We recently got bought by another company, us and our competition, o now we're one big happy family. We locate 3 utilities, and they marked the one we didn't locate. We are now arranging classes to learn how to locate the utility that they marked.
I have previous experience marking this utility. Despite that, we've just been informed that we are having mandatory weekend classes. It is unsure if it will take one or two days..
Since the end of March, we've been working mandatory Saturdays. On these days, we are working on jobs that aren't due til Tuesday. I know what you think, it's all overtime. Which it is. But you have to realize, we'll get real busy, and when they need us to work Saturday's, we're already fried.
So now we're wasting a weekend learning how to locate phone. They'll make our area drive, even though there is enough people in the area, that they should have a class that is convenient to us. It may last two days, so that weekend is shot. Then they'll get paranoid, and have us work the next weekend to catch up, which we are not behind.
My point is...well, I have no point, and just wanted to vent. This will make absolutely no sense to anybody but people who know what I do, and even to them little sense.
I guess I'd just like things thought out a little more. They think they can pacify us with the theory that we're making more money, but sometimes that isn't it.
I'm taking a class, to learn to locate a utility(that I already know how to mark), which increases the chances of taking a damage 25%. We'll work the same size area, but have more work. Which presses us, which leads to shortcuts, which leads to mistakes.
At least they won't be giving us more money to do it...bastards.
