Dog Fuckers
You know what fucking pisses me off? Dog fuckers.
So yesterday me and my boys had to bump two 45 joint (1138 meters) lines of eight inch pipe over about two meters each to the side so the sideboom tractors could reach to lower the pipe into the ditch. so this means skids... lots of skids. After each joint is welded together I have to build a 14 skid pile (called a crutch) under the pipe to support it's weight and stop it from shifting from side to side. Each skid weighs approximately 20 pounds... you do the math.
Now, as the sidebooms pick up the pipe to move it over I have to take the skids from each pile and throw them across the workspace of the right of way, about three meters away.
So as we're doing this I'm sweating my bag off trying to keep ahead of the tractors and keep things rolling smoothly. I look down to the end of the line and there's two crew cabs, and four guys standing around bullshitting. They look up and see me busting my bag, and go back to bullshitting until I'm about six joints from the end. Then two of them finally break off and come help me, and the other two pile into thier crewcab and sit.... for fuck sakes...
Now I'm all for putting a good days work for a good days pay. But I don't want to be the only sorry mother fucker busting his ass when those who work under our crew, the ones who are supposed to be doing this shit, stand around and bullshit.
Ah well, friday is my last day on this job.
After that I'm considdering returning to city life and city work.
Maybe even getting a band together, who knows?
So yesterday me and my boys had to bump two 45 joint (1138 meters) lines of eight inch pipe over about two meters each to the side so the sideboom tractors could reach to lower the pipe into the ditch. so this means skids... lots of skids. After each joint is welded together I have to build a 14 skid pile (called a crutch) under the pipe to support it's weight and stop it from shifting from side to side. Each skid weighs approximately 20 pounds... you do the math.
Now, as the sidebooms pick up the pipe to move it over I have to take the skids from each pile and throw them across the workspace of the right of way, about three meters away.
So as we're doing this I'm sweating my bag off trying to keep ahead of the tractors and keep things rolling smoothly. I look down to the end of the line and there's two crew cabs, and four guys standing around bullshitting. They look up and see me busting my bag, and go back to bullshitting until I'm about six joints from the end. Then two of them finally break off and come help me, and the other two pile into thier crewcab and sit.... for fuck sakes...
Now I'm all for putting a good days work for a good days pay. But I don't want to be the only sorry mother fucker busting his ass when those who work under our crew, the ones who are supposed to be doing this shit, stand around and bullshit.
Ah well, friday is my last day on this job.
After that I'm considdering returning to city life and city work.
Maybe even getting a band together, who knows?