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Re: Another...where have you been? in a cave? article. said by cuda :
Strange, These things have been used by lineman, outside crews for oh...close to 100 years. Why is this a story now?
The main use is after setting up on a site pumping manholes or pulling cable off reels. When your trucks are pretty much tied up. Thats when you either break out a bag or piss on someone's garage. And I don't like the idea of telling them they are required to use them. But i don't like the idea of how everything is so fucking offensive now that it rates a news story. Jesus christ...bunch of pussies out there. And I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have people off the job site for hours using the old "I had to pee" excuse. If you don't think these tactics are common.... your insane ( and wrong). The union jobs bring about all kind of wonderful personnel.
True but this I do not think was a construction crew. Just a field crew moving job to job. One tech to a job. Way more than one job a day so probably could have stopped at any qwiky mart, etc.
A manager drunk the cool aid too much. 
Techs must make their numbers. First level managers even more numbers based on the techs. Unfortunately telco is not an assembly line like an auto plant. Drives to jobs change. Each job may be different. But the quota is based on hard numbers for techs and managers. Not this job was a twenty hour job. Each job is one job period. Some of the newer managers drank the koolaid. As supplied by upper management.
So if your a qwest customer installing 100 lines or one line that is one job. Make the numbers. |
