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Apr 27, 2015
5:11:11pm
were you a BYU student at the time?
I did that the summer after I got home from my mission. I got a job with Layton as a laborer when they were building an extension on the MTC. I was verbally and even physically harassed the six weeks I worked on the project. The crews singled out the BYU laborers for abuse. I had one assistant foreman threaten to throw me off the top of the three story building if I got anywhere near a surveyor tripod. I was not within 10 feet of his instrument while clearing a debris pile. It was just another opportunity to haze.

I volunteered to help with a nighttime pour of one of the floors and was working a pneumatic vibrator when the foreman came over and shoved me down in the concrete and screamed at me that I wasn't moving fast enough and gave it to one of his crew to operate. After we finished about 9 the next morning, I washed and stored all the tools and waited to be told I could leave. The foreman was talking and laughing with one of his crew and saw me standing there and literally came sprinting at me, screaming "what are you ------- doing? Why aren't you working?" I made the mistake of saying I had finished everything.

He says, "Did you clean and put away the tools?"

"Yes."

That just made him more angry and he picked up some wet concrete that had sloughed over the forms onto the dirt and threw it in my face while he screamed, "then pick up the ------- concrete off the ground with your hands." At that moment, I became the last of about a dozen BYU laborers to quit that summer.

I have always wondered if that is how Layton treated laborers or it was just a bad crew and foreman. It wasn't just Layton either. The brick masons (can't remember their company) were equally as bad.
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Originally posted on Apr 27, 2015 at 5:11:11pm
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