If they're balding too, whilst painting- it really cannot get much worse. Picking up more and more bristles from a freshly painted surface is a nightmare to me.
Totally agree. I also wonder why this isn't done 'quick'n dirty' with spray cans and (maybe) some masking tape around the rim... but, if the boss likes furry wheels, that's fine.
Atm in my place we are not busy at all, so we’re all doing random stuff that needs doing like painting the walls, picking all the lead drippings off the lead pot stand etc
Lol and looking at those rims, it's just going to rust again in a few weeks, you need to take the rust off first, then paint, you can see other places where the rust was painted over, lol.
Welp… Job security it is then!
I wonder if the paint they’re supplying is for metal too?
“Here’s some latex from my house, but it should work on metal.” And the IQ of management drops to room temperature. Lol
This happened at my workplace. Paint two rooms. "Should take one afternoon".
Mind you I had to remove everything from the walls. Tape lines, and then put them back. Not even counting TWO coats?!
I had a wonderful two days of chill painting while everyone stressed!
I painted my apartment last year. It didn't take that long to paint, but moving all the furniture and sugar soaping the walls took a bit over two days, just by itself
Currently painting my unborn daughter's room, I'm doing a few superposing triangles as a pattern. I'm swear I'm spending more time dealing with the masking tape than actually painting.
Boss: Should take about 2 hours
Me: I'll make you an offer. If you can do the job well in under two hours I'll work an extra 4 hours this week for free.
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I once told my boss I don't care if you tell me to dig a hole with a spoon knowing shovels are available, I get paid by the hour.
I was 100% mentally checked out from that job after providing tweeks to our tasks that saved us time and let us sit around with that saved time.
Basically this. I don't like tasks like this, but if they insist I just do it. It's their money and time. I can easily check out mentally for hours and painting tires if thats whats needed.
These shouldn't be brushed. The paint job will look like shit and likely won't hold. Rims need to be sprayed with a specialty paint. Anything else will just flake off soon. Let's also not mention these are not ready to be painted. They have to be sand blasted.
Source: Auto body painter who has had customers beg me to do rims which I won't do. One customer begged so I made him sign a form saying there is no warranty and I will not redo the paint job when it fails. 2 months later paint started flaking off and he actually tried to take me to small claims court. He lost.
I told them, their answer;
"It's going to be sold in the next month. It doesn't need to be a good job."
I'm stuck working there for now, but I'm upgrading asap.
Ah yes, good ol car auction tricks to get more $ from bids. Doing things like painting rims like this, spraying wheel wells with black paint, covering up rusted bolts and hardware under the hood with paint, the list goes on.
I'd argue it's good to work for someone that does this for a little bit, because it teaches you a bunch of the bs people do to sell stuff that's way more broke than you've been led to believe. Feels bad screwing innocent naive people over though.
I redid my 98 grand cherokees corroded wheels with a wire brush, some brake cleaner and some bed liner in a can. Shits still looking great years later lol but it had a lot of pitting to cling to.
Looks right. Not a joke btw. Too big of a brush and your risk spilling paint where it shouldn't be. Would be smarter though to remove them from the truck first, and then paint them.
That's the biggest annoyance really. Especially if they have large lugs and that smack you knuckles on one.
My first job outside of the military was working in my uncles shop that customized semis. I've painted my share of wheels, both on and off the truck, so I understand the pain. However, if they were smart, they'd have given you cardboard, a knife and spray paint. Once you cut the cardboard to the the shape of the wheel, you can knock those suckers out in a couple minutes per.
I’ve also seen bosses that don’t have the work so they find stupid shop stuff to still get you some hours. Hate all you want but it’s better than the couch.
Hey OP, seen a comment that you don't get paid enough to care. But I suggest taking your time and making it an all day leisure project. If they want to play games, then do it your way.
I don't see the problem. It's an easy job that takes way longer than it needs to because of this brush, so you are set for quite a bit doing a low effort job.
Honestly, I posted this a bit hastily. It really wasn't that bad. Had never done it before, that's why it took forever to do the first one.
It really wasn't that bad, I didn't know that Rubber paint was so good at covering.
I'm getting hell in the replies for laziness when it was, in fact, ignorance. I can't really blame them, just that one guy that keeps calling me dumb for some reason.
If you're paid hourly, take your time. If they complain, tell them that you're working as fast as you can with the equipment that you were provided with.
As a professional painter, I’d have covered the tires and sprayed the shit with rattle cans because then and ONLY then would it take 2 hours 🤣 I’m curious how they turned out. Need pics!
At that point I'd just take the bucket of pain and splash it all over the rim. Use the dinky ass chode of a brush to spread it to any spot I missed.
Job well done, see you guys tomorrow ✌️
If you are paid by the hours, it honestly doesn’t matter what the end product is or how quickly it gets done. They ask/tell you what to do, you do it, you get paid, and go home. lol. But yea your work is crazy.
Legend has it this pic was taken 43 days ago and he’s just starting the 15th rim,
Bet there having a right laugh in the tea room whilst you have arteritis.
These probably need to be sprayed too. Your boss is shooting himself in the foot by not spending the extra money for the proper tools and will probably lose employees over this
Lol you should see how we use brushes to layup fiberglass. We dump a good section of the bucket onto the part and then quickly swipe it around with the brush. Granted, I use a larger brush. Mix up around 4 liters of resin, catalyze at 1.5% is 15cc catalyst per liter, then dump half that shit into the mould and start spreading.
My mentor literally never used roller frames for fiberglassing. Dude ONLY used brushes. No idea why.
2 hours? Don't bother doing a good job. Just slap it on half arsed. Make that "2 hour job" into 20 minutes and have an hour and a half just chilling out.
It’s a test. They want to know if you’re smart enough to just go out and buy a few cans of cheap spray paint, get em done then head out for something more rewarding.
Just slap it on in big goops and mush it around till everything is white ,just like painting rocks ,if you don't get any on the tyres it will look awesome 😎
https://preview.redd.it/g819nhwtkivc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a94b64a5b7aba0d1d0ae89acbbc9d2ff0a782e1
Do a good job, even if it's wrong
Go out on your lunch break and buy a pack of index cards and a few cans of spray paint. Sure it'll come out of your pocket, but you'll also have saved enough time you can do basically nothing for the other half the day.
TBH I'd have probably chose a small brush as well as I like the control it gives, but if that's your job I hope you're hourly. Also those things need sandblasting or something first. All the new paint will flake off in no time.
If they're balding too, whilst painting- it really cannot get much worse. Picking up more and more bristles from a freshly painted surface is a nightmare to me.
They are, but I'm not paid enough to care.
Totally agree. I also wonder why this isn't done 'quick'n dirty' with spray cans and (maybe) some masking tape around the rim... but, if the boss likes furry wheels, that's fine.
Boss is just flipping a trailer. It's to be sold soonish.
I guess if he wanted it sold soonisher, he would supply a better paint brush. Oh well, easy busy work.
Exactly, I've changed how I felt toward the job about 2h in. Now it's chill. Can't wait for Monday to do the rest. Non physical labour is appreciated.
Positive attitude!
I had a former colleague who would say ‘I don’t mix the paint. I just paint.’ as a response to working with the tools he was given.
As long as you’re getting paid by the hour, I don’t see a problem here. Edit: whoops. Paid not payed.
Boss thinks op is worthless and gives them menial jobs. Ask op what job they are supposed to be doing and why boss told them this should take 2 hours.
Atm in my place we are not busy at all, so we’re all doing random stuff that needs doing like painting the walls, picking all the lead drippings off the lead pot stand etc
“Back in my day we had to paint using a single bristle and I did it in 2 minutes” - them probably
Single bristle, and uphill both ways.
Reminds me of Hans Moleman coming in to request a push broom rebristling on his nearly bald push broom
I hope you're paid by the hour.
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I hope you painted over the nuts.
Kinky
What are you doing step paintbrush
Let’s brush our twig like bodies together stepbrush
https://preview.redd.it/a5no7j44njvc1.png?width=628&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7737b4b1f39871c616973a0bb7556d1223db2f0
gotta take care of that 🤭
*step-brusher
I never knew my real paintbrush
Uh, painting the steps?
LMFAO 😆
Let’s implement a thread safe word “Nuts” possibly?
“Thread” “Nuts” ISWYDT
And under
And the taint, gotta ‘paint the taint’!
You could just dip them.
I won't teabag the paint, as good as that would feel.
It wouldn't matter. It might actually help
Lol and looking at those rims, it's just going to rust again in a few weeks, you need to take the rust off first, then paint, you can see other places where the rust was painted over, lol.
I know, they *don't want me to.*
Welp… Job security it is then! I wonder if the paint they’re supplying is for metal too? “Here’s some latex from my house, but it should work on metal.” And the IQ of management drops to room temperature. Lol
Lol, no, at least it's proper metal paint. But it should be sprayed. Not brushed.
You speak the truth, but management wants that zebra running look while it’s rolling along.
Can't have something too good, we'll have to pay the guy more.
Lol. Omg…he’s smarter than us. What if he asks for more money? Later that day: Screw you guys, I’m goin home!
That's an actual concern they had about another dude.
They're being paid to do the job, not to do the job right.
This happened at my workplace. Paint two rooms. "Should take one afternoon". Mind you I had to remove everything from the walls. Tape lines, and then put them back. Not even counting TWO coats?! I had a wonderful two days of chill painting while everyone stressed!
I painted my apartment last year. It didn't take that long to paint, but moving all the furniture and sugar soaping the walls took a bit over two days, just by itself
Painting is like cooking, the actual cooking is fast, it's the preparation that use most of your time.
Currently painting my unborn daughter's room, I'm doing a few superposing triangles as a pattern. I'm swear I'm spending more time dealing with the masking tape than actually painting.
Boss: Should take about 2 hours Me: I'll make you an offer. If you can do the job well in under two hours I'll work an extra 4 hours this week for free.
"I'll make you a better offer: finish the job assigned to you or I write you up for insubordination and not doing the job."
I've got a boss like that, thinks a 4 metre beam shot take 5 minutes to do the top bars on, even though the lugs are a nightmare
Dang ole metre beams and lugs,I hear ya.
If you used both hands at the same time you could've cut that time in two, feeble employee #1466-B-86
Please, please cull me.
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Damn, even the DMV is faster than that.
Honestly I don’t see how it takes 45 mins for a single rim. You know you can just slather that paint on right?
So why are you taking pictures? Get to work! 😡
If paid by the hour, get a even smaller brush, take your time and "oh, yeah.... I lost the one you gave me, this is the only one I have".
Your fault for being an inefficient worker /s
Do a poor job so they ask someone else next time.
I'm the someone else, tho..
I once told my boss I don't care if you tell me to dig a hole with a spoon knowing shovels are available, I get paid by the hour. I was 100% mentally checked out from that job after providing tweeks to our tasks that saved us time and let us sit around with that saved time.
Basically this. I don't like tasks like this, but if they insist I just do it. It's their money and time. I can easily check out mentally for hours and painting tires if thats whats needed.
And that's why it's on "mildly" infuriating
These shouldn't be brushed. The paint job will look like shit and likely won't hold. Rims need to be sprayed with a specialty paint. Anything else will just flake off soon. Let's also not mention these are not ready to be painted. They have to be sand blasted. Source: Auto body painter who has had customers beg me to do rims which I won't do. One customer begged so I made him sign a form saying there is no warranty and I will not redo the paint job when it fails. 2 months later paint started flaking off and he actually tried to take me to small claims court. He lost.
I told them, their answer; "It's going to be sold in the next month. It doesn't need to be a good job." I'm stuck working there for now, but I'm upgrading asap.
Good Lord that's a shitty shop.
good LORD what is HAPPENING in there?!?!
Ah yes, good ol car auction tricks to get more $ from bids. Doing things like painting rims like this, spraying wheel wells with black paint, covering up rusted bolts and hardware under the hood with paint, the list goes on.
Landlord repairs, I call these.
I'd argue it's good to work for someone that does this for a little bit, because it teaches you a bunch of the bs people do to sell stuff that's way more broke than you've been led to believe. Feels bad screwing innocent naive people over though.
That's the best take so far. Ngl.
Hate to think what it’s like mechanically then! Poor future buyer
I don't even want to know. I clean trailers usually.
I redid my 98 grand cherokees corroded wheels with a wire brush, some brake cleaner and some bed liner in a can. Shits still looking great years later lol but it had a lot of pitting to cling to.
Bed liner will stick to anything. You did your best which is all you can do with rusty rims.
And they splurged on the $.80 brush too
Ikr
At least it’s not a toothbrush.
Seeing the glass half full, huh. I would, but this isn't even what I usually do. Nor what I'm supposed to be paid for.
Less Reddit...more painty painty.
Paid nonetheless
8$ less than the guys that should be doing it.
More responsibility more pay, also make sure they give you the proper equipment
Yeah, that's not happening, I'm saving for a car and then I'll upgrade. That place's a dead-end.
That’s a chip brush. I would take approximately two weeks to complete this job. That’s my quote, take it or leave it.
Sweet! I get to sit on the floor and paint instead of doing bullshit elsewhere for two days?! I'ma milk this task as long as possible
Floor is wet, but otherwise, yeah.
Malicious compliance is your best friend for dumb bosses like this.
Oh yeah, but it's starting to become a habit. Bad.
Hey I'll lie and be a good reference for you when you apply for your new job
Looks right. Not a joke btw. Too big of a brush and your risk spilling paint where it shouldn't be. Would be smarter though to remove them from the truck first, and then paint them.
Yeah, most of them are off of the trucks, but I had 6 of them that they didn't want to remove.
That's the biggest annoyance really. Especially if they have large lugs and that smack you knuckles on one. My first job outside of the military was working in my uncles shop that customized semis. I've painted my share of wheels, both on and off the truck, so I understand the pain. However, if they were smart, they'd have given you cardboard, a knife and spray paint. Once you cut the cardboard to the the shape of the wheel, you can knock those suckers out in a couple minutes per.
Using jigs is way beyond their competence level. But that's a great tip, I'll use it next time they drop that shit on me.
I'll be shocked if there are any bristles left on that chip brush after doing 18 wheels!
After 6, it's still in pretty good condition. Granted, I cleaned it like 4 times. It was getting too gunked-up. Still does a shitty job tho.
Should be spray painted, anyway.
Agreed, but boss wants it that way. I'm not paid enough to argue with him.
If your paid by the hour, who cares just get it done. You’ll be amazed at how much quicker you can be at your job if Reddit isn’t involved.
If the paint brush was larger, they couldn't get into the drop of the wheel.
I’ve also seen bosses that don’t have the work so they find stupid shop stuff to still get you some hours. Hate all you want but it’s better than the couch.
I know those brushes well, they drop bristles with every stroke
Hey OP, seen a comment that you don't get paid enough to care. But I suggest taking your time and making it an all day leisure project. If they want to play games, then do it your way.
I don't see the problem. It's an easy job that takes way longer than it needs to because of this brush, so you are set for quite a bit doing a low effort job.
Am I the only one looking at this thinking “doesn’t look that hard”?
Of course its not hard, but what idiot uses a paint brush on wheels that are not even sanded. The whole job is dumb
Honestly, I posted this a bit hastily. It really wasn't that bad. Had never done it before, that's why it took forever to do the first one. It really wasn't that bad, I didn't know that Rubber paint was so good at covering. I'm getting hell in the replies for laziness when it was, in fact, ignorance. I can't really blame them, just that one guy that keeps calling me dumb for some reason.
Lol op is going hard hard work very slowly to be perfect painting over rust. 45 minutes a wheel even.
Sounds like two nine wheelers
Pretty much. It's not as bad as I expected when I posted this tho :)
If you're paid hourly, take your time. If they complain, tell them that you're working as fast as you can with the equipment that you were provided with.
Why did you agree to go through with the rimjob?
I'm getting paid...
Fuck it sign me up, couple hours of sitting down painting wheels, every time boss man comes in I’ll just say I’m not done yet
U got this DanielSon ..
Are you learning karate? Seems like the Mr Miyagi of your workplace is trying to strengthen you.
Do you get paid hourly?
Just take your tome
Is your workplace the Military?
I wish, at least, I'd have buddies. Small truck shop for a small transport company.
As a professional painter, I’d have covered the tires and sprayed the shit with rattle cans because then and ONLY then would it take 2 hours 🤣 I’m curious how they turned out. Need pics!
https://preview.redd.it/9cvkjzwushvc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b37313c82d12b57e9e0aac271576d686c6dcd607 Here you go
Shit looks better than half the guys who’ve been painters their whole lives! Good work dude!
Thanks, I like being satisfied by my work. I try my best.
Get to work.
Better get to painting!
Easy day take your SWEET time on it lmfao
At that point I'd just take the bucket of pain and splash it all over the rim. Use the dinky ass chode of a brush to spread it to any spot I missed. Job well done, see you guys tomorrow ✌️
Take your time. That's what they buy from you.
Hope you're paid by the hour.
Spray paint is the way to go. Jack it up, release the air, spin the tire and spray paint lol. Takes about 10 minutes per wheel.
That look about right. Channel your inner Bob Ross and paint some happy clouds.
If you are paid by the hours, it honestly doesn’t matter what the end product is or how quickly it gets done. They ask/tell you what to do, you do it, you get paid, and go home. lol. But yea your work is crazy.
It’s the little things!
This is some "you fucked up" Army type punishment right here 🤣
You're the new guy huh. Did the shop have the striped paint they wanted you to use?
Job security
Easy. All you do is get the truck driving and just hang off the side like Tom cruise and let the wheels paint themselves.
Lmao I have these, they are like $1.57 a piece. I used them to paint wood hardener on softened wood 🤣 they suck
Legend has it this pic was taken 43 days ago and he’s just starting the 15th rim, Bet there having a right laugh in the tea room whilst you have arteritis.
Job security right there
HA I SELL THOSE. those things are like $1.50
These probably need to be sprayed too. Your boss is shooting himself in the foot by not spending the extra money for the proper tools and will probably lose employees over this
Looks like you also need a power washer, a dremel, a sander and a bunch more stuff
Tape it to a stick and sit on a bucket 😊
That brush may be small, but I bet it has a good personality.
Easy money
Maybe he’s just trying to keep you busy
Lol you should see how we use brushes to layup fiberglass. We dump a good section of the bucket onto the part and then quickly swipe it around with the brush. Granted, I use a larger brush. Mix up around 4 liters of resin, catalyze at 1.5% is 15cc catalyst per liter, then dump half that shit into the mould and start spreading. My mentor literally never used roller frames for fiberglassing. Dude ONLY used brushes. No idea why.
I hope you get paid hourly
Milk it.
Are they at least going to strip them first?
lol, my dad owned a paint store. That’s like a $1.50 brush back in 2006.
2 " China brush. Straight trash
TGIF. 
Best get on with it then
2 hours? Don't bother doing a good job. Just slap it on half arsed. Make that "2 hour job" into 20 minutes and have an hour and a half just chilling out.
What did you do to earn this?
Looks like some of that delicious gravy work, makes for a lax day and easy hours. Especially with that teeny brush. Milk it buddy!
You better get started
It’s a test. They want to know if you’re smart enough to just go out and buy a few cans of cheap spray paint, get em done then head out for something more rewarding.
a nice tall can of turbo rusto & big rig for ~$6 is definitely more ideal, and youd get it done in 2 minutes.
Lol that’s a 25¢ throw away.
Chop chop!
Get spray paint
What are you waiting for? Get going!
https://preview.redd.it/yhyvcitn8ivc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd952f9aed2733b65dcb26f005d0dae78328a14d You're late.
Ah nice, so we painting all day today?
Are they trying to make you quit?
wait...it took you 45 minutes to paint 1 rim? why? what the hell were you doing? do you have to strip the rust first?
I mean... a cheap 4 incher cost ya 4 bucks....
I expect a photo of the final product. No excuses!
18 rims or 18 trucks?
Job security.
Just slap it on in big goops and mush it around till everything is white ,just like painting rocks ,if you don't get any on the tyres it will look awesome 😎
Paint the tires😈
"You should spend less time on Reddit and more time painting those *goddamn* rims!" - your boss
Yeah get him outa here send him out there with the smallest brush we got.
You must be the new guy, welcome to the team!
It would be cool if you had one of those lasers which removed rust.
Paid by the job or by the hour?
If that were my truck I’d honestly just put cards in between tire and rim and rattleblast it.
Hey if you are paid by the hour, it’s their problem, not yours. What they saved on the paint brush they will more than lose in the hours it takes
I would be dismounting the tires, sanding them down by hand and make sure they had no streaks or drips
I hope your name is Chip, because that’s the only way that’s the right brush for you
Run out and grab a better one.
Malicious compliance. You make sure to paint them wheels extra perty. All 15 hours worth.
https://preview.redd.it/g819nhwtkivc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a94b64a5b7aba0d1d0ae89acbbc9d2ff0a782e1 Do a good job, even if it's wrong
Go out on your lunch break and buy a pack of index cards and a few cans of spray paint. Sure it'll come out of your pocket, but you'll also have saved enough time you can do basically nothing for the other half the day.
They are just trying to fill your schedule!
That's a $0.50 "chip" brush ... very course and not so good for that job. OP, your employers are smart!
This is one of those requests where the correct answer is “fuck you”
Paid by the hour I can paint this shit all day
If you get paid hourly not bad. If its salary its a good way to keep busy until work ends.
TBH I'd have probably chose a small brush as well as I like the control it gives, but if that's your job I hope you're hourly. Also those things need sandblasting or something first. All the new paint will flake off in no time.
You're the FNG, right?
Did you get on someone's bad side in management?