▲ 21 r/IBEW

Night shift keeps going into our gang boxes and stealing our shit. How can I give them some payback? Thinking miralax, hot sauce, etc.

Not sure if this fits here but I’m ibew and our night shift crew keeps stealing our food out the fridge, from the table, even tools out of our gang boxes and shutting off power to our setup so stuff in the fridge melts by the time we get in! Unfortunately I’m a tech and they are electricians so the electrician foremen don’t give a fuck and just say sorry “we’ll talk to them” but nothing changes. It feels personal even though we haven’t done anything malicious to them and have had zero contact w them the whole time we’ve been on this job. I wrote a note on the fridge asking them to pls stop because we have people with medical issues who need the fridge and they wrote “fuck you” on the note. I’m fed up and considering doing something even more rash but I’m settling for a more harmless prank like a laxative or super hot sauce. Has anyone else had something similar happen? What have you done? Our foreman already bought us new locks and whatnot but that doesn’t stop them from stealing other stuff.

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u/Complete_Boss_9212 — 1 day ago
▲ 17 r/NativePlantGardening+1 crossposts

Is this normal or should I rip them out?

I have several purple coneflower in my yard and they all start out lovely in the beginning of the season but then they turn into this as the season goes on. This is only my second year in this house, I put these plants in last year from a nursery and it happened the same way last year with the same plants.

Hopefully the pics are good enough and you can see what’s happening. Basically it starts out normal and then the core turns to a dirt-like mush. This particular plant is a volunteer from the original growing in a crack in the cement -I don’t water it at all, but the other in the front yard has the same issue. They’re both full sun, light (added) water, mulch, no fertilizers.

SE Michigan

u/Complete_Boss_9212 — 15 days ago

At my wits end! Sawfly larvae are decimating my roses and columbine. Someone please help me before I go nuclear. SE Michigan.

As you can see from my pics they absolutely took out my columbine this year. Last year it was my roses and they’re working on them again this year! I’ve tried diatomaceous earth but it didn’t seem to do the trick -or I didn’t do it right maybe.

I planted yarrow and coreopsis in the hopes they will attract predators but it will be a while before they’re big enough to really help!

Please help! What do I do? I’m about to just give up and call it quits

u/Complete_Boss_9212 — 2 months ago

What are these plants? The first is a volunteer in the middle of my yard. The second is a volunteer in my herb planter.

SE Michigan. Hopefully the first one is something good cause I’ve been letting it go for a hot minute thinking it’s some native goldenrod. The second one just popped up in my planter and I need to know if it’s worth moving into the ground to let it go cause right now it’s blocking the dill

u/Complete_Boss_9212 — 2 months ago

What happened to my tree and will this damage its ability to have a single leader? Is the bug on it a threat?

This oak tree started as a volunteer in my yard. It’s sentimental bc a squirrel planted it the year I moved in and so I moved it to the front yard. Last year bugs got to it but it came back with a vengeance this year. Today as I was checking up on it I noticed it was missing a bunch of leaves. They’re all on the ground near the tree but they are unharmed. They look like they’ve been torn off which is possible since my neighbor has young children and has made a comment about the sapling asking me if I was worried about it damaging my cement — it’s next to her driveway… do you think a bug could have done this? What are the chances of this little guy pushing through and continuing on with a single leader again?

Sorry for the bad pics, my camera is kinda busted. Last pic is a pic I took about a week ago.. :(

u/Complete_Boss_9212 — 2 months ago