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if i was a construction site foreman i would add sorting/packing/hauling out scrap material as one of the duties for the general laborer to do on companies time, i would be one of the low priority items on the list of things to do BUT it would be higher priority than clean up and trashing out, as one already does that when recycling.

since its so ****ing hard for me to find a job out her in cali, i want to proposition a project manager to sign me onto a construction site as a gen laborer who also recycles for A. higher paycheck B. split of recycling profits C. just as a **** leg up above everyone else cause it was already hard as **** for me to land this job i got as a gen. laborer

they let me scrap metal from the site, but if i was allowed to really take some time scrapping everything, i could tripple what im making in scrap right now

good luck

Great plan in a perfect world, but unfortunately it's not the perfect world. As informal as a construction site may be, it's still a business and is usually run like one too. I suggest you do all you can about getting your foot in the door first. Keep the alterior motives to yourself during an interview. When you get the job, bust your a$$ and prove youre a loyal employee. If scrap is being thrown out, ask your foreman or supervisor if you could take it during non working hours. If they say yes, it's all yours. If they want a cut then offer it to them. Usually you won't be able to cut a deal like you proposed for the conflict of interest involved. Just my two cents.

im just saying they dont want me scrapping on companies time when im saying profit involved in seperating and sorting trash would be profitable to spend man hours and time on since the company would be collecting the money

You got general liability insurance? That would be the first thing any foreman is going to ask you before they let you on there property.

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Originally Posted by PistoneScrapProcessing

You got general liability insurance? That would be the first thing any foreman is going to ask you before they let you on there property.

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Believe me, I understand where you're coming from and I feel your pain. The plain fact is like all construction sites, they have a plan, a deadline and a budget. Even though you may think you'd be saving them money, and your man hours would be best spent salvaging costs by scrapping, they normally don't see it that way. If they want to scrap, they'd scrap as they go not create a whole new position, pay him more, when what they really need is a general laborer being productive to the deadline. The loss of the valuable metal is already considered in the budget, so it's no loss to them. If you believe there is that much scrap being wasted, go get liability insurance, give the head man in charge money up front for every load he let's you haul out of there.

dam all those suggestions, start your own company, jobsite cleanup, make up a plan placing you in charge of the cleanup and dumpsters(this one to the landfill, that one to the scrapyard). It isn't a far fetched idea, I've been on large store remodel/add-on projects, where they had a dozen dumpsters, all going to the landfill, and could not get them carried away fast enough. If you get a start, and get several projects, several employees, an atty(for contractual agreements), a secretary (to cover your but), you could make a decent living

Bear, that line of thinking was nearly exactly like mine............ too slow I guess!












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Bluemeate...Good to see your thinking of these things, unfortunately what you see as big savings for a company, in reality is a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the project budget. If you want to do this as a business I think you will find that the cost of starting up the business, especially in Cali, is going to be a hurdle. Government, big and small, has put a severe damper on this sort of thing.

im not talking about coming onsite as a subcontractor or anything like that, im just saying that they should ad sort and recycling material as one of the duties of the general laborer, it will just bring in more money to the company and when time becomes an issue that duty could be dropped.

just thinking it would give me an edge up to get hired compared to some other gen. laborer