Ranting about my first day as a general handyman apprentice

dude $18/hr for haulin' 50lb boxes up three flights is BS, im tellin' ya demand $25 or walk, these bosses screw apprentices every time thinkin' we're desperate.

welcome to the club, kid - first week on my handyman gig the boss had me lugging a 60lb Ridgid pipe wrench up four flights, thought i was training for the olympics. by lunch i was huffing like an old man and he just laughs, 'builds character, right?' now your back's toast already, but stick it out and you'll be the one making the new guy sweat. trust me, that $18/hr beats flipping burgers... barely.

man, bosses like that treat apprentices like mules, charging $75 for deWalt bits while paying you peanuts at $18/hr. its the same BS everywhere, no respect for the grunt work that keeps their asses outta the dirt.

man i remember my first week haulin gear up those damn stairs, back hurt like hell and $18/hr felt like a joke, hang in there kid.

dont lug that 50lb box solo next time, kid, i saw a guy tweak his back permanent like that and hes still collectin workers comp a year later.

fuckin bosses like that make me wanna quit every damn day, throwin new guys into the deep end with no warmup. my first week i was haulin 60lb bags of mortar up a ladder in july heat and the cheap bastard wouldnt even spring for a pulley system. its all about squeezin every penny outta us while they sit in the ac countin their cash. $18/hr? thats a joke for that kinda abuse, man.

Yeah man, I remember carrying Ridgid pipe cutters all day my first week, felt like death.

Those early beatdowns make you or break you, I quit my first gig after a week of that crap.