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    Anybody get any calls yet?

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    stumphumper, I have been talking to the Brotherhood and some of them are being dispatched from their current locations but lots of them are on the road today heading to the northern east coast halls. You might want to do some phone calling out east if you are serious about working this storm. If you do Be Safe, Drifter

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    Good luck to all those working on repairing damage from this storm

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    I saw on the news, National news, NBC, not faux news, that the attorney general in Mass. is going to investigate why it is taking so long for power restoration? WTF? Don't these idiots know that all the privately owned companys are out for profit? They cut linemen down to skeleton crews? Just enough to get by? The national shortage of kids who want to learn the trade that would rather sit around and exercise their thumbs playing video games and texting? Also saw that they need cops to escort them around to protect them from customers that quote: "demand that their power be turned on"! That was in Connecticut, I do believe. Usually the people stop being pissed off after about 3 or 4 days and become thankful when we roll in. This should be a wake up call for more lineman to be hired permanently, but they will just say that it's a 100 year storm and we really won't need to do that. I guess my wages will keep, as Mick Jagger says "goin' up, up ,up!!" I think the tune I'm referring to is "Shattered" and he was talking the crime rate, but I like it anyway....You guys working out there, be safe, be smart "and for gods sakes BE CAREFUL! " (had a foreman say that a lot when I was an apprentice) Make tons of money and then go home and take a break!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PSE Lineman View Post
    I saw on the news, National news, NBC, not faux news, that the attorney general in Mass. is going to investigate why it is taking so long for power restoration? WTF? Don't these idiots know that all the privately owned companys are out for profit? They cut linemen down to skeleton crews? Just enough to get by? The national shortage of kids who want to learn the trade that would rather sit around and exercise their thumbs playing video games and texting? Also saw that they need cops to escort them around to protect them from customers that quote: "demand that their power be turned on"! That was in Connecticut, I do believe. Usually the people stop being pissed off after about 3 or 4 days and become thankful when we roll in. This should be a wake up call for more lineman to be hired permanently, but they will just say that it's a 100 year storm and we really won't need to do that. I guess my wages will keep, as Mick Jagger says "goin' up, up ,up!!" I think the tune I'm referring to is "Shattered" and he was talking the crime rate, but I like it anyway....You guys working out there, be safe, be smart "and for gods sakes BE CAREFUL! " (had a foreman say that a lot when I was an apprentice) Make tons of money and then go home and take a break!!!
    Nice post! How unfortunately true! Don't hold your breath waitin for more hands to be hired! The more they cut cost the more their million dollar salaries go up!

    Be safe!

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    The outside or out of town crews have been released in my area. Some of our local crews have now gone out of town!
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    Yeah the crews that were in NY , Mass , Conneticut are pushing East.

    This storm may have opened a few eyes. Utilities have been letting there work forces dwindle down, demanding more productivity from remaining workers. When a big storm hits they simply rely on mutual aid and contractors to flood the area. One storm one place.

    This one left a path of destruction all along the East coast. From North Carolina to Maine. Crews were streched out all along the I-95 Corridor. Flooding also hampered restoration efforts. Gotta love those Storm rooms these days They pack those rooms with people who don't have a clue. Seams like nowadays someone who can put together a excell spreadsheet is more valuable than someone who can actually read and understand feeder maps, figure out isolation points, and write up switching orders.

    All those supervisors who used to be lineman are long gone, replaced by management robots who simply do as they are told.

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    Quote Originally Posted by topgroove View Post
    Yeah the crews that were in NY , Mass , Conneticut are pushing East.

    This storm may have opened a few eyes. Utilities have been letting there work forces dwindle down, demanding more productivity from remaining workers. When a big storm hits they simply rely on mutual aid and contractors to flood the area. One storm one place.

    This one left a path of destruction all along the East coast. From North Carolina to Maine. Crews were streched out all along the I-95 Corridor. Flooding also hampered restoration efforts. Gotta love those Storm rooms these days They pack those rooms with people who don't have a clue. Seams like nowadays someone who can put together a excell spreadsheet is more valuable than someone who can actually read and understand feeder maps, figure out isolation points, and write up switching orders.

    All those supervisors who used to be lineman are long gone, replaced by management robots who simply do as they are told.
    Is it that bad TG? I've read a lot of posts on hear that sounds like utter-caos. I hope ya'll are being safe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hotwiretamer View Post
    Is it that bad TG? I've read a lot of posts on hear that sounds like utter-caos. I hope ya'll are being safe.
    Yeah from what little I heard it was utter FUBAR. The Trouble dept. and a couple crews from each barn stayed back to hold the fort down while everybody left.

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    Lots of em start hollerin for crews before the storms even hit. We have often sent many folks only to have em holed up in some staging area somewhere for 2 days, Pick up a single phase tap and head home.All the while the home front is catchin hell with only a scarecrow crew and a troubleman or 2 to keep the lights burning at home.Add travel time to that and theres bout a week with the companies pants down around their ankles on the home front.My company would purposely allow the infrastructure to go to hell and then when a storm did hit they tried to rebuild the system and write if off to storm damage.

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