Shop Truths, Phrases, Tales; and Outright Lies

[C-Bag]

Remarkable but all to common story. I have no idea where this came from where it seems to be held you can get a herd of dufii from a temp agency and throw them into the middle of a hot job. And that everything will go as the front office has sold the job for. And there was never any documentation on any machinery and even if there was dufii would not refer to it.

In my case they made everybody sign a release so our "intellect" was their property.

It reminds me of the old joke of the guys betting against a pre recorded football game they have seen before. The very epitome of insanity where you keep running the same scenario over and over expecting a different outcome.

My biggest problem in situations like that was they kept giving me "helpers" and then yell at me because we were talking too much! I asked one boss how am I supposed to tell him how to do the job? I guess they though monkey see monkey do, or some kind of pack mentality would cause spontaneous expertise, dunno. I dumped 9 out of 10 dufii because of no general mechanical aptitude and most of all unsafe work ethic. A guy got his leg jammed through a 1200lb rotating carriage because no safety locks and they were using 2x4" to hold the carriage in place. One guy with 4 dufii and he couldn't keep an eye on all of them.

Thats why us experienced guys sent the temps/ dufii off to do little odd jobs when we were doing the heavy dangerous stuff because we didn't want to get killed. A good friend who did the same work for a different co. was crushed to death when a machine fell on him.