Yes, taking turns digging. You expect them to dig for 8 hours straight without stopping? Or take breaks with no one to tag in and get half as much done?

You know what? I don't care what your answer is. Entitlement at it's max. Piss off

Yeah so I looked up that project. Stormwater infrastructure improvements, utility work including GAS line relocations... Among other things.

So yeah, done by hand for a lot of it.

It's gonna take a while, that's quite the project.

Yeah. Sometimes this sort of thing makes sense. I don't see any real equipment there, so if they're digging around something sensitive and have to do it by hand that shit is exhausting, makes it possible to keep the job going by tagging out when you get too winded.

If they look like they're having a good time they might just like the dudes they work with.

Of course occasionally it's gotta be unnecessary, like at any job, a lazy day here or there.