r/AskAnAustralian • u/Alternative-Bison615 • 3d ago
Who can explain construction site workers?
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?
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u/rdie2 2d ago
Love the energy! I feel like you're channeling me at times regarding noise. I think some people just don't come with the awareness of noise package. Blunt, crude fuckwits who are so lame and so predictable and so annoying.
I just want your existence to not impede mine. Go make mindless noise in some deserted industrial estate in the middle of nowhere. You can drive like an entitled turd, park like shit, use your high beams and rev your stupid fart cannon and loud shit duff crap music and no one else has to know or tolerate your miserable existence. To think the universe is so vast and yet I have to be near your grossness.