Originally Posted by
bobbo
Been in this biz too long. 99% of this trade is psychological and intellect. People think the A type personality succeeds but they dont. They do a good ten years. Burn out. Get divorced three times. Find solace with either a bottle or a bag of dope. Then you have good people that want to make a living. And you mix these people together and bad things are going to happen.
What is an A TYPE? AN A TYPE is a personality that was brought from scientists who study gorilla culture. Its the dominant ape that sits in his own tree above all the other apes. And when he is challenged in any way he sodomizes the males and rapesthe females. In this industry, the A type lineman are celebrated. And the quiet guys that need to feed their familes have to sit quiet and watch these A types make so much drama in the yards that its unbearable. Drama on the job site that its unsafe.
i am going on my twenty five year pin. Everyone I have known who thought they were Gods gift to this trade is either dead or in prison. And its not just accidents on the right of way. But suicide. Dui. Drugs. Assault. Just whacked out and seving time.
And tieing ropes to yourself, fall protection, and all these inventions to keep the industry from numbers in categories is not going to change a thing. When a man can go to work and not be in a pressure cooker of real bad personalities from all sides: union hall, management, bird dogging utility leadership, get er done a types that sell their souls for a pick up truck. Nothing is going to happen.
If I hear that pyramid explanation for accidents again, I am going to yack. All I know is karma is a *****. And Darwinism is true in this trade.