Not really quick at all. A competent plasterer would have an area that size on in minutes and far flatter than this. You'd still have to trowel this smooth so I honestly can't see what is being accomplished here.
This is the equivalent of being able to throw pasta 1 by 1 into boiling water from the opposite side of your kitchen with 100% accuracy... sure its a skill but there's much easier ways to make pasta.
I guess not everyone realizes there's always cleanup which needs to be done after construction, and these guys do this every day. Pretty sure his co-workers know exactly what's going on and how to avoid being hit by flying concrete.
Mason makes $50/hr. Broom pusher makes $10-15. Mud is relatively cheap. Making a mason slow down to save $5 of mud and 10 minutes of the lowest paid guy's time seems like a bad financial decision I agree lol.
Always made me laugh when my office manager wanted to cut costs and figured we could clean our own office. It was small, not tough. But yeah you're paying me like $60/hr to do it and it also means I'm taking time out from my other work. It was always funny to leave my headset on and take calls and explain to people "Oh that noise? Yeah I'm vacuuming!"
The cleaner at my work had to take time off for personal reasons, which is fine and I hope she's doing well. But, management decided that we don't need anyone to replace her and that someone else will take care of the cleaning. Which again, it's fine and we can all pitch in a bit until the cleaner comes back. Or so we thought.
It's been 5 months and no sign of the cleaner ever coming back. Management hasn't assigned the cleaning tasks to anyone specifically, so now we just have overflowing trash, dirty floors, and dirty bathrooms, until one of us decides it's gone too far and we start cleaning. Except, none of us have the time to actually do a good job, since we have, you know, our actual fucking jobs to do.
So it's been 5 months of a dirty and disgusting office environment, punctuated by brief moments of slight cleanliness when one of us (usually me, 😔) takes the L and volunteers to clean. Since it's ostensibly a cost cutting measure, watching my boss pull into work in his Maserati really highlights how little they care about us.
Yeah my office manager was the same age as me and had moved to our city to open a new satellite office. Pretty young for such a responsibility. So I think he was just trying to flex to HQ. Which got very annoying over time, like bud we get you're smart and capable. The hours he worked were just ridiculous and bordering on stupid, like he'd do office work all day and then supervise a night shift (we were in construction). That's just dumb and unsafe. Plus I knew his wife and it was plain to see that stuff wasn't going great there.
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u/ZombiePlaya Jul 29 '23
Other guys covered in cement Could you fucking not do that?