You probably wont often hear someone complaining that workers are doing their job too fast.

Yet that is exactly whathappenedto this construction crew.

Bored Pandagot in touch with the worker who shared this story,u/bigcapper69.

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He gave us more context behind the story and told us more about his future plans.

Read our chat with him below!

I have actually recently gotten into the rSlash podcast on Spotify, the Redditor tells us.

Person cutting bricks with a circular saw, illustrating working too fast, surrounded by dust.

[The host] covers this sub a lot.

u/bigcapper69 tells us that if you were there, you could almost cut the tension with a knife.

As soon as the situation started, it was tense, he says.

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Very tense, like, you could hear yourself breathing on a jobsite with 50 people on it tense.

No one talked a no, no one DARED to talk.

After a while, though, the situation continued the same.

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We all started laughing and joking at Johns expense every chance we had, the Redditor remembers.

Despite John being such a nuisance, u/bigcapper69 is ready to cut him some slack.

This really wasnt what John did at the company regularly, the author clarifies.

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Brad and Cody are amazing, the Redditor tells Bored Panda.

I will work for these men until the day I [pass [away].

I idolize them, almost every person I know looks up to them.

Construction workers in orange vests and white helmets discussing compliance on a site.

They lead by example, the Redditor told us proudly.

These have inspired me to put my soul into this just as they have, he explains.

I think that the world has enough greedy, bad people in positions like theirs and mine.

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I have a goal to emulate what they have done.

Everyone deservesa boss like them, the OP believes.

Check out the results:

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Project Manager Starts Panicking When Contractors Listen And Work As He Instructed Them To

Project Manager Starts Panicking When Contractors Listen And Work As He Instructed Them To

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