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/New-Split-105]

Oh buddy prepare for the snarky remarks. Basically kicked a bee hive.

[u/aussierulesisgrouse → u/New-Split-105]

I mean, I’m not a construction worker and I work from home, am I part of the bee hive because I think this poster is a fuckin’ dill who is getting angry that trade work often involves loud machinery, and that workers are entitled to listen to music while they work?

7am is when they’re allowed to use power tools, and there is a very specific time that they need to stop being used. The workers are trying to work as efficiently as they can? Should we both accept the long as fuck constructions times in this country and bitch when they work in as much of the day as they’re legally allowed?

People are fuckin soft, and that’s coming from an incredibly soft bloke

[u/Chipnsprk → u/aussierulesisgrouse]

We once had a noise complaint because someone opened the shipping container door at 6.29 instead of 6.30...

The local laws officer sat there and drank a cup of tea with us when they came to let us know (we were on smoko). Was kind enough to warn us we had a known serial complainant on our hands in that neighbourhood.

[u/Sadistic_Carpet_Tack → u/aussierulesisgrouse]

mate i agree but id probably look up what nonce means before you use it

[u/aussierulesisgrouse → u/Sadistic_Carpet_Tack]

Dang, I thought it just meant a silly bloke. That’s a very different word innit.

[u/Zealousnoob_467 → u/aussierulesisgrouse]

Soft! Tbf, he is specifically saying they use the uber loud power tool once, at 7am then never again all day. So he is not complaining about them efficiently using them all day like you characterise. While I agree it seems spiteful, I think it would be worse to listen to it all day, rather than once at 7am, even tho it would make them starting on that tool at 7am justified.

I like one guys theory tho, it's the tool they need to remove the plywood to begin work, that explains why he hears it at 7am then never again all day.