This is an event that occurred this past summer, and has recently been brought up again, anyways..... this is the situation. Am I the jack wad?

Over this past summer I quit my job working at a farm to pursue a career in building homes, it seemed like a great idea to do because I like working with my hands and building things. So I start my job at this small construction company that was owned by family friends. These people are very awesome friends and are great people....HOWEVER, at work? Pffff, totally different experience.

On the first day we did a roof tear off on this house and we never got a break to drink water or anything... in my state we are required two 15 minute breaks and a lunch break. Neither were provided. Also keep in mind that it’s the dead of summer, the first day was 85 degrees, while doing HARD manual labor? You can imagine. Construction is not for the faint of heart. On the first day, I could understand that, I figured that this wasn’t a common occurrence and we were in a hurry to get this part of the job done, so I just let it go......however.....this was an everyday 
occurrence.

I was required to literally run everywhere I went and if I wasn’t running at full speed I was considered lazy. I was also yelled at if I stopped working to go get some water.

I asked about breaks after a little over 2 weeks. They refused to give me breaks. Somehow I still stayed at the job even after this. I just blew it off and sucked it up.

I was constantly verbally abused by the framers and they said if I worked for them I would be fired, they would also curse at me and would call me names, I don’t deserve to be treated like that. To be honest this really made me feel terrible because I was BUSTING MY ASS everyday to earn these guys respect and try my absolute hardest to be the best I could be.

There were no safety standards, I feared for my life at some points. They’re was one day when a huge 10x20 beam almost fell on my head, when they removed it no one thought to check for people below, if it had hit me, the chances of death were significant, not light by any means. They didn’t require us to wear safety glasses or take precautions such as these, PPE was not enforced or cared about. I got my own, no one else cared enough to protect themselves.

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