We we had a douche safety guy was a project managers bartender. Didn't know a damn thing. Fired people for not wearing gloves and sleeves soft siding triplex!
our trade is a joke.
we have layers of people who police us. we are policed for the stupidity. And most make more than lineman or foreman. Some places have a company guy making 200k a year, then utility guys making 200 k a year each. The pressure to pay for all these guys plus do your work and comply to all the stupidity, makes this job totally suck. I want to get out and most of my friends want to get out. No ones happy. I would rather make half of what I do in something else and go through less bullshit.
so a crew has to produce more than before, with rules that make it 2 times less efficient. But the companies want the same production and expect it.
For 25 yrs didn't know out of an 8 hour day, federal law we are to have 15 minute break morning and afternoon, plus our lunch. So 20 years, I gave away2 1/2 hours a week to the company. Gave the companies. Gave the companies over 2500 hours in my lifetime. That's a lot of money.
if they want to follow all the dumb shit OSHA has. Follow every law that exists. Follow it to a T. Get the 20 cones, 6 signs up and down the road, even if it's a dead end with one house. At 10 and 2 go to your trucks and have your break, even during outages. Follow the FCSMA laws, don't even know what those are,'but after 16 hours driving stop. The next day you are not aloud to drive til you get your ten hour break. if the government and companies are going to be dicks. Know every law and follow it.
Post all the federal laws on this site,according to driving, spacing out your signs... Everything. Information and knowledge is power my friends. If everyone is going to get goofy, lineman can get goofier. Wear that fucking goofy mask. In Wisconson when it's sub freezing and you cant see out of your mask,just stand in the bucket for eight hours until you can see, even if you have to wait to April. if every lineman in the country just sat there until he could see with his dumbass arc helmet to do the work , dumbsshit will change quick!