• PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I once met a hooker who said “I’ll do anything for 50 dollars”. I said “Paint my house.” I gave her a paint bucket and told her to start with the porch.

    She came back about an hour later and said “All done!”.

    I said, “Wow, that was fast.”

    She said, “Yeah, I’m getting pretty good at this. Oh and by the way, that’s not a porch, it’s a Mercedes.”

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    5 hours ago

    I have this friend, a lady electrician.

    I met her at a reddit meetup. She told us this amusing story of working downtown. She was outside one of the downtown big corp buildings, on the street side. Leaning against a wall smoking a cigarette on her break.

    And this dude pulls up to her in his car. Rolls down the window.

    Asks her if she’s working.

    To which she replies. “Yeah I’m working”. At which point the conversation moved to her realizing he was asking her if she was a prostitute.

    This happened In the middle of the day. A work day. She’s wearing work clothes. Tool belt. The whole thing.

    And this guy thought she was a “working gal”.

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    6 hours ago

    I have a sweet gum tree and it produces these gumballs everywhere. They are prickly and get caught everywhere. I would gladly pay $50 to get rid of them all.

    This also reminds me of those posts on Facebook where some dude posts “need money quickly. Lost my job. Willing to do anything. Manual labor included”

    Then I contact them and offer $250 to do some lawn work. “Appreciate it, but I prefer to work inside”

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      3 hours ago

      “I’m willing to do anything”

      “Work outside, where the weather is? Fuck off”

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        Not to sound like an ass but I don’t understand the whole “Anybody hiring? Need a job fast!”

        I ask them about their tech stack because I have a number of recruiters who can’t find people.

        They always tell me they don’t have a tech stack and would prefer something retail oriented.

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        10 years of my life summed up in a phrase. We didn’t only do concrete, but my crew was the best at it so we had any of the jobs that came up.

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      3 hours ago

      Hell yeah just put that concrete mix in the ground it’s wet enough (we actually did that)

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        as someone who has removed 40 dry pour fence posts, fuck dry pour. it’s fucking lazy and you’re fucking the dude that has to pull the plugs later.

        properly mix your concrete, it’s not hard with a machine.

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          2 hours ago

          I’m not going to pay for the machine from my own money for some shit I do for work for a company. Next guy is just going to have to deal with it lol