23 years working in industry, I approve this message. And if anybody ask you what you're doing all you have to say is "Oh hey you guys got a few minutes?" And boom suddenly they're busy and leave you alone
My go to is putting gloves on and carrying around a piece of paper and pretending to look confused. I always keep some paperwork in my back pocket in case i feel like i’m not getting paid enough
You make others work and you just take credit. That's how you get promoted to a position where you make others work and take the credit. It goes even better if you can convince them to love you for it. You're not the guy not getting anything done, because you're the guy that's making sure it's getting done by making sure they get it done. Logic 8)
Forgot one... when the tape is out, there is no doubt. As long as your tape is extended, your gonna get commended. Just random measuring with a frustrated face. Works everytime 👍
Correct. Props. Always carry a prop. Tape works best but each job is different. Carry a scowl and a prop and walk around like you're about to chew someone's ass off for fucking up and people will leave you alone for weeks. What if someone asks you what you're doing? Remember that scowl you're carrying around on your face? Here's where that bad boy really comes into play. Use it. You're so mad you can't even make full sentences. Make the person who asked you something regret slowing you down because You Are On A Mission. My go to prop was a clipboard with peoples names on it, split into two groups. What do the groups mean? Absolutely nothing, and you know that. What do the two groups mean to people who are on the list? They mean everything to them and they fear the worst. Say you're stomping around and someone stops to ask you a question. Stare at them for a second then in a frustrated manner erase their name from one group and move it to the other group. Ask the person their name just to be sure, that'll get their attention. Keep in mind, only do this if you're higher up on the totem pole, otherwise you'll probably get ran off.
@luca fresh i do but that's because my boss is very pleasant and fair. The difference between a toxic company versus the company im at right now is night and day.
I worked for a major construction company stright out of high school and climbed the ladder fairly fast and my project manager who was also a family friend taught me these skills at a young age. Another great trick is to always have the roll of prints with you and have 2 or 3 friends just stand and stare at the plans while you bs for 2 hours lol
i used to manage the warehouse at a circuit city. one day i decided i wanted to get out of the warehouse for awhile. so i taped two empty cardboard boxes to a dolly. put on a back brace and gloves and just walked on the floor for like 4 hours...playing video games. watching demo movies, etc. no one ever caught on. the store manager even came up to me and said "man you have been working your ass off today"
Pro tip: Just stand in a random room with the blueprints and look at the ceiling, then the prints and repeat. After about 30 mins move rooms. Anyone asks what you’re doing, “I was double checking some stuff”. I’ve killed many days this way.
@Ed-ds3hj The real work can be done in a fraction of the time but requires focus and dedication. So, for example, an immigrant worker crew will complete the work in a day that these guys will take 2 weeks to do.
I started at a new company a little over a year ago and they joked about how if you really want to look busy to do laps around the job site with a forklift. Now days, I realize that it’s a legit thing.
@@TheNuclearBolton make your own money don’t set limits to yourself like “6% of your 401k”. Go MAKE $401k. Bake your own pie stop slaving for someone else’s crumbs
@luca fresh If you are a in a city start with uber eats and door dash, technically not working for yourself but it will get you used to having your own schedule and working as long or little as you want.
I work in logging and heard stories from my co-workers about this guy that would be out in the woods pretending to work by firing up his chainsaw once in a while, just revving it up and actually cutting nothing so that it would sound like he's working to people listening elsewhere in the area. I guess he would sit around smoking cigarettes all day revving up his saw half the time.
As a former tradesman, I highly recommend the 50 count box of Dunkin’ munchkins. Coming back late with a dozen donuts looks like your milking, and not everyone will want an entire donut; but most munchkin’s are grab and go; and everyone will have at least one; or two, or Five.
I was with a framing crew with about 30-40 guys back in 2017. At that size you wouldn’t even need to try to hide, guys would just pick a random room and something to sit on while going on their phones. I was told to clean up garbage and saw one of them, they said they were “working on the deficiencies/ back frame list”
I worked on a job once that I swear must have been a front for drug trafficking or something. The company provided almost everything: nail guns, laser levels, miter saws, fans during the summer and heat during the winter, etc. They hired some skilled guys but the majority of the workers were low skill and you could fuck off all you wanted and they didnt really care
As someone who has worked in construction this is 100% accurate!! Only thing he forgot is to constantly look at the Blueprints for a long period of time pretending you know what your doing!!!😂😂
driving under the speed limit got me out of a history test in high school. had a dentist appt in the morning and i definitely could have made it back to school in time for the start of the period but decided to drive cautiously and walked in just five minutes before the class was over. scheduled my make up time for the end of the week and had three extra days to study, plus i could ask my friends what content was worth the bigger point questions.
Here's one from our boys that Sham proudly in the military; Grab a clipboard, a pen, and start walking about. Write stuff down that might seem important for later, but isn't. Y'know, like... "Tacklebox: 2nd Time". People'll ask, "What does that mean, 2nd time?" Then you hit 'em with the "Not important for you to know." If its a boss-man? "I'm keeping track of his progress and any mistakes he's making, so we can help him on it at the end of the year". If you think a year is too much, try "finished on the job site". Boss-man'll probably think that's a good idea, and I'm sure Tacklebox or anyone else you're "monitoring" will fuck up at some point to justify your "2nd time". If the job goes on for long enough, you may never even need to bring this shit up again. Oh, another I remembered! Grab a few pieces of paper with some important-looking bullshit on it. Spreadsheet, a bunch of other shit, just stuff that looks important. Then? Look *PISSED* and I mean it. Be stomp-walking, maybe swear a few times, especially when you know nobody is looking, but someone might be listening... And then find a place that you can go into that has no way to look inside or something... And go in. Maybe scout it beforehand. Some part of the building that's finished, or apart of the job site that nobody ever goes into... You'll know it well enough if you never see anyone go into it. Use other methods to stick around nearby, to see who goes into it, and at what times. Try and scout it for a week, if your job site is gonna go for months longer. THEN, once you have your spot, your papers, and your pissed off look? March in there, close the door behind you loudly, and... Take a nap. If you can, lock the door.
Big thing I do at work (in a mill) is re-read run sheets, JSA's, SDS's, tally sheets, whatever. Can take 15 minutes just letting my eyes glaze over. A lot of the time someone else will come take a look at the sheet and actually grab info off of it and run off to do something with it, which makes it look like I'm really trying to get the information in because obviously that guy doesn't fucking know it off by heart. Especially good if I can take charge after a changeover and say "alright we're gonna need this, can you go grab it? Alright, I'll set this up, hey can you get that set up? Ah shit has anyone seen the thing? No? Alright shit you set this up I'm gonna find the thing" and I get another 20 minutes looking for something when I already know where it is.
I always walked around with the grinder, impact or chipping hammer while acting like I was looking for something. On days when I was hungover, I actually probably only worked like 20-40 minutes on those days.
And that makes you less of a man and disappointment that your too much of a pussy to actually work even when your hung over. Hungover throwing up on the job or just plain tired but I NEVER let it affect my performance no matter how shitty I felt.
Fun fact you can pry the on/off switch off of the machine and the switch works by it has ground tabs on the back of the switch that touch the pull cord case, so just bend the tab so it doesn’t touch the case put it back in and boom won’t ever start no matter what
In car sales if I ever needed to take a quick break or run to the liquor store I would grab a clip board and walk like I’m excited and in a hurry. Worked 9/10 times
@@volleybrawl1 that was the time he got caught and got fired is my guess. Or, he was successful at retrieving the boos, but reeked of it later during a test drive with a client.... maybe the boss was already at the liquor store? Many possibilities for time 10/10
As someone who used to work with construction shit, I can guarantee you that we all do this shit and it's always annoying when you were about to slack off and someone beat you to it
There was one time someone said "people only ask you questions because you are approachable" All you need to do to not get bothered at work is just look angry and be angry all the time. Been doing it ever since.
I did this in retail and it worked every time. It definitely didn't earn me any points with the manager but who works in retail with expectations to advance in that career.
I have a friend who has mastered those skills to perfection. He even has some more like carrying a plank from one end of the workplace to the other... He knows how to look super busy :D
I knew a guy who would come up to me before picking something up, and whisper “don’t work us out of a job” and I realized quick that it helps to ask for a hand sometimes 😂
love the tacklebox comments. also make sure the small engine ur trying to fire up is not a Honda cause everyone knows unfortunately honda"s small engines run forever and start automatically. Unless low to no oil then no start. great vids.
When I was a laborer I used get an industrial size trash bag take the trash out a trash can fill my bag up find a good hiding spot and come out walking fast when I see the bosses coming.Bosses love it !
I lived on a cruise ship for 4 months and every waking hour I carried around a clip board wearing an orange vest and they friggin thought I worked there and slept in crew birthing. I took off my orange vest and ate buffets. The judge said I can go back on that cruise line in 2 more years.
I mean we aren’t hurting for houses around here because Ottawa is always on it’s way outwards. In this scenario I do prefer to put that effort into doing the job right and efficiently so we always stay the first choice for contracts moving forward.
Dude, I can barely breathe. I've been doing construction for a couple years now, can 100% attest to people I know doing this (including me). If you want to make the I'm busy look even more credible, actually try and implement that behavior every once in a while as you are actually working. I honestly can say I always look like I'm doing something because I usually am, but sometimes... 😆
Absolutely right. I manage the nursery and a lot of our exterior stock at the hardware store I work at. About 7-of-10 times, I AM busy, but the other 3, I DEFINITELY look busy
Did you get into it already knowing how to read blueprints or get taught how to read them on the job? Im getting into construction but i dont know how to read prints
@@namegoeshere69 I learned that after the fact. I was very lucky to get a job where it was not required at first. I started learning on the first building site I went on. Was very lucky it wasn't a new construction site, and that someone with the knowledge and the time could give me a run-down on print interpretation. Ended up learning the rest on my own. I would definetly say it's best to have what ever knowledge is needed, and then some.
If you work inside, a perimeter check is always a good one. Especially if you have deliveries or shipments coming in and out. You can always say you were cleaning up trash or someone ran over a bush or something.
Construction is pretty simple once you understand the mechanics of the thing. You got a hole, you one guy digging the hole. You got one guy watching the guy digging the hole. You got one guy watching the guy whose watching the guy digging the hole. You got one guy on the phone the entire time talking to who knows. You got another guy with maps and charts and a bunch of other scientific equipment for hole digging. Then you got one guy who is standing there saying “yep that’s a hole right there mhm”
Never worked construction, but i did work a company that makes veranda's. My favorite one was: Well all this measuring is costing the boss so much time and money... I should totally make a jig for this! *spends half the day making a simple jig that could be made in under an hour* Boss thought i was hard at work, coworkers were pissed at first UNTIL they discovered how much better using my jig was, AND i got to goldbrick for half a day! That's a win in my book!
Sometimes at the big companies and your a new guy your limited in what you can actually do and if all the guys running a machine or project are “busy” especially if the supervisor comes. As a new guy sometimes these skills are for survival. Cuz the supervisor wants to see you looking busy even though you have had no direction given to you the entire day. I remember my feet would be killing me from walking around all day looking busy I was actually wishing to actually be busy hahahah
I work in the shipping department at my company and one thing I tend to do to look busy: walk around with a clipboard that has a small piece of paper attached with such small writing on it that nobody taking a short and quick glance can see it's really your grocery list, and then just walk around staring at different racks and shelves. the idea: they'll think "he's busy looking for something". the reality: "I'm not looking for anything. I just look like I'm looking for something"
This take me back to my army days. Myself and a buddy would stand on different sides of a piece of equipment and yell back an for “ok” . I got to a point where we did this for so long that we couldn’t stop laughing. No one ever said a word to us.
I work in a machine shop and I have literally perfected the "frown and look around". I add the brisk walk and carry around blueprint or work order. Works every time!
I'm gonna tell you now how we do this in Poland. Sit wherever there is something to do and wait for a manager to get in sight. Then you just stand up and do something... I dunno like go around with empty wheelbarrow and pretend to look for something to carry. It usually works. If not then just say you don't need the wheelbarrow there and you have to move it somewhere else. Like the most distant place at the construction site for example. If the manager comes with you to look where the fuck you're going that means you bought your coworkers some time to hide the cans of beer. When you come back to the spot you were suppose to work at, you gotta tell the manager he is needed somewhere else because someone over somewhere said they need something and you do not remember what. When the manager leaves you can sit down and drink some more beer. (If there is accident and you are drunk you have to leave immediately and go to hospital. If manager shows up someone has to say that the person whom was injured had to leave, because they left a stove running, I dunno I bet you can figure out something else.)
I do this when I was at Amazon I would walk around the warehouse as if I’m looking for someone, or something. I sometimes did this when I went upstairs where all the machines are at, where they add the shipping labels on looking around, as if I’m looking for jams, or trash around the area or even seeing if we have more boxes we should add to the belt.
Years ago, 2000, I worked briefly in a machine shop, VA medical center complex 🏥 western Pennsylvania. 1 VA staff member stomped around all day grouse about a "big delivery". 📦 I even asked the shop guy if they needed help with the delivery boxes. Around 200pm(they closed at 400pm) the VA metal shop guys were all excited, they ran out to a van and came back with 3 med size boxes, 3. 🤷🏼♂️ The shop got all worked up over 1 delivery of 3 cardboard boxes 📦.
This is good for when there's actually no work to do but the boss expects you to either make work or make yourself unemployed. Killing time like this is such a mind numbingly boring way to spend the day. I enjoy being actually busy because the day goes by so much faster and you feel like you've accomplished something at the end of the day.
LMAO. I used to do tile work with my dad and would love when he would send me out for lunch for the two of us. Used the classic under the speed limit method 🤣
First day at a job site I took a 3 hour lunch it only cost me a pack of Marlboro lights. The next day I got sent from the job site to the small engine shop with a broken generator that shit took like 6 hours. I did alot of work and alot of standing around watching at that company. Now, I'm on my feet busting my ass for 12 hours a day.
I work manufacturing making aluminum cans for soda/beer companies and one thing I do is grab a can hook and walk the plant looking for cans to pick up off the ground! Get asked "Hey can you give me a hand over with the palletizer?" I respond with "I would like to but I'm actually on my way to sort pallets, we got some cans with the wrong label mixed in, so....." Than I just head over to the sort and end up standing there slowly pushing cans back onto the line!
Man one time I seen these two Electricians holding there tape measures extended out using it to point at stuff in the ceiling as I got closer I heard them talking about what they did over the weekend!! I said man thats the best trick I've seen yet!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💯💪
I perfected this at the age of 23, 20 years ago. Thought I was genius. I also used to count to myself and carry a clipboard. Buy a case of beer for the crew now and then. Always volunteer to fix equipment.
As an asphalt, concrete, rebar and gravel inspsector I do a lot of trying to look important. Don’t worry I actually work in the natural gas business for 15+ years so I didn’t get paid to do nothing forever
I knew a guy who worked for the county road maintenance who’s been pretending to take inventory his entire career, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. He’s got the exaggerated counting and inspecting down to a science. Thing is his boss didn’t care but the big boss would assume that he was told to do it.
Working in a fabrication shop, if you really wanted to look busy just start measuring stuff. I would just stand at the steel rack measuring different lengths of steel for hours. Or go rearrange pallets of drops and steel pretending like you're digging for a specific skid of materual. Another one was maintenance on the forklift. Just grab a grease gun and start greasing it. Kills a good hour of the day. Staying busy does help the day go by faster but when the work drys up and there is nothing to do, this is what id do. Lol
I did this kinda crap at my retail job at Home Depot as a teen. I learned pretty early on that if there's no customers and you look like you're doing nothing, you'll get roped into some b.s. from another department. So I found ways to look busy at all times lol.
"WE all worked hard today" hahaha yes yes WE did dint we? I tell you what I'm a real hard working guy and after years of hard work ive gotten a job watching a robot do the work for me and I just help it out when it messes something up. I'm now getting paid more then I ever have. I had to look deep inside myself and find the lazy part of me I stamped out years and years ago, I asked him how do I keep this lovely job? Working constantly even though there's literally nothing to do
Imagine living in one of those houses wondering when the damn construction will be finished only to see this guy filming a video about how to waste time on the job LMAO
I once stood at a gang box with two buckets, six all thread rods and 18 nuts. For 4 hours. I ran those nuts up and down the all thread and kept pulling my tape on them and would put them in one bucket, then repeat and put them back into the first bucket. The supe walked by three times and didn't bat an eye.
23 years working in industry, I approve this message. And if anybody ask you what you're doing all you have to say is "Oh hey you guys got a few minutes?" And boom suddenly they're busy and leave you alone
Sometimes I would carry a gas tester with me and if anybody asked me what I was doing I was going to do gas testing, and then I would f off
😅
My go to is putting gloves on and carrying around a piece of paper and pretending to look confused. I always keep some paperwork in my back pocket in case i feel like i’m not getting paid enough
why is my house 6 months behind
Yeah because they are doing the same as you lol
This is why roads take 20 years to make 💀
And costs so much.
🤣
Calm down Karen.
🤣 exactly, especially here in Ohio.
Michigan too
My 8 years of construction, this makes me realize I did more than I should've
You make others work and you just take credit. That's how you get promoted to a position where you make others work and take the credit. It goes even better if you can convince them to love you for it. You're not the guy not getting anything done, because you're the guy that's making sure it's getting done by making sure they get it done. Logic 8)
Forgot one... when the tape is out, there is no doubt. As long as your tape is extended, your gonna get commended. Just random measuring with a frustrated face. Works everytime 👍
Correct. Props. Always carry a prop. Tape works best but each job is different.
Carry a scowl and a prop and walk around like you're about to chew someone's ass off for fucking up and people will leave you alone for weeks.
What if someone asks you what you're doing?
Remember that scowl you're carrying around on your face? Here's where that bad boy really comes into play. Use it. You're so mad you can't even make full sentences. Make the person who asked you something regret slowing you down because You Are On A Mission.
My go to prop was a clipboard with peoples names on it, split into two groups. What do the groups mean? Absolutely nothing, and you know that. What do the two groups mean to people who are on the list? They mean everything to them and they fear the worst.
Say you're stomping around and someone stops to ask you a question. Stare at them for a second then in a frustrated manner erase their name from one group and move it to the other group. Ask the person their name just to be sure, that'll get their attention.
Keep in mind, only do this if you're higher up on the totem pole, otherwise you'll probably get ran off.
@@thomasmitchell4128 You put a lot of thought how to milk work and bilk your company!!
Missed another.... At the very end of the day, just before quttin time, turn that knob to "on" and crank it up...Job well done...validation...
I've found that actually being busy makes the day go by much faster than when I just act busy
day goes by faster and it's much more satisfying. being lazy is hard work.
Bore out is a thing.
Found an actual construction worker.
You’re right but that’s not the point 😄
@luca fresh i do but that's because my boss is very pleasant and fair.
The difference between a toxic company versus the company im at right now is night and day.
Glad to hear Tacklebox is still out there killin it! 🙂
Yeah at this rate, Tacklebox is gonna be running the company
I'm surprised tacklebox is still there honestly. Probably a diversity hire lol
A lifer they call them
I'm pretty sure tacklebox is a synonym for "new guy".
If its anything like Australia the harder you work the more coworkers will hate you and probably work together to have you fired@@justinhafner12383
I worked for a major construction company stright out of high school and climbed the ladder fairly fast and my project manager who was also a family friend taught me these skills at a young age. Another great trick is to always have the roll of prints with you and have 2 or 3 friends just stand and stare at the plans while you bs for 2 hours lol
This is gold
You forgot the old roll up the extension Chord and then walk across the job site unroll it -then repeat over and over
After a while you get pretty good at it!
I’m dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nahhh nah, I ain’t never thought about that one 😂😂😂 that would be the one right there. At least until boss man comes and ask wtf you’re doing
i'm a big fan of standing at the top of a ladder with my head in the ceiling and doing some meditating
Did a lot of that
😂
i used to manage the warehouse at a circuit city. one day i decided i wanted to get out of the warehouse for awhile. so i taped two empty cardboard boxes to a dolly. put on a back brace and gloves and just walked on the floor for like 4 hours...playing video games. watching demo movies, etc. no one ever caught on. the store manager even came up to me and said "man you have been working your ass off today"
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This is gr8!!!
I love sitting in a corner of the job site just smacking my hammer on stuff while making grunting noises. The more grunts the "harder your working"
I’d just assume you’re special and let you be
Just like an anime protagonist....
@@pats9414 possibly. But i still make more then you
i have fired more clowns like you than i can count
@@umomiekiller well you seem proud of ripping off your employer 😆
Pro tip: Just stand in a random room with the blueprints and look at the ceiling, then the prints and repeat. After about 30 mins move rooms. Anyone asks what you’re doing, “I was double checking some stuff”. I’ve killed many days this way.
lol always the double check line
@Ed-ds3hj The real work can be done in a fraction of the time but requires focus and dedication.
So, for example, an immigrant worker crew will complete the work in a day that these guys will take 2 weeks to do.
@@bilsidwe’re all training to put some immigrants to work.
@@alwaysskeptical7221 and the immigrants are training to put robots at work
I started at a new company a little over a year ago and they joked about how if you really want to look busy to do laps around the job site with a forklift. Now days, I realize that it’s a legit thing.
I used to work with a guy who would “walk nowhere with a purpose”
Did it like 5 times a day 10
Minutes across the job site and back
So funny 🤣
I do that about 90% of the time at my retail job. My social anxiety thanks me. Thinking about leaving soon, but the 6% 401k match is nice.
@@TheNuclearBolton make your own money don’t set limits to yourself like “6% of your 401k”. Go MAKE $401k. Bake your own pie stop slaving for someone else’s crumbs
@luca fresh If you are a in a city start with uber eats and door dash, technically not working for yourself but it will get you used to having your own schedule and working as long or little as you want.
We had a guy just like that and we would always say "there goes your 2 dollar raise"
I work in logging and heard stories from my co-workers about this guy that would be out in the woods pretending to work by firing up his chainsaw once in a while, just revving it up and actually cutting nothing so that it would sound like he's working to people listening elsewhere in the area. I guess he would sit around smoking cigarettes all day revving up his saw half the time.
The YMCA of looking busy, hoooooolllyyyyy shit this man just struck gold!! Classic!
As a former tradesman, I highly recommend the 50 count box of Dunkin’ munchkins. Coming back late with a dozen donuts looks like your milking, and not everyone will want an entire donut; but most munchkin’s are grab and go; and everyone will have at least one; or two, or Five.
Yeah gonna need like two or three of those 50 packs on the jobsites I end up on lmao
@@EffedupYou’ll have those on them big jobs
"measure 15 to 17 times. Don't even cut it"
That seriously made me laugh out loud.
This works in a big company try it in a company of 3 or 5 guys and it’s WAY more of a challenge lol
Yea, I’m in a crew of 3, ain’t no way
Last time I worked construction. We ended up spending half our shifts sleeping in the van. Good times
I was with a framing crew with about 30-40 guys back in 2017. At that size you wouldn’t even need to try to hide, guys would just pick a random room and something to sit on while going on their phones. I was told to clean up garbage and saw one of them, they said they were “working on the deficiencies/ back frame list”
Your crew has been building that same apartment for like, what, 3 years?
This is an underrated comment. Have a like.
I worked on a job once that I swear must have been a front for drug trafficking or something. The company provided almost everything: nail guns, laser levels, miter saws, fans during the summer and heat during the winter, etc. They hired some skilled guys but the majority of the workers were low skill and you could fuck off all you wanted and they didnt really care
Your profile name fits your comment nicely.
“measure 15-17 times… and then don’t even cut” 😂😂😂
I used to carry around a empty yellow paint can so it looked like I was painting the safety polls at a ice plant I worked at
As someone who has worked in construction this is 100% accurate!!
Only thing he forgot is to constantly look at the Blueprints for a long period of time pretending you know what your doing!!!😂😂
Dude, you can’t give away our secrets like this!!! I got thru 27 years of construction like this
“Not now tacklebox” 😂
driving under the speed limit got me out of a history test in high school. had a dentist appt in the morning and i definitely could have made it back to school in time for the start of the period but decided to drive cautiously and walked in just five minutes before the class was over. scheduled my make up time for the end of the week and had three extra days to study, plus i could ask my friends what content was worth the bigger point questions.
dont even gotta drive slow. Just go and buy lunch, come back right before class ends, and you're good.
Here's one from our boys that Sham proudly in the military;
Grab a clipboard, a pen, and start walking about. Write stuff down that might seem important for later, but isn't. Y'know, like... "Tacklebox: 2nd Time". People'll ask, "What does that mean, 2nd time?" Then you hit 'em with the "Not important for you to know." If its a boss-man? "I'm keeping track of his progress and any mistakes he's making, so we can help him on it at the end of the year". If you think a year is too much, try "finished on the job site". Boss-man'll probably think that's a good idea, and I'm sure Tacklebox or anyone else you're "monitoring" will fuck up at some point to justify your "2nd time". If the job goes on for long enough, you may never even need to bring this shit up again.
Oh, another I remembered!
Grab a few pieces of paper with some important-looking bullshit on it. Spreadsheet, a bunch of other shit, just stuff that looks important. Then? Look *PISSED* and I mean it. Be stomp-walking, maybe swear a few times, especially when you know nobody is looking, but someone might be listening... And then find a place that you can go into that has no way to look inside or something... And go in. Maybe scout it beforehand. Some part of the building that's finished, or apart of the job site that nobody ever goes into... You'll know it well enough if you never see anyone go into it. Use other methods to stick around nearby, to see who goes into it, and at what times. Try and scout it for a week, if your job site is gonna go for months longer. THEN, once you have your spot, your papers, and your pissed off look? March in there, close the door behind you loudly, and... Take a nap. If you can, lock the door.
I'd really like to work for you.
E-4 mafia are the sham kings
@@rodneyhorsley8601 If they exist, which they 100% don't.
Workplace hideout is the throne of kings.
Big thing I do at work (in a mill) is re-read run sheets, JSA's, SDS's, tally sheets, whatever. Can take 15 minutes just letting my eyes glaze over. A lot of the time someone else will come take a look at the sheet and actually grab info off of it and run off to do something with it, which makes it look like I'm really trying to get the information in because obviously that guy doesn't fucking know it off by heart. Especially good if I can take charge after a changeover and say "alright we're gonna need this, can you go grab it? Alright, I'll set this up, hey can you get that set up? Ah shit has anyone seen the thing? No? Alright shit you set this up I'm gonna find the thing" and I get another 20 minutes looking for something when I already know where it is.
“Measured 17 times bud didn’t cut” can’t wait to use this one on Monday. 👍
I always walked around with the grinder, impact or chipping hammer while acting like I was looking for something. On days when I was hungover, I actually probably only worked like 20-40 minutes on those days.
And that makes you less of a man and disappointment that your too much of a pussy to actually work even when your hung over. Hungover throwing up on the job or just plain tired but I NEVER let it affect my performance no matter how shitty I felt.
Feel great for your boss!!! 8hrs doing 20 to 40 minutes of work! America thanks you for keeping the wheels of this machine going forward!!
You are the communist.
The founding fathers are proud of you
Insanely accurate to every construction job I’ve ever worked
Fun fact you can pry the on/off switch off of the machine and the switch works by it has ground tabs on the back of the switch that touch the pull cord case, so just bend the tab so it doesn’t touch the case put it back in and boom won’t ever start no matter what
In car sales if I ever needed to take a quick break or run to the liquor store I would grab a clip board and walk like I’m excited and in a hurry. Worked 9/10 times
I think we would all love to hear about the other 1 time
Slacker
@@volleybrawl1 that was the time he got caught and got fired is my guess. Or, he was successful at retrieving the boos, but reeked of it later during a test drive with a client.... maybe the boss was already at the liquor store? Many possibilities for time 10/10
To the liquor store oh boy
As someone who used to work with construction shit, I can guarantee you that we all do this shit and it's always annoying when you were about to slack off and someone beat you to it
I work in the industry. I knew exactly what you were doing with that look around. I was just doing that move this afternoon.
There was one time someone said "people only ask you questions because you are approachable"
All you need to do to not get bothered at work is just look angry and be angry all the time. Been doing it ever since.
Me too. People, generally coworkers, sometimes (timidly) approach me to ask if I'm alright. I just tell them "yeah, same old shit. You know?"
Man don't be giving out all my secrets 😂😂
The more angry you seem, the less likely people are to want to ask questions.
Good advice from George Costanza
@@michaelbertram1994 yep. Always look annoyed lol
I did this in retail and it worked every time. It definitely didn't earn me any points with the manager but who works in retail with expectations to advance in that career.
I don't know whether to like the video because it's accurate, or dislike it because you're contributing to the POS's I work with daily.
I have a friend who has mastered those skills to perfection. He even has some more like carrying a plank from one end of the workplace to the other... He knows how to look super busy :D
+1 on the "buy everyone a treat" never fails!!
I knew a guy who would come up to me before picking something up, and whisper “don’t work us out of a job” and I realized quick that it helps to ask for a hand sometimes 😂
love the tacklebox comments. also make sure the small engine ur trying to fire up is not a Honda cause everyone knows unfortunately honda"s small engines run forever and start automatically. Unless low to no oil then no start. great vids.
That first step you gave is so critical lol
The amount of times I've done the frown walk on site LOLOL that killed me
When I was a laborer I used get an industrial size trash bag take the trash out a trash can fill my bag up find a good hiding spot and come out walking fast when I see the bosses coming.Bosses love it !
I lived on a cruise ship for 4 months and every waking hour I carried around a clip board wearing an orange vest and they friggin thought I worked there and slept in crew birthing. I took off my orange vest and ate buffets. The judge said I can go back on that cruise line in 2 more years.
You absolute madlad I commend your bullshitery 😂
I mean we aren’t hurting for houses around here because Ottawa is always on it’s way outwards. In this scenario I do prefer to put that effort into doing the job right and efficiently so we always stay the first choice for contracts moving forward.
Dude, I can barely breathe. I've been doing construction for a couple years now, can 100% attest to people I know doing this (including me). If you want to make the I'm busy look even more credible, actually try and implement that behavior every once in a while as you are actually working. I honestly can say I always look like I'm doing something because I usually am, but sometimes... 😆
Absolutely right. I manage the nursery and a lot of our exterior stock at the hardware store I work at. About 7-of-10 times, I AM busy, but the other 3, I DEFINITELY look busy
Did you get into it already knowing how to read blueprints or get taught how to read them on the job? Im getting into construction but i dont know how to read prints
@@namegoeshere69 I learned that after the fact. I was very lucky to get a job where it was not required at first. I started learning on the first building site I went on. Was very lucky it wasn't a new construction site, and that someone with the knowledge and the time could give me a run-down on print interpretation. Ended up learning the rest on my own. I would definetly say it's best to have what ever knowledge is needed, and then some.
If you work inside, a perimeter check is always a good one. Especially if you have deliveries or shipments coming in and out. You can always say you were cleaning up trash or someone ran over a bush or something.
Construction is pretty simple once you understand the mechanics of the thing. You got a hole, you one guy digging the hole. You got one guy watching the guy digging the hole. You got one guy watching the guy whose watching the guy digging the hole. You got one guy on the phone the entire time talking to who knows. You got another guy with maps and charts and a bunch of other scientific equipment for hole digging. Then you got one guy who is standing there saying “yep that’s a hole right there mhm”
Bro I always do da look around wen I can’t find nun to finish 🤣🤣🤣💯🐐
Never worked construction, but i did work a company that makes veranda's. My favorite one was: Well all this measuring is costing the boss so much time and money... I should totally make a jig for this! *spends half the day making a simple jig that could be made in under an hour*
Boss thought i was hard at work, coworkers were pissed at first UNTIL they discovered how much better using my jig was, AND i got to goldbrick for half a day! That's a win in my book!
Sometimes at the big companies and your a new guy your limited in what you can actually do and if all the guys running a machine or project are “busy” especially if the supervisor comes. As a new guy sometimes these skills are for survival. Cuz the supervisor wants to see you looking busy even though you have had no direction given to you the entire day. I remember my feet would be killing me from walking around all day looking busy I was actually wishing to actually be busy hahahah
I work in the shipping department at my company and one thing I tend to do to look busy: walk around with a clipboard that has a small piece of paper attached with such small writing on it that nobody taking a short and quick glance can see it's really your grocery list, and then just walk around staring at different racks and shelves. the idea: they'll think "he's busy looking for something". the reality: "I'm not looking for anything. I just look like I'm looking for something"
This take me back to my army days. Myself and a buddy would stand on different sides of a piece of equipment and yell back an for “ok” . I got to a point where we did this for so long that we couldn’t stop laughing. No one ever said a word to us.
I work in a machine shop and I have literally perfected the "frown and look around". I add the brisk walk and carry around blueprint or work order. Works every time!
Lol. The brisk walk is the key move to look busy.
Readjusting the ole tool pouch over and over helps as well
I'm gonna tell you now how we do this in Poland. Sit wherever there is something to do and wait for a manager to get in sight. Then you just stand up and do something... I dunno like go around with empty wheelbarrow and pretend to look for something to carry. It usually works. If not then just say you don't need the wheelbarrow there and you have to move it somewhere else. Like the most distant place at the construction site for example. If the manager comes with you to look where the fuck you're going that means you bought your coworkers some time to hide the cans of beer.
When you come back to the spot you were suppose to work at, you gotta tell the manager he is needed somewhere else because someone over somewhere said they need something and you do not remember what. When the manager leaves you can sit down and drink some more beer. (If there is accident and you are drunk you have to leave immediately and go to hospital. If manager shows up someone has to say that the person whom was injured had to leave, because they left a stove running, I dunno I bet you can figure out something else.)
Measure 15-17 times and that's it. Don't even cut.
As someone who works in the trade.. this is exactly how I deal with the anxiety of having important people being present on the job.
I do this when I was at Amazon I would walk around the warehouse as if I’m looking for someone, or something.
I sometimes did this when I went upstairs where all the machines are at, where they add the shipping labels on looking around, as if I’m looking for jams, or trash around the area or even seeing if we have more boxes we should add to the belt.
0:50 “Not now tackle box, I’m Busy!”
Years ago, 2000, I worked briefly in a machine shop, VA medical center complex 🏥 western Pennsylvania. 1 VA staff member stomped around all day grouse about a "big delivery". 📦 I even asked the shop guy if they needed help with the delivery boxes. Around 200pm(they closed at 400pm) the VA metal shop guys were all excited, they ran out to a van and came back with 3 med size boxes, 3. 🤷🏼♂️ The shop got all worked up over 1 delivery of 3 cardboard boxes 📦.
I love how you measured from the center of the stud. Makes me think you know what your doing
Always carry a prop (tool) in your hand also, when your trying to look busy.
I am a constructor inspector for road work. I c this all the time!!!
This is good for when there's actually no work to do but the boss expects you to either make work or make yourself unemployed. Killing time like this is such a mind numbingly boring way to spend the day. I enjoy being actually busy because the day goes by so much faster and you feel like you've accomplished something at the end of the day.
LMAO. I used to do tile work with my dad and would love when he would send me out for lunch for the two of us. Used the classic under the speed limit method 🤣
Imagine your shock when you consdier that he might have been slacking whilst you were away, but also didn't have to get the lunch.
That first part is so true and I have an “I’m busy” face for when I’m not exactly trying to work lmfao
I’ve been following for awhile now and I can’t thank you enough for such great content. 👍
First day at a job site I took a 3 hour lunch it only cost me a pack of Marlboro lights. The next day I got sent from the job site to the small engine shop with a broken generator that shit took like 6 hours. I did alot of work and alot of standing around watching at that company. Now, I'm on my feet busting my ass for 12 hours a day.
I'm a big measure 15-17 times and then don't cut at all kinda guy. What an epic video :)
😂
I work manufacturing making aluminum cans for soda/beer companies and one thing I do is grab a can hook and walk the plant looking for cans to pick up off the ground! Get asked "Hey can you give me a hand over with the palletizer?" I respond with "I would like to but I'm actually on my way to sort pallets, we got some cans with the wrong label mixed in, so....." Than I just head over to the sort and end up standing there slowly pushing cans back onto the line!
Man one time I seen these two Electricians holding there tape measures extended out using it to point at stuff in the ceiling as I got closer I heard them talking about what they did over the weekend!! I said man thats the best trick I've seen yet!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💯💪
You forgot the high vis vest and clipboard. Sometimes I just walk around the warehouse randomly "counting". Not a single question ever.
lol its amazing how just counting and pointing can make people leave you alone indefinitely.
I perfected this at the age of 23, 20 years ago. Thought I was genius. I also used to count to myself and carry a clipboard. Buy a case of beer for the crew now and then. Always volunteer to fix equipment.
It’s uncanny how well these videos capture my life.
I prefer to turn on the flashlight and just lay down pretending to look underneath. You lose battery life but sometimes can sneak in a power nap.
Just walk around with a 5gal bucket to different locations and rinse out bucket occasionally.
As an asphalt, concrete, rebar and gravel inspsector I do a lot of trying to look important. Don’t worry I actually work in the natural gas business for 15+ years so I didn’t get paid to do nothing forever
I knew a guy who worked for the county road maintenance who’s been pretending to take inventory his entire career, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. He’s got the exaggerated counting and inspecting down to a science. Thing is his boss didn’t care but the big boss would assume that he was told to do it.
These are in the Union Member books for sure
This apprentice I knew spent 5 hours counting all the screws and tools in the shop and organizing the tools.
You forgot about sharpening your carpenters pencil for 10 minutes at a time making sure it’s “sharp”
Best video since the 5 stages of golf. Educational for both foreman and crew!
Working in a fabrication shop, if you really wanted to look busy just start measuring stuff. I would just stand at the steel rack measuring different lengths of steel for hours. Or go rearrange pallets of drops and steel pretending like you're digging for a specific skid of materual. Another one was maintenance on the forklift. Just grab a grease gun and start greasing it. Kills a good hour of the day. Staying busy does help the day go by faster but when the work drys up and there is nothing to do, this is what id do. Lol
I did this kinda crap at my retail job at Home Depot as a teen. I learned pretty early on that if there's no customers and you look like you're doing nothing, you'll get roped into some b.s. from another department. So I found ways to look busy at all times lol.
Bruh, you’re giving away all my best moves. 😂 subscribed 👍🏻
i worked construction one summer and i became the master of looking busy
“Do something, even if it’s wrong!” That’s what I was told on the job.
Lol I have to keep reminding myself to slow down when I'm driving on the clock. Gotta stay safe!
I work on a turkey farm and its hilarious how accurate and effective the 'frowny walk' is LOL
This the most accurate video in the history of TH-cam
"WE all worked hard today" hahaha yes yes WE did dint we? I tell you what I'm a real hard working guy and after years of hard work ive gotten a job watching a robot do the work for me and I just help it out when it messes something up. I'm now getting paid more then I ever have. I had to look deep inside myself and find the lazy part of me I stamped out years and years ago, I asked him how do I keep this lovely job? Working constantly even though there's literally nothing to do
You got this on point I work construction lmfaoooo I usually unplug the spark plug or put it on choke lol
Imagine living in one of those houses wondering when the damn construction will be finished only to see this guy filming a video about how to waste time on the job LMAO
I once stood at a gang box with two buckets, six all thread rods and 18 nuts. For 4 hours. I ran those nuts up and down the all thread and kept pulling my tape on them and would put them in one bucket, then repeat and put them back into the first bucket. The supe walked by three times and didn't bat an eye.
Or,you do your job with a good attitude and the day flies by.
1:48 fuzz out that bobcat logo
I’m watching this at work 👍