construction sites.........love em or hate em?

[Sweats]

So, this just happened at work.......

 

We have a 25-year-old girl who just started this week in our office as a Project Coordinator and this morning she had to go out on the construction site to look at a few things. Well, it seems that some of the guys on site were hitting on her, asking her out for drinks, wanting to go back to her hotel and party with her, etc........she was visibly upset with this and told our boss about it.

The boss went on site and told the guys to pack up their stuff at 11am and start their weekend early......this happened at 8am.

 

I told him that he should have kicked them off site at 8am and not to ever come back and he said he needed them to stay till at least 11am for them to finish a few things first.

 

* So, by not kicking them off site immediately, he has no problem with what happened as long as he could make it work to his best advantage

 

That tells me that he doesn't know how to handle it, he doesn't care about it, or he is totally unprofessional........maybe a little of all three.

 

My opinion, let them know it's unacceptable and get them off site as quickly as possible.

 

So, i ask thee, oh message board warriors, who is in the wrong on this?

 

[UConn James]

I mean… are they just gonna be back on Monday?

Because if so, they just got a long weekend out of sexual harassment and that gal should maybe look into legal options / HR.

 

Are the guys like day laborers, tradesmen, union? Did the boss at the very least upbraid them?

[Simon]

If he didn't have a problem with it, he wouldn't have booted them at all.
He's got a responsibility to the client that he can't just abandon because the FNG was upset.

If you're upset about how it was handled, you're being self-righteous and are in the wrong.

[Sweats]

36 minutes ago, Simon said:

If he didn't have a problem with it, he wouldn't have booted them at all.
He's got a responsibility to the client that he can't just abandon because the FNG was upset.

If you're upset about how it was handled, you're being self-righteous and are in the wrong.

 

 

 

Okay, so full disclosure for this project........we are the client until building completion and then it gets handed over to the government (it's a government project on a military base).

Also, as a military/government project, they have full access and disclosure to everything that happens on the project. They have no say in the project but have access to everything about it.

* Would you want to hear that something like this happened upfront and know that it was dealt with accordingly?.......and at least words were said as a reprimand and addressed in a satisfactory manner?

* Or would you want to hear this after the fact and feel that nothing was done or very little concern about it?

 

If i was a client or potential future client, i would at least want to know and let myself decide the severity of it and not have to hear about it 2nd hand, where truths get distorted and misconstrued and legal issues could potentially happen where liability will be placed on "burden of proof" between he said/she said.

 

.........i'm fairly certain the government/military doesn't want their name on that.

 

[Simon]

5 minutes ago, Sweats said:

Would you want to hear that something like this happened upfront and know that it was dealt with accordingly?.......and at least words were said as a reprimand and addressed in a satisfactory manner?

 

I was under the impression that the boss gave everybody a world class ass-chewing before he sent them packing.

[Sweats]

6 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

I was under the impression that the boss gave everybody a world class ass-chewing before he sent them packing.

 

 

 

 

The boss said nothing, only for them to gather up their tools and leave at 11am........he didn't even mention why, so you can see how it was obviously mishandled.

[Simon]

1 minute ago, Sweats said:

 

 

 

 

The boss said nothing, only for them to gather up their tools and leave at 11am........he didn't even mention why, so you can see how it was obviously mishandled.

 

Then I retract my previous statement.

He done ***** up.

[Fleezoid]

I would have told them to spend the rest of the day in a gay bar, or they lose their jobs. 

[Sweats]

2 hours ago, UConn James said:

I mean… are they just gonna be back on Monday?

Because if so, they just got a long weekend out of sexual harassment and that gal should maybe look into legal options / HR.

 

Are the guys like day laborers, tradesmen, union? Did the boss at the very least upbraid them?

 

 

 

 

They will not be back on Monday........the boss just escorted them off site and they are done their work, which was why the boss gave them enough time to finish their work before he made them leave.

 

They are laborers, doing fire spraying on the fire rated beams and columns and they are the only company in the area who provides this service, so i do understand from the boss's point, however, i think he just opened the door for having himself in the middle of a liability issue.

 

[Sweats]

As an update......

 

The new girl Project Coordinator has said that she won't be making an issue out of the whole thing, just that she felt uncomfortable about the whole thing and that she didn't like that the workers knew she was staying temporarily in a hotel until she got settled in.

 

She just says that it freaked her out.

And i can kind of understand.......25 years old, working about 8 hours from home, doesn't know the area, doesn't know anybody, etc. and these scrub construction workers are hitting on her, asking her to go out and party with them, knowing she's staying alone at a hotel, etc.

 

Bad things, man.

[dpberr]

I see fault in two places.

 

One, employees need to understand it hasn't been cool to sexually harass in the American workplace since the 70s.  It can get you fired and your employer sued.  

 

Two, it's on the employer to provide the mandatorily attended, annual class on what sexual harassment is, and its consequences, so you can discipline anyone who doesn't get the message going forward.   

 

 

[Just Jack]

I've been on plenty of construction sites.  Some are all professional, and some are "frat party" style.  It all comes down the the general contractor and how they run their site.  

[Sweats]

46 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

I've been on plenty of construction sites.  Some are all professional, and some are "frat party" style.  It all comes down the the general contractor and how they run their site.  

 

 

 

I agree.

Our site for the most part is very professional; however, we have a few work groups where it's like the inmates are running the asylum, and they just don't care about action vs. consequences.

[Mr. WEO]

On 2/21/2025 at 2:32 PM, Just Jack said:

I've been on plenty of construction sites.  Some are all professional, and some are "frat party" style.  It all comes down the the general contractor and how they run their site.  

[Johnny Hammersticks]

She went for one walk around the construction site and got propositioned by like 12 dudes?!  😂 

 

Is she super attractive?  Was she wearing a bikini and heels?  🤔 

 

I worked construction for 4 summers doing fireproofing.  Heard a few “cat calls” to girls walking by the site, but never anything close to this.  Weird…

 

 

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

On 2/21/2025 at 2:20 PM, Sweats said:

 

 

 

I agree.

Our site for the most part is very professional; however, we have a few work groups where it's like the inmates are running the asylum, and they just don't care about action vs. consequences.

Then don't hire the contractor.

 

Sounds like such a crappy type of job they are doing that they got you over a barrel.  Of course they don't care. You gonna fire 'em and force them to find and even more crappy backbreaking job? 😆 

 

 

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by ExiledInIllinois

[BillsPride12]

1 hour ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

She went for one walk around the construction site and got propositioned by like 12 dudes?!  😂 

 

Is she super attractive?  Was she wearing a bikini and heels?  🤔 

 

I worked construction for 4 summers doing fireproofing.  Heard a few “cat calls” to girls walking by the site, but never anything close to this.  Weird…

 

 

 

I don't want to be THAT guy...but this thread could use some pics 

[Augie]

On 2/21/2025 at 2:32 PM, Just Jack said:

I've been on plenty of construction sites.  Some are all professional, and some are "frat party" style.  It all comes down the the general contractor and how they run their site.  

 

One summer I was working construction in South Carolina, and it was almost comical! We were putting up an apartment complex and the boss was named Ace. He was rarely there, but he’d be there in his Bronco on Fridays to pay everyone. His Bronco had a perfect space between the front seats to hold some cooler that would hold his Budweiser tall boys as he went four wheeling over the large piles of excavated earth. He seemed to enjoy that as a Friday morning (drunken) ritual. 

 

After he took a few laps around the site he would call us into the Bronco one at a time for pay day. This was supposedly a HUD project, but Ace paid in cash. There was a bag of cash between his feet, and a great big gun in his lap. The gun was pointed toward the passenger seat. It was clear for even the most ignorant fool there that it was a bad idea to mess with Crazy Ace. 

 

As the only summer college kid there I was teamed with the only Black guy there, a guy named Peter. He was from the low country and spoke Gullah. We were basically unable to communicate with words. For some reason Peter was the only guy to bring his own tools every day. There was a trailer where you could get anything you needed, but Peter was either not welcome to share things from the trailer, or comfortable even broaching the topic.  I found it to be eye opening and very disturbing.

 

There was some crazy heat wave and it was over 100 degrees every day for 3 strait weeks. BRUTAL!  Guys were passing out on second floor roofs and falling. Peter was one of the casualties, falling and breaking his arm. I never saw him again, but I did hear that there was no insurance or workman’s comp, so I have to wonder what Ace ever did with him. 

 

I will say, a summer of construction in blistering weather was enough to make me want to finish school and get a job with air conditioning.