What did you do today?

[Floorist]

So I'm running 4 schools in a local school district-----furniture, asbestos abatement, demo existing floors, some subfloor repairs, some underlayment, LVT and rubber tile + base and then painting.
It's been between 20 and 50 guys-----less as the painting and abatement crews move out. With my bum knee I still can't kneel but I'm OK to help with whatever needs doing. I work for a general contractor so I only help our flooring guys who are "in house". Everything is prevailing wage. Uncle Joe is thrusting those $$trillions$$ our way. I don't think we've even spent all the Obamabucks and the Trumpbucks yet. There's no end in sight to the flurry of government spending.........to create jobs.........and Build Back Better..........or something like that. It's steady work.

Some of the crews building the border wall got paid in advance. Now that Biden cancelled the wall, it is free money. The workers didn't break the contract, so they don't have to pay it back. But it isn't real money, it is tax money.

 

[Incognito]

So I'm running 4 schools in a local school district-----furniture, asbestos abatement, demo existing floors, some subfloor repairs, some underlayment, LVT and rubber tile + base and then painting.
It's been between 20 and 50 guys-----less as the painting and abatement crews move out. With my bum knee I still can't kneel but I'm OK to help with whatever needs doing. I work for a general contractor so I only help our flooring guys who are "in house". Everything is prevailing wage. Uncle Joe is thrusting those $$trillions$$ our way. I don't think we've even spent all the Obamabucks and the Trumpbucks yet. There's no end in sight to the flurry of government spending.........to create jobs.........and Build Back Better..........or something like that. It's steady work.

Some of the crews building the border wall got paid in advance. Now that Biden cancelled the wall, it is free money. The workers didn't break the contract, so they don't have to pay it back. But it isn't real money, it is tax money.

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I'm just under two hours to the border so just about every trade/company/industry has to adapt to that perverse competition from Desperados who will work any time, any place, under any conditions for essentially anything you want to pay them.

Try organizing unions or running a totally LEGIT operation given those circumstances--------in ANY aspect of business.

It's only different by degrees and types of perversions as you move north from our border with the Third World to the rest of the country where Eastern Europeans, Asians and ANYONE ELSE who really wants to work comes here for what's left of the American Dream.

 

[highup]

Some of the crews building the border wall got paid in advance. Now that Biden cancelled the wall, it is free money. The workers didn't break the contract, so they don't have to pay it back. But it isn't real money, it is tax money.

You wonder how many people pulled up stakes and moved to the border because of a guaranteed job building that wall.
....and then to be told sorry, you're fired. Biden canceled your employment.
Somebody owes the workers for the disruption of their life. I'd hope the big contracting companies were compensated for the materials they purchased and the machinery they purchased to build this wall. I can see cranes costing a couple hundred thousand dollars or more. Imagine being a company that purchase half a dozen of those and dozers and other equipment knowing you had a guaranteed long-lasting job.
....and then Biden abruptly canceled the contract.

 

[Incognito]

Most of the roofers in my area are Hispanic. No flooring guys YET here. Springfield , Mo. is full of them.

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I'd guess 80-95% of our union and even higher percent of the nonunion flooring contractors are either from South of the Border or their family came from there to America just the same way my Serbian ancestors came primarily for decent paying work.

 

[Floorist]

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I'd guess 80-95% of our union and even higher percent of the nonunion flooring contractors are either from South of the Border or their family came from there to America just the same way my Serbian ancestors came primarily for decent paying work.

I don't mind them if they won't work for nothing. About 10 years ago we were getting $4.00 a yard and they were charging $1.25 yard there.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Demo

 

[C.J.]

Demo

Nice to see base done properly on rounded corners.

 

[Floorist]

Really odd, all the crawling around on the floor, I thought pain in my knees and hips would plague me, but my feet ache so bad I can't sleep.

 

[Floorist]

Hey Randy, youtube.com/c/AdrianEmmaJeanGalliardMusic/

 

[Incognito]

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[Mark Brown]

That is just mean

 

[zannej]

Gah. The asymmetry of the blue tiles is driving me nuts!

 

[Incognito]

Gah. The asymmetry of the blue tiles is driving me nuts!

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The less blue the better it looks. The ratio is 80/20 and the pattern is "random". The gentlemen installing at these schools understand as much about the concept of "random" as I have mastered the field of biomolecular physics.

So.......FURNITURE is going to really help us here

 

[C.J.]

Actually my ancestors were NA and Irish. The English hated both and took both their countries.

The roots of this country aren’t pretty

 

[Floorist]

The English listed anyone that was not English as non-white. That included all other Europeans.

The roots of this country aren’t pretty
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[C.J.]

When I was younger I was ignorant. You can call it racist, biased, discriminatory or whatever term fits the bill but I was it. Humans are it, we just are. It’s called tribalism. As I get older I realize just how stupid that **** is and just how stupid I was. Reading and traveling opens your eyes and your mind but the single biggest change in my way of thinking came when I moved. I was treated exactly like I had treated others. Called names, looked down upon and basically treated like ****. Gotta admit that is a very humbling experience and it really makes one stop and think. I didn’t like it and I didn’t want to be that way towards others. There’s just no need to be that way in 2021. We’re all human beings and we’re all just trying to survive in one way or another. Between the government and corporations trying to **** you, the last thing anyone needs is some ******* adding to the heap of trash.

As this relates to businesses, and life, I quit directing my energy towards being angry (at others and myself) and started to look at myself. How can I up my game. How can I be a better person and how can I run my business in a more profitable way while being a better person. Making money is the name of the game but I don’t want to do it by being a sleazy douche bag. That’s not forward progress.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Everything is crazy, not sure how long we’ll be around, I do know Bezos and Musk have their own escape vehicle, I’m just not sure humans didn’t F up nearby planets making them toxic, they look a little dusty.

so the house we are demoing tile, lightning hit a nearby tree, tripping the surge protector, a steamer installed in a shower when I opened the bathroom door, steam poured out. Told my brother to find leak while went outside to shut water(thought lightning blew out hot water line. So when we leave I shut off water supply, natural gas stays off from day one. If I were homeowner my insurance company I would demand a safety test of the home. Appliance testing etc.

Old guys next door( concrete finishers) one other guy rode my bus was looking around for lightning while carrying rebar.

Looking for a hard working demo guy if anyone knows of one. Wish I spoke Spanish.

 

[highup]

Mike, I'm glad I don't know your line of work. I'd be fired before noon.
...... Wait a minute, I don't start till noon so I'll be fine.

 

[C.J.]

You know mate, as much as I really hate the corporate greed and I do not entirely disagree with you (or at all disagree with you) one has to really think for a moment who is really to blame. Can you really blame Walmart or Amazon or nestle for winning the game? Capitalism is horseshit in so much as it is not a zero sum game. There is an infinite amount of wealth however there are a finite amount of resources. Wealth is derived by exploiting the finite amount of resources for the most value you can manage and it is typically borne on the backs of everyone trying to obtain the resource created, which again is finite.
Someone has to lose for it to work and frankly that is why it is so broken. I truly hate our western culture and everything it stands for. I'm glad to have been born into it seeing as I am the ruling class or what have you but God damn man, we are degenerates.

Yes we are. I wanted to buy local when I was in Phoenix so I went to a local shop and bought a saw blade. Cost me $120 to ship it and some clamps I bought back to NC via UPS. Bought another saw blade on Amazon. It shipped outta Phoenix and cost me under $9 to ship. If that isn’t incentive to buy from Amazon then what is. My local wood working store doesn’t stock everything so if I want something they have to order it. Why don’t I just order it myself and save some money and a return trip to the store. It’s a death spiral and we’re all doomed. Yeah, I fed the birds even though there are signs all over to not feed them. That’s a grackle. They are an invasive species taking over. Who am I to judge. Ain’t no bird borders, right. That guy is my buddy. I named him Bird Wayne. And the cycle continues.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

I went out to patio to see my wife, there were about 10 black crows, I clapped my hand twice and they flew away. I won’t state my comment.

highup vice versa, not versed in woven.

too much to read, way behind in estimates billing etc. (what I Didn’t do today topic)

one more thing Chris, you can save even more if you buy direct from China I got prices of larger grinders, 9500, 6500,2300, not same exact but which # looks better. Few other examples of sundry items but I’ll hold.

my wife nonchalantly mentions her parents are coming for the weekend, not much emotion in it, shouldn’t some guy on a horse come up yelling “the in-laws are coming, the in-laws are coming?”