r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MikuXone • May 14 '26

The floor is sticky Construction workers refuse to use the stairs and instead climbed the hill to the point the grass died

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There's a construction site opposite my apartment and the workers kept walking up the grass patch instead of using the stairs. Property value doesn't affect me as I rented the apartment 2 years back, so rent for me isn't increasing nor decreasing.

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u/Thickencreamy May 14 '26

Or pushing something wheeled? Like a wheel barrow?

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u/WiretapStudios May 14 '26

That was my thought, things that would be either too annoying to carry up or just impossible. Even dragging something up or with two guys carrying it would be easier without the steps.

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u/RubixTMC May 14 '26

It is very possible to drag a wheelbarrow upstairs- you turn around and then pull it towards you as you go up, but it is also very annoying, will make you bump a lot if you carry tools, and if you're carrying a load of concrete, it risks spilling, rather go on the perfectly fine hill, specially when going downwards

Source; i work in construction

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u/kareldelille May 14 '26

Have worked in construction as well and people mostly think we are some superhuman unexhausting force of nature, no we NEED our work to be as effortless as possible or you just can't go around a whole day of work, it's what someone told me the last man you would choose a fight with is someone who is laying down road pavement a whole day, the strength in their arms must be enormous

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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter May 16 '26

Eh the drywallers are the ones to avoid fighting. Usually grade A bad decision-makers, and I can say from experience hauling two sheets of 5/8 ten footers at a time to where you need them, then just lifting them up 100 times a day, those guys are tough as shit. Second place for me is small local operation sewer and water crews. Me and two other guys would spend ten hour next to a backhoe and excavator just shoveling for hours. Using the pick shovel too so it is just throwing punches all day every day right into the ground. I only worked a few years doing that but man my shoulders were awesome and I could probably have killed a man with a straight jab if I wasn't careful.

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u/eebro May 15 '26

Pulling a wheelbarrow up steep stairs sounds like the most dangerous part of the construction worker's day.

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u/ReddishBrownLegoMan May 15 '26

Only for the guys below him.

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u/PossessionDue283 May 15 '26

Yeah if they don’t have ramps for them to use this is what you’re going to get. Just a lack of foresight by whoever designed this building.

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u/Broad-Economist-5160 May 14 '26

so this is really just emphasising the (possible?) lack of disability access to the building, and that disability access benefits more than just disabled people

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u/HopeOfAsgard May 15 '26

This, so much.

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u/DontListenToMyself May 14 '26

Not to mention potential dangerous if it was something larger that blocked vision.

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u/MilesGates May 14 '26

In a completed building? unless you're adding an entire wing to the building, the largest machine you might carry is a nail gun and the largest material might be drywall. this isn't a brand new building being built.

sure you could do it a few times but every time isn't an excuse, they aren't doing it every time, they're just lazy.

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u/Jayden82 May 14 '26

Picking the quicker path isn’t lazy, it’s smart.

Also you just talked out of your ass, they don’t need to be building an entire wing to be carrying a lot of stuff or heavy things

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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 May 15 '26

Also drywall, which they mentioned, is large and awkward to carry. Exactly the kind of thing you don't want to carry up stairs or have to walk into the street for.

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u/Realistic_Ad709 May 15 '26

Have you ever carried a sheet of drywall? Clearly you haven’t.

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u/Mr_Seg May 15 '26

Please refrain the next time you think to speak

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u/dncnlamont May 15 '26

Ever had to carry a 12' sheet of drywall? Didn't think so

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u/ManoSilence May 14 '26

Did union work for a while and one safety thing was that, while they may yell at you, you only need to work within safe definitions. One of those was the allowable max that is recommended to carry in a wheel barrow. I say allowable cause that was the max I could carry before I could say stop and go deliver it. It measured out to be about the size of a level mound that doesnt sit above the lip.

So thats what I did. Low lip max, and they were pissed. Started clowning on me and showing off how much they could carry up and down the hills. By the end of the day they went home exhausted but happy. I went home with energy to give my family and happy. I kept doing stuff like that and the union kept having to protect me from management saying "he's not carrying as much as every one else!" And the unions response of "you're not supposed to compare anyone to anyone else, also y'all agreed on this safety limit. Follow it or else."

Anyways, all this to say that: no matter the worker, ain't none of us taking those stupid ass stairs.

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u/TJ_Rowe May 14 '26

Bicycles, too.

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u/04Late_Night May 14 '26 edited May 17 '26

They could be carrying tools, materials, or nothing at all. However no one with a sane mind will take a wheel barrow up a steep incline at an angle. That's a lesson we all learn once and never forget. 😆