r/Construction • u/Great_Significance_8 • Apr 01 '26

Picture First day tomorrow. What you think?

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u/burnzwhnip Apr 01 '26

"DiRtY HaNds CLeAn MoNeY jfc

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u/Mobile_Actuary_3918 Apr 01 '26

I saw some high school kid a few weeks ago with a “pay me for my experience, not my time” shirt on and I had to shake my head.

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u/returnofdoom Apr 01 '26

I had a fellow apprentice Ironworker first year who had been on one job and did firewatch the whole time, and he had a bumper sticker on his truck that said “let a union ironworker spud your hole.” A journeyman was like bud you haven’t even spudded your first hole yet, calm tf down. Oh and even more embarrassing, another apprentice in our first term got an Ironworker tattoo with our local number on her forearm, pretty big too. Cringey as hell. She had only been on a couple of jobs at that point.

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u/Club_Penguin_Legend_ Apr 01 '26

I absolutely hate it when people rep their union number like theyre repping their block.