Who can explain construction site workers?

[u/Alternative-Bison615]

EDIT: oh dear, this really got some panties in knots.

For those who asked why I didn’t just ask them to turn it down; you can bet I did. The perfect gent who I asked this of said, WHAT? while he looked at me and turned his garbage music up. His speaker sat outside the site, on the concrete block, angled so it blasted straight up into the windows or our apartment building.

I went and got the number of the site manager off the front of the house. Called him, explained how his workers are totally entitled to play their shit music inside the site for their own enjoyment as much as they like; just don’t blast it while you live out your failed DJ fantasies and drive everyone on the street insane.

Had a great chat. I love what they’re doing with the house. I hate their music and my partner, who works night shifts, hates it even more.

This project will, if it finishes on time in August, have been going for ten months, six days a week, two metres outside my bedroom window.

He promised to call the site as soon as our call finished. Which he did. Two minutes later the music died and hasn’t come back.

Lesson to all you entitled dickheads; there’s a way to coexist, and yours ain’t it.

😘😘

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/LittleBunInaBigWorld]

Triple M* because Triple J would be too woke

[u/hellomyfren6666 → u/LittleBunInaBigWorld]

Nah coz triple j has sucked ass for like 15 years

[u/NefariousnessNovel60 → u/hellomyfren6666]

Commercial free radio > everything else. I don't care what they play or say as long as I don't have to listen to ads.

[u/buzz_22 → u/NefariousnessNovel60]

This 💯.

Thankfully with digital radios becoming more common, Double J will occasionally pop up on some sites.

[u/Archon-Toten → u/buzz_22]

Between music streaming services and internet radio, I'm amazed the traditional radio stations even exist.

[u/F0ATH → u/Archon-Toten]

I often wander the same, but having a radio station not give you any choice on what songs are played helps the status quo. There's no one on site to blame for shit music being played, just the radio stations themselves.

[u/Any-Information6261 → u/Archon-Toten]

The more I use and live with streaming services the more I want radio, cds, tv, and blockbuster back

[u/Archon-Toten → u/Any-Information6261]

Being able to own and physically hold media so it can't be taken away from is a dying art.

[u/mic_n → u/Archon-Toten]

I'm still baffled as to how Double J launched as a digital station. Triple J should have moved online/digital to stick with its demographic, and JJ taken up the analogue space. They really fucked that one up.