That's a lotta people who know they can't be fired. Or, those who did this know it won't do any good to complain. I pulled over to ask workers about the placement of a new stop light. The stop light was too high to be seen and it was off to the left, out of the field of vision. Two other workers got involved. All three pointed to the supervisor and said I might as well be talking to a brick wall. It took two years to get the stop light properly relocated. The motorcycle cop stationed there with his ticket book found something else to do.
Hard to say who's mistakes are worse. The surveyor who staked the site to plan, the team that installed the water system and hydrant, or the designers that laid out the utilities and sidewalks on different drawings that were never properly aligned.
That dip in the sidewalk at the top edge may be the beginning of a driveway apron for the lot.
The watermain was probably constructed years ago, that's in the street somewhere. The tap for the tee, valve & hydrant were more recent and were likely done under the supervision of some low-level employee from the Town Engineer's office that had a typical detail that his boss handed him that morning showing the hydrant X feet off the edge of pavement, so that's where it went. The concrete contractor probably had a set of plans from the engineer that the GC gave him, but never shared that with the crew that placed the curb and walk because they can't read or speak English anyway. The boys placing the subbase and setting the forms were in and out in 2 hours and on to the next job that they had to get done by lunch. The concrete finishers just plain don't care what's in the way, and the only guy that thought this was a problem was the guy delivering the ready-mix, but he just shook his head and said something like, I just drive the truck, what you do with it is none of my business.
I worked as a surveyor for a private company. I learned that most people assume two things when they see a surveyor in their neighborhood. 1) You work for the government. 2) You are there either to steal part of their front yard to widen the street or to fix the drainage. Occasionally a survey monument needed to be set in the middle of an intersection, usually in a new subdivision. Invariably while digging the hole for the monument somebody would stop to ask what we were doing. My standard answer: City code requires a pothole at this location and we've been sent to install it. Reactions: Priceless.
That's pretty much standard concrete work. There's an approachfor a driveway in the background, so it isn't as flat as the sidewalk. It's different in the joints are sawed, generally, you put them in while finishing. Well, that's how I learned, anyway.
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Is it an illusion or is that some lousy concrete work. Flat ground but the sidewalk sure isn't.
ReplyDeleteYour eyes are fine. That's the work of hacks.
DeleteThat's a lotta people who know they can't be fired. Or, those who did this know it won't do any good to complain. I pulled over to ask workers about the placement of a new stop light. The stop light was too high to be seen and it was off to the left, out of the field of vision. Two other workers got involved. All three pointed to the supervisor and said I might as well be talking to a brick wall. It took two years to get the stop light properly relocated. The motorcycle cop stationed there with his ticket book found something else to do.
ReplyDeleteThat will get changed quickly after the first person with disabilities lawsuit, or maybe not actually.
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Hard to say who's mistakes are worse. The surveyor who staked the site to plan, the team that installed the water system and hydrant, or the designers that laid out the utilities and sidewalks on different drawings that were never properly aligned.
ReplyDeleteThat dip in the sidewalk at the top edge may be the beginning of a driveway apron for the lot.
The watermain was probably constructed years ago, that's in the street somewhere. The tap for the tee, valve & hydrant were more recent and were likely done under the supervision of some low-level employee from the Town Engineer's office that had a typical detail that his boss handed him that morning showing the hydrant X feet off the edge of pavement, so that's where it went. The concrete contractor probably had a set of plans from the engineer that the GC gave him, but never shared that with the crew that placed the curb and walk because they can't read or speak English anyway. The boys placing the subbase and setting the forms were in and out in 2 hours and on to the next job that they had to get done by lunch. The concrete finishers just plain don't care what's in the way, and the only guy that thought this was a problem was the guy delivering the ready-mix, but he just shook his head and said something like, I just drive the truck, what you do with it is none of my business.
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I worked as a surveyor for a private company. I learned that most people assume two things when they see a surveyor in their neighborhood.
ReplyDelete1) You work for the government.
2) You are there either to steal part of their front yard to widen the street or to fix the drainage.
Occasionally a survey monument needed to be set in the middle of an intersection, usually in a new subdivision. Invariably while digging the hole for the monument somebody would stop to ask what we were doing. My standard answer: City code requires a pothole at this location and we've been sent to install it.
Reactions: Priceless.
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ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much standard concrete work. There's an approachfor a driveway in the background, so it isn't as flat as the sidewalk. It's different in the joints are sawed, generally, you put them in while finishing. Well, that's how I learned, anyway.
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