But sometimes we work

I'm a labourer for a road construction company and it's true sometimes there's really nothing to do but watch and wait till one person has finished their part of the job then we work. Sometimes waiting around can take up to 1 or 2 hours. Some shifts; which are still about 10-12 hours of my day, I'm a heavy machine spotter which means I watch an operator do his job. However most of the time there are 16 hour days and I'm raking asphalt and shoveling asphalt all day and it's back breaking work and we get a lot done. Point of the story is yeah sometimes you'll drive by and we'll be watching someone work or doing next to nothing and there may be an abundance of us doing it but it makes more sense for us to be there and be ready for when the work does come than to not be there and get called in.

This is the asphalt raking I was talking about I'm shoveling that's why I could take the picture I shoveled all the asphalt away from the joint that they're raking and they waited to work while I did it.

Grinding machine which is my favorite it looks like a long neck dinosaur. This is a night shift running from Saturday 9:00am to Sunday 1:00pm we had to wait for the milling team to mill out the road one actually took 3 hours it was a boring shift for us all.

Got switched to a concrete crew for a couple days because I'm just a 2 year labourer and got the short end of the stick. This is us pouring concrete. I also happened to be on the base crew that did the foundation of this. If anyone likes this post up vote and I'll post about the base work and continue to take more pictures as the season goes on. Thanks.