"All Bell and No System". Rule of thumb at old Bell System would indicate 12 1st/2nd-level managers (white hats), 1 tech (green hat) showing management how it's done. Orange hat is a trainee and the no hat may be a 3rd-level manager wondering "how'd I git cheah".
Don't forget the old motto: "No job is so important and no service is so urgent that we cannot afford to take the time to do the job safely". As a retired Bell Head I had to commit that to memory and recite it at the District Plant Managers annual safety meetings.
"All Bell and No System". Rule of thumb at old Bell System would indicate 12 1st/2nd-level managers (white hats), 1 tech (green hat) showing management how it's done. Orange hat is a trainee and the no hat may be a 3rd-level manager wondering "how'd I git cheah".
10-4. United States Infrastructure Corp. I'd never heard of them 'til you mentioned USIC. They're the folks that mark underground stuff 'before you dig'. According to their website they're always looking for new people. Lots of opportunities for young people these days, that's for sure.
"Now, if y'all actually show up, on time, for work...." Reminds me of the "temps" I had at the shop, every day was their first day and many had to be re-trained after lunch.
It was around 45 years ago in Pittsburgh, I was driving to work and passed a small road project - a black guy in a hole in the road with a shovel and at least 8 white guys around the hole looking at him saying something I couldn't hear. After about a half minute the dude threw the shovel out of the hole, climbed out and walked away.
My brother told me about a job he was on building a power station in the high desert of California. Every interest group imaginable had someone on sight watching out for them. There was someone for the desert tortoise, someone for native artifacts, someone for the kangaroo rat, etc. etc. etc. There was a guy using a backhoe to dig a trench or some such hole with seven different watchers watching what he did. I believe the power company, SCE, was required to pay the watchers to watch.
Yea it's fucking nuts the amount of people that are required to be on a job site that have no business being there except to raise the cost of a job exponentially...It's gotten so bad that there will be more of those people than there are lineman doing the actual work...
Maybe your union but as a 30 year Teamster, I was the only one that ever did my job. And I never had to worry about getting fired cause your boss didn't get laid the night before.
USIC locator service. White hats are workers, orange hat is a trainee. Green hat is an instructor. They are taking a class. My life depends on them getting it right the first time. Hitting a buried live anything is not acceptable in my field but especially in my family. My wife, kids and grandkids all think this Polish Jew has a purpose still.
Might be public works employees. That is probably an easy 500 an hour standing there.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me started about "skilled" union labor!
ReplyDeletereminds me of the old joke about how many polacks does it take to change a light bulb
ReplyDelete"All Bell and No System". Rule of thumb at old Bell System would indicate 12 1st/2nd-level managers (white hats), 1 tech (green hat) showing management how it's done. Orange hat is a trainee and the no hat may be a 3rd-level manager wondering "how'd I git cheah".
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the old motto: "No job is so important and no service is so urgent that we cannot afford to take the time to do the job safely". As a retired Bell Head I had to commit that to memory and recite it at the District Plant Managers annual safety meetings.
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DeleteI have an old ATT 1-ton with that still in the glove box.
"All Bell and No System". Rule of thumb at old Bell System would indicate 12 1st/2nd-level managers (white hats), 1 tech (green hat) showing management how it's done. Orange hat is a trainee and the no hat may be a 3rd-level manager wondering "how'd I git cheah".
ReplyDeleteThat's a USIC training class. Most likely new employees.
ReplyDelete10-4. United States Infrastructure Corp. I'd never heard of them 'til you mentioned USIC. They're the folks that mark underground stuff 'before you dig'. According to their website they're always looking for new people.
DeleteLots of opportunities for young people these days, that's for sure.
"Now, if y'all actually show up, on time, for work...."
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the "temps" I had at the shop, every day was their first day and many had to be re-trained after lunch.
Union.....when it absolutely has to brought in over budget and out of time....
ReplyDeleteIt was around 45 years ago in Pittsburgh, I was driving to work and passed a small road project - a black guy in a hole in the road with a shovel and at least 8 white guys around the hole looking at him saying something I couldn't hear. After about a half minute the dude threw the shovel out of the hole, climbed out and walked away.
ReplyDeleteDon't let BLM see that picture. Black guy doing all the work while white men standing around watching. I'm surprised the union allowed that.
ReplyDeleteMy brother told me about a job he was on building a power station in the high desert of California. Every interest group imaginable had someone on sight watching out for them. There was someone for the desert tortoise, someone for native artifacts, someone for the kangaroo rat, etc. etc. etc. There was a guy using a backhoe to dig a trench or some such hole with seven different watchers watching what he did. I believe the power company, SCE, was required to pay the watchers to watch.
ReplyDeleteYea it's fucking nuts the amount of people that are required to be on a job site that have no business being there except to raise the cost of a job exponentially...It's gotten so bad that there will be more of those people than there are lineman doing the actual work...
DeleteMaybe your union but as a 30 year Teamster, I was the only one that ever did my job. And I never had to worry about getting fired cause your boss didn't get laid the night before.
ReplyDeleteBoth of my parents were Teamsters for most of their working lives. He was a truck driver and she was a distillery worker.
DeleteOne of the things my dad told me once that I still laugh about, he said: "Son, the only union bigger than the Teamsters Union is the Soviet Union."
USIC locator service. White hats are workers, orange hat is a trainee. Green hat is an instructor. They are taking a class. My life depends on them getting it right the first time. Hitting a buried live anything is not acceptable in my field but especially in my family. My wife, kids and grandkids all think this Polish Jew has a purpose still.
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