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Cavern Harpy | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I knowingly do shit work all the time.  Why?  Because that's what the guys that pay me tell me to do.  I hate it.  If did things right I wouldn't have a job.  There's got to be a better way
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The great gazoo | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 don't put yourself in that situation in the first place? just following orders is not a great excuse.  Although I do understand that there is probably more context here and you might be working your way out of this shitty work environment slowly
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Cavern Harpy | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There is no demand to do things right.  People want things done fast and cheap.  Everything is designed to be redone in 20 years.  There are fewer and fewer guys building things right out there.  Its been phased out.  The kids don't even realize they are doing shit work.  Plastic and particleboard is all they know.

Its not just buildings I'm just more aware of it because its my life.  The cars suck the clothes suck the food sucks the music sucks.  Only solution I can think of is leaving this joke of a country.  The way I'm acquiring the means to do so is buy installing cardboard cabinets and wrapping houses in leaky plastic for fat clueless mouth breathers that say "looks great!"
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The great gazoo | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You are way more correct than i would like to admit. I have also succumbed to this in embarrassing ways recently in provision of dental care