LestheK

Got you beat. I counted fifteen guys working?? for Pike Electric. One up on the lift and the other fourteen looking up at him. I'm sure that they were wondering how he got of there all by himself.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

They are there because of our litigious society. They are covering their butts so some dufus won’t sue them for not having things marked well enough after he demolishes his new Vette or some such while not paying attention to conditions. Society has brought this on ourselves. Also, the workers don’t appreciate it when the guy in the Vette runs over one of them while fiddling with his radio.

(Don’t scream foul, Vette owners--it’s just an example.)

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Lots of this sort of thing around the area in which I reside.

Incidentally, during a time when employed by one of the local municipalities, I designed and built a working model of a self-standing shovel. It was received well, but the potential of loss of jobs and layoffs overrode the practicality and the idea was never adopted.
--Bob

BudsOwl Loc: Upstate NY and New England

My brother-in-law was super on construction crew and was hit by woman driver who wasn’t paying full attention when going through a construction site. Fortunately he was not seriously injured.
Bud

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

skylinefirepest Loc: Southern Pines, N.C.

There have been so many killed and injured and close calls that we now close the lane about a quarter mile back or more on a high speed highway. We've had firemen jump over guardrails to avoid the idiots! We've now taken to putting the cones so far over the line that the traffic has to put two wheels in the median to avoid them...and they still run through our accident scenes too fast. On traffic control I've actually taken the slow sign and whacked a couple of cars with it to get their attention. Nothing seems to work...the other night on a wreck at an intersection we had one lane closed down and the police wrote two tickets to idiot drivers that drove into opposing traffic to go around our scene. Is there anything so damn important that you'll take a chance on killing someone to go around a wreck??

cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast

Just another way of illustrating the effect that our litigious society has on reality!
BTW, I have never driven by a road project that there were not more watching than the few doing.

guisado77

Like the government crew mowing the court House Lawn: 7 man crew, 2 coming, 2 going, 2 shiting and 1 mowing

Mr Bill 2011 Loc: southern Indiana

Been there, had to do that! Concrete barriers would be even better for workers, but nothing seems to slow traffic down like a couple of state police cars patrolling the site.

oregon don

Are you enjoying:

paid vacation?
paid holidays?
paid health ins?
paid safety inspection?
THANK A UNION

skylinefirepest Loc: Southern Pines, N.C.

Yes, you can thank a union for some of that...and you can also thank a union for the slackest, laziest, most worthless sob on the job making the same as the man who is productive. And you can thank a union for taking AMBITION away from the job because you're all going to make the same money regardless of the quality or quantity of work. And believe it or not you can also thank the damn union after 9 freaking 11 for not lifting a box because it was not in their job description as a driver, etc. My solid belief is that it is MY money at risk if the company doesn't produce, it was MY savings that started the company, it is MY family that will suffer the most if we don't make it...so if you want some of the risk then you can buy in but damned if you are going to tell me how you're going to work! I had a young man tell me one day that if I would pay him more then he'd work harder...I fired him on the spot. I had another young man drive a service truck several miles with a broken radiator hose because he didn't want to stop alongside the highway and wait for me to get there...it froze the engine and I fired him...I paid the employees well when they looked after my interests but they had to realize it was a two way street.

Jack B Loc: Mount Pleasant, SC

Several nights ago the SC Highway Patrol had pulled three cars for speeding through a very well marked construction. Speed limit was 45 mph. Two of the three came blowing by me to get a head. The "wolf pack" was waiting on them.
Jack B

Abo

Oregon,

Despite "Unions" there are plenty of business owners
that exploit workers anyway... the unions have no effect in that case,
I bloody well know, as I have been hideously exploited on a union site,
and that union was a pack of thieving corrupt fraudulent criminal gangsters
that were working hand in glove with the business owners who were also
thieving corrupt fraudulent criminal gangsters.

The Unions/Unionists that gave workers a 40 hour week, sick pay,
4 weeks annual leave etc, are gone, and
have been replaced by thieving corrupt fraudulent criminal gangsters
that are communist thugs who's agenda is filling their own pockets, so take your
hackneyed clichés and jam them where the sun doesn't shine.

Howard5252 Loc: New York / Florida (now)

None of that truly represents a "Union". You are taking individual situations and painting the "Union" with the same brush. How'd you like it if I cited Bernie Ebbers, Ken Lay, and Bernie Madoff as examples to show that businessmen are all crooked. Perhaps I should cite BP (the spill), Exxon (the Valdez), and Ford (the Pinto) or Thalidomide and Opiods to prove that big business doesn't give a damn about the public.
I hope you get my point. Of course there are good hard working people and there are some laggards but those are traits of individuals NOT characteristics of a union.

beannie

And I saw this exact thing on the Illinois Toll way. Right lane closed for construction but nothing happening for about 3 - 4 miles. Some a couple idiots drove between the barrels into the blocked lane and raced ahead of the other traffic - only to find a four foot high pile of gravel blocking that lane. The gravel had been dumped in front of a 6 foot section where the pavement had been taken out - think 2 foot deep hole. A whole lot of brake lights and further slow down just to let the idiots back in.