Entitled 25-year-old foreman allows his team to litter, so neighbor staples trash to their construction site, senior in charge fires them all and gets an older crew to finish up respectfully: ‘A "hold my beer" moment’

Having a construction site next to your home is never a fun time, but if the head of that construction project is a kind and respectful person, everyone can survive it. However, when this construction site turned into a loud and filthy site for young carpenters, things got ugly…

It all started when a sweet old man was in charge. When they were setting down the foundation, he was very respectful to the neighbors and communicated with them well. However, after that was finished, the carpentry started. This could have also been a nice experience, expect the crew was a bunch of entitled 20-something-year-olds. The foreman was only 25! They blasted annoying music all day, they worked well past 9pm, parked in places that blocked driveways, and the worst of all, they would leave their trash everywhere, even on the neighbor's front lawn.

One neighbor tried asking them several times to keep it down after late hours and to pick up their trash. But did they listen? No. They rolled their eyes and kept going on with their entitlement. So, this neighbor finally had enough. One night they gathered all of the tradies' trash, took them to the construction site, and stapled them to the siding they had just built.

The next morning they were furious! So much so, they even called the cops. Luckily, the nice respectful senior blue collar man was still in charge. So instead of starting an even more heated feud withe the neighbor he did the most satisfying thing. He fired that entire crew and personally apologized to the neighbor. The next work day, the crew was much older and much more respectful.

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This just begs the question of age vs wisdom. Was it because these tradesmen were so young that they felt entitled and had nothing to give but disrespect? Or was it another reason? Perhaps their lead was the culprit. Or maybe it was their upbringing. But then why was it so easy to get an older crew to show respect to their surroundings?
This might be more of a blue collar question. Is this a tradesmen thing? A construction site turf war thing? Or something else only people in the trade know? Whatever it is, this young crew hopefully learned their lesson this time around!
"A 'Hold My Beer' Moment"

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