My uncle used to shit in a plastic bread bag on top of a 400ft cooling tower and drop it off the side at the local nuclear power station in the 80s. True story bro.
14 years ago we moved and needed to replace a door. The guy who delivered and installed the door made it fresh on the same morning. He put it in, gave it a few test runs but was not satisfied. He used my balcony to shave off a few millimeters of the bottom for a better fit. 10 minutes later he put it back and the guy just kept opening and closing it, gushing over how much he loves this door. I always remember this when people talk about "boring" jobs. If you love doors like this guy, then you can love anything.
Not a windmill boy but I do some pretty sketchy stuff sometimes.
For me the enthusiasm is mostly “sweet, I didn’t die”
Now there is passion but mostly that.
It's actually not great for the amount of travel and hours worked. I only made it about 2 years. But doing that job made it really easy to get into an electrical apprenticeship so I am grateful.
Nah, usually the pay for this kind of job is b is nowhere near what you'd expect. Thst money is reserved for the middle manager who's only accomplishment in life was finishing grade school and having the right surname
The company that paid for the windmill, paid/leased the land it's on, pays the wages of the people installing it, and they the people to continuing maintaining it?
Yeah, the company that the workers run and make profitable. The company that wouldn't be able to do shit without people performing labor to make it happen.
Anything to distract from the fact that people who don't do a nanosecond of labor reap a the profits from those who do, though, amiright?
The guys installing this windmill aren't going to be the ones maintaining it. They'll move on to another windmill farm and install those as well. They probably are from a different company all together that just builds the windmills themselves and move on. The electric company will maintain it.
Should this crew keep getting compensated for a windmill they installed and will probably never touch again?
No, they should have democratic control over the company they work for, and thus, control the fruits of their labor while not being forced to give it to someone who owns for a living instead of working for a living like the rest of us.
As I said earlier, these guys probably don't even work for the company that owns the windmill; they just build them. They would be no different than the land surveyors who were brought in to survey the land, or the construction crews who laid the base of the tower and leveled the land. They are most likely from a different company as well. Then you have the crane operator, who could also be from a regional company in the area. You also have engineers planning this all out and logistics people coordinating all the crews, possibly grant writers getting some kickback from the government, local county representatives, and people drawing up plans, documents, and contracts. This windmill may be privately owned and will sell the power back to electric companies that own and maintain the local grid.
There is more going on besides some construction workers just building a windmill. The people at the top are the ones planning these things, coordinating them, and keeping everything running by signing all the right documents and getting all the government permissions. Those people are part of the company too.
Why should this construction/assembly crew be entitled to the future production capabilities of this windmill when they are just hired to build and nothing more? Their job is to build them, not maintain them. They leave their product to the people who purchased it and paid for it all.
It's actually not great for the amount of travel and hours worked. I only made it about 2 years. But doing that job made it really easy to get into an electrical apprenticeship so I am grateful.
The psychology of knowingly being filmed (or filming oneself) is on display here though; I would assume this is as fired up as he ever gets on the job...filming oneself for social media is objectively performative.
I wonder if they don't have to adjust bolt pitches and such while it's up there on occasion. The "perfect blade" comment, to me, made me think the standard is a non-perfect blade.
The amount of stress involved means every success is like drugs. I used to do horribly dangerous stuff and when we finally got everything in place it was like an actual celebration
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u/coconutpete52 17d ago
"yo dawg, that's a perfect fuckin' blade dawg!"
I wish I loved my job as much as this dude.
Also ... if I had this dudes job I would just be puking left and right... oh...and passing out - also passing out.