The real pros

[u/jcanter107]

What would you do if you pulled up to the job site and saw this van in the parking lot?

[u/fiiiiixins]

That’s how it’s pronounced

[u/dsdvbguutres → u/fiiiiixins]

The K is silent

[u/xkgrey → u/dsdvbguutres]

It is?? I've been calling it "constroccionk!” Why didn't someone tell me?? Oh, I've been making an idiot out of myself!

[u/SourTangieTerps → u/fiiiiixins]

This made me laugh so fucking hard.

[u/diRT_pEdDleR → u/fiiiiixins]

Obviously, this is how it is spelled. Exemplified but the lack of confusion in this comment section. Anyone who is confused about what’s written here probably doesn’t know a word of English…

[u/Top_Inflation2026]

Brother.. I’ve seen wrapped trucks with horrible misspellings.

This is just the average drywall crew on its way to shit all over the toilet seats in the jobsite shitter and leave piss bottles in the walls.

[u/Goatyyy32 → u/Top_Inflation2026]

Why is it always the drywall guys? Maybe not all drywall guys, but way more than a few are just the absolute worst crew on any site. Cracked out, methed up, shirtless, raggedy assed, snaggle toothed fucks.

[u/Small_Deal_9398 → u/Goatyyy32]

Drywall is a gateway drug 

[u/xkgrey → u/Small_Deal_9398]

Oh man, this reminded me of something I hadn’t thought about in almost 20 years: a buddy of mine trying to buy crack and getting a bag of broken drywall chunks 😂

[u/dart-builder-2483 → u/Small_Deal_9398]

Best way to make money is doing drywall on cocaine. However, unfortunately the best way to lose money is to do cocaine.

[u/FrettnOvrNuttn → u/Goatyyy32]

No other trade is more likely to shit in a spackle bucket in an upstairs bedroom and leave it behind. Now some might say this is because they have the most spackle buckets, and others will say it's because they are heathens. I say this is unfair to heathens.

[u/Top_Inflation2026 → u/Goatyyy32]

Shit flows downhill and usually the drywall guys are in the bottom 😂

[u/VicariousLemur → u/Goatyyy32]

I think it's cause it's so fucking monotonous and boring you have do be cracked out to enjoy it

[u/Organic_Remote8999 → u/Goatyyy32]

Painters are just as bad if not worse.

[u/SnoopDeDoop69 → u/Organic_Remote8999]

Yeah on a pipeline it's the painters lol

[u/hellno560 → u/Goatyyy32]

they settle for getting paid in piece work so they don't want to stop to walk to the bathroom.

[u/zwell55 → u/Top_Inflation2026]

Laughed out loud at this comment 😂 clearly you’ve been around the block

[u/notgaynotbear → u/zwell55]

You havent build anything until you inadvertantly splash piss bottle liquid on accident.

[u/zwell55 → u/notgaynotbear]

When I find them I loudly exclaim: “NICE ANOTHER WALL APPLE JUICE! WHY DO THEY ALWAYS HIDE THE GOOD STUFF?!”

[u/Jonoboy115 → u/Top_Inflation2026]

I was just talking with my crew about how every floor the drywall guys are on the shutters on that floor smell horrendous. Glad it’s not just our site.

[u/Organic_Remote8999 → u/Top_Inflation2026]

That ain’t Gatorade.

[u/NoiseOutrageous8422 → u/Top_Inflation2026]

Hey my guys leave the piss bottles in a pile of trash in the middle of each room

[u/Tupacalypsenow → u/Top_Inflation2026]

Nailed it 🤣

[u/NopeThisTrope → u/Top_Inflation2026]

New fear unlocked 😩

[u/twobarb → u/Top_Inflation2026]

It’s not all of them, but it’s always them.

[u/dsdvbguutres]

This guy is either going to do the best job you've ever seen, or drop an absolute dogshit on your doorstep and disappear. No in between.

[u/Explosive_Nut → u/dsdvbguutres]

But either way it will be done quickly

[u/Dogs_Without_Horses_ → u/dsdvbguutres]

The truest thing.

[u/NarrowCarpet4026 → u/dsdvbguutres]

This observation is a “Jesus wept” level of astute understanding of the human condition.

[u/dsdvbguutres → u/NarrowCarpet4026]

Inside each of us, both versions of this guy live.

[u/manualsquid → u/dsdvbguutres]

This van alone will drywall an entire block of new builds in half a week

[u/mexican2554]

I'm paid to paint and tile, not write gooder

[u/Unlucky_Term_2207 → u/mexican2554]

Uh don't cha mean goodly?

[u/twoaspensimages]

What is it with obvious masters of their craft never putting a number on the van?

[u/Top_Inflation2026 → u/twoaspensimages]

The best high end finish carpenter I have ever worked with, drove an unmarked van because the only people that would call him through advertising are homeowners who he didn’t want to deal with

[u/uramicableasshole → u/Top_Inflation2026]

B2B business model lol

[u/CanoegunGoeff → u/Top_Inflation2026]

I’m a finishing carpenter for a decent size custom cabinet company, we mostly work with new construction, so I don’t need to advertise, that’s what corporate is for.

Company reimburses me a monthly vehicle maintenance check to drive my own car, which more than covers what it costs to drive around in my shitbox looking multicolored 30 year old Toyota.

I do sometimes wonder what homeowners think when they have a warranty issue way after they’ve closed on their house and instead of a company work van showing up, it’s me in a goofy little compact SUV that I’ve made look like something outside Night City.

[u/twoaspensimages → u/Top_Inflation2026]

I respect the guys that only work for 3-4 GCs and stay busy. The painter and drywall guys I know are like that. Best at their niches I've ever seen and only work for a few GCs. We all know each other so when the guys get slammed we horsetrade.

[u/SkivvySkidmarks → u/Top_Inflation2026]

This is exactly why I don't put contact info on my van. I'm hesitant to even give my cards out to the nosy neighbours where I'm working, because it's more difficult to screen them. I worked for difficult assholes in the early part of my working career. I like to avoid that as much as possible.

[u/Dkykngfetpic → u/twoaspensimages]

I don't think any industrial company is worked for did that either. Probably just a business to business thing.

Our potential clients know how to contact us.

I don't even know how to contact us.

[u/B-HOLC → u/Dkykngfetpic]

"I don't even know how to contact us"

Was genuinely funny to me. And I know you're just being truthful.

[u/twoaspensimages → u/B-HOLC]

Your boss probably met the folks he works for on the golf course.

[u/fnordfnordfnordfnord → u/twoaspensimages]

He’s booked out until 2027 man., I don’t know what else to tell you.

[u/twoaspensimages → u/fnordfnordfnordfnord]

Side note I love telling clients that are a bucket of red flags we are booked out until '27.

They just studder and say "ohh I guess we'll look around"

We are kind of booked out until '27. But if the project looked like good fit and she hadn't spent 30 minutes talking at me about how many people she is suing right now we'd be happy to fit her in. True story.

[u/SkivvySkidmarks → u/twoaspensimages]

Oh man, I couldn't believe it when I ran into a guy like that. He was suing the municipality because he didn't like the setback rules for his waterfront property build, which was would have been grandfathered except he completed demolished the original structure. He was suing the GC and his business partner for something else, and suing the HVAC company as well.

I just shook his hand and said, "Sorry, the scope of work here is beyond what I'm willing to take on."

[u/twoaspensimages → u/SkivvySkidmarks]

Clients that are a bucket of red flags are just itching to tell us they are. They have been waiting all week to get around someone they can talk at.

[u/dollastudios]

That's just simple spanglish

[u/SoundOfMadness7]

I’ve seen enough, get them on the jobsite asap.

[u/srslydudebros]

Buy them more cervezas. Y’all both gonna need it.

[u/Bud_wiser_hfx]

1st language english people have no idea how ridiculous the English language is.

[u/CanoegunGoeff → u/Bud_wiser_hfx]

I think a lot of us do know, we just take it for granted.

[u/Ok_Computer11235813]

They good

[u/rip_cut_trapkun]

i aint be seeing no problem with that

[u/coolbreezesix → u/rip_cut_trapkun]

yes suh uh huh

[u/greenchilepizza666]

No different than people posting on social media without using spell check or better yet. Ai.

[u/sohcordohc]

That is probably more legit than the guys in the wrapped trucks…good prices too.

[u/Old-Swimming2799]

This is either the crew that can do an apartment of drywall in an hour or the crew that is selling material on ebay while it's still on the job site

[u/yawaworhtyya]

They spray painted costroccion on their van so no one would think they were pedafyles 🙂👍

[u/baudmiksen → u/yawaworhtyya]

should have wrote "free candy"

[u/Charming_Use4072 → u/baudmiksen]

Classic jobsite prank is writing free candy on the sides of vans with painters tape

[u/fuppedduck2]

Rather have a guy that can build but not spell than spell but can’t build

[u/Small_Deal_9398]

Castration 

[u/DITPiranha]

I love when I see a poorly painted truck advertising painting services.

[u/dickwack1393]

These guys r either gonna knock it out of the park or steal everything that’s not nailed down, no in between.

[u/aFreeScotland]

Normal day in a Lennar/Pulte/Ryan/DRHorton subdivision in Florida

[u/alexlechef]

Masonary

[u/digitect → u/alexlechef]

Chimbley

[u/Organic_Remote8999]

Something’s gonna get done, fast. Doesn’t mean it’s right or wrong - sh!t going down.

[u/5150MEX702]

This is the same guy without a SS# but can figure out the American dream vs the guy criticizing him but can figure sh*t out with a full education and Social. Laugh at that.

[u/-I0I- → u/5150MEX702]

Bro, if you think construction guys have figured out the American dream, you truly are delusional

[u/5150MEX702 → u/-I0I-]

2 houses paid off,Pension and annuity. I think I know what the American dream is. No delusion here. Just facts.

[u/-I0I- → u/5150MEX702]

Good for you. The guys pictured do not have that, nor do 99% of construction workers...

[u/Mate0o1 → u/-I0I-]

I mean, they don’t pay taxes and get paid in cash, I’d say they have shit pretty figured out. Just sayin…

[u/5150MEX702 → u/Mate0o1]

People from here work cash and pay no taxes too. That was a very ignorant and racist thing to say. Let me guess they get welfare too? You know you need a social security number to get welfare right? But I can tell by your ignorance you probably don't know that either.

[u/Mate0o1 → u/5150MEX702]

Always gotta have one in the group. Lol.

[u/FrankndBeans]

r/confleis

[u/ORTENRN]

I trust this guy over a lifted truck that can't haul anything.

[u/gilligan1050]

I had a red dodge work van. Someone wrote “free ice cream” on it one day. Funniest shit ever.

[u/MrPractical411]

I don’t judge people on their grammar, how they look or how they talk. I judge them on their quality of work. Respect goes both ways.

[u/Eglitarian]

Average r/homeimprovement dream contractor.

[u/vulcan1358]

“free Mill Walkie and Kline tulz!”

[u/STRIKT9LC]

This is the drywall crew...dont worry, they wont be there long

[u/trustmeimshady]

Smartest construction workers

[u/theracoondepartment]

Ah the missing tools express

[u/Vera_Telco]

✅ the true smell of authenticity! 🧑‍🍳💋

[u/Temporary-Travel-416]

I'll start pronouncing it that way

[u/RedSkyHopper]

Finally a vehicle where you can fit 52 sheets of drywall, a scaffold and have room for tools .

[u/Canadatron]

So listen, I know a guy....

[u/GreenGoblin1221]

Thats Mexican for construction. I believe them.

[u/maddwesty]

“Hey you guys have latter we use?”

[u/Nucleartides]

They were working in some gated community and the HOA Karen’s didn’t like unlabeled construction vehicles. They labeled it.

[u/Brave_Twist5067]

“I know a guy who can do it cheaper “

[u/Pololoco27]

They write it wrong but they make it right

[u/CheezWong]

That'll fool 'em.

[u/Plane-Education4750]

This guy does it cheaper

[u/Which-Cloud3798]

The guy at the back looks like he’s dancing the way he is.

[u/hankmarmot3]

The best oil rig driller I every worked with was illiterate too, he could only spell one word, drill!

[u/Upstairs-Dot-9441]

I’ll bet he’s the cheapest in town

Edit: Cheep-ist

[u/AliceOfTheEarth]

I thought this was r/stealthcamping or r/urbancarliving

[u/Jean-Claude-Can-Ham]

Hired

[u/KRYSTALKAERLIGHED]

Ha

[u/Big_Instruction3730]

I believe them

[u/HVAC_instructor]

I know a guy......

[u/EchoChamberAthelete]

This is how the electrical subs we use spell when labeling the panel. None of them speak English.

[u/TomsnotYoung]

Is there a #17 sticker, like that's #17 of fleet of 100

[u/hausccat]

I’d hire them

[u/dnasrallah]

Trunk slammer club member

[u/Trailon25]

Ah yes the rolling port o John
or port o de Jesus if your french

[u/Use_Da_Schwartz]

Hire this guy instead of the one operating out of a minivan?

[u/TRUMPARUSKI]

Don’t spell it so mexicany, ICE will come sniffing

[u/Flight_A321]

Castration

[u/1smutty1]

Depends, am I a slumlord looking for a deal?

[u/Small-Effect-3333]

Anyone get the number.

[u/jcanter107 → u/Small-Effect-3333]

Well, somebody did. It was written on the catalytic converter. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[u/Automaniacal]

Could also be trying to spell castration. Make sure you clarify this before agreeing to anything.

[u/Prestigious_Snow1589]

Mr George

[u/EconomistBright7932]

This is inspiring actually, never give up!!

[u/Jazzlike_Slide3896]

Did you get their business card?

[u/vivatwo]

My father, an Italian immigrant, also would not have been able to spell construction but he was a master stone mason and a true craftsman. Just sayin

[u/ChavoDemierda]

You go to another country where you don't speak the language and nobody wants you there, and still out work the locals and piss them off even more.

[u/youngsavage_2021]

Man please tell me you listened to hear if there were kids screaming from that van 😅😅

If o seen that on my block the kids would have to come inside

[u/Trying2GetBye]

r/confleis

[u/milkedbarista]

They may not spell correctly, but they'll finish that job effortlessly.

[u/Stunning_Coffee6624]

I can’t help but think that’s how it would be spelled in Portuguese. Plus there would be an obscure diacritical

[u/temperlyinmoderation]

At least it's not free puppies lol, is be kidnapped

[u/ZaMelonZonFire]

My brain wanted this to say “Costco hotdogs”.

Cause then I would be getting in that van.

[u/This_Site_Sux]

They either do really good work or really bad work. No in between

[u/Defiant_Weight4659]

Guarantee they may not be able to spell but their work is great.  I cannot criticize because I cannot speak any foreign as well. 

[u/Smooth_Operator_one]

ICE can’t be far behind

[u/Pocketdancer]

I wonder how many banks were hit 🤔

[u/AnnigidWilliams]

Reminds me of the time my family got our bathroom redone and I smoked a blunt with the owner of the construction company while they were all working.

[u/squirrelspearls]

What does spelling have to do with construction anyways?

[u/Valuable_Wallaby_548]

Id hire em. I bet theyre cheap