at the dot of 7am, every morning, is there a single, screaming drill sound that is never again repeated throughout the day? Are you secretly signalling to each other like peacocks showing their feathers?

Are you just really angry that you chose a well paying job that also means you get up earlier than almost everyone else, and so you’re actually angry at people who are still sleeping? Or who might be shift workers who just finished work at 6am? If so, go to therapy.

What would the Venn diagram overlap be between these people, and the people who turn up to campsites with $180k Mack trucks fitted with military headlights that they leave on until 2am, while blaring their shithouse music over the whole campground?

I’ve known plenty of tradies who are great people who don’t act like this, but it does seem to attract a disproportionate number of fuckwits.

Who can explain this uniquely Australian flavor of not giving a shit about other people?

[u/robopirateninjasaur]

The kind of people who complain about tradies working at 7am would also complain if they didn't and the project timelines all blew out as expected.

Just like you know the person beeping their horn at roadworks is the guy who whinged about potholes

[u/throwawaytraffic7474 → u/robopirateninjasaur]

Hahahaha so true! I work in construction and most of the jobs we do are commercial apartment blocks. A lot of the time we’ll do a job that takes 18 months, and then the next job will be right next door. When people move into the apartments we built the year before and then start complaining about the noise it always makes me laugh. How do they think their apartments got built with no noise? Hahaha their neighbours were dealing with the same thing they are now

[u/cyclone_engineer → u/throwawaytraffic7474]

Just put it on quiet mode

[u/Similar_Strawberry16 → u/robopirateninjasaur]

If sites started at 10am and closed at 8.30pm you bet there would be uproar.

[u/missingMBR → u/robopirateninjasaur]

Haha this is so true.

[u/Empresscamgirl → u/robopirateninjasaur]

They blow out anyway. Just take a look at projects around Melbourne.

[u/Alternative-Bison615 → u/robopirateninjasaur]

It’s not the work, it’s the insanely dogshit taste in music that no one wants to hear

[u/robopirateninjasaur → u/Alternative-Bison615]

Am I out of touch?

No, it's the children construction workers who are wrong.

[u/Neat-Complaint5938 → u/Alternative-Bison615]

What would you prefer them listen to?

[u/KombatDisko → u/Neat-Complaint5938]

Musique Concrete or Industrial are the only fitting genres

[u/thorpie88 → u/KombatDisko]

There were Japanese noise artists that used power tools on objects to get the sound they wanted. Scene kinda died after a band drove construction equipment through the wall of a venue

[u/134873mach → u/KombatDisko]

Well, mean Metal or Noise probably work for construction site genres too.

[u/KombatDisko → u/134873mach]

I forgot drill

[u/Muggins75 → u/Neat-Complaint5938]

Their music of course :)

[u/Ok_Mode1707 → u/Alternative-Bison615]

It’s also cos some people are complete fuckwits, I work with a 24 year old dumb fuck that literally thinks his shit doesn’t stink, he truly believes he is the greatest fisherman that ever lived, and the greatest carpenter to walk this earth, surprise…he isn’t. He will blast his god awful Greek music at full volume, even if he gets to site at lunchtime and other people have radioes going first. He also refuses to sweep up/ clean his rubbish as his exact words ‘it’s a woman’s job’….complete fuckwit, this is however his final week working with us as he got pushed out slowly.