Tale of two utilities

[bobbo]

I live on a border where 2 utilities meet. And you can tell right off which is the better outfit. But the one with the **** construction has more people that are arrogant and the guys with the good construction are cool as hell. The one outfit I don't see any pickup trucks with guys doing nothing driving around doing whatever they do with a title. The other just has work trucks and motivated people. Now who would you work for?

[bren guzzi]

I live on a border where 2 utilities meet. And you can tell right off which is the better outfit. But the one with the **** construction has more people that are arrogant and the guys with the good construction are cool as hell. The one outfit I don't see any pickup trucks with guys doing nothing driving around doing whatever they do with a title. The other just has work trucks and motivated people. Now who would you work for?

Who ever paid the most. ..

[bobbo]

Who ever paid the most. ..
I have chased money. Work for every big outfit their is. Now I am happy working mom and pop. Love driving a rusty old truck and doing something with nothing. Working with big companies here you have a lot of people driving around with 60000 pick up trucks and making greater pay and I have no clue what they contribute but bull**** and bureaucracy. I have had 5 pick up trucks with titles watching us work and they park right where the work is, and we are a 3 man crew. When you got so much management where you have to move their trucks to get work done that's ridiculous. It's that way in the states. You can have 3 guys wrenching and 5 guys watching. And no one is responsible for anything, trucks material or equipment anymore. Then they have meetings and still stuff isn't fixed, no material to build. I wonder if meeting are just tea socials. It definitely isn't about work getting done!

[bluestreak]

It's called corporate America, they have invaded the utility industry big time. Deregulation started the rapid demise of maintenance and accountability by management, the abandonment of caring for the customers, and has lead to the development of a whole new breed of bottom feeding executive that moves about five years at a time leaving downsized disgruntled employees in their wake. Well that's
my rant for the month but any doubts about it come visit Northeast Utilities.

[bobbo]

It's called corporate America, they have invaded the utility industry big time. Deregulation started the rapid demise of maintenance and accountability by management, the abandonment of caring for the customers, and has lead to the development of a whole new breed of bottom feeding executive that moves about five years at a time leaving downsized disgruntled employees in their wake. Well that's
my rant for the month but any doubts about it come visit Northeast Utilities.

I am counting the days when I get done. Use to be the best going to the top now it's hack fags that can talk, suck, and act important. Nobody gets we are getting our ass kicked globally, we won't have commercial or industrial customers. No way we are going to keep these high rates up if there is no industrial customers. You get it! !!

[bobbo]

I am counting the days when I get done. Use to be the best going to the top now it's hack fags that can talk, suck, and act important. Nobody gets we are getting our ass kicked globally, we won't have commercial or industrial customers. No way we are going to keep these high rates up if there is no industrial customers. You get it! !!

Does anyone own a plumb bob anywhere there? Is guying and keying poles overrated? Do they tamp? It's very **** holish in most areas, especially in ghetto areas. Sad thing ts they pay there rates like the rich.

[rob8210]

Hey Bobbo, you are south of the 49th , aren't you?

[bluestreak]

As far as plumb bobs they're still used but now a days one utility sets pole and leaves power company shifts their stuff then phone and then cable. the pole then sits there for five to ten years or until the customer gets pissed at looking at the mess in their front yard and calls to complain, back in the day the utilities used to coordinate and work together and the custodian of the pole would make sure the pole was guyed correctly like I said with no coordination phone and power try to get it straight the cable comes in pulls the hell out of their stuff and they don't guy so everything sags and leans.

[bobbo]

Hey Bobbo, you are south of the 49th , aren't you?

these utilities are so skeletonized I can't see how someone can drive by and see poles leaned over guys not taut. It's like they are waiting for some big event in some of these places to suck as much money off the government. You work these places and you got hanger cans, and hardware cob pins from World War One and you install one arrestor on the job order. Putting lipstick on a pig. When you know the right thing to do is a new structure. And when you see a splice in every span, the right thing to do is reconductor. The Midwest is very good about keeping 30 year timetable on their circuits or they used to be. If you have to rearm the adjacent structures to spread wire everytime for your windows that gets old. And I apologize to anyone I offended I was drinking beer. No way that a company can let the infrastructure go for that long. And the customers have paid their bills and bought those structures 50 times over. And where that money went I don't know. It should have been put aside for rebuilding. When REAs have Cadillacs for systems and a multinational conglomerate corporate with cool logos and graphics have rusty model Ts. Something's wrong! The resources are not put in the right places. We need wrenches and people turning them instead of people driving around in pickups. I feel sorry for the guys that work those places. They need the wire spread new poles and new wire. You can only polish turds for so long.