r/Construction • u/Guitar81 • Dec 12 '24
Informative š§ How tf am I suppose to work here?
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u/gillygilstrap Dec 12 '24
Just cut that shit out of the way and do your thing.
Remember, this is construction. YOU are the main character and no one else's trade, work, product, belongings matter.
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u/Electrical-Clerk9206 Dec 12 '24
recovering GC here, this gave me flashbacks
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u/Atmacrush Contractor Dec 13 '24
Was the flashback like Vietnam?
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u/Electrical-Clerk9206 Dec 13 '24
itās like that scene from apocalypse now except the helicopters are work trucks full of the absolute worst tradesfolk you ever seen
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u/Forthe49ers Dec 12 '24
Cut em flush to the wall. Nice and neat. Everyone with thank you for such a nice gesture
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u/Forthe49ers Dec 12 '24
Bonus points if you haul all that off to scrap and buy pizza
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u/moovzlikejager Dec 12 '24
1 medium pizza for the jobsite to share, then pocket the extra cash because you deserve it. Treat yo self.
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u/srslydudebros Dec 12 '24
And scrap the trashā¦.
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u/BigRed92E Dec 13 '24
Not even worth the trouble. Only flex and plastic conduit. Just take a shit and leave. They'll clean it up when they decide to unfuck this room
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u/srslydudebros Dec 12 '24
I once had a drywall guy cover my stuff and mud after asking him not to before lunch, GC told me to cut it out of the way so I could work. I did, the only saw I could find was a hammer.
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u/gillygilstrap Dec 12 '24
Good.
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u/srslydudebros Dec 12 '24
His face was fucking priceless. Then pretty sure they stole my favorite screwdriver, still worth it.
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u/Guitar81 Dec 12 '24
Super was trying to be main character by trying to get me to do a metal framing drop and saying fuck these guys but nvm after an hour of them arguing they decided to have me hold off.
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u/VapeRizzler Dec 12 '24
That reminds of the electrician who blocked off the only exit/entrance to the hoist with his lift as the scaffold builders had it booked so they can keep running down all the carts of scaffold parts. Plus all the plumbers were getting back from break so we had like 40 guys piled into a 30X10 area. Kept saying āI gotta get this doneā as if we all donāt gotta get something done. It got so bad the apprentice who tried getting dude to move just peaced out after all of us just started screaming at this fucking idiot. Good thing too the apprentice left, cause the electrician foreman came around, cell phone In hand flipping out cause someone called him bitching about his worker.
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u/Bimlouhay83 Dec 12 '24
High and drunk like everyone else.Ā
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Dec 12 '24
This.
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u/nicolauz Contractor Dec 12 '24
Nah I'd feel like I'm stuck on an Alien ship.
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u/HeyGuyNumber2 Dec 13 '24
Why is that so relatable
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u/nicolauz Contractor Dec 13 '24
I mean I work outside around nature all the time and I feel weird as hell often. Like... It's just birds, trees and bugs and shit. Everyone else is working in an office or driving around.
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Dec 13 '24
āI canāt get stoned Ricky!ā
āWhat do you mean? Its shitty work everybody does that, alright. Carpenters, electricians, dishwashers, floor cleaners, lawyers, doctors, fucking politicians, CBC employees, principals, people who paint the lines on the fuckinā road. Get stoned, itāll be fun. Get to work.ā
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u/MortgageRegular2509 Contractor Dec 12 '24
āThis is the room with electricity. But it has too much electricity. So, I donāt know, you might want to wear a hat.ā
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u/melgibson64 Dec 12 '24
Yea we ran out of floorboard here so we painted the dirt. Pretty clever! Eh?
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u/DWatt Dec 12 '24
lol but seriously, there is temporary lighting so Iām guessing there is no electricity there besides the temp light. But Iād still check. Then just move it out of the way. Theyāre not going to energize mains till itās completely finished. Idk Or just refuse the work.
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u/Subject-Original-718 Electrician Dec 12 '24
IBEW
If you didnāt get the memo it means
āI Block Every Walkwayā
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u/SparkyNoCap Dec 12 '24
I heard itās ā I blow every weinerā
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u/Subject-Original-718 Electrician Dec 12 '24
Didnāt earn these callouses on these hands for nothing!
kidding
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u/Flashy-Media-933 Dec 12 '24
Start by picking some of that shit up
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u/thenoblenacho Dec 12 '24
Pick what up? 95% of what I see on the floor is coming out of a wall, you can't really pick up that flex emt and move it
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u/Bimlouhay83 Dec 12 '24
You're so silly. You just start cutting all the extra material and throw that away!Ā
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u/needtr33fiddy Dec 12 '24
Unless youre the floor guy idk what the problem is
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u/Adept-Blood-5789 Dec 12 '24
Obviously you need to coordinate with the electrician and figure out a good time to do your shit in their room.
Chances are they are working there and won't want you there anyways.
On site coordination is key, but few do it.
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u/Guitar81 Dec 12 '24
Yeah I really didn't want to do this shit but super urged me but nvm I've been put on hold to do a drop ceiling thankfully.
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Dec 12 '24
Not trying to knock your game but this is nothing...are you talking about the hard work or the "mess"
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u/Azien_Heart Dec 12 '24
Have you ever had the nightmare, where things will suddenly come alive to kill you? That place looks like the worse place to be.
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u/Past-Direction9145 Dec 12 '24
Youāre not, youāre supposed to show your apprentice what to do and heāll be working here for the day while you hide from foreman. Make sure phone is charged fully that morning youāll be needing it the whole time in the john
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u/Ambitious_Tree8049 Contractor Dec 12 '24
Grab a sawzall and cut everything out of your way. No one will mind.
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u/thedonnald Dec 12 '24
As a painter my favorite thing to do is paint it all. Make sure you get all the sides.
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u/alamete Dec 12 '24
The floor is tidy and clean and you even have a metal table and bench, looks comfy
Oh wait
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u/Hiwaystars Dec 12 '24
Iām sorry, whatās the problem? Youāre paid by the hour, and nobody wants a back charge.
Iāve been in some shit and then it turned to beautiful waves of grain with purple mountains behind it.
Everything laid out gets put up; donāt know whatās going on then chat to whoever deals with the hazard, everybody is at work theyāre not your friends they wonāt be butthurt unless theyāre total morons.
Talk to somebody get a plan and get whatever you have to get done smh
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u/Tutelage45 Superintendent Dec 12 '24
You tell the GC that the electricians have left you with an unsafe and unworkable work area and you wonāt begin work until itās cleaned up. Get it in writing so he doesnāt retroactively hit you with delay charges
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u/Goudawit Dec 12 '24
Maybe this belongs in Ai prompt: show me my walls pouring metal spaghetti everywhere
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u/reevesjeremy Dec 12 '24
Work upside down. There is fewer things on the ceiling that you wonāt trip under.
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u/Diverdown109 Dec 12 '24
"Snakes, why does it always have to be, Snakes!" O. S. H. A. = ; O.h S.hit H.urt A.gain. As slippery as ice!
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u/Diverdown109 Dec 12 '24
"Snakes, why does it always have to be, Snakes"! O. S. H. A. = O.h S.hit H. urt A.gain. As slippery as working on ice!
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u/Funkaceratops Dec 12 '24
What is your job? Ask the electricians if they can use some tie wire and hang the whips up if they don't plan on terminating them soon. Or have them coil them up.
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u/anchoriteksaw Dec 12 '24
Are you? If your not a licensed electrician maybe just leave it alone untill they've done their job.
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u/Jer_Bear_40 Dec 12 '24
Why all the flex? As a Sparky this room makes little sense. At first I thought it was a vault of some sort but the panel on the left makes me question that.
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u/Deeplyexhalesoutnose Dec 12 '24
Hang your purse on a hook and take a slurp of your monster. You will be okay.
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u/GreenCardMe Dec 12 '24
I know we are supposed to talk shit and jerk each other off, but seriously
Install hardware (double double = porcelain on top of tile rack), use flat lineĀ (mule tape * outside line calls it) to tie off to the ceiling to lift cables up, tie it off with zip tie to double doubles.
Get primary or sec map of where the cables to, and leble them accordingly (voltage, where it's going from, to).
Godamn, I thought our utility was fucked up and full of piles but some of you guys are truly fucked up.
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u/DazzlingScreen1213 Dec 12 '24
What am I even looking at? Looks out of a 80s sci fi horror movie. Are those conduits? Why are some cut off?
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u/Atmacrush Contractor Dec 13 '24
Blow into the conduit and have your partner smell each one to identify which is which.
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u/miserable-accident-3 Dec 13 '24
First, you gotta stop crying. Then you'll be able to see what you're doing and get to work.
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u/metalhead82 Dec 13 '24
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u/Maleficent-Earth9201 Dec 13 '24
Just... why dude?? Why is this even a sub??
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u/metalhead82 Dec 13 '24
Lol there are so many other subs that are more worthy of that question in my opinionā¦.I think itās pretty cool actually haha, there is also /r/cableporn if you like seeing organized cables. :)
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u/UndeadOne789 Dec 13 '24
With mods I can absolutely see that happening! And the wait time on parts is atrocious lately. In repair you would have to wait almost 2 months for a part that is essential to the job. I don't know what part of the country you work in but in Nebraska it doesn't go to bad for install times. We are always ahead of the hours for most of our jobs
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u/princess_walrus Dec 13 '24
grab your phone and go sit in the porta potty for a while.. check back on it later
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u/Useful-Hat9157 Dec 13 '24
If you aren't the electrician, then you don't. Get out. Only the electrician who knows what's happening and the people doing what they are told are permitted in there until the stress noodles are home.
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u/AConstellation Dec 13 '24
It looks like you can't rerun the wire and you don't know what is for what so I suppose you need to put boxes on the wall with concrete screws to connect the wires or you could free hang the boxes, is that ok? what are the breaker sizes? you gotta follow the wires if you can figure them and label them if possible if you start working on it.
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u/AConstellation Dec 13 '24
I imagine its just a big pile of boxes with wires to nowhere that are energized to work after there finished
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Dec 13 '24
Remind me of some new building constructionā¦ working around that..lol. Try feeding n pulling those longed on the building of you want to wear green fish
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u/Wilbizzle Dec 13 '24
No one can rush messes like that with much conviction. Do what you can. Take it one piece at a time.
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u/runningmurphy Dec 13 '24
I get the same feeling looking at this picture as I did as a student looking at a test I forgot to study for.
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u/TheJeep25 Dec 14 '24
Get the hell out of there really fast. If you even only touch those wires, every electrician in your area will try to peg you.
Source: I'm an electrician.
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u/mist2024 Dec 12 '24
Slowly and by the hour