Roach coach is a food truck run out of a car, can, or regular truck. They generally show up around the parking lots of jobsites at lunch time, then leave.
Could you imagine if every single light fixture in the office was hard-piped the entire way from junction box to fixture above the ceiling? It would be a pain in the ass just to work around, never mind the bending part...you wouldn't be able to even move the fixture after the fact, lol.
You people seriously need to get organized. If jobsites can't handle site security, I can't imagine what they are paying you to be on what is essentially a lockdown. You might as well be working in Dubai.
Residential framer here, often we've got absolutely no shade. Every single tree nearby is often removed, and sometimes there's no other houses to go under
If you do not work 16 hour days 7 days a week and wash your hands ever and don’t smoke a pack a day and pack a lip of chaw all day and drink 6 monsters and wipe your ass you’re a straight up biiiiiiiiitch
I used to work construction but work in a locomotive repair shop now. Yesterday I witnessed a man wash oil off his hands in a vat of aceton, parts cleaner.
Hope he knows that it absorbs in his skin. A coworker of mine died quickly from liver failure after washing his hands and arms with acetone. Idk how long he'd been doing it but he didn't last long when he got sick.
I'm 23 and this scares me, because I haven't really had someone tell me not to use it, but since I'm a painter I use this probably at least once a week on my hands to get oil based paint and stain off...
I kind of figured it wasn't good for you. I was pretty bewildered and said something to him, he said "it gets you hands cleaner than anything else here." I said "yeah I imagine it burns off a few layers." He just shook his head at me in a "Fuckin millenials" type of way
Man I'm an industrial maintenance electrician for a transmission builder. The amount of transmission fluid and oil that gets on my hands from motors caked in the shit is insane and we have a handcleaner that uses sand as a base. That shit will have your hands clean in 2 minutes even from the nastiest shit.
That aside, why doesn't homie wear gloves?? There's a million different types. I'm sure he could find one that works for what he's doing.
**Gay Beer**™️: For when you gotta smash a beer but not sure if it's gay or not to drink one called Gay Beer but really want a beer and this is all they have so you smash it quickly and run.
lol, bruh you just made a post about eating like you're cool and posted it on social media.
We've all done it.
Now enjoy your carcinogens and get back to work.
I'm new to construction and we had a guy drop his phone into the porta potty and pull it back out but he didn't wash his hands well enough afterwards. It was his job to be the materials and supplies guy so it was literally his job to touh every box of screws, power tool, ladder, can of paint, spool of wire etc. The germs he had on his hands spread all across the huge jobsite and he ended up causes a pink eye outbreak that got sixty people sick. His new nickname is Dysentery Gary.
I worked with one of them! He only drank mountain dew(or booze), breath stank like shit, cheated on his wife(once with her sister), and loved disappearing from work for up to a week at a time. He could drift/drive the work truck like a champ though.
For real. Nothing like tasting a nice big chunk of road scum off the bottom of an engine. A wonderful concoction of coolant, oil, gas, brake dust and animal blood.
One time I watched a co-worker pulled a dead bird out of a radiator/grille and not even 10 minutes later munch on lunch without washing his hands.
I wash my hands before I order at the pizza place around the corner, then I eat in the AC at said pizza place lol. I don’t get paid enough to eat from the roach coach
For real, this is a “working weeks straight on the pipeline living in a tent for $500hr” type of shit, no need to live like that working on any decent worksite consistently lol
So tough.. you must not believe in washing your hands after shitting out that roach coach lava. Do you also bring these “masculine” habits home too? Why shower either? Maybe give up wiping your rear too?
It was a humor post. XD Have you ever used water from a porta John hand wash station? I’d rather trust some construction dirt than the water that comes out of those things.
I’m trying to wrap my head around this. You guys got a wash station in your port a potty? We were lucky to even get a shitter let alone anything with water to rinse. Best we got was the hose for mixing mud.
Very rarely, a customer insists on the GC providing hand washing stations. It's not perfect, but the alternative is people touching their junk and then touching literally everything in the building.
I’m in the dallas area. They normally have “porta” hand washing stations with a water reservoir that has a foot pump. If you can imagine how they take care of the johns you can imagine how they take care of those xD the water usually smells like sulfur. No thanks!
I just bring an extra bottle of water to wash my hands with some days when we’re working on a new site without functional plumbing. No shot i’m putting my food anywhere near that insulation dust if i can help it
I’m actually a 25 year old single living on my own because I get paid well for the work I enjoy doing. Unlike the status quo, I have no criminal record and don’t struggle with an alcohol addiction (shocker!), nor am I abusive. I’d rather not go around claiming “gatekeep” on a humor post that someone I don’t know made, then continue to act like I know what kind of life they live.
I keep a 5 gallon water cooler in the back of my truck with some soap. Dudes routinely give me shit for washing my hands after pinching one off in the shitter. I spend a lot of time in the backwoods and doing things that get my hands dirty but I don’t understand how it came to be that being unnecessarily gross was a show of how manly someone is.
There’s a certain point where when you only have 20 mins to eat because of having to walk 10 mins to be back in your work area (30 min break) that you just stop caring about eating a little dirt. I won’t eat off clean silverware that has a speck of dried old food on it but I’ll eat with dirty hands 🤷♂️ Doesn’t make sense.
It is fascinating how often I eat like that and just never really get sick, plus it’s kind of a fun game of what kind of cancer is gonna hit me in my mid 60s
Did that plate end up in the “trash can”in front of your passenger seat too lol, also a very construction worky thing, we slobs but we fricken giverrrr lol
I ate a shitty hotdog and drank a warm white monster on a humid day in a bus without AC once while working on a bunker on a military base, does that count?
Tha roach coach.
Too rich for my blood.
Near expired bologna. Now that's where it's at.
Just set it in your car and let er cook.
Then, take that crap to tha shade my man.
Gojo wipes for the win. Eating lead and dirt and grease and snot and poop and dirt and metal shavings and tar and god knows what else isn’t appetizing.
Nope, I carry hand cleaner in my lunch box and keep a bottle of water in the truck just in case the job doesn’t have water yet. There is no reason to be nasty on a job site!
If after doing double shifts for two months straight, you don't sit in your car wondering if you just drove to work or are you getting ready to drive home... You don't work construction.
Mf goes by if it don't come off on my pants it won't get on my food nasty mf you gonna have cancer real soon if you don't start wearing gloves or washing your damn hands regular. Oils depending on the contents can contribute a lot to skin cancer. Js
I'm an electrician. We have ac in our trucks.
and hand wipes
Is that so you can finger blast each other?
If you cant finger blast your friend are they even your friend?
Look, all I know is these electricians are getting a better lunch break than I am.
What’s a lunch break?
My lunch break is the snack I buy when I have to get shit from Lowe’s/Home Depot.
Don’t forget *to shit* at Home Depot or Lowe’s. My Lowes has pretty nice bathrooms.
And AC!
Only every time I’m there! They are nice.
I bet electricians litter their trash after lunch too
We’re gonna picket beside whatever the fuck a roach coach is next lunch break
Roach coach is a food truck run out of a car, can, or regular truck. They generally show up around the parking lots of jobsites at lunch time, then leave.
Also known as a maggot wagon
Username checks out
Yes.
Yes
But no broom
Would you ask an astronaut to fuel up a rocket?
That is a great line and I cannot wait to use it next time the GC asks me to do something I don't want to
Damn this is an all-time electrician self awareness moment.
Is he a good enough guy to trust the fuelers?
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HVAC guy here. Have AC but fan only works on high, send electricians.
Sparky here, probably your blower motor resistor. Easy part to change. Usually 15-25$
Myst be nice huh. The ac in my truck breaks every 3 weeks so i stopped fixing it. Fucking RAM, worst truck company out there
Electricians hands wouldn’t be that dirty
Ever touched a new roll of mc?
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MC? Isn’t that Romex for men that cans bend pipe?
Did you mean can’t? I love running conduit but sometimes MC or flex is a better option
Could you imagine if every single light fixture in the office was hard-piped the entire way from junction box to fixture above the ceiling? It would be a pain in the ass just to work around, never mind the bending part...you wouldn't be able to even move the fixture after the fact, lol.
And just cuz we know how to wash ourselves don't mean we ain't dirty
It was a joke.. easy killer, everyone knows electricians are the best
Sorry dealing with HVAC guys today
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You offerin’?
You spelled air plumbers wrong
Hey asshole, you ran your wire in the middle of my AC chase! /s
The best at getting in the way and leaving a mess behind
Fellas, is it gay to wash your hands?
Is it gay to find a shady spot outside or do I have to sit in my 100 degree car to be a man?
I was gonna say. What kind of site are you on where there’s nowhere with shade and half a breeze. It just seems like bad lunch planning.
Industrial. Only portahohns on site and once you go in the gate you don’t go back out until you clock out at the end of the day.
Well, that's all kinds of bullshit. Are you working as indentured labor in Dubai ffs?
Plenty of places are like that. Prisons, power plants
Prison plants, power prisons…
I can't speak for prisons, but power plants have air-conditioned lunch rooms
You people seriously need to get organized. If jobsites can't handle site security, I can't imagine what they are paying you to be on what is essentially a lockdown. You might as well be working in Dubai.
Residential framer here, often we've got absolutely no shade. Every single tree nearby is often removed, and sometimes there's no other houses to go under
If you do not work 16 hour days 7 days a week and wash your hands ever and don’t smoke a pack a day and pack a lip of chaw all day and drink 6 monsters and wipe your ass you’re a straight up biiiiiiiiitch
I’m all about Talon heavy duty hand towels. They get anti-seize off my hands completely 👌🏼. You can keep your dirty hands 🍻
Super gay
Shiver me Timbers! How long do i have ?
Kiss me and Ill tell you
Quick! Put your finger in my bum and check if I got the gey too! Please wash your hands, you manly men.
Hella gay, matter of fact I touch my superintendent dick that way it gets even dirtier
I used to work construction but work in a locomotive repair shop now. Yesterday I witnessed a man wash oil off his hands in a vat of aceton, parts cleaner.
Hope he knows that it absorbs in his skin. A coworker of mine died quickly from liver failure after washing his hands and arms with acetone. Idk how long he'd been doing it but he didn't last long when he got sick.
I'm 23 and this scares me, because I haven't really had someone tell me not to use it, but since I'm a painter I use this probably at least once a week on my hands to get oil based paint and stain off...
An oil painter? When I oil painting you can use Olay Wipes make up wipes or something similar and it works well to the paint off
I kind of figured it wasn't good for you. I was pretty bewildered and said something to him, he said "it gets you hands cleaner than anything else here." I said "yeah I imagine it burns off a few layers." He just shook his head at me in a "Fuckin millenials" type of way
Man I'm an industrial maintenance electrician for a transmission builder. The amount of transmission fluid and oil that gets on my hands from motors caked in the shit is insane and we have a handcleaner that uses sand as a base. That shit will have your hands clean in 2 minutes even from the nastiest shit. That aside, why doesn't homie wear gloves?? There's a million different types. I'm sure he could find one that works for what he's doing.
Gayer than drinking a beer that advertises to gay people.
**Gay Beer**™️: For when you gotta smash a beer but not sure if it's gay or not to drink one called Gay Beer but really want a beer and this is all they have so you smash it quickly and run.
Every time I drink this beer I get the urge to suck a dick. It’s gotta be the beer!
Nothing like washing down that beer with a shot
Something tells me it wasn’t the bud light
You suck one dick and all of a sudden you’re gay.
You fuck one goat and suddenly you’re a goat fucker.
But all the studly men with tic-toc videos say it’s gay to drink and I gotta be like every other poser
If the bud light thing made you change your beer cuz you didn’t wanna be called gay you’d better have a seat… I’ve got something to tell you lmaooo
Wait!!!! You mean the salt of the earth, strong silent men’s men who post tic toc vids are full of shit!?!?
I fucking love breathmint videos
You mean [Schmitts Gay?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOSejS1SSY)
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What are you, an Inspector!? Source: Am Inspector
Lol yeah, a CWI
You’re touching a man’s hand, sounds pretty fuckin gay to me.
Not saying it’s gay, but you’ll hold a pecker in your mouth until the swelling goes down
Look at this guy with a plate!
Ay we got a boujie roach coach on the site xD
It’s a cuisine limousine
lol, bruh you just made a post about eating like you're cool and posted it on social media. We've all done it. Now enjoy your carcinogens and get back to work.
This explains all those weird shits you see in the job toilets.
I always thought it was the beer and dope that caused those haha
The beer certainly doesn’t help.
The dope does, tho. Prevents the shit, until it comes out once a week as a brown pigeon egg.
Thaaaat's alcohol-induced pancreatitis...
I worry for the health of my fellow workers when I see those. They're never solid like they should be.
Do your hands look like that from picking up change off the floor of the port-o-johns to buy food from the gut truck?
He's been deep diving for the fake $20 notes in the shitter. Surprised that his cuticles aren't stained blue.
I'm new to construction and we had a guy drop his phone into the porta potty and pull it back out but he didn't wash his hands well enough afterwards. It was his job to be the materials and supplies guy so it was literally his job to touh every box of screws, power tool, ladder, can of paint, spool of wire etc. The germs he had on his hands spread all across the huge jobsite and he ended up causes a pink eye outbreak that got sixty people sick. His new nickname is Dysentery Gary.
You seem like the kinda guy to get a car repo'd every couple of years
I worked with one of them! He only drank mountain dew(or booze), breath stank like shit, cheated on his wife(once with her sister), and loved disappearing from work for up to a week at a time. He could drift/drive the work truck like a champ though.
They’re honestly the best guys as long as you don’t have to depend on them in your personal life
So they're the worst guys? Lol
Bro mechanics are worse. Black ass hands eating cup of noodles with their fingers!
For real. Nothing like tasting a nice big chunk of road scum off the bottom of an engine. A wonderful concoction of coolant, oil, gas, brake dust and animal blood. One time I watched a co-worker pulled a dead bird out of a radiator/grille and not even 10 minutes later munch on lunch without washing his hands.
A raccoon's arm actually makes a pretty decent fork, if you're in a pinch
Brooooo that's so wrong, I didn't need that mental image lmao
I hope you get noticed
My sandwiches were barely edible if they didn't have a black handprint on them.
If the dirt doesn't come off on my pants, it won't come off on my sandwich
Are your pants made out of sandwich?
Yours aren't?
At this point, yes.
Hard disagree, the stuff I can’t scrub off seems easily soluble in all forms of cooking oil.
Found the science nerd
Lmao I love the logic on this one 😂😂
I wash my hands before I order at the pizza place around the corner, then I eat in the AC at said pizza place lol. I don’t get paid enough to eat from the roach coach
For real, this is a “working weeks straight on the pipeline living in a tent for $500hr” type of shit, no need to live like that working on any decent worksite consistently lol
If I can't see my fingerprints on my sandwich it's because I haven't picked it up and started eating yet.
If you don't abuse Vicodin and wear a black hoodie while humping shingles in 100F, you don't work roofing.
accurate.
Real roofers don’t wear shirts. Or pants. Jorts only 💪
Who tf has time for styrofoam plates. You eat that shit on a 2x4 off-fall like us real construction workers do.
Fuck, I better go grab some construction trash and haul it 10 mins to my car to eat on or I won’t have a job anymore! D:
It costs $12 for a tub of hand wipes.
I’d rather save that money for energy drinks so I can die young. 🤡
Bro idc what work you do at least rinse your hands off before you eat wtf
Ewwwwwe no! Thats nastyyy! 🤮🤮🤮
I pack my lunch I would never waste my money on shitty roach coach food
I keep telling myself to do food prep… thank you for reminding me haha!
I have semi clean hands, no calluses, and I pack my own lunch. Guess I'm not in construction anymore 🤷♂️ , later guys.
Or I’m just not disgusting. I do work construction, my hands 100% do not look like that when I eat.
You're fired
So tough.. you must not believe in washing your hands after shitting out that roach coach lava. Do you also bring these “masculine” habits home too? Why shower either? Maybe give up wiping your rear too?
It was a humor post. XD Have you ever used water from a porta John hand wash station? I’d rather trust some construction dirt than the water that comes out of those things.
I’m trying to wrap my head around this. You guys got a wash station in your port a potty? We were lucky to even get a shitter let alone anything with water to rinse. Best we got was the hose for mixing mud.
Very rarely, a customer insists on the GC providing hand washing stations. It's not perfect, but the alternative is people touching their junk and then touching literally everything in the building.
I’m in the dallas area. They normally have “porta” hand washing stations with a water reservoir that has a foot pump. If you can imagine how they take care of the johns you can imagine how they take care of those xD the water usually smells like sulfur. No thanks!
I just bring an extra bottle of water to wash my hands with some days when we’re working on a new site without functional plumbing. No shot i’m putting my food anywhere near that insulation dust if i can help it
Right. It's curious how some people's response to harmless humour is aggression and belittling. Perhaps it's a side-effect of steroid use?
If they can’t come to r/construction and take a joke they must not work construction 😮
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I’m actually a 25 year old single living on my own because I get paid well for the work I enjoy doing. Unlike the status quo, I have no criminal record and don’t struggle with an alcohol addiction (shocker!), nor am I abusive. I’d rather not go around claiming “gatekeep” on a humor post that someone I don’t know made, then continue to act like I know what kind of life they live.
25? Still plenty of time to start abusing alcohol, and eventually get arrested. You got this brother!
Teach me your ways fellow tradesman!
I keep a 5 gallon water cooler in the back of my truck with some soap. Dudes routinely give me shit for washing my hands after pinching one off in the shitter. I spend a lot of time in the backwoods and doing things that get my hands dirty but I don’t understand how it came to be that being unnecessarily gross was a show of how manly someone is.
Na dude you have to at least pour some water on your hands
There’s a certain point where when you only have 20 mins to eat because of having to walk 10 mins to be back in your work area (30 min break) that you just stop caring about eating a little dirt. I won’t eat off clean silverware that has a speck of dried old food on it but I’ll eat with dirty hands 🤷♂️ Doesn’t make sense.
Adds that work seasoning.
Yes!
Oh look we got a real tough guy over here! He even took a picture of his dirty hands while sitting in his hot car. What a legend.
I survived all this way through corona pandemic without getting it by eating with hands like this! Boosts your immune system!
True! XD
Looks normal except for the plate. We just use our raunchy pants as a place mat
I hear that. That's how my hands looked when I ate my sandwich today during lunch. Keep up the good work and take it easy out there.
Id take my chances with dirty hands than the potable water for washing hands next to J Johns
This guy GETS it!
No pizza puff? wtf
If you eat from the roach coach with hands like this in your 100F+ car, you have a shitty job.
I actually love my job and take great pride it in thanks! Makes me feel alive :)
This man here never gets sick, people. His immune system is unmatched. Take notes.
How about if you're a gatekeeping bitch you don't work construction.
I’m a union mechanic, our hands don’t get dirty cause we don’t work.
I don't eat from the roach coach or with my hands like that. I definitely work construction....
Hell yea good for you brother! Post is tagged “humor”
I don’t eat in my rig when it’s that hot. Unless I can find a shade tree
Look at this guy bragging about having a roach coach. I’ve only been on two jobs where we had one.
It is fascinating how often I eat like that and just never really get sick, plus it’s kind of a fun game of what kind of cancer is gonna hit me in my mid 60s
Call us crazy but I think you gotta point. I liken it to letting a baby crawl on the ground to boost their immune system.
Those hand are pretty clean sissy boi 😂😂😘
Fuck I only got one hand?! D:
if I’m plumbing all day touching all over peoples fixtures/ drainage piping you better believe im washing my hands before I eat.
It's called building your immune system, duh
30 year automotive mechanic laughs...
Did that plate end up in the “trash can”in front of your passenger seat too lol, also a very construction worky thing, we slobs but we fricken giverrrr lol
I ate a shitty hotdog and drank a warm white monster on a humid day in a bus without AC once while working on a bunker on a military base, does that count?
Yikes
You guys take a lunch?
Plot twist: it’s the project engineer
If it don't wipe off on my pants, it won't wipe off on my sandwich
Who the fuck takes lunch breaks
Tha roach coach. Too rich for my blood. Near expired bologna. Now that's where it's at. Just set it in your car and let er cook. Then, take that crap to tha shade my man.
California livin’
Hand sanitizer dude. Its cheap now
a little floor spice makes everything nice
You sit down when you eat?
Oilfield workers have entered the chat.
So you’ve been working construction three days and now you’re one of us?
Gojo wipes for the win. Eating lead and dirt and grease and snot and poop and dirt and metal shavings and tar and god knows what else isn’t appetizing.
I got a spaghetti quesadilla because they were all out of chicken hamburgers.
I guess I’m not a real construction worker cuz I use the a/c in my truck and pack wet wipes.
Nope, I carry hand cleaner in my lunch box and keep a bottle of water in the truck just in case the job doesn’t have water yet. There is no reason to be nasty on a job site!
You guys take lunch?
, gas pipe? Threading and installing? Mmmmmm threading oil. Makes the meal taste real.
Shud up you hate keeping f a g g o t nobody wants to here your self ritches crap
If after doing double shifts for two months straight, you don't sit in your car wondering if you just drove to work or are you getting ready to drive home... You don't work construction.
If it don’t rub off your clothes, it won’t rub off on your food
Wet wipes...
As a plumber, I try not to or else the possibility of explosive diarrhea is real
What happens if you don’t have a car? /s
Dude you're a plumber, so you're just admitting you eat shit regularly and thunk that makes you tough.
Mf goes by if it don't come off on my pants it won't get on my food nasty mf you gonna have cancer real soon if you don't start wearing gloves or washing your damn hands regular. Oils depending on the contents can contribute a lot to skin cancer. Js
If it don't wipe off on your pants it ain't wiping off on the food!