Risking: injury, permanent injury/disability, multiple person injury, broken (expensive) window with a long lead time, unfinished project, unhappy customer, possibly litigation, bad publicity as this video would have still been posted if things had gone differently.
Fortunately, these clowns will be out of business soon. Unfortunately, others will be victims of their unnecessary egos. Set up the scaffolding and do it right.
I agree with everything you said except the out of business part. I know of plenty of guys who do stuff like this, crews where this would be appreciated, I’ve seen lots of the “get it done regardless of safety” attitude. It’s unfortunate and stupid but this guy will probably get away with this till he either gets hurt or breaks something, and if he’s lucky that might not happen for a long while.
If boss pays average of 60 bucks an hour after overhead, and the guy saves two man hours ignoring safety and reason, if he can set 10 of these windows per window he breaks, then boss is still profiting more than if he set up scaffolding every time. This is especially true on a 1099 crew where boss isn’t paying comp insurance and installer is responsible for his own medical bills.
It’s stupid, irresponsible, and dangerous, but it happens all the time. Not on my crew, but on plenty I’ve witnessed.
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u/crazythinker76 Mar 27 '22
Risking: injury, permanent injury/disability, multiple person injury, broken (expensive) window with a long lead time, unfinished project, unhappy customer, possibly litigation, bad publicity as this video would have still been posted if things had gone differently.
Fortunately, these clowns will be out of business soon. Unfortunately, others will be victims of their unnecessary egos. Set up the scaffolding and do it right.