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Old foreman told me to quit buttering my frogs and I thought he was crazy
He said I was wasting time and actually weakening the bond by spreading too much mud on the frogs. Tried it his way on a retaining wall in Austin last month and laid 200 more bricks per day with zero failures. Anyone else get stubborn about a habit that was actually slowing them down?
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perez.thea20d ago
Dude same! I fought my old guy on trowel technique for weeks before I finally listened.
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logan_dixon1820d ago
Yelling at my trowel for being wrong felt really productive until @perez.thea reminded me the tool wasn't the problem. I still find myself side-eyeing it sometimes just out of habit, like it personally betrayed me. Maybe I need to apologize to my trowel, or at least buy it a drink.
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