All the bitc...g can cost you your job too
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Highplains Drifter
Birddog37, some times we have to teach other Journeyman by example:
Why didn't you get the testers out and have them ready? One is just as guilty by following something wrong and then bitching latter. I take it that you did your apprenticeship at one of the the other power companies before the big merger:
It is a fact in line-work that if you did not do your apprenticeship with that sector( power company or construction) they do not accept you as a lineman completely. But what I do not understand is this crossing contracts:
Have you talked or looked for blogs on the net with anyone who has won their job back? What is the aftermath if you do get it back? I do know there are two sides to every story and you have told us yours, thanks.
I did my Apprenticeship threw the local before the big merger some 10 years prior.These lineman didn't have to have someone get a tester out for them because they wouldn't go up in the air till they had the appropriate tester.My point is sure i would get anything that is needed to do the job for someone but as a journeyman why would you leave the ground in the first place unless you forgot the tester.This still tells me you must have your head up your a.. if you slap a ground on something with out testing it 1st.As for me being on the ground as the 2nd person(competent person) until they broke us up for a while it didn't matter what i told him because he wouldn't listen anyway.One day i watched him like he"s done before over and over.He had a hold of a bare 7200 jumper from a line and wanted to dead end the phase on the back of another spot on the pole to move it out of the way.Well as he"s holding the bare jumper he"s screwing an eye nut on the pole.I tried telling him he can"t do that because your testing your gloves.He merely said we can"t talk about this without a manager here.I told the manager then theres no sense in be being on the ground watching him break a safety rule such as that.It"s not like i don"t say something that was my problem.They did not want to hear it because thats how he was trained.Same company,same rules just a different culture i was told.Safety is not culture.It" a fuking rule that was implemented because someone was killed maimed or burn"t.Why is that so hard to understand for my former crew members?They may as well have that manager there as the 2nd person.He doesen"t know a bell from a shoe.Managers use to be former lineman but not now they think all they have to do is manage people.Sorry man just blowing off some steam.What suks is there still working and I'm not.birdog37