'They paved over a cone on Washington Ave': 25+ Construction projects gone wrong

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 3, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

If you've ever had construction work being done in your building, you know exactly how maddening it can be. 1 – It'll never, ever, ever get done on schedule. Not once in the history of the world, probably, has a construction project reached completion at its scheduled time. 2 — Those folks will start drilling at 7 AM every day, even weekends if they can! 3 — It'll cause you to question your sanity as you listen to the drilling and hammering go on all day every day for weeks, maybe even months. And at the end of it all, if everything goes smoothly, you'll have a great new street or building to admire. Then, you'll forget that all that ever happened, and you'll just be glad that you got the construction project done in the first place. 

Check out a bunch of people who shared their own experiences with botched construction projects. Then, read about an inspirational female employee who called out her male boss in a team meeting when he tried to boss everyone around: "My coworker told our boss, 'You're not intimidating.'"

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    Do you dare sit on the danger-bench?

    Our city spent months redeveloping one of our main bridges and unveiled a new bench that blocks part of a bike lane and forces you to sit eye-level with a railing
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    This is hilarious

    They paved over a cone on Washington Ave. S
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    Possibly the single worst road paving job I have ever seen.
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    Maybe the budget got cut?

    Why only pave half the way to the store?? 18
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    My friend's building told her they needed to look for damaged pipes under her floor. She came home to this 41 My friend came home from work last night to find her apartment turned into a construction zone with zero warning. Property management told her they'd be repairing pipes under the floors, but conveniently forgot to mention they'd be ripping apart her entire kitchen and leaving it like this overnight.
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    The pavers on my driveway
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    I don't think my neighbor is getting his foundation poured today... caces00000 883568 hancecess PHOENIX www.irvmat.com 2029 TEREX 1973
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    Look at all that dust! Those poor succulents are covered

    The whole building next door is under construction
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    That would drive most of us crazy

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    Mom has had it up to here

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    Unless : (

    280+ year old tree in my town cut down to build Chick-fil-a RLP Picadilly Oak 1750-2024 UNLESS
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    This new house under construction was spray painted GRINSYL A M SPRA ON RSYTE darstaur MOISTOP PLOTS TOP
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