No Crying In Construction

rbsremodeling

I am so ashamed to post this. I hired a new laborer. He has worked for a week and a half and today is the first time that I have been around him. I get to the job and he is whining and complaining about everything the whole time. I could not take it anymore so I go at him.

Be a man,suck it up!

where you once a girl???

Are you on your period???

Do I need to get you a R&B Skirt as part of your uniform??

Does your Dad still consider you a boy or a girl??

And all of a sudden he starts to cry, for like 5 minutes. My guys are cracking up at him and he really starts to wail.

I was so embarrassed. What is this world coming to. I got called every name in the book and every joke pulled on me when I started out. How have we got to the point of grown men crying???

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thom

always have your checkbook handy

always be ready and able to write a bye bye check.

It's not your job to fix the world, only to run your company.

Mud Master

It all starts with the parents. Mom's imparticular, & more fathers being "suits". Men of the older days in general did more physical labor & in turn were tough, & made thier sons do the same.

Today, alot of men have never even gotten dirt under thier fingernails, much less spent 8 hours hanging sheetrock, or pouring concrete. Meanwhile, the mothers are bringing the kids thier food in thier rooms so they don't have to get off the computer or stop playing games. They become so caught up in that, they never attempt to try any physical activity, and dad's not going to make him or encourage him to because he has work, and mom is too afraid he will get hurt. The children are then brought up not doing physical labor, being coddled, and never experienced a rough atmosphere that one would get in either a labor setting, or in the locker room. They have never experienced any confrontation, or even heavy horse play.

So when they spend thier entire life getting 15 kisses a day from mom, being tucked in @ 15, and having thier game/computer chair superglued to thier ass they are developed to be weak, non-confrontational & overly-emotional. Than when they become surrounded by it, they don't know what to do but "be emotional"..the way they were brought up.

JMO

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Double-A

Maybe he was hoping you were going to ask him to the Freshman Prom

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genecarp

omg, thats one weird jobsite, tommorrow bring milk and cookies

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dkillianjr

Yup, couldn't have said it better my self!


Dave

mickeyco

The story made me cry.

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mikec

I had a kid last fall who came in one morning all misty eyed. When I asked him what his f*&%ing problem was, he said that on his way to work he saw a fawn get hit by a car! What a fag. Two days later he checks his phone at lunch, annd comes to me crying again. His ex girlfiend(who he was pretty much stalking) had her mother call and leave him a message to stay away from the girl. He crys to me and says he just needs to go home and be alone. LOL. Well after that incident he had all day everyday to be alone.
I'll tell you good help is hard to find. When I worked for my former boss, I worked hard, just like i do now. I just need one or two more of me and I'd be sitting pretty. I had a great kid start with me in march. The kid worked hard learned fast, and could take his balls being broke. But the Air Force reserves decided to deploy him. He left on Tuesday. This kid asked if he could he could come back to work for me when he returned, I told him he will always have a job with me.

john5mt

WOW , i didn't think the gene pool was getting this bad. Too bad natural selection doesn't rule humans like the animal kingdom. All these woosies and the morons wouldn't survive.

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cmansmith

Once I watched a guy nailing headers together on a set of saw horses. For some reason, not known to me the guy decided to set the header on edge and nail towards himself. So he started nailing from the top, bam, bam, ahhh... The gun had caught the edge of the header and fired a nail right thru his pecker. Thats the only time I have ever seen a grown man cry on the job site. His girlfriend came to pick him up and we never saw him again.

excellencee

We had a kid (20-21?) on the job once. The GC rode him a little, not more than any of his other employees or subs. The kid claimed to be golden gloves. His mommy had to stop the car on the way home because he was crying so hard because he was being treated so poorly on the job. He just had to quit his job because conditions were so bad. Right before he quit, his mother called him off because his dad was in a bad accident on his way to work. My daughter was dating this kids brother, so I called out of concern. Turns out he slept in so he could go to the prom with his 15 year old girfriend that night. Turns out he didn't have enough balls to ask for the day off. The future of our industry and our country?

Jason Whipple

Kids these days are super sensitive! It seems like about 10 out of 100 will try out the trades and only 1 of them can pass the tuff test.

When your getting started in this field you need two things, a strong back and thick skin. If you lack either one, don't come asking me for a job!

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Mike Finley

Wow dude, you've got balls. I like it, but I'd never have the nerve to roll the dice like that and say that stuff.

Any grown man that would cry on the jobsite I would be nervous about. He isn't your average guy. No telling what he might be capable of.

billy d

Well guys I've thought a lot about this subject,(and that's an experience) it's not just the USA.I've only one thing to say Mud Master is 100% RIGHT.

Magnettica

What a homo.

When I was in the service, and was about to ship out to Saudi Arabia at the age of 20, I was told all I needed to have was a strong back and a weak mind. I definitely had both, lol. My father used to kick my a$$ when I screwed up as a teenager which was often. I suppose that helped to be tough later on in life. Today you'd get arrested for doing crap like that.

I have an 18 year-old helping me on a job next week, a renovation on a shore house in Sea Bright. First job I'm gonna ask him to do is to crawl down in a crawl space to check and see if the water main is grounded properly. Actually, i'm gonna have him snap a picture for me cus he'll have no idea if it's done correctly.

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wallmaxx

Bring Back Natural Selection. Let the weak die by the wayside.

JMHO...I could be wrong.

BKFranks

WTF? That is pathetic!





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Heritage

He's probably at home right now sticking needles into a doll with your name on it.

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rbsremodeling

I just can't understand how a grown man would cry infront of other guys just by getting teased.

Hell my guys go at me if no one is around atleast 2-3 times a week

I was so embarassed I walked off.

Knowing my guys after I started them up, he probably quit. I'll be back out to the site on monday to see if he shows up.

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AtlanticWBConst

Had a worker (more or less a laborer) about 2 years ago. Recovering Drug addict with 3 years clean & sober under his belt. About 6'-0" and 100 pounds of mama's boy.
Good kid, but about as tough as a bag of feathers.

One day, he's calls me, from a job site. Says he cut himself pretty bad. Not life-threatening, just a bad cut. He's talking to me on the phone, asks if it's ok that he left, because of the cut. Then tells me it really hurts.
Then starts to tell me that he's actually crying at the moment. I said: "PLEASE don't tell me that !... I don't want to hear .....that !!....You're joking...right? Nope, really crying....OMG...

Before all that, I used to tell him: "Toughen up, one day, your parents are going to come to me and thank me for making a man out of their daughter" (he'd laugh about that)...of course that never happened...
He ended up getting arrested in one of our company trucks about 4 months after that crying episode...you guessed it, back on the drugs...

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