Has anyone ever worked for a company That just wasnt right or aka SHADY in their buisness practices? Or maybe you gave them all you could and recieved something I cant say on this site in return? If you need to vent let me or us hear it. Better out then in. Put them on blast.

We were pumping, Trying to make it right, We were working, outside nine to five, over loaded, breaking all the laws, We'll be pumping till they put us in the grave!

It's the industry! Some like to say they are like Teflon or the man wipes his foot prints when he leave the steps.

Concrete Pumping is a tough way to make a living! The nice guy at the negotiating table goes hungry!!

Oh,must be talking 'bout Pumpco

 Yeah I have. Now they're outta buisiness, despite pumpin jobs for Free with a fleet of BrandNew machines, they still fell appart & Failed. Go Figure?

 A tell tale sign of Shadyness... When an outfit doesn't even drug test or ask for a current health cert. before they send you down the road in a pump! 

TOOTALL you are something else, I bet we know whose pumps they were.

Yep there is a company like that by me their main operator has no drivers lic.but still drives the pumps and is into drugs and got thrown off a certain job for being drunk but yet that company is still doin that job in which my company should be on. My supervisor went out on that job to see how this company was messing up long story short they don't know how to clean their booms properly so my supervisor had to pump the job for one day no problems, but that piece of SH!T company is still doin it. Oh and by the way their operator is union and I'm not and I'm sitting home out off work but yet he has no drivers lic. and is a smack head that's real fair huh!!! It's almost like working hard and doing a good job doesn't get you anywhere.Sorry if I'm bitching but I know you guys will understand what I'm talking about.

Years ago I worked for the king of shenanigans and he was brilliant at it.Now he is living off those he screwed.Had that one owner put the same effort into being stand up the whole industry would be wonderfull.

Hey Many the person you are talkng about I was helping out in the south where the son ran the joint. They had a operator committ a felony in the pump and would never have a commercial license and still ran a pump for them. Brilliance at its finest.....

Were you there when that 36m just happen to burn up on I-95 early one mourning ? Bet there are some way to funny stories from down there.

Nope I missed that one. They also had a guy with a wooden leg that was a hoot

It look like a high chaparal-movie to work as a pumpoperator in the States. We in Sweden have it like a protected workshop - everything is controled, and everyone follow the rule. It´s almost impossible to get a mixdriver to carry an overload, not even when it´s necessery for half a cubic. And i have never heard that someone is going on drugs at work in this business. Thats why i think Sweden is a little bit of a protected workshop.

the first company i worked for was a pretty haywire 'get-er-done' type company. they would say in staff meetings that everything had to be done by the book but would tear a strip offa ur hide if doing it by the book cost them any money... their 'training' program for pump operators was kindof a joke too... they gave you a few days on the pump with another operator and as soon as you could operate the controls properly you were on your own truck... i remember bringing a load of ready mix to one of the new operators and watching the rear wheels come off of the ground because he was facing downhill and had the boom fully extended off of the front end... it was pretty scary stuff... im glad im with a company that cares about safety now..