Give the events. Let them practice a year. Issue class 4s. And tap all the wire to 19.9, 34.5. Then show them a baker board. Or give them a stack of sticks. That would be a badass competition. And they would have to do all that with an egg in their mouth, the whole time.
and get back to what your saying abOut management. Where I work we are so tied together with these phones everybody knows who the idiots are. The hall has perfect information because when someone gets mistreated, they will know it at the end of the day. Only travelers go to the worst yards with the worst contractors.
and get back to another issue. I am a construction lineman, not a utility hand. At one time we had contracts where're company took a whole circuit from you, and we would rebuild it and give it back. We held all the liability. Bought the material. Built it and gave it back after the punch list was done. I could never touch one pole except for storm.
things got screwed up with deregulation. Power companies bought construction companies. Big construction companies bought power companies. Construction companies even own equipment builders. It's a mess. As soon as that happened, jurisdiction rules went out the window.
When I say that the real smart guys are gone. There is really a rigged game anymore. The companies can throw 25 year olds as GFs because there is nothing to plan. Material is provided by the power company. There are not 300 pole jobs anymore. So permit headaches are gone. Now for big jobs they hire engineering outfits to manage large jobs, so all your management is trumped by them.
trust me I didn't sign up for this a long time ago. I am a construction lineman. Why? I didn't want to feel the yoke of a power company. Some years later, we all wear the yokes.
Never did I want to tread on your jurisdiction. But I have to, to take care of my family.
The game is rigged. That poor guy as a contract lineman is trying to feed his family. And the worst thing to do is hate him. The anger should not be at each other but the game and the circumstances. Their is no jurisdiction any more. The good rules we had are gone. Know one has to be smart anymore.
The current business model. Have a big umbrella holding company. Buy a bunch of power companies. Slap a beautiful logo on the side of the trucks. Buy naming rights to a ball field, and have the customers have a feel good feeling "about your brand". While you suck all the money out of them with 80 year old equipment and poles. That's America!