There’s a few places hiring that do what I do my company is on a freeze for a couple more yearsHiring? Asking for a friend.
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There’s a few places hiring that do what I do my company is on a freeze for a couple more yearsHiring? Asking for a friend.
I'm just glad that this story ended with him finally being fired. People with that attitude drive me crazy.I covered the dumbass, now let’s get to the worst, laziest piece of shit I’ve ever encountered and the biggest reason I’m good at working solo in a job that takes 2 people. To paint the right picture he drove a bucket truck which carries cable reels and is essential for placing cable and I drive a boom truck which can’t carry a reel of cable but is used to pull cable into and through backyards, manholes, place and remove poles etc. The time we get allotted for our jobs is predetermined by what the tasks are to complete the job. Example is you have 3,000 feet of cable and strand to place in an alley, you get 18 hours to complete it. Place and remove a pole, transfer cables = 19 hours. All time has to be divided by however many techs are on the job, in order to run at 100% productivity you have to charge out 111% of work for the day (I know, that doesn’t make sense to us either) or you have to charge out 11 hours worth of work per person in an 8 hour shift.
We start work at 6:30, he shows up 20 to 45 minutes late EVERY DAY.
He only shows up maybe 3 days a week.
Load up the trucks with cable or whatever supplies we need....he’s nowhere to be found.
Have to load a pole on a trailer.....doing it solo, he’s gone. Other guys come up to help me since you’re really not supposed to do it alone “Where’s Frank?” Me “Fuck if I know!”
However long it takes to drive to the jobsite multiply it by 4x and that’s when you can start looking for him to show up. He’d drive all the way out to the job after being MIA for 3 hours then get out of the truck at 10 and say “I’m taking a half day today.”...... 8 hour shift, 6:30 start time, 10:30 is a half day. Meaning I’m fucked.
Get out to a job and size it up with him and he’d come up with 1,000 reasons why we couldn’t do it or claim he doesn’t have the right supplies. “Don’t worry Frank, I have all that. Let’s get started.” What’s his response? “Ok. Let me go find a place to take a shit first.” Hour or so later he’d send me a text saying he’s going home early.
He was notorious for hiding down the street or within a mile of the job and doing whatever he was doing that wasn’t work. Then he’d send a text saying “I’m leaving early.” and screw me over because the cable is on his truck and what we were doing I couldn’t do by myself. Leaving me holding the bag and I’d have to explain to the boss why it’s taking weeks to do something we should be able to do in 2 days.
3,000 feet of strand (strength member that holds up the cable), 3,200 feet of cable, 20-30 poles to frame with hardware. SHOULD take myself and another seasoned lineman 4 days tops to finish........NOPE. 3 weeks into it Frank decides to call in sick for a week leaving me out to dry. The boss sends another guy out with me to finish and I’m done placing 2,000 feet of strand and cable in 2 days. Boss wants to know why it takes us so long to get jobs completed and I tell him “I can’t place a cable that doesn’t show up to the job.”
Boss told me to straighten Frank out and get him to start working. I start by being nice, he tells me to fuck off. I tell him to get out of the truck and let’s get started, he tells me to fuck off. I plead with him and rationalize that he and I are the most tenured linemen in our garage and we can get everything we need done in a fraction of the time it takes other crews to do it and our productivity will go up and we won’t be suspended and I won’t get bitched at by the boss all the time. He tells me “I have a business to run and I can’t get started until later because I have to take care of that. I don’t care about this place or you getting in trouble.”
From then on Frank only got to charge out what he did for the day (he never figured out what we were charging time to, I had to do it). If he didn’t get out of the truck or never showed up I’d give him a step that had 2 hours on it that he’d charge 8 hours to, negative productivity. He placed 300 feet of cable and I hung 1800 feet of strand, he gets to charge out 300 feet of cable, negative productivity.
After 2 years of his bullshit and me finally giving him spoonfuls of his own medicine we get called into a meeting with our boss and our union steward where he tries to throw me under the bus for “our” bad numbers. Problem was I always had backup jobs that I would go do alone and charge my time to those while he was charging days worth of time to a step that only had 3 hours of chargeable time and still wasn’t finished because he never showed up to the job but still needed time to cover his day. When I was asked about it I simply said “I gave him time for what he did for the day. Am I supposed to falsify timesheets and give him time for a job I did while he was at home? I can be fired for that.”
He straightened up for a few days then 3 weeks later he was back to the same bullshit and he was told he wasn’t allowed anymore time off until his numbers improved. I drove out to a job we had in Park Ridge and waited for him to show up, 10 o’clock rolled around and still no Frank. I called the boss and told him I was taking a half day because I wanted to start my vacation early, Frank is a no show and I left. An hour later Frank is lighting up my phone asking where I was. I got a call from my boss who was laughing when he told me Frank waited until 1 o’clock to call him asking where I was. Meaning Frank didn’t do a fucking thing.
Frank was fired a total of 4 times in his career, twice while I was his partner (never anything I did or was even associated with). He blamed other people for him getting busted sitting at home for 3 hours while on company time, it was the bosses fault he had drugs in his system in a zero tolerance union and company and it was someone else’s fault he backed into a car and ripped their bumper off because he was backing up while texting.
I'm just glad that this story ended with him finally being fired. People with that attitude drive me crazy.
Well now I'm mad again. lolActually he didn’t get fired. He squeaked along long enough and got a SIPP offer and quit with an extra $30k when they were trying to reduce headcount. From what I’ve heard he’s trying to come back as a term employee while we do the fiber build over the next 5 years.
Well now I'm mad again. lol
Can you do fiber in my area? Sick of my options ?Actually he didn’t get fired. He squeaked along long enough and got a SIPP offer and quit with an extra $30k when they were trying to reduce headcount. From what I’ve heard he’s trying to come back as a term employee while we do the fiber build over the next 5 years.
Outlaw and I could tell some stories
We had a co-worker that was not only lazy, he also was a complete piece of shit.
So part of this reminded me of someone else I worked with. He was an in-house repair tech for an inserter. As in we printed material and they'd use the inserters to combine different printed pieces into an envelope.I covered the dumbass, now let’s get to the worst, laziest piece of shit I’ve ever encountered and the biggest reason I’m good at working solo in a job that takes 2 people. To paint the right picture he drove a bucket truck which carries cable reels and is essential for placing cable and I drive a boom truck which can’t carry a reel of cable but is used to pull cable into and through backyards, manholes, place and remove poles etc. The time we get allotted for our jobs is predetermined by what the tasks are to complete the job. Example is you have 3,000 feet of cable and strand to place in an alley, you get 18 hours to complete it. Place and remove a pole, transfer cables = 19 hours. All time has to be divided by however many techs are on the job, in order to run at 100% productivity you have to charge out 111% of work for the day (I know, that doesn’t make sense to us either) or you have to charge out 11 hours worth of work per person in an 8 hour shift.
We start work at 6:30, he shows up 20 to 45 minutes late EVERY DAY.
He only shows up maybe 3 days a week.
Load up the trucks with cable or whatever supplies we need....he’s nowhere to be found.
Have to load a pole on a trailer.....doing it solo, he’s gone. Other guys come up to help me since you’re really not supposed to do it alone “Where’s Frank?” Me “Fuck if I know!”
However long it takes to drive to the jobsite multiply it by 4x and that’s when you can start looking for him to show up. He’d drive all the way out to the job after being MIA for 3 hours then get out of the truck at 10 and say “I’m taking a half day today.”...... 8 hour shift, 6:30 start time, 10:30 is a half day. Meaning I’m fucked.
Get out to a job and size it up with him and he’d come up with 1,000 reasons why we couldn’t do it or claim he doesn’t have the right supplies. “Don’t worry Frank, I have all that. Let’s get started.” What’s his response? “Ok. Let me go find a place to take a shit first.” Hour or so later he’d send me a text saying he’s going home early.
He was notorious for hiding down the street or within a mile of the job and doing whatever he was doing that wasn’t work. Then he’d send a text saying “I’m leaving early.” and screw me over because the cable is on his truck and what we were doing I couldn’t do by myself. Leaving me holding the bag and I’d have to explain to the boss why it’s taking weeks to do something we should be able to do in 2 days.
3,000 feet of strand (strength member that holds up the cable), 3,200 feet of cable, 20-30 poles to frame with hardware. SHOULD take myself and another seasoned lineman 4 days tops to finish........NOPE. 3 weeks into it Frank decides to call in sick for a week leaving me out to dry. The boss sends another guy out with me to finish and I’m done placing 2,000 feet of strand and cable in 2 days. Boss wants to know why it takes us so long to get jobs completed and I tell him “I can’t place a cable that doesn’t show up to the job.”
Boss told me to straighten Frank out and get him to start working. I start by being nice, he tells me to fuck off. I tell him to get out of the truck and let’s get started, he tells me to fuck off. I plead with him and rationalize that he and I are the most tenured linemen in our garage and we can get everything we need done in a fraction of the time it takes other crews to do it and our productivity will go up and we won’t be suspended and I won’t get bitched at by the boss all the time. He tells me “I have a business to run and I can’t get started until later because I have to take care of that. I don’t care about this place or you getting in trouble.”
From then on Frank only got to charge out what he did for the day (he never figured out what we were charging time to, I had to do it). If he didn’t get out of the truck or never showed up I’d give him a step that had 2 hours on it that he’d charge 8 hours to, negative productivity. He placed 300 feet of cable and I hung 1800 feet of strand, he gets to charge out 300 feet of cable, negative productivity.
After 2 years of his bullshit and me finally giving him spoonfuls of his own medicine we get called into a meeting with our boss and our union steward where he tries to throw me under the bus for “our” bad numbers. Problem was I always had backup jobs that I would go do alone and charge my time to those while he was charging days worth of time to a step that only had 3 hours of chargeable time and still wasn’t finished because he never showed up to the job but still needed time to cover his day. When I was asked about it I simply said “I gave him time for what he did for the day. Am I supposed to falsify timesheets and give him time for a job I did while he was at home? I can be fired for that.”
He straightened up for a few days then 3 weeks later he was back to the same bullshit and he was told he wasn’t allowed anymore time off until his numbers improved. I drove out to a job we had in Park Ridge and waited for him to show up, 10 o’clock rolled around and still no Frank. I called the boss and told him I was taking a half day because I wanted to start my vacation early, Frank is a no show and I left. An hour later Frank is lighting up my phone asking where I was. I got a call from my boss who was laughing when he told me Frank waited until 1 o’clock to call him asking where I was. Meaning Frank didn’t do a fucking thing.
Frank was fired a total of 4 times in his career, twice while I was his partner (never anything I did or was even associated with). He blamed other people for him getting busted sitting at home for 3 hours while on company time, it was the bosses fault he had drugs in his system in a zero tolerance union and company and it was someone else’s fault he backed into a car and ripped their bumper off because he was backing up while texting.
Can you do fiber in my area? Sick of my options [emoji16]
Starol Cream (Carol Stream), in the center of a black hole of non-existent fiber.Depends on where you are. We’re hiring now and we’re supposed to be going apeshit on placing fiber to just about everyone in the next 5 years.
Exactly. I even had the BIOS boot order set to check for USB before the RAID so all you had to do was insert the drive, bounce the server, let it PWE boot into Acronis. Then just connect the external drive so you could write to it.Lmfao
Acronis is basically point and click
I showed my 70 year old computer-challenged mom how to do it. This guy couldn't figure it out, but "knew all about backup software and how to use it". Maybe that's why his breath was so bad, he was completely full of shit. Actually, a shit smell would have been more bearable.Lmfao
Acronis is basically point and click