I flag traffic for a living Ama

I want to punch you in the face.

>>17524216
I want to dent your riced out shitbox with my sign

>>17524207
why do you fuckers never take down your signs when you're finished work and leave a confusion between drivers whether to do 50 or 25

>>17524207
What do you think of people who rip past once they are clear of the workers and flaggers?

>>17524239
Because standing around doing nothing for 12 hours is way more tiring than it looks, honest
>>17524245
They're kinda annoying assholes, but as long as they don't buzz/hit my workers, idgaf

>>17524207
How much does holding that sign pay?

>>17524207
how much do you make?

Here in california the caltrans workers start at $25/hr, even the flay guys. Then they get awesome overtime and a pension too.

>>17524270
13USD/h

That sucks man it gets so fucking hot out literally like a punishment for a job not to mention being looked down on by everyone

>>17524207
are you union?
if so cool
if not I hope your scab ass gets hit, snagged on a back bumper, and dragged behind a truck for miles before you eventually die from the shock of having your skin ripped off by the pavement

>>17524207
You must love coal rollers huh?

>tfw equipment operator

I appreciate you lads that do the grunt work so my fatass doesn't ever have to get off my ass

>>17524289
Yeah, but sometimes I get to point at people angrily, which is pretty cool, I guess.
>>17524313
I actually kind of enjoy it, when there isn't much traffic. Something interesting and fun that breaks up the monotony.

>>17524325
Sometimes I feel like workers resent me after a long day for having a simpler/easier job. You ever get any of that?

>>17524356
Yeah sometimes only because I am younger than most but just the way life is some are doers and some are donters

>>17524207
how much you get paid? i hear caltrans folks make decent money

I don't get why they pay two people to hold signs when one person and two lightboard devices can do the same thing. Standing there holding a sign has to be the most awful job ever. Punishment even.

why does one side let 30 cars through at a time, and the other 10 through at a time, even when there is a big backup on the 10 cars at a time side?

>>17524312
t. commie scum

>>17524283
How do I get this job?

>>17524893
Poor life choices

>>17524207
Why you get all mad bro when i go faster then 15 through there

>>17524927
Already ahead of it, now where do I sign up?

>>17524207
Why don't you ever nod back to me?

>>17524283
is that with benefits?

>>17524881

>likely voted for trump
>trump worked with the russians to win the election
>thinks he has room to call others commies

You're one sad and confused little pinko.

For real though can you guys not visually judge a cars speed
I go waay under the posted speed limit, but because my car is noisy and I stay in a low gear because lol rotary for those rpms, you fags always shake your sticks and yell at me
Like come on, I'm going slower than the dozen cars that just went past!

STOP

SLOW

STOP

SLOW

STOP

SLOW

End my life

SLOW

STOP

SLOW

STOP

SLOW

>>17525555
Better Russians than niggers

>>17525818
russians are niggers you double nigger

>>17525824
But their women are hot unlike literal niggers

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>>17525555
>>Feel the butthurt...

>>17525332
Wow you must be making minimum wage to want an upgrade to 13/hr. What is minimum where you live

>>17525855
I'm in GA. I'm a NEET now. At my last job I made about $7 an hour (lower than federal minimum wage) because my boss was a piece of shit. I also worked 40 hours a week and got no benefits because I was paid in cash.

>>17524279
>25/hr
>Assume they work 8 hour days
>200/day
>Work 25 days a month
>5000/month
>60000/year for holding a fucking sign
What the fuck California

>>17525994
Dont forget overtime, pension, and other benefits too.

Why do I even bother with college?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/this-is-such-a-victory-charges-laid-in-flagger-hit-and-run-1.4201683

>>17525555
>russians are commies
lol nope. welcome to the 21st century buddy

>>17526016
Do you really want to be out in the elements all day long?
Its a job for either brain dead people who don't mind being bored or autists who spend all day philosophizing

>>17525958

I cannot honestly fathom working for any less than 10 an hour. It just isn't worth it.

>>17526080

And I bust my ass for 13 hourly in an oven-like steel manufacturing shop. Sometimes that doesn't seem worth it.

>>17526075
>am NEET who spends all day walking around outside philosophizing

>>17524866
Because we love to watch you squirm
>>17524893
At least around here, they are constantly looking for more people, and can't find enough. Try sites like indeed.com, or just walk in and ask if they're hiring flaggers.
>>17525320
15 feels reasonable when you're in a vehicle, but we'd much rather you be going 5~6 through the zone. You never know when a worker might walk out from behind a truck, or anything like that.
>>17525342
I see hundreds of cars in day, I'm not gonna nod for each one.
>>17525406
No
>>17525787
Loud things are scary
>>17526048
That driver is a moron, and deserves all the charges, but that flagger is also a moron for running in front of moving traffic.

>>17526101
i know that feel bro, except its injection-molded plastic here

wow look at all the drumfties in this thread. Remember she WON the vote.

>>17524289
A lot of guys have respect for construction. Very macho etc.

Would you be entertained or bothered if I ripped a sikk wheelie at the end of the construction zone?

>>17524207
Why can't the douche with the jackhammer wait until after 7 AM to begin doing his thing?

>>17524327
Blue collarfaggit here, been blue collar my whole life, mostly dairy and fencing. Been a gardener for the past 5 years. However, lifting logs and fucking housewifes has kinda been taking a tole on my body, been looking to get a new job, something less physically demanding.
Been thinking of being a plasterer, painter or a lolipop man.
Would you reccomend? Does standing on asphalt for 8 hours fuck your back?

>>17527085
No they don't. They look down on them.

>>17524279
>>17524283
>tfw operator
>tfw get asked to flag once in a while and make $38.50/hr to sit in the bushes and wait for someone to come on the radio so i can hold the sign for 2 minutes every hour

feels good man, so does whacking people's cars with the sign when they don't stop

>>17527158
>living in a ghetto with no noise pollution ordinance

>>17527125
true story: i was working nights on the rail road building a temporary detour line, and they had the rails lifted up about a foot off the ground and some guys ripped through the site on stolen bikes and the guy in front totally biffed it

he ended up ditching the bike and got on the back of another

it was hillarious

>>17527185
We have a 24 hour noise noise ordinance, and I live on the good side of town

Who do you think fucking authorized the construction?

But I know you're just retarded and won't be able to figure that one out.
>Protip: the city

>>17524312
>unions illegal where I live
Feelsgoodman

>>17527166
I get kind of jealous when I see them using all that heavy machinery while I'm on my way to my desk job.

>>17527223
if anyone can veto a 24 hour noise ordinance then it isn't really a 24 hour noise ordinance, now is it?

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>>17524312
>he's a unionshit

Do you take 10 hours to come to work, work for 1 minute, get your union benefits and go back home?

>>17527223
So your a cityfag, or some pussie who cant go without 12 hours of sleep.

flaggot

>>17527231
It's basically so parties can get busted and rock bands can't practice in their homes.

>>17527239
Nigga there is no excuse for my house rattling before 7 AM. Idc that union guys want to work 12 hours a day for those extra union sheckles, that's a reasonable time to begin.

>>17527384
if your noise ordinance doesn't include non emergency construction, then your neighborhood isn't as good as you think it is

>>17527238
Why do Americans hate unions so much?
Like 90% of the German manual laborers are in unions and it's working fine.

>>17527405
because they like low wages, high turnover, no security, and generally racing to the bottom

>>17527396
Sorry I'm not a HOA faggot like you who bitches and moans when my car isn't parked in the garage.

>>17527467
i live in a downtown core, 11pm - 7am noise ban is pretty standard unless you live in a shithole

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>>17524207

>>17524207
Hey former mot here what company do you work for mate? Like awp was a mess.

>>17527405
Not sure about in Germany but in america unions protect shit head employees, has an us vs them mentality with the company, and thats all i can think of for now.

>>17527914
In Germany, unions protect workers from being exploited and organize strikes, so they can demand better wages.

>>17527922
In America they do this as well. However a hundred years of propaganda in the country with the largest global media presence has largely defused support for unions. The largest scapegoat is the autoworkers unions, which some people blame for the lack of manufacturing jobs in the states.

This is entirely false, as the entire reason manufacturing left was due to increasing profit margins by finding cheaper labour, not because American labour is expensive. Certainly making cheap cars gives you an edge in the market. But if you use more expensive, more qualified workers, you always get better products.
https://youtu.be/WG8KU_ln77k
Two tools with the same torque output, but one has worse build quality.

>>17527405
In Germany, a representative from labor typically sits on a companies board of directors. So they are more aligned with making the company succeed and profit rather than bleeding it to death for the benefit of the high seniority workers.

>>17524207
Is it true that you can reprogram signs like >>17527601 by basically just rolling up and pushing some buttons?

>>17524207
>I flag traffic for a living

Flagging is for small jobs. A few decades ago, when I had to commute down I-5 in Seattle, they had a project to do seismic upgrades on the raise freeway sections. They'd barrier off a couple of lanes for a mile or so and bottleneck traffic.

Every day, I'd drive by and look over in the work zone. There were a couple of guys with a clapped out pickup truck drilling holes in the road deck for bolts or whatever. Every few days, they'd move a hundred feet or so. It took them a couple of years to finish the whole thing.

Fuck that. You block my road and you'd better have a contractor that can get people standing elbow to elbow on the job. Finish it and give me my road back.

>>17525855

>I am a foreman in a shithole and make $7 USD an hour
>The waitress serving me a beer now makes $1.17 an hour
>tfw she gets paid so much because she's been here a while and it's a fancy place

>>17524207
I'm very envious of your job

>>17528006

Just because someone gets paid a lot, doesn't mean they are doing a good job.

>>17527125
Only if it was extra s i c c
>>17527158
Talk to city council, not me
>>17527163
Important to know, shifts range from just a few hours, to as much as 14-15. It's pretty bad on your lower back/lumbar and your knees/ankles, but I have no idea if it's actually worse than any of you're other options.
>>17527707
I work for AWP

>>17529237
Never worked with a message board before, but you can do that with arrow boards, so I'm gonna say yeah, probably.

>>17524283
Why the fuck we don't have this job in Spain? We could solve the unemployment problem with this imo

>>17529294
>The waitress serving me a beer now makes $1.17 an hour
>tfw she gets paid so much

because she can figure out numbers?

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I recently passed by 3 CLOSED ROAD signs, while driving down said road. It was quite usable and the construction to an ADJOINING road wasn't due to start until the next day.

When I got to the FOURTH sign, I stopped and folded it up, then threw it into the ditch.

I did this with the next two signs I passed as well.

Don't close roads if they don't need to be closed, and don't tell people they're closed when they're perfectly fine to use. I hope you had to crawl into the bush to find the other two signs, because I fucking WHIRLED those fuckers into some deep brush.

And your "SLOW" signs are ambiguous. I drove past some of you guys waving your slow signs, and I slowed down to 5kmh below the posted speed limit. Sign boy started freaking out and waving the sign furiously, so I revved my engine past him and floored it. When I came back the same way after doing groceries, I made sure to drive at normal speed past him, and he got extra triggered.

One day I'm gonna run you over.

>>17529306
You're right. If that were completely true, Donald Trump wouldn't have had several failed businesses.
You are correct that pay grade isn't directly related to competence.

But you cannot deny the quality of work that better paid workers, to a certain point, always give back. There's a bit of a bell curve with it. Especially when job safety and security aren't on the line. And people have things like medical benefits and what-not.

It's why European goods tend to be of higher quality than American goods, and why American goods tend to be better than Chinese crap.

>>17530020
>coming downhill
>see flag man
>slowing down
>doing 30
>everything is fine
>downshift
>engage furious sign wiggling

Fucking flag retards can't figure out what gear ratios are.

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>>17530759
>>engage furious sign wiggling

>>17525994
Remember how expensive it is to live anywhere in that shithole. That's probably about 35k in the rest of the US.

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>>17524207
Are you allowed to flip people off or can you get fired for that? I assume you have alot of power with the traffic cone. Do you gain timing skills at the traffic lights to be able to get every green and barely make it at yellow lights when you place said cone on head?

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>>17524207
hows your back and knees? honestly think i fucked my back and knees more when I was a flagger than as a laborer or operator

>>17526510
where did you apply? is is contract, private or gov't work?

>>17525994
>1800 for one bedroom one bath apt

>>17530020
Flaggers don't set up traffic patterns or signs, they just hold sticks and stand where the boss makes them stand. Please don't hit them, the job fucking sucks and they're not the ones making things miserable, that's purely in the hands of the guys running the show.

>>17524207
Do you have plans on getting a new job? Flagging fucking sucks, 0/10 would not do again unless I was in a really, really rough spot.

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>>17531765
Did a few weeks between jobs as a flagger between 10pm and 8am in winter moving a sign around, pay and a half plus dinner and 2 breakfasts. Made out like I robbed the joint at $27/hr.

Cranked through a half dozen audiobooks, shit was great.

>>17524207
>>17524216
This is a good thread

>>17530020
We're not supposed to put up signs that don't apply at the time we put them up. Call whatever company did this and see what their policy is, or call the local authorities and see what the law is, instead of throwing other people's property into a ditch like an angry child.

We're are not police, and we are not supposed to direct traffic. We're there to slow drivers for the safety of workers and motorists. Please do not hit us, or our workers.