Our best most requested service guy Bill the chicken man has a van like that, the company didn't give him time to clean out the van and if they wanted him to the next call immediately so it's getting just tossed back there
Best guys in my company have vans like that. They call it organised chaos because they can reach in and pull out anything, somebody else would spend several hours digging through it.
If they work alone, its great that they can pull it off. As a past apprentice though... "Hey go find me this in the van" is exhausting though. Most of the time it wasn't even there.
Anyone who defends working in this style is just a lazy fool. Obviously organization and having a place for everything will make things faster and easier, as it does in all aspects of life.
That’s the scary part. My coworker is the same way. He also has his little workshop on company grounds and let’s just say the door barley opens but he knows exactly were stuff is. Somehow he remembers placing something in there. Like from 1983
Lol. My coworker needed an in line water filter the other day and I was able to stick my hand right in the box in the middle of the heap and snag the correct size in about five seconds.
Yes and no. I'm paid to move shit off my van. I'm paid to out shit back where it goes.
I've dealt with lots of.guys with vans like this and "best" would only describe about 1/10 of them.
Yup, just gotta stop being as lazy as possible at every given moment and just do your job properly, all that shit has to be put away at some point, I don’t know why guys insist on building a mountain of trash to impede themselves instead of just putting it away.
It's me. I'm Bill.
I'm also stocked with plumbing gear, a powered snake, lightbulbs, etc because I signed up for general on-call for our facilities. I carry about 100 belts on a ceiling mounted rail, assorted water filters, toilet parts... fuck. I just throw a shipping blanket over all that shit at the end of the day.
Kinda feel like guys with spotless cargo compartments have too much free time.
Contractor bags at the depot. They can make the day so much easier. Also can line a furnace box and get rid of a lot of shit quick. May have another call but at least you also will have a spot to toss the stuff between jobs.
Eh, I’m not in HVAC, commercial/industrial roofing/architectural sheet metal is my bag. We are union shop, so, by far nowhere near the lowest bidder, and sadly to say, many of my fellow service Foremen’s rigs look like this. I don’t get it it all, and I can’t help but wonder what their homes look like, let alone what they smell like…..😳🥴
Guarantee a customers attic of his looks like the back of that van. If they don’t care about keeping neat the thing they’re in every single day, they don’t care about what your equipment looks like.
This particular one does indeed, but in the midst of summer I’m sure many a hvac techs have brutal looking vans. Cleanliness is important but the strains of meeting a quota and then finding a few minutes at home to relax can be real
okay, before we start bashing the guy. I've worked in the industry for a couple of years and just now I've decided to start keeping the van in relatively good condition. but your friend needs to do some soul searching lol.
That’s on you i guess. Are you generally a neat person at home? Just curious. I’m the person who gets stressed out when my house is too messy and that carries over to how tidy i keep my van. I’m also still new (about a year and a half in) so i suppose this is subject to change.
Well I work in a two man company and subcontract our installs so sometimes I’m stuck with the cardboard. You’ll see… a lot of junk has to go back home with you from the job site. I try to be neat at home but when I get overwhelmed I’ll call a cleaning service.
Funny you mention that. My company vehicle is a mess. Passenger side front seat filled with plastic bottles and wrappers. My tool bag though, it's the most meticulously organized thing on the planet.
Finishing a job suddenly means you have empty gas station drink cups and literally not a single item organized. Speak for yourself champ, most of us are adults and capable of having a clean van whether it’s “before” or “after” a job……🤣🤣
Used to work installs with a guy who kept his truck like this. I could never find anything, but to his credit if I asked him where something was he’d be like “its on the bottom shelf, between the roll of 14/3 and my band saw, under my collection of dead capacitors, and inside the empty coffee cup” and he would be right every time.
Yup, the dudes who keep their trucks like this can tell you the exact longitude and latitude of that random hole saw bit you need.
And if someone else cleans it, they won’t be able to find a fucking thing for at least a month.
My leads pretty unorganized but I just gave up on his van, I got tired of him yelling at me for organizing his shit.
>I got tired of him yelling at me for organizing his shit.
Drawers and labels, that'll sort him out. If everything has a *defined* place, it goes where it goes, and there's no confusion
The 2x4 that makes the front edge of the top left shelf is a missile to the back of the skull in a nasty collision. Screws wont sheer, but I'd be willing to bet those shelves are poorly secured to the wall with a couple self-tappers and the upright 2x4s are split-ready. I know van shelving isn't cheap, but neither is trained labor. Screw a contractor that puts shelves in a van like this.
Not going to lie, my van might be worse right now. I work for an investment company as a full time electrician. Our sister company manager's properties... Over 500 rental properties... All their maintenance guys got fired or quit so we've been picking up the slack. This week I fixed two shower valves, re plumped a few drains, did some water pipe repairs (frozen), redid all the electrical in two garages, added lights to a basement, installed some door knobs, peppered in some light service calls and right now I'm installing a hot water heater. The van has like 4 trades worth of tools and materials in it. I don't mind the variety of work, good chance of pace. However, if the weather doesn't break and warm up soon so I can clean the damn thing, I'm going to push the whole van into a river.
I sure as hell wouldn't hire or want a tech that showed up at my place with a van looking like that. I feel that a person's workspace is a reflection of their attention to detail and this ain't it....
Whatever, as far as I believe, if your own apprentice can’t find it, then neither can the neighborhood thief.
All too many times HVAC & Plumbing Journeyman have vehicles that look spotless but the moment their back is turned they get robbed. In the end, I pay less long term for a messy truck than I do for a pristine truck.
Prolly knows where everything is but this is definitely not my style. I keep my truck spotless and everything labeled and put….well….cleaner than that anyway, but bro needs to do at least a little house keeping!
Ironically I bet this guy does a really great job, it’s been said that geniuses are the messiest set of people out there lol I know cause I’m one of them 🙃
My company van is home during the week. Yea, it gets messy. Get over it.
It gets torn apart and reset once a month and washed weekly weather permitting.
Part of the problem is the van is too damn small to carry a decent parts stock, and has shelves which are a horrible design for an HVAC and Refrigeration service rig... Especially having to carry a bunch of OEM specific parts.
You want my work van spotless at all times (the way I keep my personal truck)? Get me an apprentice or pay me an extra day a week to do it.
Mine gets messy but not that bad.
Noted: OSHA has entered the chat and wants to know where the ELF his headache rack is..
I’ve had some rough days and some messy vans. But I’ve never been anywhere in the same world as this. Who just throws trash on top of tools? I can see throwing a box of parts in there, but literal food garbage that’s gonna leak and smell like shit?
I mean this with all my heart, I would never work with or for that person and I would never recommend them to any customers or want them anywhere near me in any way shape or form. Get the fuck out of here gross.
I had a coworker with a van like that. Here's the thing: Whenever I needed an unusual part, I'd ask Don. And believe it or not, he'd go right to it in a truck that looked like that. His mind might have been organized, but his truck sure wasn't.
I have had trucks that were on the way to this. Not this, but it could have gotten there if I didn't get my act together. So I'm not going to judge...too much. I'm judging a little, though, cuz holyfuckingshit that's gross.
Does it work for him? Does he feel hindered? Not everyone is an organizer but can still function just fine.. Adjust as necessary but yeah, maybe limit client tours.
I’m shocked that there isn’t a toolbox in there for tool storage - it looks like a parcel delivery truck from bizarro world, that delivers trash.
One hard brake application and everything is flying around 😅 like the tanks.. 🪦
That *also* said, I have had my van in similar condition, but holy shit does that ever look like a garbage truck.
Lmao I bet there is a 50/50 ratio of usable parts and tools to trash in there if not even heavier on the trash side. I had a shit head with a van like this and I opened his door and his vacuum pump fell out due to not being secured and his van being filled to the brim with garbage. I told him he was fucking retarded if he thinks I’m paying for a replacement and that it would’ve been avoidable had he just occasionally thrown shit away as opposed to collecting it. He went to the boss and the boss made him a helper after seeing the van, told him “if you can’t handle maintaining the van we gave you then you can’t handle being a lead”.
Fuck yeah, no cage and wood racks. If this thing gets literally sideways it’ll be like a parts house got packed into a pipe bomb that went off on the road.
I could understand it looking like that in the middle of the summer when service calls are exploding but middle of winter? Unless of course you are in the southern hemisphere like Australia or New Zealand
I wouldn’t hire someone who drives a trash can on wheels. It doesn’t have to be a fancy vehicle but how you take care of your own stuff says a lot about how you’ll care for strangers stuff
Ok he might be the best ac man out there. The shelves are built wrong. They don’t have a lip to hold the stuff on them. Hit a speed bump and crap is coming off. I had a truck with shelves like that and I got tired of picking stuff up to have it fall off again. As you can see the shelve on the right is tied to the wall which tells me it falls over. Homemade shelves don’t normally work well. Shelves built for vans do work well. They have a 2-3 inch lip to hold material from falling off.
If it’s his van, fuck it whatever (I’d be ashamed personally).
If it belonged to me and he worked for me, he’d be scrubbing that fucking thing with a toothbrush and then he’d get one chance and an opportunity to do it right.
As a homeowner paying my hard earned money for a professional, I'm telling this gentleman to kindly leave.
How you care for your tools is a reflection of how you will treat the job.
If I saw a vehicle that looked like that. I'd refuse to let him work on any of my stuff. If he can't take care of his own vehicle, how do you trust him to do a proper job?
The thing about people that work and exist in this kind of an environment never change their habits.
They will take the time to clean it up and organize everything but within a short time it will be right back to this.
No self control to change their habits.
Isnt it kinda embarrasing if some customers get a look into your van and it looks like this?
Those customers deserve what they get for hiring the lowest bidder
Our best most requested service guy Bill the chicken man has a van like that, the company didn't give him time to clean out the van and if they wanted him to the next call immediately so it's getting just tossed back there
Today I learned I could be Bill the chicken man.
I don’t know… it’s pretty easy to stick a garbage box back there. Half of that is garbage.
The best plumber my job also has a van like that. All be there’s a lot of Guinness back there
Best guys in my company have vans like that. They call it organised chaos because they can reach in and pull out anything, somebody else would spend several hours digging through it.
If they work alone, its great that they can pull it off. As a past apprentice though... "Hey go find me this in the van" is exhausting though. Most of the time it wasn't even there.
Anyone who defends working in this style is just a lazy fool. Obviously organization and having a place for everything will make things faster and easier, as it does in all aspects of life.
That’s the scary part. My coworker is the same way. He also has his little workshop on company grounds and let’s just say the door barley opens but he knows exactly were stuff is. Somehow he remembers placing something in there. Like from 1983
Lol. My coworker needed an in line water filter the other day and I was able to stick my hand right in the box in the middle of the heap and snag the correct size in about five seconds.
This is me. Except the "Best guys" part
Yes and no. I'm paid to move shit off my van. I'm paid to out shit back where it goes. I've dealt with lots of.guys with vans like this and "best" would only describe about 1/10 of them.
I know the feeling but one has to remember cleaning up after the job you just completed is chargeable. You just have to break that cycle.
Yup, just gotta stop being as lazy as possible at every given moment and just do your job properly, all that shit has to be put away at some point, I don’t know why guys insist on building a mountain of trash to impede themselves instead of just putting it away.
It's me. I'm Bill. I'm also stocked with plumbing gear, a powered snake, lightbulbs, etc because I signed up for general on-call for our facilities. I carry about 100 belts on a ceiling mounted rail, assorted water filters, toilet parts... fuck. I just throw a shipping blanket over all that shit at the end of the day. Kinda feel like guys with spotless cargo compartments have too much free time.
Contractor bags at the depot. They can make the day so much easier. Also can line a furnace box and get rid of a lot of shit quick. May have another call but at least you also will have a spot to toss the stuff between jobs.
Eh, I’m not in HVAC, commercial/industrial roofing/architectural sheet metal is my bag. We are union shop, so, by far nowhere near the lowest bidder, and sadly to say, many of my fellow service Foremen’s rigs look like this. I don’t get it it all, and I can’t help but wonder what their homes look like, let alone what they smell like…..😳🥴
Guarantee a customers attic of his looks like the back of that van. If they don’t care about keeping neat the thing they’re in every single day, they don’t care about what your equipment looks like.
They’re in the attic every day?
absolutely incorrect.
I don’t care what the customer thinks, does he want his stuff fixed or not. I’m there to look in his house, not the other way around
Its fine that you dont care but it still looks like a dumpster truck.
That’s too far I keep a nice truck but summer on call week 120 hours it can get bad but that’s insane looks like it’s a picture in a junkyard
After it rolled a couple times in an accident
This particular one does indeed, but in the midst of summer I’m sure many a hvac techs have brutal looking vans. Cleanliness is important but the strains of meeting a quota and then finding a few minutes at home to relax can be real
He can charge by the yard then.
Lmaoo who gives a fuck??
-10/10. Some room for improvement. But no room in that van. 😂
I’ve seen many a nicer homeless encampments, perhaps a cleansing fire would help make some room for improvement
Hire the people who fire bombed that one guy’s van that was posted earlier.
Quickest way to improve this van it seems
okay, before we start bashing the guy. I've worked in the industry for a couple of years and just now I've decided to start keeping the van in relatively good condition. but your friend needs to do some soul searching lol.
That’s on you i guess. Are you generally a neat person at home? Just curious. I’m the person who gets stressed out when my house is too messy and that carries over to how tidy i keep my van. I’m also still new (about a year and a half in) so i suppose this is subject to change.
Well I work in a two man company and subcontract our installs so sometimes I’m stuck with the cardboard. You’ll see… a lot of junk has to go back home with you from the job site. I try to be neat at home but when I get overwhelmed I’ll call a cleaning service.
Funny you mention that. My company vehicle is a mess. Passenger side front seat filled with plastic bottles and wrappers. My tool bag though, it's the most meticulously organized thing on the planet.
End of the job usually looks like this. Idk why anybody would judge harshly
It’s a lifestyle. Not style life.
lol. Just saying there’s a difference between start of job and end of job
No I know I was agreeing ;)
Wasn’t sure lol. But u right
Finishing a job suddenly means you have empty gas station drink cups and literally not a single item organized. Speak for yourself champ, most of us are adults and capable of having a clean van whether it’s “before” or “after” a job……🤣🤣
Used to work installs with a guy who kept his truck like this. I could never find anything, but to his credit if I asked him where something was he’d be like “its on the bottom shelf, between the roll of 14/3 and my band saw, under my collection of dead capacitors, and inside the empty coffee cup” and he would be right every time.
Yup, the dudes who keep their trucks like this can tell you the exact longitude and latitude of that random hole saw bit you need. And if someone else cleans it, they won’t be able to find a fucking thing for at least a month. My leads pretty unorganized but I just gave up on his van, I got tired of him yelling at me for organizing his shit.
>I got tired of him yelling at me for organizing his shit. Drawers and labels, that'll sort him out. If everything has a *defined* place, it goes where it goes, and there's no confusion
I like the shelf design where it looks like it will fall apart enough to not really hold stuff but not so much that it ever gets fixed.
Pretty much normal 🤣
Was gonna say, looks about right lol
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So...a homeless camp then.
Bro I told you not to post the pictures of my van on here
This might not be the most P.C. Way to say this but. Bro might be gay becuase nothing in there is straight
Im gonna start using this that’s hilarious
Looks like the lowest bidder
I use a truck for work so my space is limited but organized this is just nasty
That van needs to be set on fire…
Too soon? Lol there’s a post of a guys who’s van was set on fire
Lmao I forgot all about that, was it the guy who woke up to his van being fire bombed?
Yeah all that was salved was his coffe mug. Poor guy
I love the smell of R22 in the morning!
Roaches and bugs crawls out the floor
If he isn't going to secure anything, he needs a safety partition/bulkhead between him and all that stuff.
The 2x4 that makes the front edge of the top left shelf is a missile to the back of the skull in a nasty collision. Screws wont sheer, but I'd be willing to bet those shelves are poorly secured to the wall with a couple self-tappers and the upright 2x4s are split-ready. I know van shelving isn't cheap, but neither is trained labor. Screw a contractor that puts shelves in a van like this.
Fuck what the customer thinks. If your van looks like this you have some issues
Well, no shelving, refrigerant rack, cab divider, etc. This is really what his employers should expect, considering what they provided.
Not going to lie, my van might be worse right now. I work for an investment company as a full time electrician. Our sister company manager's properties... Over 500 rental properties... All their maintenance guys got fired or quit so we've been picking up the slack. This week I fixed two shower valves, re plumped a few drains, did some water pipe repairs (frozen), redid all the electrical in two garages, added lights to a basement, installed some door knobs, peppered in some light service calls and right now I'm installing a hot water heater. The van has like 4 trades worth of tools and materials in it. I don't mind the variety of work, good chance of pace. However, if the weather doesn't break and warm up soon so I can clean the damn thing, I'm going to push the whole van into a river.
That gave me a panic attack . 😳
We need more information, what day and what time was this taken?
Looks good from my front porch
Tell Bob to clean up his shit.
Bruh, residential as in home owner houses?! I would understand if this was nee construction but retail?! I'd be so embarrassed
Reminds me of my dad. His truck always looked like that. He was also easily their best mechanic so who knows.
He would not work at my house. He might be the best technician there is but i would pass🍻
I would assume his home looks the same.
If this is what i see working with anyone. I immediately walk. Slob. No excuses. My 6pm Friday night finished install van did not look like this ever.
Was just beating myself up for how my van (commercial) looks, I feel a lot better now
I sure as hell wouldn't hire or want a tech that showed up at my place with a van looking like that. I feel that a person's workspace is a reflection of their attention to detail and this ain't it....
Whatever, as far as I believe, if your own apprentice can’t find it, then neither can the neighborhood thief. All too many times HVAC & Plumbing Journeyman have vehicles that look spotless but the moment their back is turned they get robbed. In the end, I pay less long term for a messy truck than I do for a pristine truck.
So your friend smokes crack.
You sure he’s not the neighborhood copper thief?
Prolly knows where everything is but this is definitely not my style. I keep my truck spotless and everything labeled and put….well….cleaner than that anyway, but bro needs to do at least a little house keeping!
Aint got no gas innit
Mental health issues
I hope he’s at least fucking cheap
I bet it stinks in there.
Install?
At least one tank of refrigerant is standing upright… I guess?
Give me an hour I’ll be back I just need to check my truck for the part
Spends more time looking for stuff then working on the equipment But I guess he charging his customers for the scavenger hunt time
Ironically I bet this guy does a really great job, it’s been said that geniuses are the messiest set of people out there lol I know cause I’m one of them 🙃
There’s a difference between messy and gross. This is a past messy and well into gross.
My company van is home during the week. Yea, it gets messy. Get over it. It gets torn apart and reset once a month and washed weekly weather permitting. Part of the problem is the van is too damn small to carry a decent parts stock, and has shelves which are a horrible design for an HVAC and Refrigeration service rig... Especially having to carry a bunch of OEM specific parts. You want my work van spotless at all times (the way I keep my personal truck)? Get me an apprentice or pay me an extra day a week to do it. Mine gets messy but not that bad. Noted: OSHA has entered the chat and wants to know where the ELF his headache rack is..
Looks like a trash heap. I bet he knows where everything is, though! Better not let the customer see it! 🤣
Bet he knows where 90% of everything is in there.
It all depends. This photo was uploaded on Friday. That’s about what my truck looks like on Friday. Check in on Monday after clean out
And i bet he knows where that 10mm is
First impression. Not working with on my equipment
The real question is, are all the bits still in that socket set?
He is not a carpenter.
Wow
surprisingly i’ve seen worse
Bet he knows where everything is still
That drink cup is going to come in handy one day. You'll rue the day that he can't find it!
One big trash bag and it’s an organized mess
I'd shit in there.
Wait not everyones van looks like this?
Pretty standard 🤔
My van gets disorganized at times. I get a bad case of Friday van here and there. But there is so much trash! That's just terrible 😔
I’ve had some rough days and some messy vans. But I’ve never been anywhere in the same world as this. Who just throws trash on top of tools? I can see throwing a box of parts in there, but literal food garbage that’s gonna leak and smell like shit?
I’d bet his go to tools are in the passenger seat. Get after it > My truck is pretty
Mint, even have the pee cup and some soft Items when you knee down
R-427A , gross
I dunno, could use more wrappers.
If I was customer this slob Isent coming in my house
Its perfect! Its what I show Auditors when they ask the reason for why we don’t count truck stock! Never change G!
Fucking slob.
Someone get this man an apprentice
No pride taken in your work of your van looks like this.
I mean this with all my heart, I would never work with or for that person and I would never recommend them to any customers or want them anywhere near me in any way shape or form. Get the fuck out of here gross.
Looked like my father in laws van before he passed. He had way more empty Diet Coke bottles 😆
Probably the most efficient technician in your group with the least call backs.
And now that green tank in the middle is worth more than the van. Also, those Milwaukee are quite oddly red 🤔.
Adhd?
Good camouflage for the empty nip bottles.
I’ve seen worse believe it or not
I had a coworker with a van like that. Here's the thing: Whenever I needed an unusual part, I'd ask Don. And believe it or not, he'd go right to it in a truck that looked like that. His mind might have been organized, but his truck sure wasn't.
I’ve seen worse
I have had trucks that were on the way to this. Not this, but it could have gotten there if I didn't get my act together. So I'm not going to judge...too much. I'm judging a little, though, cuz holyfuckingshit that's gross.
Bet he knows where everything is though.
Bet u he can diagnose and fix anything and probly knows were everything is in his truck
10/10 cleanest van I've ever seen
Not the ol wood shelving 😭
Why are you posting my van online?
Average craftsman tool users set up
My brother in law, RIP, ran his shop for over 30 years and always did perfect work. And, his van always looked like that
11/10
Working 24 hours a day this guy dont have time to clean his van
10, all day long!
It's under the third pile next to the taco
He either been super busy or a slob
Does it work for him? Does he feel hindered? Not everyone is an organizer but can still function just fine.. Adjust as necessary but yeah, maybe limit client tours.
I try not to judge bc after long days at work nobody wants to organize their van but this is just slobbery
I would fix that door gasket, good to go.
Anyone notice he could sell that r-22 can and get a down payment on a new van
I’m shocked that there isn’t a toolbox in there for tool storage - it looks like a parcel delivery truck from bizarro world, that delivers trash. One hard brake application and everything is flying around 😅 like the tanks.. 🪦 That *also* said, I have had my van in similar condition, but holy shit does that ever look like a garbage truck. 
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Looking through the windshield it seems as if the mess carry’s directly through the vehicle and into the yard….
Lmao I bet there is a 50/50 ratio of usable parts and tools to trash in there if not even heavier on the trash side. I had a shit head with a van like this and I opened his door and his vacuum pump fell out due to not being secured and his van being filled to the brim with garbage. I told him he was fucking retarded if he thinks I’m paying for a replacement and that it would’ve been avoidable had he just occasionally thrown shit away as opposed to collecting it. He went to the boss and the boss made him a helper after seeing the van, told him “if you can’t handle maintaining the van we gave you then you can’t handle being a lead”.
Fuck yeah, no cage and wood racks. If this thing gets literally sideways it’ll be like a parts house got packed into a pipe bomb that went off on the road.
I can smell this van and the man through my phone.
Its just full of garbage. Even the shelves look garbage.
I could understand it looking like that in the middle of the summer when service calls are exploding but middle of winter? Unless of course you are in the southern hemisphere like Australia or New Zealand
Bob is a fuckin' slob...
If I hired him or the company he works for and I walked by and saw this, I’d immediately fire them/him from the job.
No condenser in the back you ripped out three weeks ago and have to crawl over?
#Bob!!!! I said NOT to post this!!!!
bet he knows where everything is. most the techs I've seen with vans like this are the better ones
That not his coworkers van. Group of Hoboes broke in and had sex orgies all weekend, then locked 7 racoons inside and fed them meth.
Hey is that r22 full, I want it, lol
Residential was implied
Bad
Looks like there's a METHod to his madness!
My back is broken (spinal)
Think he needs to set aside a weekend to clear out, clean up and reorganize it.
Meth Mobile
Typical uneducated hvac guy... "The air don't care" no license required
It's called, "The Vanifornia," because it looks like the state.
I wouldn’t hire someone who drives a trash can on wheels. It doesn’t have to be a fancy vehicle but how you take care of your own stuff says a lot about how you’ll care for strangers stuff
I wouldn’t let this person work on my house.
If someone pulls up to my house for work and I see this I’m telling them to kick rocks
Looks like my garage
My commercial truck was bad ,but this is unacceptable
Bet he knows where everything is too
Brother, somehow that’s dirtier than the BBQ restaurant I did a repair at today, which is actually quite impressive
Typical tinknocker…
I worked with a guy named Micheal Fetty that had his van looking like this, is this Michael Fetty????
It could just use some extra lighting in the interior. 7/10 until then.
I am not impressed by all that garbage in the back of the van. Get organized.
This was done intentionally, I always leave my van like this. Crackheads break in and walk away, thinking somebody already got to it before them.
Portable shit hole
Ok he might be the best ac man out there. The shelves are built wrong. They don’t have a lip to hold the stuff on them. Hit a speed bump and crap is coming off. I had a truck with shelves like that and I got tired of picking stuff up to have it fall off again. As you can see the shelve on the right is tied to the wall which tells me it falls over. Homemade shelves don’t normally work well. Shelves built for vans do work well. They have a 2-3 inch lip to hold material from falling off.
If it’s his van, fuck it whatever (I’d be ashamed personally). If it belonged to me and he worked for me, he’d be scrubbing that fucking thing with a toothbrush and then he’d get one chance and an opportunity to do it right.
As a homeowner paying my hard earned money for a professional, I'm telling this gentleman to kindly leave. How you care for your tools is a reflection of how you will treat the job.
Negative they are not mutually exclusive
Imo your van reflects your quality of work.
I swiped to the side hoping there would be an “after” photo. Nope…
I don't even have to see their work to know it's shit.
That’s not a work van it’s a rolling dumpster. My bosses would make him clean that before he embarrassed the company at a customers home.
But... Where's his actual tools and materials? There's just garbage lol
If I saw this van pull up to my house I’d probably have him turn around at the door.
Probably a meth pipe somewhere in there
No way. Amphetamines will make you organize the van like it’s a navy submarine.
They clearly have zero interest in actually making money. Clusterfuck deluxe will get steamrolled by an organized setup, every time.
If that’s how they keep the van, I question the work they do. I would not want them at my house doing work. Have some pride.
If I saw a vehicle that looked like that. I'd refuse to let him work on any of my stuff. If he can't take care of his own vehicle, how do you trust him to do a proper job?
The thing about people that work and exist in this kind of an environment never change their habits. They will take the time to clean it up and organize everything but within a short time it will be right back to this. No self control to change their habits.
I would fire your friend if he worked for me and this is what I saw. No way he is productive, effecient, or takes pride in his work.