Patience is wearing

[Koga]

thin. Im getting tired of stupid. I have to explain EVERYTHING, I mean EVERYTHING and the reason for it to an ape that dont think. Its always someone elses fault,and spends more time on the cell phone than one of the girls at the phone center.I wont go into the LONG List of details but I really just as soon work by myself. Think I need to take a break and go fishing.

Koga

Step one- toss that !#$% cell phone in the nearest body of water, in the style made famous by Tommy Lee Jones in "US Marshals". Under the truck wheels will be as effective if no water is nearby.

[OLE' SORE KNEES]

I like the outrigger method, not that I would know

[44kv]

tell him he just dont know how good he has it. to have someone with exp. to teach him, hell ill come be your ape!! koga just get somebody else if thats possable

[44kv]

on second thought tell him how lucky he is to have a job!!! us up here on the duke system might be looking for work or go to the west coast!! seeing how duke has cut all work back to put money into cintergy so he could be like some of us and be out of a job in a couple of weeks!!!

[Squizzy]

Well if you have an ape, don't you have to sign his competancy forms? Kick his ass if he wants to chat on the cell phone i won't answer up the pole and if he's on the ground he can do as he is told but at the end of the day you can't help stupid.......

[dirtdobber]

if he can not stay off the phone and do his job then send him home to talk on it. I have a few guys like that when I catch them I threaten to send them home sent one last week do not believe will have any more problems with him.

[Swamprat]

Come on Koga....

You been in Linework 25 years man....

I deal with "New"...for awhile. I don't deal with Stupid after about a Month.

Sorry. I'm the Journeyman. I say "Shit" when I got a mouthful.
And on MY crew..First,... that boy would "Loose" his phone...next, he'd loose his job.

If you're gettin tired of "Stupid", do somethin bout it.

[NJlineman55]

you can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think. In the end, it is his ass that won't be worth shit when he becomes a lineman. No one will want to work with him and he will have a bad reputation that willl stick with him for his career.

Swap his dumb ass for another. Let someone else suffer for awhile. Be honest on his eval. card. Put him in the hooks ever chance you get. Keep him out of the bucket. dbrown20