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A foreman has led by example this afternoon at a Betoota Heights construction site this afternoon by letting it be known to every man and woman on the site that he’s above no job.
Local builder, Rory Pooley, manned a broom around 3pm today to help expedite the clean up after the day’s construction.
It’s a job, the 29-year-old said, that’s usually reserved for the bottom-rung workers on site and no person with any discernible skill would lower themselves to doing such a thing.
“I’m like Jesus when he washed the feet of that tramp or whatever it was,” he said.
Pooley spoke briefly to The Advocate outside the residential construction site as he watched a number of carpenters mercilessly beating a parking ranger with a set of jumper cables.
“You know, I like leading from the front. Holding the broom like it’s an Owen gun and the dirt on the floor is a foxhole full of terrified Japanese conscripts. That’s how I feel on the inside, guys,”
The odd-Aires barked out to his carpenters not to kill the ranger and that he’d had enough.
“What was I saying? Oh yeah. It’s not about the glory of performing a menial task, it’s about getting the job done,”
“I don’t even make an announcement that I’m doing it. If there’s a job that needs to be done, I’ll just pick up the tools and get it done.”
Our reporter then terminated the interview to perform first aid on the parking ranger, who later admitted he should’ve known better than to book a Ford Ranger with a DILLIGAF sticker on the back.
More to come.
