I worked digging ditches for pipe for a few summers during college for a private construction company. One time we were tying new pipe into an existing line and when the excavator exposed the old pipe it was really old cement and pretty much crumbled away. The water for that area had to be shut off, and since it was the city’s pipe we had to wait for the city to fix it. A truck arrived at 5:00 on the dot (that’s when you start getting time and a half if you work for the government) with like 5 dudes, and things unfolded kinda like in this picture. One of them went into the ditch and dug out the pipe a bit while the others stood around watching. Then he came out and another guy went in while the others watched.
I mean, good for them to have the union so they don’t need to bust their asses constantly or whatever it was, but we couldn’t go home until the water was back on so I ended up exhausted with an 18-hour day, and it feels like it didn’t need to be quite that long.
1:1 meeting with each combo is 45 meetings. But many can happen simultaneously. Too complicated for me to figure out. Better bring in a coordination manager.
Juan is the one digging and everyone standing around are the ones saying he’s just a lazy DEI hire…3 of which are cousins working at their family business who were hired to a 2nd tier position straight out of high school.
I worked digging ditches for pipe for a few summers during college for a private construction company. One time we were tying new pipe into an existing line and when the excavator exposed the old pipe it was really old cement and pretty much crumbled away. The water for that area had to be shut off, and since it was the city’s pipe we had to wait for the city to fix it. A truck arrived at 5:00 on the dot (that’s when you start getting time and a half if you work for the government) with like 5 dudes, and things unfolded kinda like in this picture. One of them went into the ditch and dug out the pipe a bit while the others stood around watching. Then he came out and another guy went in while the others watched.
I mean, good for them to have the union so they don’t need to bust their asses constantly or whatever it was, but we couldn’t go home until the water was back on so I ended up exhausted with an 18-hour day, and it feels like it didn’t need to be quite that long.
And each of them want at least a 15 min 1 on 1 meeting to ask what is going on and how long until it’s fixed.
1:1 meeting with each combo is 45 meetings. But many can happen simultaneously. Too complicated for me to figure out. Better bring in a coordination manager.
Juan is the one digging and everyone standing around are the ones saying he’s just a lazy DEI hire…3 of which are cousins working at their family business who were hired to a 2nd tier position straight out of high school.