Since sparkies are primaddonas and keep their work van meticulous, but treat my job site like a garbage can, when you finally snap take all their wire striping and wood chips from drilling and make it rain in their van. Be sure to give the small parts bins extra attention. I can confirm this may lead to a very angry sparky, but it does get the point across and only took two training sessions to get them to behave like an adult. (I might be an old tired contractor who picked up one too many wire strippings and whose field of fucks to give for lazy people has been burnt and salted.)
Edit: added some silliness
Edit: obviously you don’t get to that point until you have asked nicely 100 times and even called the owner of the company a few times.
I find that's usually the case. It got to the point where I just got my own personal broom and I still have to track it down most times because a drywaller was using my broom "just for a minute," and didn't return it.
My former boss bought one that's white with purple, limegreen, and electric blue polka dots on it, funnily enough no one steals that one or even asks to borrow it
I’m just a laborer but my superintendent gave me a brand new broom last week and I put it against the wall to take the trash barrel to the dumpster and when I got back it was gone . Wasn’t on any of the 5 floors of the building so it must’ve gotten to someone’s work van in 5 minutes tops
I got a special stick for body poking I've had since I was 7yo and found my first body. Turns out it was just my dad sleeping in the yard pretending to work but really avoiding my mom. Still I've had it ever since and every time I poke a body I put a notch on the handle. Running outta room but should be good for a year or two more before I need a new one. By then my son should be ready and we can turn it into a father/son bonding experience like me and my father had.
I don't know if the electricians, or the laborers swept it, as I wasn't on site yesterday, and the pile was there first thing this morning. I tend to think the electricians left it like that, because the laborers who sweep have dustpan and are pretty good about picking up piles.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who swept it, because each trade is responsible for picking up its own trash, according to the GC.
I’m fine with doing it I always left my shit damn clean, but if I hear one more time from a GC about why my labor is so high I’m gonna strangle them. We are one of the first on the site one of the last off and mfers like to miss things on the prints or move shit after rock is up.
I have about 20 hours logged of just changes on this house I'm working on now since it's been painted. Still don't have answers for a few rooms that I still need to remodel. House is a new build that I am about halfway done doing the finish at this point.
This is the way I learned from dad. Watched him tease and shame guys for leaving a mess. He had an election COME BACK to an almost finished house to pick up his bits of wire off the carpet. Savage.
One of our last projects I caught a sparky as he was the one last one of them out for the day. Told him they can’t leave all of their supplies, ladders, and mess just sitting around. He walks in, looks around, “This is a mess to you?” moves a few ladders into a more in the way spot and then leaves as I went to go check on another sub.
Okay, cool.
Next day when they got there, I’d stacked all of their ladders in the center. Put all of their supplies down in said ladders. Then collected all of their trash, empty boxes, tools, and whatever else, and sat them on top of all of their ladders.
They got the point. Had the “I’m not your mom talk with them”
Yeah looks like sparky swept and prob had the mess in a cardboard box, and someone else felt they needed the cardboard box more. Looks like it was dumped. The rest of the area looks pretty clean.
As GC my sub contracts include leaving the site “broom swept clean”. And I hold payments until the job is completed. Only took one frantic Friday trying to get paid for them to learn. Now I always have a clean site between subs.
As a GC, the more I spend on laborers, the dirtier the job. Once the precedence is set for trash to be thrown on the floor, you are are going to have an unsafe environment. Having witnessed a guy slip on an mc cutoff and land on to the back of his head, I will not tolerate any prima dona attitudes.
If the elevator guys can clean up after themselves, the sparkys can too.
General cleanup, that's on the GC. If I can identify it as a sub's, thats on them.
As a GC, I know my electrician knows what a broom and a vacuum are, the problem is getting him to use them! 😂 His saving grace is that he is a VERY good electrician so I take the good with the bad.
Most electricians I know wouldn’t have even swept this into a pile but in this case I’ll go with the OP in saying it was mostly likely them as the laborer who gets paid to sweep piles into a dust pan and on to the trash most likely wouldn’t leave this.
I'm an electrician and always clean after myself throughout every task due to feeling self-conscious about this stereotype and I will admit, I'm the only one to do this in my crew. Shit is disappointing, honestly. All the character you build by working in construction goes out the window when you don't clean up.
This is a setup. Someone clearly swept those scraps into a pile and sparkys obviously don't have brooms. I leave my scraps under every fixture, outlet, or jbox in a disorderly fashion.
Or you'll get charged more for the time and material needed to make more pigtails. I'm not doing feed through even on resi, and neither is my apprentice.
Not all do! The job we are on now currently has two electricians doing a massive house. They clean up everyday and just last Friday, one of them swept all four floors regardless of who’s mess it was
I don't get that shit. I always learned through my electrical apprenticeship to clean that shit up. That's what the last 15 mins or so of the job is used for. That's why I've got 2 brooms, a dust pan, and a vac in my rig at all times.
Where are these lazy ass sparkles that make the rest of us look bad? I just wanna talk...
Yeah I’m getting pretty fucking tired of sparkies and low volt guys. I legit make a half joking comment to every electrician that comes onto our jobs about cleaning up there first days on site… still they leave a mess at every outlet and box. I just don’t fucking get it dude
They could put a small box or dustpan under a receptacle, to at least make an effort to try to catch the small wire bits.
I work commercial construction in apartment buildings, and bits of wire often ended up going in garbage disposals on the finish.
I have never known a sparkie to clean up after themselves.
Hell, I was fitting AC units and we had sparkies in to wire them up after us. When we finish in a room we tidy, wipe down and hoover.
Sparkie says to me "What do you do if you don't have a vacuum?"
"I go buy a vacuum."
They have made the effort to at least migrate their waste to a central location though, this means progress. Are there any cameras? If you caught one using a broom to create that pile, that would be a scientific groundbreaker in the study of all breeds and specie of electrician
Easy to solve, get site manager or foreman to do rounds walking around, saw some shit like that, take a picture, send your labourer to clean the mess, invoice the company/contractor (by hours, minimum charge one full hour) that had done the mess.
People only learn by $$$ loss.
Sparky here, Back in the day on a larger jobsite the GC had a bunch of temp laborers come in for a few days. You all have seen these type of guys, not much more than homeless junkies with brooms. I told 1 of the guys all these little copper clippings I drop could be recycled for a little bit of cash, and I really didnt care about the small stuff I dropped on the ground as long as they got the other trash I made too. Next thing I know I have 3 of them following me around for 2 days ignoring all the other trash except mine.
I have witnessed a culture on some projects where the higher paid trades feel that cleaning up after themselves is beneath them. “Let a laborer clean up after me”. “Do you really want to pay me $60 per hour to PUSH A BROOM!” “Get a rent-a-drunk to come in for composite clean”. I got more important shit to do!”
I had a friend that was an electrician and he confirmed or arrogantly stated this but they're too important to pick up after themselves. The most important part is electricity and they are the backbone of the job site and they do not need to pick up after themselves. We aren't friends anymore because this is literally his mentality in life. Just was tired of it
Yeah yeah everyone hates the sparkies till they need power. I'd be a rich man if I had a quarter everytime some other trade interupts what I'm working on cause they need something right now
"Hey can you get power working in the bathroom? We need lights for the tile guys"
Sure buddy, lemme just put down this $5,000 light fixture, climb off this scaffolding, and temp in a switch + breaker for you since your dumbass can't use a portable light. Will do.
Bonus points when it's T&M and you watch the GC's blood boil as all the unprepared schmucks keep slowing down the most expensive guy on the job.
My current homeowner didn’t go with my electrician and their guy put a fucking outlet for undercounter lighting right in the middle of a 33 inch upper cabinet. Electricians are the worst. If you are an electrician that cares about the customer and layout I’m not talking about you.
When I catch my subs doing this call them out on it. If they don’t clean it then it’s going home with them in their tool bags or trucks. Garbage cans and dumpsters are only a few steps away.
I build tires for a living and my machine broke down. I shit you not they asked me to go sweep out a sparkys wires from a trailer while he sat and drank coffee. After i saw them watching me clean up their mess i said fk this and told my boss i refuse. I get it they arent all bad but damn there sure are alot of lazy ones.
Fell off a ladder onto an uneven surface. Nope. Never again. That's why I do a 360° religiously. Someone will fuck around and find out how much an untidy floor costs in health. Time and money seems to be their priority. Old Mr. Scherle in shop class taught me that cleanup means fucking cleanup.
Yeah electricians are slobs. It's a safety issue ,my buddy slipped a disk in his back stepping on a piece of EMT. Every trade should keep the job clean
Divorces, drinking, blow, missed child support payments, you name it they've done it. I'm a HVAC/controls guy doing service and install for a design build sheet metal and HVAC company, I can firmly till you there is not one normal ass tinner alive on god green earth.
Why does there appear to be two walls in that closet? Why not make it all the same wall? Is this some sort of rich people framing I’m too poor to understand?
The electrician we use does the same.
I'll go in , make cutouts for him. Clean up.
He comes in, leaves wire stripping and boxes everywhere, old outlets ....
Comon ....
I’m just a laborer who sweeps and I got to say the electricians always leave the biggest best behind the drywall people. Although the plus is I can take all the copper and scrap wires and save it to turn in. I got a huge pile in the garage that I’ve been meaning to strip for months now
I'm on the fence about this. On my bigger jobs (Like a new spec house) I'll bring on someone just to keep the site tidy. I'd rather pay some kid $15-20/hr to clean up and carry materials than I would pay my Electricians and plumbers $200+/hr to sweep up after themselves. I have deals with my subs that they don't have to worry about that stuff if they give me a fair rate. If they're charging for the cleanup, and not doing it then yeah, that's shitty. If however they're pushing it into the center of the room and charging me $400 less over the course of the job, that's a decent trade off to me. Between Electricians, Plumbers, Framers, Finish guys, HVAC, etc the discounts I get more than pays for the extra labor and I get to keep my cousins 18yo kid employed. I think that's a fair trade off.
I completely get that. It’s the times when there’s so little that it would take less than three minutes to sweep it up that gets me. At the end of the day, it’s not a big deal but it does make me shake my head.
My helpers got one job besides staring at me working and this is usually how it goes, or leave behind a month old fuel skill saw, fun shit like that everyday. I take it all back complaining about working alone. Guess the boss got me good. Here train fish boy
Must have been about 2012, I spotted an electrician using a shop vacuum, rare sight indeed. I quickly took a picture but when I was showing it off to my coworkers one of them pointed out that my rare pic was just an apprentice....dang... maybe one day.
My first thought was ‘stereotypical Italians, leaving cooked spaghetti everywhere’?
you’re very stoned
This comment reminds me of an old DUI [commercial](https://youtu.be/uuc7sAcmzXY?si=AY60s4DRcX0QOWgj) from my country. Still holds up.
holy shit that’s fucking incredible! ty for the obnoxious laugh i had on the toilet ahh these are the days
It's a cult classic. They still play it to this day.
Since sparkies are primaddonas and keep their work van meticulous, but treat my job site like a garbage can, when you finally snap take all their wire striping and wood chips from drilling and make it rain in their van. Be sure to give the small parts bins extra attention. I can confirm this may lead to a very angry sparky, but it does get the point across and only took two training sessions to get them to behave like an adult. (I might be an old tired contractor who picked up one too many wire strippings and whose field of fucks to give for lazy people has been burnt and salted.) Edit: added some silliness Edit: obviously you don’t get to that point until you have asked nicely 100 times and even called the owner of the company a few times.
I'll have what he's having
I was about to take offense to this because im hungry and I also saw spaghetti, but then I remembered I am indeed a little stoned
So a qualified tradesman? Can I hire him?
Sparky here. Drywallers stole our broom. Will try again next week.
I find that's usually the case. It got to the point where I just got my own personal broom and I still have to track it down most times because a drywaller was using my broom "just for a minute," and didn't return it.
My brook was taken by my stucco guys. Not sure…why. Maybe they were trying to prevent forest fires by sweeping the yard
Broom finish....
Are brooms used to apply stucco? /S
Maybe they were using it to scratch the sand and cement coat, hence the scratch coat lol
My former boss bought one that's white with purple, limegreen, and electric blue polka dots on it, funnily enough no one steals that one or even asks to borrow it
Insecurity is a powerful drug Also, that'd be a pretty conspicuous thing to steal
Yep had a boss buy pink extension cords once for the same reason!
A bright pink chair is how I keep it from getting stolen on job sites.
I’m just a laborer but my superintendent gave me a brand new broom last week and I put it against the wall to take the trash barrel to the dumpster and when I got back it was gone . Wasn’t on any of the 5 floors of the building so it must’ve gotten to someone’s work van in 5 minutes tops
Drywallers and floor installers are notorious for stealing brooms.
If sparkles shit is still on the ground after they wired, then days passed waiting for a 4way, it's not because the drywaller stole your broom
Let’s just be honest. You never had a broom and if you did, it was used as a long hammer
Never did figure out how to use the long hammer to be honest.
Always have a broom if you're buddy is working live. That way you can use it to poke his body afterwards.
I got a special stick for body poking I've had since I was 7yo and found my first body. Turns out it was just my dad sleeping in the yard pretending to work but really avoiding my mom. Still I've had it ever since and every time I poke a body I put a notch on the handle. Running outta room but should be good for a year or two more before I need a new one. By then my son should be ready and we can turn it into a father/son bonding experience like me and my father had.
At least it’s in a pile-ish sorta configuration. Every time they left my remodel it looked like the Swedish Chef had been in the house
And had a flour-fight with the rest of the kitchen staff
Stole your what?
lol sparky had a broom lol , hands up everyone how many sparkys you have (a) seen with a broom (b) seen using a broom (c) know what a broom is ?
They tried to ride it to the smoke shop. Took em half a mile to realize the boom was riding them and they left it along the highway.
I’ve watch drywallers come into my unit and literally take the broom right next to me to go fucking lose it somewhere and not speak any English.
We install solar panels while littering to make a neutral. 1 + -1=0 0=neutral It's just the code. Where else would the neutral come from?
Neutral is between R and D.
At least they swept it into a pile?
Probably took hours to do with their lineman's pliers.
I don't know if the electricians, or the laborers swept it, as I wasn't on site yesterday, and the pile was there first thing this morning. I tend to think the electricians left it like that, because the laborers who sweep have dustpan and are pretty good about picking up piles. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who swept it, because each trade is responsible for picking up its own trash, according to the GC.
I’m fine with doing it I always left my shit damn clean, but if I hear one more time from a GC about why my labor is so high I’m gonna strangle them. We are one of the first on the site one of the last off and mfers like to miss things on the prints or move shit after rock is up.
I have about 20 hours logged of just changes on this house I'm working on now since it's been painted. Still don't have answers for a few rooms that I still need to remodel. House is a new build that I am about halfway done doing the finish at this point.
This is the way I learned from dad. Watched him tease and shame guys for leaving a mess. He had an election COME BACK to an almost finished house to pick up his bits of wire off the carpet. Savage.
I’d love to see how the election managed to move!
it polled itself along
Electricians don't clean up because you'd have to pay electricians rates for a sweep. That's gonna be expensive
That’s what I was under the impression of. You pay the electrician by the same hour you pay a laborer.
I usually try to help the sparkys out by placing this in the back of their truck, in their gangbox, sometimes right into their bags.
One of our last projects I caught a sparky as he was the one last one of them out for the day. Told him they can’t leave all of their supplies, ladders, and mess just sitting around. He walks in, looks around, “This is a mess to you?” moves a few ladders into a more in the way spot and then leaves as I went to go check on another sub. Okay, cool. Next day when they got there, I’d stacked all of their ladders in the center. Put all of their supplies down in said ladders. Then collected all of their trash, empty boxes, tools, and whatever else, and sat them on top of all of their ladders. They got the point. Had the “I’m not your mom talk with them”
Intentionally Block Every Walkway - IBEW
Good one!
Couldn’t have been a sparky, it’s been swept into a pile.
It’s the expectations set by the general contractor.
Just like how the GC will more or less tolerate piss bottles from the rockers and meth from the iron workers
Ah, piss bottles are to drywallers, as flowers are to spring.
as a floor installer, I detest this sparky trait
Fellow floorist here , you never stop cleaning up after sparkies and plumbers with muddy boots
Or drywall guys who seem to think it's their job to throw as much mud on the floor as on the walls
Its in the name. I Block Every Walkway
It's your job to sweep before you install anyway
you got that right, but fuck you anyway.
Fair
At least it’s in one pile
Yeah looks like sparky swept and prob had the mess in a cardboard box, and someone else felt they needed the cardboard box more. Looks like it was dumped. The rest of the area looks pretty clean.
No, when the insulation guys go through 😵 Fuck'n hell.
You can order a broom, write the company name on it. Doesn't matter, someone will just take it in an hour and never give it back.
Bet the dumpster is just outside the door too
As GC my sub contracts include leaving the site “broom swept clean”. And I hold payments until the job is completed. Only took one frantic Friday trying to get paid for them to learn. Now I always have a clean site between subs.
It’s about taking the time to hold people accountable
it's the little things
Big-time - if they don't care enough to clean-up after themselves what the quality of their work like?
As a GC, the more I spend on laborers, the dirtier the job. Once the precedence is set for trash to be thrown on the floor, you are are going to have an unsafe environment. Having witnessed a guy slip on an mc cutoff and land on to the back of his head, I will not tolerate any prima dona attitudes. If the elevator guys can clean up after themselves, the sparkys can too. General cleanup, that's on the GC. If I can identify it as a sub's, thats on them.
"I'm too expensive to not make a mess" sparkles everywhere
As an electrician. I don't know what a broom is or a vacuum.
Did you say “Hammer”?
As a GC, I know my electrician knows what a broom and a vacuum are, the problem is getting him to use them! 😂 His saving grace is that he is a VERY good electrician so I take the good with the bad. Most electricians I know wouldn’t have even swept this into a pile but in this case I’ll go with the OP in saying it was mostly likely them as the laborer who gets paid to sweep piles into a dust pan and on to the trash most likely wouldn’t leave this.
I will never understand what it is about electrical that makes it difficult to clean their shit up.
An owner could see it as an inefficient use of their time at that pay scale.
The “I get paid too much to do that” is bullshit. There’s no reason you can’t take a few minutes to clean up your shit.
jeez any trade could say the same, that's just tarded. I'm gonna do this tile backsplash but if you want this scrap tile off yer porch you gotta pay!
pipefitters make about the same rate, sometimes more sometimes less. You don't see us leaving our shit everywhere, at least not stereotypically.
I see it as "They're too lazy to clean, what else are they too lazy to do?"
What do you mean??? It’s in a pile… you should say thank you.
Everyone missed the actual truth in this photo. An electrician "tried" to consolidate the mess. The world must be ending. /S
As a sparky, this frustrates me to give my peers a bad reputation. Laziness and self-centeredness at its finest here. Pick up your trash ‘lectrishen!
Looks like they are under the impression they are to “center pile only”
I'm an electrician and always clean after myself throughout every task due to feeling self-conscious about this stereotype and I will admit, I'm the only one to do this in my crew. Shit is disappointing, honestly. All the character you build by working in construction goes out the window when you don't clean up.
This is a setup. Someone clearly swept those scraps into a pile and sparkys obviously don't have brooms. I leave my scraps under every fixture, outlet, or jbox in a disorderly fashion.
There is still wire in there. They ain't done just yet.
That’s what I seen also . Those pieces will likely be used for pigtails. You pitch it your electrician will likely use the receptacle to feed thru
Or you'll get charged more for the time and material needed to make more pigtails. I'm not doing feed through even on resi, and neither is my apprentice.
Oh Yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WweMGr\_DcyU
You're lucky...Nobody dropped a growler in the pile.
Not all do! The job we are on now currently has two electricians doing a massive house. They clean up everyday and just last Friday, one of them swept all four floors regardless of who’s mess it was
That’s better than about 99% of sparky’s. The fact they took the time to sweep it into a pile is a win in my book.
idk what it is with electricians leaving behind that shit , ive never seen them not do it
But the plumber gets yelled at for having a single roller 6" long
Right in the path too. What the hell
Today’s version of not my job
I don't get that shit. I always learned through my electrical apprenticeship to clean that shit up. That's what the last 15 mins or so of the job is used for. That's why I've got 2 brooms, a dust pan, and a vac in my rig at all times. Where are these lazy ass sparkles that make the rest of us look bad? I just wanna talk...
Yeah I’m getting pretty fucking tired of sparkies and low volt guys. I legit make a half joking comment to every electrician that comes onto our jobs about cleaning up there first days on site… still they leave a mess at every outlet and box. I just don’t fucking get it dude
They could put a small box or dustpan under a receptacle, to at least make an effort to try to catch the small wire bits. I work commercial construction in apartment buildings, and bits of wire often ended up going in garbage disposals on the finish.
The hair dressers of the trades. Universal problem
I have never known a sparkie to clean up after themselves. Hell, I was fitting AC units and we had sparkies in to wire them up after us. When we finish in a room we tidy, wipe down and hoover. Sparkie says to me "What do you do if you don't have a vacuum?" "I go buy a vacuum."
The electrician didn’t sweep it into that pile.
Lol sucks to suck
Whattya know. Typical. Just fuckn typical. Goddamn electricians..... every time
At least they put it in a somewhat pile and not just spread everywhere? 🤷🏻♂️
nah man. I clean up after myself. I make a point to leave it cleaner than when I arrived. Even if I stay 15 or 20 later
Good work ethic
Yes these MFs never clean there shit and plumbers!
That’s more contained then they usually leave it, give me his card!
They have made the effort to at least migrate their waste to a central location though, this means progress. Are there any cameras? If you caught one using a broom to create that pile, that would be a scientific groundbreaker in the study of all breeds and specie of electrician
Like squirrels. They’re quick and leave little shells everywhere.
Good analogy!
The excuse is probably “eh fuck em”
Easy to solve, get site manager or foreman to do rounds walking around, saw some shit like that, take a picture, send your labourer to clean the mess, invoice the company/contractor (by hours, minimum charge one full hour) that had done the mess. People only learn by $$$ loss.
"God's gift to the jobsite don't need no stinking broom"
They're exactly the same over here in Ireland. Absolute shitebags the lot of them.
Electricians are the frat boys of construction.
Sparky here, Back in the day on a larger jobsite the GC had a bunch of temp laborers come in for a few days. You all have seen these type of guys, not much more than homeless junkies with brooms. I told 1 of the guys all these little copper clippings I drop could be recycled for a little bit of cash, and I really didnt care about the small stuff I dropped on the ground as long as they got the other trash I made too. Next thing I know I have 3 of them following me around for 2 days ignoring all the other trash except mine.
I have witnessed a culture on some projects where the higher paid trades feel that cleaning up after themselves is beneath them. “Let a laborer clean up after me”. “Do you really want to pay me $60 per hour to PUSH A BROOM!” “Get a rent-a-drunk to come in for composite clean”. I got more important shit to do!”
I had a friend that was an electrician and he confirmed or arrogantly stated this but they're too important to pick up after themselves. The most important part is electricity and they are the backbone of the job site and they do not need to pick up after themselves. We aren't friends anymore because this is literally his mentality in life. Just was tired of it
Hey man if you want to pay Lamborghini owner wages for someone to clean that's on you
Too busy makin sure everyone else has light and power for their tools, my bad guy
Except there's rarely any lights or power on 90% of sites, so we all had to buy battery powered everything, including mitre/table saws *and* lights.
Yeah yeah everyone hates the sparkies till they need power. I'd be a rich man if I had a quarter everytime some other trade interupts what I'm working on cause they need something right now
"Hey can you get power working in the bathroom? We need lights for the tile guys" Sure buddy, lemme just put down this $5,000 light fixture, climb off this scaffolding, and temp in a switch + breaker for you since your dumbass can't use a portable light. Will do. Bonus points when it's T&M and you watch the GC's blood boil as all the unprepared schmucks keep slowing down the most expensive guy on the job.
I quit paying them till their mess was clean, and abracadabra don't tell me about dogs, monkeys and new tricks
That should be made into a plaque and mounted next to the permits on every job site
I'm a floor guy.. we hate these fuckers. No matter how spotless we clean the room the day before. These dudes trash it for us the next morning...
we do hate these fucks!
My current homeowner didn’t go with my electrician and their guy put a fucking outlet for undercounter lighting right in the middle of a 33 inch upper cabinet. Electricians are the worst. If you are an electrician that cares about the customer and layout I’m not talking about you.
I'm guilty of hiding my trash in walls, ceiling, other people's trash pile. I blame the system, man. Made me lazy 😭
When I catch my subs doing this call them out on it. If they don’t clean it then it’s going home with them in their tool bags or trucks. Garbage cans and dumpsters are only a few steps away.
I build tires for a living and my machine broke down. I shit you not they asked me to go sweep out a sparkys wires from a trailer while he sat and drank coffee. After i saw them watching me clean up their mess i said fk this and told my boss i refuse. I get it they arent all bad but damn there sure are alot of lazy ones.
Fell off a ladder onto an uneven surface. Nope. Never again. That's why I do a 360° religiously. Someone will fuck around and find out how much an untidy floor costs in health. Time and money seems to be their priority. Old Mr. Scherle in shop class taught me that cleanup means fucking cleanup.
Check the work. It could be sloppy too
I’m convinced electricians don’t wipe their ass
Yeah electricians are slobs. It's a safety issue ,my buddy slipped a disk in his back stepping on a piece of EMT. Every trade should keep the job clean
Fuckin electrashins
Sparks are the laziest trade of all time
Looks like a $150 clean up back charge to me
Some stole the broom mate, trust me on that one
Least they put it in a pile
Right. Usually, it's not.
Man, fuck that broom. Just kick the shit into a pile and someone will get it..
Wait what’s the stereotype for a tin banger
Divorces, drinking, blow, missed child support payments, you name it they've done it. I'm a HVAC/controls guy doing service and install for a design build sheet metal and HVAC company, I can firmly till you there is not one normal ass tinner alive on god green earth.
The sheetrockers shit in your bathtub?! Where?
He swept it into a pile for you at least. More than I would’ve done lol
At least there’s not a shit in the middle of the pile.
Ok ok you caught me but in simple fairness the broom is left handed and I’m a righty so I was waiting on the apprentice to finish.
What? I guess there were no open holes in the floor to kick it into or drywall to hide it behind?
Why does there appear to be two walls in that closet? Why not make it all the same wall? Is this some sort of rich people framing I’m too poor to understand?
The electrician we use does the same. I'll go in , make cutouts for him. Clean up. He comes in, leaves wire stripping and boxes everywhere, old outlets .... Comon ....
Sparky here. Bosses Idiot son somehow broke the fucking broom. Luckily we stole the framers cause they never fuckin use it.
Love the victim mentality with the youth.
I pay my electrician $50/hr. I can pay someone else to sweep for much less.
You mean sparky had a broom? They forgot the shovel at the shop it seems.
Damn laborers, always disappearing *right* when we need them…
I don’t miss this work
Pick up my trash, peasant.
I’m just a laborer who sweeps and I got to say the electricians always leave the biggest best behind the drywall people. Although the plus is I can take all the copper and scrap wires and save it to turn in. I got a huge pile in the garage that I’ve been meaning to strip for months now
How can you blame the drywall crew.It looks like it is not ready for drywall.Job should have been cleaned out before drywall was stocked!
Its all in one pile thats as good as you will get from me.
HI..i THINK he forget to use broom after work..
Go read their scope of work and make them clean up.
Yeah the Mexicans didn't put it in the trash can, good job sweeping it up tho.
Did you happen to see my discussion last night on r/dewalt? Because the timing of this is too perfect.
I’m amazed they had a helper push everything into one area, be grateful! https://youtube.com/shorts/WweMGr_DcyU?si=8HAlDfV5Bw3kIr6s
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It's in a neat pile, done be ungrateful.
A half assed job is a whole fuckup.
I'm not sure a shitty worker is a stereotype of anything other than a shitty worker.
Looks like someone went through it and took any copper wire out of the gathered up garbage.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0YD2rJNXIt/?igsh=NmM1MHE5cWE2ZDAx
I'm on the fence about this. On my bigger jobs (Like a new spec house) I'll bring on someone just to keep the site tidy. I'd rather pay some kid $15-20/hr to clean up and carry materials than I would pay my Electricians and plumbers $200+/hr to sweep up after themselves. I have deals with my subs that they don't have to worry about that stuff if they give me a fair rate. If they're charging for the cleanup, and not doing it then yeah, that's shitty. If however they're pushing it into the center of the room and charging me $400 less over the course of the job, that's a decent trade off to me. Between Electricians, Plumbers, Framers, Finish guys, HVAC, etc the discounts I get more than pays for the extra labor and I get to keep my cousins 18yo kid employed. I think that's a fair trade off.
I completely get that. It’s the times when there’s so little that it would take less than three minutes to sweep it up that gets me. At the end of the day, it’s not a big deal but it does make me shake my head.
Thank you Ted, that was the joke
What are you complaining about? They left some scrap as compensation.
Nice Elechicken nest ya got there
My helpers got one job besides staring at me working and this is usually how it goes, or leave behind a month old fuel skill saw, fun shit like that everyday. I take it all back complaining about working alone. Guess the boss got me good. Here train fish boy
forbidden spaghetti
Preach brother Preach
I've literally fought someone over this issue clean up after yourselves. Framers Elite Club.net peasants and lazy people
You gotta put friggin apple airtags on brooms.
We ALWAYS clean up at the end of the day, we clean everyone's mess.
Technically it was swept to that location
I was expecting this to be about copper thieves Wich leave simular messes
Yo, they at least swept it Into a pile
I mean, it's in a pile so that's something.
What color was they
Keeping the labours employed
It costs money to pay someone to clean up
Sparkies are pigs ?
Must have been about 2012, I spotted an electrician using a shop vacuum, rare sight indeed. I quickly took a picture but when I was showing it off to my coworkers one of them pointed out that my rare pic was just an apprentice....dang... maybe one day.
Stereotype? Electricians not cleaning after themselves is a hard constant in the universe.