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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jun 21, 2022 ^^
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I asked a bunch of "standing around" workers one day why there were 4 guys watching one guy dig in the hole - the answer was "Only one person can fit in the hole". I then watched them swap diggers out every few minutes and got the hole dug a lot faster then a single guy could do it. 5 guys doing 1 minute of hard work moves more dirt then one guy digging hard for 5 minutes.
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Recently switched to a manual trade and the first thing that struck me is always being on display. Office workers take breaks, goof off, play on their phones, rest, stretch, sit back and think. It's all part of being human, as opposed to a robot. But tradesmen working outdoors are publicly visible all day. It's frustrating to work hard for 2 hours at something most people couldn't handle doing, only to take a 15 minute break and know all the people driving past are mentally accusing you of laziness.
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I was paid to just stand around as part of my construction crew. Occasionally I would hold stuff or grab a box, but the whole point of 16 year old me being there was so the requirement of a three-man crew was fulfilled. I wasn't there to actually do anything because it was specialized work and the two other guys were the only ones who could really do it and they didn't want or need help but were required to have a third person. I got paid minimum wage to hover around and watch them lay the tile and occasionally grab something slightly out of someone's reach
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Regarding the "foundation on bedrock" myth, Chilean here. Bedrock can move and it does, sometimes quite violently, so it isn't a guarantee of durability.
There's an old church in Santiago (Iglesia de San Francisco), a very big building, only survivor from 16-17th century. The reason of its resilience against earthquakes was recently found: its foundations lay over a bed of round rocks deliberately placed there; the whole thing rolls over the rocks when there's a quake.
That's engineering.
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I work as a âscientistâ (whatever that means) for an engineering firm and spend 90% of time on construction sites standing around with traffic controllers, drillers, service locators and engineers waiting for one of the mess of contractors to figure out whatâs going on so we can drill a couple holes, log some cores and get a couple samples. Itâs like herding cats in a burning hedge mazeâŚ.
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I was an industrial electrician for 30 years. Once in a while I had to step through a door away from the hot dirty and kinda dark factory floor and work on electrical problems in bright air conditioned offices with their comfy (literally) $1000 chairs. While those office workers were hanging around the water cooler or or likely looking at their stocks online, they were often talking about the lazy line workers on the other side of the wall. The vast majority of people that work on the line have every second of the day mapped out for them, time study makes sure they are never idle. They can't even go to the bathroom when they need to without first getting permission and someone to take their place on the line. The same office worker that could take a break anytime they needed to harped about how the line worker got too much break time. I worked in an office for a while, a whole lot of time was taken up with what was called networking and on Friday people disappeared early to beat the traffic. Call it what you want, if those guys on the line had time to do it, it would be called something a lot more negative. I am sometimes surprised any work gets done in an office.
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Used to work on paving roads long ago. This one time, the foreman who watches and measures the height of the paver was gone for about 30 mins. Little did they know the paver had dipped .5 inches during that time and that who section was ruined. Cost the company about $200k because that one person standing around monitoring the level of the paver was absent.
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I worked physical labor for a long time and sometimes people are just standing around. They're not all inspectors, quality control, or jobsite supervisors. It's not a myth and it doesn't need to be explained or excused. People don't work all day nonstop in an office either. There are often other things to do but not everyone is going to be motivated to work nonstop. We aren't machines.
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As a civil engineer who spent a few years working for a Geotech company, I've seen a lot of residential construction. For pipes and utilities, who comprises a lot of work out on the street, there were 5-6 man crews where at any given time it would look like guys were just standing around. It's just the nature of some construction. Many times they have to wait for the machine operator to finish digging a section before they can get back to assembling or placing something.
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As for the 'roadway crews are always standing around' thing, I used to work residential construction when I was in college, and I can tell you that being the young guy on the job with the next youngest person in their 50's, I was the one doing the heavy lifting. When you just finished carrying enough bundles of roofing up a ladder to do the entire roof, you can bet that I took 15 minutes to catch my breath and regain my energy, and the one time a homeowner complained, my boss handed them a bundle of roofing and told them to carry it up the ladder. The homeowner never complained again.
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@cody5495
1 year ago
I'm an electrician and I got paid to stand on a job site for a whole month just to make sure nothing went wrong.. because down time would cost the company $10,000 an hour...
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