Yeah, I was just gonna say it’s a kind of magic they call Being Up Early in the Morning. An mysterious skill to many including myself. 😅
Comment on Construction magic
teslasaur@lemmy.world 2 days ago
People confused that construction workers does most of their work when you are asleep.
“How does the bread get made fresh every morning? Magic, i tell you.”
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Denvil@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I worked construction and my hours were 6 am to 3:30 pm. I’m sure others do it differently, but in my eyes it’d be pure madness to work night shift in construction. It’s already bad enough having to deal with working on something after your coworkers and thinking “damn why did they do it this way” I can’t imagine splitting the job between two foremen too. It’d be chaos. Only reason I think it might be done would be if a project REALLY needs done quick, and it’s not a very big building, so you can’t just put more people on the same job. So you’d have to have people on it 24/7 to try and get it done asap.
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Big, efficient companies work 24 hour jobs by having 3-4 overlapping shifts with usually at least two general foremen, often more, and a team of PMs. Skilled planners and foremen can manage the jobs, and overlapping shifts helps with continuity instead of a whistle blowing and everyone on site tags out like a wrestling match.
These are the companies that get the biggest and most expensive contracts. They have all the equipment, they can hire the number of people they need, and they have the experience. They do massive jobs that destabilize entire areas while the work is being done and the customer/city/municipality/government is willing to pay to get it done ASAP because letting the disruption last 2-3x longer is worse than the price tag.
Some places with harsh winters and short construction seasons also habitually work 24 hours.
It really depends on what you’re doing and where you are. In general, small to medium sized GCs and companies for single builds will not work 24 hours. Once you start getting to big projects within an urban area or major road construction, that kind of thing, it can change.
I will say that it’s MUCH better to do construction in natural daylight, full stop. No amount of flood lighting gives you the amount of visual acuity as the sun does for something like construction. We generally always planned to leave easier work for night shifts, not because they sucked, but because it’s just harder in most ways. More dangerous, colder, your best paid people don’t generally want to work those shifts, businesses are closed so you’ve got to deal with on call POCs which slows stuff down if there’s problems… Yeah.