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To be fair ...this is exactly what work should look like ..fuc the gains mega conglomerate pay the men ...fire the bureaucrat
How can I watch in Canada?
@@havelthebonk1226the show is showing government contractors milking the system. When they want more tax money to pay the bill, people scream for cutbacks, then nothing gets done. Sound like everywhere?
I looked for this on I view in the USA, but couldn’t find it available.
@darkframepictures and? Pay people better so they don't need to "milk " ..we are surprised when people do this but then we don't pay enough to keep up with hyper inflation. People should be paid well first so they can afford to live a high quality life .we normally pay barely enough to pay bills witch is stupid we could double everyone's wages and the only thing it would cost is the ceo's bonuses
The line about high school maths teachers is 10/10
What line about high school maths teachers?
@@teesman61watch it again
Yeah but construction is a more dangerous occupation so they should make more.
Yeah teachers are chronically under valued and under paid
@@andrewrogers837 nope. Most are woke useless academic toolbags
Everyone on construction sites is either making bank or being basically enslaved for a dime but his boss makes bank. Obviously tax free
Sadly how it works is nearly every profession. You can only hope everyone gets theirs one day. Good or bad
@@Maxsmackoh they will get theirs
Doing electrical work on construction sites, I was just about to point out that not everyone is making bank, till I saw your “enslaved for a dime” comment. Even some fucking drywallers make more than we do.
Construction is either
A. Sitting on your ass doing fire watch for 12 hours (anything over 8 is OT)
or
B. It's -30 out, WITHOUT wind chill, snow is slapping against your face and it feels like razors after 30 minutes, lunch isn't for another 4 hours, and your working with some black steel which means no heat from brazing or soldering ALL with no wind break
In my experience carpenters make fuck all. Self employed tradies like plumbers and electricians make a killing. Moral of the story, don't be a carpenter.
The bloke leaving with his boat is a real thing. Some tradies leave straight afterwards on their fishing trips. I remember one bloke even ditching his car and jumping on his trawler for a weekend in Bali.
They'll often bring in boats, campers etc when they know a strike is kicking off. For no other reason than to gouge the primary customer.
And they damn right earned that boat.
Nice try....steaming at twenty knots it would take seventy hours return. Plus the customs and quarantine just to go there and back. And that would be from Broome.... Never happened.
@adriaandeleeuw8339 Shows what you know. Maybe live up that way. First of all they don't leave and enter via Broome. They utilise the massive fuck off coast that is unprotected. Second, customs doesn't focus there as the drug channels are mainly on the east coast. Exactly what are you thinking?
@@michaelversace456 I do live up that way and I have more experience on ocean going vessels than you probably, worked on real freighters, trawlers, etc. Be clear Broome is the closest to Bali anyway the coastline towards Darwin gets further away from Bali as does the coastline to the South. Just so you are aware a small trawler uses about forty LITRES of fuel a hour minimum at ten knots Bali is just short of sixteen hundred nautical miles you do understand how much that would cost at even one dollar a litre .and that is just one way. I have been working on boats and ships since the late seventies. now I have done fishing jaunts a hundred nautical miles from Darwin.in a boat that used twenty LITRES an hour at ten knots with generator running, that trip used over two thousand dollars worth of fuel dollars worth of fuel....split eight ways. Now I might have believed a trip out to sea that far but not a chance to Bali and back.
South African here, lived in UK and worked in construction for 15 years and currently live and work in Australia, have been for 16 years.
I’ve navigated the African labour market the European labour market and the Australian labour market. Australia treats its workers hands down in all aspects better than the rest of the world. However, a fair days work for a fair days pay seems to be out of balance
As in, not much work is done for the high amount that is paid?
Blame the CMBU for that 😉
@@BigBustard What is "CMBU?"
@@truthmatters1950union
@@truthmatters1950think they meant CFMEU. It's a construction union.
@@QoStoOdsHe was referencing the sticker on the guys hard hat my dude
He’s not wondering why they’re getting paid. He’s wondering why the guy tendered X million then charges them 2X million for the job. Government contracts should have a hard “we pay what you quoted” rule and let the companies that lie to steal tenders go under. Though to be fair under quoting should be jailable fraud too.
Socialism doesn't allow for that my friend, that's a capitalist idea and most of the former British Empire is full out socialist and on the WEF nob
Proving deliberate under quoting would cost more than just paying the overinflated final price
the only change that would have is causing contractors to skimp on building regulations
For government tenders, there is a stereotype where they often go for the cheaper tenders... It's a foot in the door approach, because otherwise if they quoted fairly, the next cheapest quote would get the job instead.
It's also hard for governments with budgets justifying spending taxpayers' money - Another reason why these underhanded games are played. Voting also happens every 4 years, and the opposition can always make claims of over-budgeted construction projects planned and carried out by the current government.
@@jonathanschultz4045 what is there to prove from the gobs end, you gave the quote, you stick to it unless you can prove otherwise.
Having toilets available is kind of worker safety
Yeah it is a basic hygiene thing. All work places mush have toilets and water stations.
There saying because its a portaloo and not a proper toilet it’s compromising safety so they give the workers an extra $90 penalty
@@strongarm1129you ever been on a portaloo on construction site? It's a safety hazard
@strongarm1129 have you been in a worksite portaloo. Also this is bs as office cvnts will do this but then throw a fit for anything less then 200k+ a year and a 4 day work week for sending a few emails
@@beesechurgermclovin7199 i work for a self employed carpenter so we rarely go on a large construction site
I was like, "Well, 70,000 isn't that bad for a teacher .... Oh wait AUS dollar" lol
still a lil under 30usd per hour if working 7,5 hours each day, 5 days a week. still pretty decent, not even complainable.
But if you work more hours than that, and dont get overtime money, thats another case.
(this is coming from a guy living in Norway, where we get taxed about 37% total from our income)
@@SkyLiink $23 usd/h 5 days a week, 8 hours a day. Or, in readable numbers, $46066.27 usd/year. That is not great pay for here in America.
Also teachers don’t work 7.5 hours a day, not when you need to be in the schools at least an hour before the kids, an hour after the kids, and you have to take your work home most days.
@@Reubstheman how long is an Aussie school day?
@@aNeighbour most schools the kids are required to be there from 8:00am - 3:30pm. it’s the teachers who have to stay for longer and start earlier
“It’s RDO on Monday, see you Tuesday”
As a flight attendant, I felt that…
What is RDO?
@@mangokraken Rostered Day Off. Unlike flight attendants, construction workers rarely work weekends, so the joke is he works a 4-day week.
@MrSupdup i work in construction and the vast majority of us frequently work 6 day weeks. only the top union guys get RDOs every few weeks, and even they often do saturdays
@MrSupdup haha not sure were your getting you info from but you might want to get a new source.
@@mangokraken for us flight attendants, at least at my company we have 2 types of days off. Regular Day Off. It’s a day off but if they really need you they can call you into work but I don’t have to go in as long as I don’t pick up the phone. Then there are Guaranteed Day Off whereas the name suggests I’m untouchable.
This guy is a great actor and the script is acutely perceptive!
My only take away is that high school math teachers should be paid more.
Doesn't work.
High school math teachers are paid out of these guys salaries. So you pay the math teachers more, then these guys have to pay more taxes, so then they demand more wages. Then the math teacher who you were paying more has to pay more for all the stuff these blue collar types make so his increased salary comes to nothing.
The only way to make people wealthier is to be more productive. You can't play with the numbers. You just have to work and work hard and work efficiently. If sufficiently high numbers of people stop working hard, the society starts to fall apart and "it's hard to pin these things down".
A rising tide lifts all boats!!!!
Nah. It's always paid more idealism. Rather everything essential cost less.
@@shadowbandit3975"essential costs less" how? Paying workers less? Nope Not an option.
Creat union -> Strike -> collectively quit -> create labour shortage -> turn back with higher salary
120k for manual labour might seem overkill until you realise that person's working life is about 20 years shorter than an office worker because their joints will be shot by the time they're 45.
Been working for concrete mob for the last few months. The concreters are on 80-120$ per hour. And they deserve every god damn penny. They work 15 hours a day 5-6 days a week. In extremely hard work.
They will get 10 years of work max.
Yep worked construction as a welders hand, boss was 35 and had bakers cysts in both knees, arthiritis in his hands and wrists and could hardly see or hear
My dude is a flagger. He stands there and turns the pole? Like I get bad weather could make it suck but thats literally all that guy was doing.
The point is that they bullshitted the original tender.
Honestly, most trades people are far healthier than office workers... sitting for 6 hours a day is really bad for your body..
This is why people need to openly say their salaries, because if not, we believe that a sign holder makes 70k a year lmao
Thats because they do get paid that much
@@brandoncampanaro7571 You've swallowed the propaganda mate
@@brandoncampanaro7571 i have done the job $14.50/hr thats $29,000 a year
@@InvincibleIrishman i have family who work construction, seems like you have been controlled by propaganda sir
@@InvincibleIrishman It depends. Good boss, good pay. Shit boss? Pay you next month, maybe, depends. Hey, you screwed up, that's a paycheck cut!
High school maths teacher 😂 but at the same time really sad 😢
$70,000 is not a small amount of money. Idk if it’s bc this is Aussie bucks but in the US $70,000 is above average salary
My wife has a bachelors degree, 5 years experience, and tons of endorsements that over quality her and she only makes $35,000.
She will be lucky to make 60,000 before she retires
@@bbd1254 Absolutely horrid. Our teachers should be paid significantly more. They only set up the future of society.
Teachers start on 80-odd grand a year.
@@RizzaHaan in what country?? They start WAY lower in the US.
That job site boss is LOOKING OUT for his boys lol
He sounds like like a trade union officer/rep. Some of those guys are super hardcore!
Problem is, even if you lower the wages, someone will take the share - no reductions on project costs for the buyers...
false
The margins would remain similar because any savings would be competed away.
Yeah it will all be eaten up in schedule overruns and remediation.
@@alexgamble4718 when has competition actually worked though 😅
When workers can own a boat...beautiful 🥹
he probably lives out of it XD
Probably not. You want 1 billion boats out on the sea polluting the f out of it. Low income people will rarely take care of their own trash. They'll just throw it out on the sea.
He doesn't own it, the bank does. Debt rich, cash poor.
This seems like the most American sitcom to ever come out of Australia.
It's funny because 70,000 is still a lot for holding a sign
It's hard, it's boring, it's dangerous, it requires skills, knowledge and your attention. A mistake could be expensive or lethal or both. Give it a go.
@@xyaeiounnlol hard and requires skill is pushing it mate 😂
@@xyaeiounnso what you’re saying is if we left you in a room alone with crayons… you’d eat them…..
@@xyaeiounnyou must hold signs
@@Rosskles ever done a day of it? tell me what's required. Ever worked in a traffic environment? Don't tell me you just have an opinion with no insight.
That man in charge deserves a raise
Love the boat at the end
I work in logistics and let me tell you, portaloos should be illegal as substitute for regular toilets. When I've started working mx current job and I've seen our drivers have only portaloos on their parking lot, I came straight to the boss and said that cannot be. There is everyday 70 drivers there at least, who often don't have time to go number 2 during the day and then have to go all in a spam of few hours all at once. It took some convincing, but they shelled out for those portable bathrooms, where you have a container size room with all the utilities, connected to water and sewage.
To any workers in office who ever think "Ahhh, this (toilet, food, water, break room) is good enough for the workers" go and try to use it for a week.
This reminds me of the video where the front of the ship fell off lol
YEEESSSZZZZ!!!!!! THE FRONT FELL OFF ❤❤❤❤
Good on ya is so Aussie 😂 love it
Every time I watch these clips from this show, it makes me want to throw my phone out the window.
The supervisor we need!!!
Talks like a union delegate, avoiding details.
Man, they’re living the dream if they could cancel work for 35c forecasted.
Usually on paper it looks like they pay the worker good money but most of the time the money that the workers received is not what is written on the papers.
Good for them. WORKERS, UNITE!
If you've worked in the construction industry, (at least in Australia). It really is true that upper management is totally inconsistent when it comes to spending money. They'll try to save money on the little things that make life harder on site, and then waste hundreds of thousands of dollars unnecessarily elsewhere because that's what's been budgeted.
Too much time spent looking at the budget, not enough time looking at the big picture and general productivity.
When I was a student I worked the rail in QLD. Spot on, we had one office bloke who went off at anyone getting new gloves or safety sunnies because of "cost blowout". Meanwhile he and his mates were doing random Cert IIIs in things like IT and anything else unrelated to their job on the company dollar. Seagull manager, flies in shits on everything, pisses every cunt off then flies off somewhere else for another free feed.
Same with EOFY. God knows the workers can’t have nice facilities, but come June EVERYONE in the office gets told to spend the rest of the department’s budget so they don’t lose it rolling into the next one.
Well, they are looking at the big picture. They don't seem to be able to map the numbers in the big picture to what adds the most value in reality. I imagine that they also don't care. They get paid either way, and it's easier to dig up an excuse or someone to blame than it is to do their job.
I agree with the construction worker. Safety is key, bathrooms are nice. I've done manual labour at 30° outside in the sun. It sucks.
Bro that’s 85 degrees F. If we did that in Florida (where I’ve done construction work) we wouldn’t have any work going on for 7-8 months a year.
@@nathanielobinwaiii4139 We had a 40°c day here about 2 weeks ago. Still had to work.
@@nathanielobinwaiii4139 Worked as a roofer for work experience one summer in Florida - never again. The majority of roofers I met there we're either ex-convicts or people who had no choice and couldn't find a better job
@@ONeill01Yeah. Screw that. Especially in a state like FL.
I always think of Roofers when I think of jobs I would never do. Or hard jobs.
Unless they are dropping six figures that isn't worth it.
Saw a bunch on a humid hot 105 day putting down hot asphalt on a black roof. Like I could just feel the heat radiating from the sidewalk.
Just to think they don't even get paid that much. Probably the worse construction job. Leave that shyte to immigrants.
That’s a cool day especially in the summer here. I’ve done road maintenance when it was 44-45c out with 100% humidity. That was an awful day.
Lol 😆 🤣 😂.. he was towing a gaint boat. I love it
Immediately fire that guy.
Union strong mate
Why do we question workers being on those salaries but not question management being on salaries that big.
Because of responsibility, liability and stress.
@@Canofwhoopa55😂 this always bugs me you shouldn't earn more money just because you sit in an office "stress" like the guy building the thing isn't stressed "responsibility" come on really all just excuses so the rich get richer and the poor stay poor
A coordinated media.
@@nffclaceywho gets the blame when something goes wrong? Management
@@Canofwhoopa55bullshit
“All I ever wanted was an honest weeks pay for an honest days work” - SGT Bilko
This reminds me of something a physician friend from Detroit once told me. He was visiting a highschool buddy who had a union job with General Motors. The guy had a huge house near the Lakeshore along with a big motor boat. My friend was still a resident so he wasn't making the big bucks yet. His friend was almost apologetic for making so much money with just a highschool diploma. Of course that was about 30 years ago and much has changed since with GM and its employees.
Our company is a state owned privately ran company, our CEO earns 23 times my wages... start on the top, work your way down. Then we can start talking about cutting employee benefits and wages
In the US our average CEO to worker ratio is 344 to 1.
There's only one CEO, how many people your level are there? I'd bet more than 23.
@@obliviouz I worked in fast food. As the lowly grill guy. Eventually I moved to shift manager, then assistant manger, then store manager (before I graduated college, and left). Its unreal the amount of responsibility and time, higher ups have to deal with, that you don't notice at the bottom.
So I've always been fine with CEO, 1 person getting paid more then everyone else when he's managing such huge assets.
Its when the suck, that I complain they are getting paid too much.
But shills who think its easy at the top are just naive. I use to call be able to call in every once and while, slack off at work, and etc. It wouldn't make a huge difference. But as manager, you have to be on top of everything because ultimately its your responsibility.
@@shadowbandit3975is it really 100-300 times the stress of a regular job tho?
I want my CEO to make good money, he is a good boss. Gets us the best gear and understands if we have shit at home to deal with.
If your boss sucks and you want him poorer, mine shouldn't have to along with him.
If you really wana lower costs of construction jobs stop hiring people with no actual construction experience to run jobs, management on most jobs is shockingly bad.
The excessiveness is so great in so many ways
I've just started ep 1, s1... This is the best show on planet earth. And there's 4 seasons. Thank God for these shorts 🤌🤌🤌
The real story is that most construction workers are living pay to pay.
because they don't know how to save
@@derbybOyzZNope. It's because the economies of the world are in the crapper- and the people in charge refuse to acknowledge their part (i.e. they lack accountability). Don't blame the workers. Check the facts.
No no no, im a pipe welder working the road, most of the guys I know are supporting their family, then their first family,candy their second while their third is falling apart. Almost every one has been married and divorced twice. I am lucky, I've been married once and still with her. Honesty and being open is key. Don't get me wrong we have almost called it quits a few times but we keep going. Strangely it's getting better and better.
@derbybOyzZ Wrong. I jumped from mining to construction to do an electrical apprenticeship. I figured out quickly what tradesmen were getting paid. After my apprenticeship, I went back to mining. I looked at tradesmen with families, a mortgage, kids in school, and cost of living in Australia. Knowing their pay, I realised their living pay to pay. It can be a sorrowing feeling, not being able to save a cent to better your future.
I have friends who are in construction, making $35 an hour. He's always broke, I make way less, and I always seem to be in a better financial situation than him. I have no idea what he does with his money.
Only someone who's never done real work in their life would question the need for an on site portapotty
Only someone struggling with basic comprehension would watch this clip and conclude they was any discussion about the need for an onsite portapotty.
How these guys work in summer is just unbelievable. I sure couldn't do it. They earn their money alright.
Yooo sic em union, those greedy bastard keep leaching on our life essences.
the fake CFMEU Union/foreman guy is the real hero in this exchange.
Being close to a clean, working toilet is kind of priceless
The boat was a nice touch lmfao.
This is how all workers should be treated
To be fair, I'd rather have tradies being well paid than bankers. And at least they're spending that money rather than sending it to the Camens
Everybody's big mad because they can't treat working men like slaves anymore. 😂😂😂
As an American the joke about hot weather policy for 30 degrees out is even more hilarious, because for us, that's literally freezing!
Drives off early for a three-day weekend towing a boat!😂😂😂❤
Some of you have never worked construction and it shows lol it literally destroys your body. We have all seen older blokes who cant even walk anymore from decades of work. Doesnt happen to office folks
That's because they don't lift safe. If they actually paid attention to how to lift safe and safety regulations, they probably wouldn't be all busted up.
@ah5721 I mean, you aren't entirely wrong.
@@ah5721It's not that simple, safe lifting isn't the issue these days, most people know how to safely lift. It's the overworking that causes the degradation. They're wearing out their body faster than it can repair. Theres also damaging chemical and material exposure on a daily basis on a lot of jobs, thanks to building materials. You'd need to be wearing a hazmat suit with a high end respirator to properly avoid exposure. Safety does almost nothing when it comes to actual safety issues that aren't immediately high risk of fatality or major injury, aside from really easy things like telling you to wear glasses and gloves, even in cases where wearing those glasses or gloves becomes more of a hazard than not wearing them.
@@ah5721 I've actually worked construction, and that's bollocks. The wear and tear gets you in the end, no matter how good your technique is. WIll it help? Sure. Will it prevent it? Hell no.
Lol it's a joke scene over theft. Ur soft boy 💕
We should all work to lift everyone up. The wealthy have convinced a large portion of the poor that the other portion of the poor are the cause of their problems. Divide and conquer is the plan and it works. Solidarity brothers and sisters. Together we retain dignity.
Well said so true
So you want a socialist society? You might want to rethink that……
@@Edward_Scissor_Feet Your comment is EXACTLY what the original comment was referring to: dividing & conquering by blaming the working class by shouting inane buzzwords like "socialist", "communist" etc!
Grow up!
@@Edward_Scissor_FeetI wonder if child labor was still a thing you'd call abolitionists socialists purely based on the fact that they don't want children having to work jobs in a capitalist world. You don't even know what socialism is, get the fuck out of here
@@mikespearwood3914 what you are advocating is redistribution of wealth, it’s exactly what socialism/communism preaches. “Le worker” can do a shitty job, be unskilled and have shitty work ethic, but somehow we must redistribute the profits so he gets payed exactly as everyone else. In a truly just society everyone would get what they deserve, and you hate it.
This feels like the media getting revenge for the tradie antics in lockdown
The high school maths teacher hasn’t done there sums.
This just shows the reason you should unionize! ✊🏻
Unions are evil
I've been on construction site many time and let me tell you something, they work hard.
When they work that is, and only people that work that is. You have guy like safety guy, the drunks, the watchers, just talking boss. One could cut 30% of workers and 50% of budget and still have same results
Yup. Not just in construction either. But then we would have something like 20-40% of the country on sitting at home consuming even more resources to do hobbies for free.
Everyones working on union sites, the jobs are so competitive that if you dont pull your weight, you get replaced because there is always someone willing to take that spot.
This is incorrect in my experience. Union sites are competitive and you will be sent home if you don't pull weight or have a shit attitude.
It might seem like guys stand around but, much like an office, meetings happen on work sites and smaller ones happen informally as tasks are completed.
Also some work is just hard and requires more people. With some cycling rest. Other times it's an apprentice being trained.
In my experience work is always being done and to a pretty high standard.
@@josephvictory9536exactly. Expecting people to do hard manual labor non-stop for eight hours every day for five day a week is just ridiculous.
Our bodies aren’t made for that and will start breaking down if we try (for office workers, you will burnout mentally if you try the same)
The top end of town arguing who's the culprit with the top end of town 😂😂😂
I NEED this show in the US!!!
The real question is why does this bureaucrat think he deserves to be more comfortable than the labor doing the job?
Because few can do the job he's doing.
I think HS2 is missing some of these negotiations skills
The boat 😂
High school math teacher. LOL
I highly doubt anyone in Australia goes home at 30 degrees. I'm on a cfmeu site and the heat off temp is 37.5 measured not forecast. If you aren't on a union site you'll be working even if it's 47 out.
Yeah, it's slander dressed up as "comedy". Rob Sitch & co. have never worked a hard day in their lives!
☕️ of c?😊😊😊
47 degrees Celsius? No way. I am sure WorkCover will shut down the site if they are aware of it
Not 30 no. 35 is about right IF YOU'RE IN A UNION JOB. They don't leave/not show up just because the forecast says it will be over though, it has to actually be over the temperature threshold.
@@mikespearwood3914 Pretty much, a white collar worker making more than most people on that site on their way to complain about the workers on the site making to much money.
The biggest cost to industry is executive error, executive salaries and shareholder payments. Run any business using a not for profit business model and the cash flow is not being swallowed by profits.
You never operated a business, haven’t you? Why don’t you start “not for profit” business yourself? Why don’t you volunteer your time and money to others for free?
Maybe construction workers should drop the “work for profit” business model and agree to work for food and shelter-and take pride in the work they do for the community. Maybe we should start the redistribution of wealth you do desperately desire starting with you.
@@max7971I warned my supervisors and client multiple times on the current project I work on that the plans they had weren't going to work, they were in the water table and the conduit Iines and pits were going to get filled in winter, they didn't listen, and it has cost them multi millions to redo it all at a higher height. This has happened multiple times on the project, and similar issues in different sectors that I've also worked on. Consistent design issues that have ended up costing ridiculous amounts. Every time I get to a new section I have to look over the design, immediately find design issues, the engineers don't have enough experience to know how to fix the issues in a way that actually works in the real world, so then I have to re-engineer it for the engineers in a way that is actually feasible to install at an appropriate cost and speed, and then wait for them to get approval on those changes from even higher ups.
@@max7971 don't be mad just because his not wrong. Without workers who would even buy the products the business makes? they rely on us we don't rely on them
Im hooked on these clips and have to watch this show now
“You pay peanuts and you get monkeys” 💀
Common phrase in many job environments down here 🇦🇺👩🏻🦰😂
dont mock the guys who actually do the hard labor. they cant use their body after three years on the job.
This skit reeks of scab
Reminds me of the blokes working in the mines... boat load of money, no work if its raining or to hot, but still get paid.
First ones to complain about the economy though. 😅😅
"I will not compromise on worker safety"
Meanwhile, the stop/slow batton operator is in short sleeves and shorts w/o a broad-brim nor rigger gloves.
Where's his radio?
"Workers shouldn't be living like that! Their bosses should be buying boats off their labour not the workers!!" - Every Worker in Canada for some fucking reason
I love how they make toilets to be an extravagance in this skit. 😮
It's not that the toilets are an extravagance, it's that they're being paid an extra $90 / day to use them.
@@ifnyouno, it costs 90 a day to maintain them.
You think a toilet shaped shit-box is gonna empty and clean themselves?
100% 😂😂 Thats how it goes down.
I need a boss like him!
we work hard for our money and like any labor intensive job it is ruining our bodies. come work with us for a week and tell me it’s easy. also this is taking the piss. no construction company goes this easy on their workers
Haha yeah they do, try working on a government project. About an hours proper work a day
Have done. This is spot on accurate. The entitlement is immense.
I mean look at every government project in Australia never on budget. Look at snowy XD that's construction in a nutshell.
What kind of weird anti union content is this?
It's satire, by the end of the episode the twist is that both mgmt and the union are working together to raise each other's pay to get as much from the govt as possible
The boat on the trailer 😂😂
reduce handouts to shareholders, after all they do ZERO work. the real "bludgers"
What propoganda is this? The boss is the guy we supposed to be rooting for? Fuck that, everyone needs a raise.
Have you even watched the show? It's a parody show in ALL walks of life, from jobsites to offices.
@@DrCranberry no I've not watched the show, and after this clip i probably won't watch it either.
Its not about the price its about lying when they quoted their price, if your going to charge that much fine, but don't lie about it when you offer your services
This is basically what GM went through in the 80s. The union while originally a good thing became absolutely ridiculous and drove costs so high it definitely helped launch the process of offshoring as much labor as possible
That definitely not what happened, the core issue is that sales slowed down along with problems stemming from management .
Sure a business could keep going for a bit more if they just didn’t pay their workers, but that was never the core issue
Worth noting, in nearly every other commercial industry in the world, capital and management have the advantage over labor. In construction where labor occasionally has the upper hand on management/capital, it’s framed as abject laziness.
well JW buddy I don't know how to tell you, but this TV show clearly shows that worker bargaining has gone way too far and is ruining the country!
They talk in AU$ = 0.64 US$
Last time I was there it was more like $1.05 - but it's usually around $.075
But who cares? They live in Aus so that's where their pay matters...converting to USD for people living in another country is absolutely pointless...
What a revelation! Australians were referencing Australian dollars in an Australian tv show?!! Stop the presses SeaUrchinFilms!
Being anti union while enjoying all benefits of union policy. Go back and do 65hr work weeks for half the pay you geniuses.
Hey, GENIUS, unions on public projects do nothing but rort Australian taxpayers.
"Union policy" today is to support mass immigration making Aussie workers compete with foreign labour, while making sure their own jobs are exempt from this competition.
If Australian unions stopped being so greedy and corrupt, we wouldn't have 65 hour weeks, we would have affordable infrastructure projects and higher wages and more jobs for workers who srent in construction etc.
"Hurr unions did something good a long time ago, now you have to let them do whatever they want hurrr"
Asking that question about the portable toilet was stupid. I can immediately think of a nose wrinkling reason that it would make an unsafe job site.
We need managers like this in the workplace looking out for the team, rather than the the top end execs
…And this is why we have lost all our heavy industries… 😞
No, that's globalism. STOP blaming workers!
The money you are paying is not going to actual worker.. It is sad how people judge on hard working labourers as soon there is a recession in economy. The pay-gap between builder/workers and and the office people has not been this huge since the first world war!
Depends on the country what county are we talking about here? In my country college barely pays, you get a tiny bit more than untrained people so after decades on the job you might eventually catch up to their lifetime income
It's an Australian video, so presumably Australia.@@witoldschwenke9492
I mean a construction worker has actual skills, a high school math teacher literally only needs high school level maths.
Nevrr underestimate the tradies
Elitist propaganda of the most base sort
How dare you pay them enough so they can have nice things.
Anddd it looks like you've struck out your bags are over there don't let the door hit you on the way out.
“ you pay peanuts and you get monkeys” 💀
Rob Sitch...likeable great actor.
Is Working Dog Productions developing any new tv or movies? I guess its difficult to make fun of current cultural issues in a divisive click-bait society.
Rob Sitch, Tom Gleisner et al...likeable actors, comedians, writers. But have they ever actually done genuinely hard physical work in their employed lives?
@@mikespearwood3914 if you did a little research you would know Rob Sitch is a medical doctor, another a lawyer etc. Making great entertainment which has been recognised overseas is better than lifting a brick or shovel. Doing hard physical labour for someone else is generally a reflection of low IQ.
The boss is a G for standing his ground and protecting his people
Very noble. Protecting his people who aren't working. The guy leaving early, says he won't work Monday, and pulling a boat with his new truck.
@@1982Nelsso workers shouldn't get paid well? he should slave his whole life for min wage so a company who doesn't pay its share of tax can make more profit? hahaha sounds like you need a better job
@@godofcodu13itch workers should work
@@1982Nels What do you think they do? do you not see buildings getting built? haha dont be mad just because they have a union and get more money and better conditions grow up and get your own union
@godofcodu13itch this is why people have a bad impression of unions. You are too thick to see it is a parody of unions.
Good for them
My family runs a small construction business and MANY times we've got contracted for jobs to finish that big crews refused to do.
One was a million dollar home, big job. A 25 man crew kept cancelling so the client called us. Our team of 5 managed to get everything up according to the engineering within the original time estimate the big crew gave.
I honestly dont know how. I was only there for about 2 weeks at the end there to put the roof on.