Mickey's a shovel operator and laborer at a construction site; Minnie is delivering box lunches; Pete is the foreman. Mickey pays more attention to Minnie than to his work, and keeps having accidents (mostly involving the blueprints Pete is holding). Pete steals Mickey's lunch, so Minnie offers him one on the house. While he's eating, Pete kidnaps Minnie; Mickey fights him, but the tide turns when Minnie dumps a load of hot rivets into Pete's pants...
Practical Effects
Every rivet, blueprint, and pants-fire rendered by actual human hands.
Sound
Early synchronized chaos—grunts, crashes, and musical timing.
Director
David Hand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of the last Mickey shorts where Walt Disney personally voiced the character—by 1933, he was already too busy running an empire.
The 'rivets in pants' gag became a Depression-era staple, symbolizing working-class revenge against boss figures—subversive for a Disney product.
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