My boss forced me to kill some baby birds today while the mother was out gathering food.

[JC33]

I feel so sick and this isn’t a joke had no choice I’m going to have nightmares.

Doing some exterior work on a 3 million dollar home and a part of the soffit was loose on the second story. The home owners were complaint about birds living in the attic making noises and being obnoxious. We put some ladders up to check it out and saw the mother bird fly out, you could hear the baby birds chirping in the lower end of the soffit that wasn’t accessible from the attic crawl space. I spent 2 hours trying to get the nest out but it was 12 feet away from our opening and legitimately could do nothing at that point. My boss told me to put some exterior screws in and seal it off.

At first I couldn’t do it, I asked if I could just multi tool a little square out of the area where I could hear them and was told no. I kept pushing back as long as I could and my project manager and I HAD a good relationship before this. Aparantly they were billing the customer 7gs and wanted to be in and out, I said I’d personally pay for some extra material if I can cut out the square and get the nest out. I was told if I don’t put the screws in don’t come to work tomorrow it’s over.

After I put the screws in about 5 minutes later the mom bird came back and was chirping gently by the now closed off area. If I’m being real I almost cried. This is going to haunt me for a long time. The boss was saying it’s just some fuckin birds chill dude and I got real loud with him. Probably going to need a new job.

I feel sick.

 

[MindlessWork]

That's totally fucked up and if the nest is in the attic perhaps you could sneak up in there to gently remove it if possible. That story sure pisses me off to no end and your boss seems to be hard hearted to animals.

 

[Jbswole40]

 

[rayschray12]

Couldnt even finish reading that....Fuck. That. Guy.

 

[Jbswole40]

Couldnt even finish reading that....Fuck. That. Guy.

Yea,I couldn't read all of it either, I could hurt a human no problem, but that shit on another level..

 

[DirtyIron14]

That sucks man, definitely can imagine how you feel. I run equipment for a living and more times than I'd like to admit I have "evicted" or killed everything from reptiles, to foxes. It is a shitty feeling. Guys I work with bust my balls cuz I'll stop and hop out of the machine to move a toad or something. Just a couple weeks ago I was moving a couple boulders at my place and sent a family of rabbits scurrying..my dogs were out..enough said. Good on you for having a heart bro.

 

[tommygunz]

That’s it, you’re fucked now

 

[AR-15]

Yea,I couldn't read all of it either, I could hurt a human no problem, but that shit on another level..

This ^^^^^^^

 

[cdubw44]

I would have cut the nest out. All you did was leave a dead bird in the soffit. Bad construction practice, you see a problem you fix it and not create other problems. What if another animal smells it and claws his way in

 

[Nobodyishere]

There was no point in all that other than those guys are douche bags

 

[Joe_256]

Why would he not want to at least get em out? Those dead babies are gonna be STANKIN pretty soon..

 

[JC33]

I would have cut the nest out. All you did was leave a dead bird in the soffit. Bad construction practice, you see a problem you fix it and not create other problems. What if another animal smells it and claws his way in

There were like 5 babies in there I just couldn’t get them out. The worst was that the mom came back and was chirping not stop, I wanted to go back so bad. Putting in the screws sealing their fate honestly feels like one of the worst things I’ve done in a long time.

 

[JC33]

I understand they’re just birds. But imagine essentially starving to death in a hot dark soffit. I’m still very fucking mad. I’m going to get a lot of shit today for “wasting time fucking with the birds”

I’m going in hot today, I will be talking shit being ignorant and very fucking loud.

 

[JC33]

There was no point in all that other than those guys are douche bags

Soffit material is cheap, I offered to pay to replace it and for my time if I could cut a square out exactly where the nest was. “No just seal it up”

I just have a hard time seeing how the guy was willing to drop me from the company after 6 years if I didn’t seal it up without getting them out.

 

[Battousai]

I would have cut the nest out. All you did was leave a dead bird in the soffit. Bad construction practice, you see a problem you fix it and not create other problems. What if another animal smells it and claws his way in

That's exactly what I was thinking. I'd be PISSED if I found out that the people constructing my house did some shit like this.

 

[tommygunz]

I’m seriously doubting the legitimacy of y’all’s AI.

 

[JC33]

I’m seriously doubting the legitimacy of y’all’s AI.

You were definitely the kid that burnt ants with a magnifying glass growing up.

 

[tommygunz]

So what would you have done with them? Take them out, bring em home, hand feed them every 15 min for two months? Relocate the nest?

Anything you can dream up would have ended the same way, dead birds.

There are billions of those flying shit machines in the world. I was working for a utility company and went up in the air to repair a streetlight. I opened it and out fell about 5 of the little bastards to the street 40’ below. I fixed the light, cleaned up the nest and birds out of the street and moved on.

No group counseling required

 

[stinkfingerdelux]

So what would you have done with them? Take them out, bring em home, hand feed them every 15 min for two months? Relocate the nest?

Anything you can dream up would have ended the same way, dead birds.

There are billions of those flying shit machines in the world. I was working for a utility company and went up in the air to repair a streetlight. I opened it and out fell about 5 of the little bastards to the street 40’ below. I fixed the light, cleaned up the nest and birds out of the street and moved on.

No group counseling required

I love that you use the blm emoji.
I send Mrs stink the black thumbs up or muscle arm instead of the yellow myself.


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[Nobodyishere]

So what would you have done with them? Take them out, bring em home, hand feed them every 15 min for two months? Relocate the nest?

Anything you can dream up would have ended the same way, dead birds.

There are billions of those flying shit machines in the world. I was working for a utility company and went up in the air to repair a streetlight. I opened it and out fell about 5 of the little bastards to the street 40’ below. I fixed the light, cleaned up the nest and birds out of the street and moved on.

No group counseling required

Not wrong. Generally if the nest is touched by humans the mother will abandon the nest. However to not give them a chance and just seal the babies in there is weird. And then to threaten homies job over it?

 

[Battousai]

So what would you have done with them? Take them out, bring em home, hand feed them every 15 min for two months? Relocate the nest?

Anything you can dream up would have ended the same way, dead birds.

There are billions of those flying shit machines in the world. I was working for a utility company and went up in the air to repair a streetlight. I opened it and out fell about 5 of the little bastards to the street 40’ below. I fixed the light, cleaned up the nest and birds out of the street and moved on.

No group counseling required

My issue isn't dead birds, it's leaving birds in someone's home you're building. Should have at least took them out and tossed it in the trash.

 

[Nobodyishere]

My issue isn't dead birds, it's leaving birds in someone's home you're building. Should have at least took them out and tossed it in the trash.

Right. Dude wanting to leave them in there was weird.

 

[JC33]

Not wrong. Generally if the nest is touched by humans the mother will abandon the nest. However to not give them a chance and just seal the babies in there is weird. And then to threaten homies job over it?

I just don’t like the idea of a slow hot death for baby birds.

 

[JC33]

My issue isn't dead birds, it's leaving birds in someone's home you're building. Should have at least took them out and tossed it in the trash.

They were alive and had to die without a chance. That’s my issue

 

[tommygunz]

They were alive and had to die without a chance. That’s my issue

So, again, what would you have done? Tear the soffit open to get to them? Then what? Tell the homeowners “sorry, you’re gonna have to wait 2 months till those birds leave the nest for us to finish “.

Birds get abandoned in the nest, fall out, get eaten by predators all the time. It’s the circle of life Simba.

I guess you could have said fuck it, I refuse to do it. Your foreman would have just had your replacement do it.

And BTW, as far as leaving a nest up in the soffit? You guys know how much shit is left in new builds? I’ve been in construction for 45 years. I’ll tell you…all kinds of shit is left behind. 4-5grams of dead birds that will dry up in a week will not stink and will be a non issue for as long as the house stands.

Now that I’ve said the “bad guy” things I’ll say yeah that sucked. But there’s no way in hell I’d jeopardize my job over it.

 

[tommygunz]

I love that you use the blm emoji.
I send Mrs stink the black thumbs up or muscle arm instead of the yellow myself.

I just use it to piss off the ASF racists lol.

 

[CoffeeS]

So what would you have done with them? Take them out, bring em home, hand feed them every 15 min for two months? Relocate the nest?

Anything you can dream up would have ended the same way, dead birds.

There are billions of those flying shit machines in the world. I was working for a utility company and went up in the air to repair a streetlight. I opened it and out fell about 5 of the little bastards to the street 40’ below. I fixed the light, cleaned up the nest and birds out of the street and moved on.

No group counseling required

another post that shows what a piece of shit you are.

you're like dog shit, stuck on sneakers.

 

[Nobodyishere]

So, again, what would you have done? Tear the soffit open to get to them? Then what? Tell the homeowners “sorry, you’re gonna have to wait 2 months till those birds leave the nest for us to finish “.

Take it down?????

Birds get abandoned in the nest, fall out, get eaten by predators all the time. It’s the circle of life Simba.

Intentionally leaving them up there seems different than an act of nature

I guess you could have said fuck it, I refuse to do it. Your foreman would have just had your replacement do it.

And BTW, as far as leaving a nest up in the soffit? You guys know how much shit is left in new builds? I’ve been in construction for 45 years. I’ll tell you…all kinds of shit is left behind. 4-5grams of dead birds that will dry up in a week will not stink and will be a non issue for as long as the house stands.

So because everyone else leaves junk in houses we should to????

Now that I’ve said the “bad guy” things I’ll say yeah that sucked. But there’s no way in hell I’d jeopardize my job over it.

Someone shouldn’t have to “jeopardize” over some weird ass shit like that. It’s weird.

 

[tommygunz]

So nobody has an answer?

You all just want to focus on ME.
Seriously?

What a bunch of bitches. Up you’re AI doses.

 

[tommygunz]

another post that shows what a piece of shit you are.

you're like dog shit, stuck on sneakers.

What would you have done genius?

You won’t answer. You just run your cock holster and run away like a little cunt.


Hmmm…,what say you coffeecunt?