Does anyone else have GPS on their trucks?

[grizzlybuck]

Sounds like duck has jumped the fence? Sounds like people just don't want to follow the rules. Really, give me a reason why you would bitch about being caught where you are not supposed to be? Why would you bitch because you go caught driving faster than you knew you are supposed too? If you know what is right and wrong and choose to do wrong, why is that anyone else's fault? You are probably the same guys that say you are treated like children, yet that is exactly what you act like. All of us are paid to follow the rules set out by the company we work for or by government agancies. Do you really think your boss is going to bitch because you follow the rules? Mine don't

Linemen need to go back to being proud of who they are and what they do.

While I agree that asking for an honest day's work for an honest wage is a great sentiment, my problem starts when a supervisor who used to, as a lineman, get 10 hours OT to change out a light bulb and lightning arrester (maybe a slight exaggeration, but not much) then this same guy checks the GPS log to see a crew left a job site 20minutes before their timesheet says and docks them so they weren't due a meal, then I call that chickenshit, and I would hope you would to.

I don't see any GPS on an officeworkers cigarette pack or coffee cup or a timer on his cubicle to see how long he actually sat, nor is there very much tracking of gameplaying or internet surfing of office workers unless it involves porn.

I have always felt we work hard and we play hard, if I get the work done that the supervisor felt I should/could and have time to pick up a cup of coffee, or a candy bar, some jackass supervisor should lay off.

I remember some of the good old days when some nitwit who could not carry my bug-bag wasn't looking over my shoulder and wondering why the PTO wasn't on 6.2 hours. It used to be the white hats knew who was screwing the pooch by who was getting work done and who wasn't, they still did nothing to the guys who were shopping, going home to workout every day (my companies version of this guy is a white hat now)


Now some knucklehead wants to bust one of our better union crewleaders (whose crew finished the job in question faster than about any other of our crews could have) out of a meal, using Big-brother tactics.

Sorry if some of your comments lead me to believe you've gone to the darkside of "that was then and this is now."

[BigClive]

Oh yeah, one of the companies I work with had an employee go into management and he just instantly turned into a c*nt in a way that I'd previously not believed possible.

This is the LAZY guy who spun jobs out, but now expected them to be done faster then genuinely possible.

The guy that used to knock off early every day, but suddenly started turning up on jobs ten minutes before knocking off time on a FRIDAY.

The guy who still makes idiotic changes to cheaper materials and plant that makes the job harder and inferior.

To demonstrate how much extra labour and time he used to put on his own jobs... I do one of his where he used to take 8 weeks with 8 guys. I do it in six weeks with two guys and half the plant!

[LINCRW]

Complaining about what your management does? Does that really justify anyone not doing what is right?

Let the management answer for their actions and everyone else answer for theirs.

Do the right thing and you don't have to worry about GPS.

[duckhunter]

LINCRW,
You're going to get accussed of going over to the dark side talking like that.

[Orgnizdlbr]

LINCRW,
You're going to get accussed of going over to the dark side talking like that.

Duck, he may, but he's 100% right......

[LINCRW]

I'm not worried about what others say about the "dark side". I can still go to bed at night knowing that I did not let the actions of others influence me to do what I know is wrong.
The bottom line is, as long as we are drawing the "company" wage, we should do what they expect us to do. As long as it's ethical and legal.

[duckhunter]

I agree totally LINCRW, if you look at all the posts in this string you will see that we are on the same page.

[PK270]

Sounds like some are jealous of what "others" have gotten in the past. I have been on crews where we straightened one pole in 18 hrs. The Foreman is now a supervisor and is worse than what BC explained.

I am a little touchy on this due to my experience with the power co. The guys screwed off and noone could touch them, then came "restructuring", the guys that actualy liked to work didn't have enough senority to hold a job. I see many a job get screwed up because of laziness.

Oh yeah, if you are jealous about what supervision gets then apply for the job.