Government efficiency at its finest!

[shiner]

 

[zinfamous]

meh

 

[Proprioceptive]

Could they possibly be on a break?

 

[eldorado99]

yup

 

[joesmoke]

i have an idea! instead of letting a few of them go to run a tighter ship, lets just cut everyones pay so that nobody gets their feelings hurt!

also, what logo is on those vests?

 

[Gibson486]

Isn't that work subbed to contractors?

 

[blackdogdeek]

the 5 in back are for applause.

 

[Aharami]

no wonder it costs a million dollars to pave a mile of road

 

[daw123]

Could they possibly be on a break?

Yep, an 8.5 hour break.

 

[Elias824]

Yeah we really need to hire someone with a whip and something poke to get these guys to work. How dare they stop working on my dime for more then 5 seconds. Its possible they are waiting for something to arrive or happen before they can continue, maybe the need some piece of equipment replaced that they cant work without.

 

[Slew Foot]

Union gets mad when you work more than 10% of your shift.

 

[chusteczka]

LOL, the humor is definitely found.

Although it appears they are all admiring the final steps of their combined work. This is the point they see what they have achieved together to realize satisfaction on a job well done.

 

[Pocatello]

At least they're not sitting at home watching tv while waiting for a check from the government. This is Obama putting Americans to work.

 

[olds]

Those aren't government workers.

 

[techs]

I've seen this at private building sites too.

Methinks the OP just hates American workers.

 

[mmntech]

I've got a few good examples of government projects in my community. Down the road from me, there is quite literally a bridge to nowhere. The people doing it were supposed to remove the old one lane bridge and put a two lane one in it's place. Instead, they put the new bridge NEXT to the old one. The way it sits in this valley, there's no way they could possible attach it to the road. My dad is a civil engineer specializing in bridge work. He says he can't figure out for the life of them why they did that.

 

[zinfamous]

I've got a few good examples of government projects in my community. Down the road from me, there is quite literally a bridge to nowhere. The people doing it were supposed to remove the old one lane bridge and put a two lane one in it's place. Instead, they put the new bridge NEXT to the old one. The way it sits in this valley, there's no way they could possible attach it to the road. My dad is a civil engineer specializing in bridge work. He says he can't figure out for the life of them why they did that.

ATOT demands a pic or 3 of this bridge.

 

[Slapstick]

Those aren't government workers, they're Union workers. Ask any construction worker who is in a union, you have to just stand there while the one trade union does it's job if you can't do yours until they finish.

As in the pic, the concrete guys are working but the others just watch, if any of the members from a different union tried to help they could be kicked out of their union. I know a drywaller who almost got kicked out of his union because he swept up his mess, a guy from the labors union filed a complaint against him because it was his job to clean up and he lost pay since he didn't have too.

 

[spidey07]

Yeah we really need to hire someone with a whip and something poke to get these guys to work. How dare they stop working on my dime for more then 5 seconds. Its possible they are waiting for something to arrive or happen before they can continue, maybe the need some piece of equipment replaced that they cant work without.

You got time to lean, you got time to clean. They need to get to work and not stand around. That's my damn money.

 

[lxskllr]

I've got a few good examples of government projects in my community. Down the road from me, there is quite literally a bridge to nowhere. The people doing it were supposed to remove the old one lane bridge and put a two lane one in it's place. Instead, they put the new bridge NEXT to the old one. The way it sits in this valley, there's no way they could possible attach it to the road. My dad is a civil engineer specializing in bridge work. He says he can't figure out for the life of them why they did that.

They may be relocating the road to meet the bridge. Also, the project could have changed. They may have run into issues with removing the old bridge, so they changed to a new one altogether. People may have objected to removing the old bridge on historic grounds. I imagine a 1 laner's pretty old.

 

[Crusty]

The city just recently finished building a new library down a block from me, everything is 100%. All the books, dvds etc are on shelves ready to be used, but it's not going to open up until sometime Q4 this year.

 

[maddogchen]

in the UK, they would be standing around holding a pint of beer...

 

[techs]

I wonder if the OP knows that unions would have kept our jobs from going to China and kept out illegal immigrants from entering the country?

That is, of course, if the unions weren't destroyed by "free marketers" who think the 1920's is a good model for 21st century America.

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

The city just recently finished building a new library down a block from me, everything is 100%. All the books, dvds etc are on shelves ready to be used, but it's not going to open up until sometime Q4 this year.

Can't wait until nobody goes there and they have to beg for funding every year because the FUCKING INTERNET EXISTS NOW.

 

[mwtgg]

I wonder if the OP knows that unions would have kept our jobs from going to China and kept out illegal immigrants from entering the country?

That is, of course, if the unions weren't destroyed by "free marketers" who think the 1920's is a good model for 21st century America.

The same unions that kept certain ethnic groups out of its ranks? The same unions that are now nearly bankrupting many companies with their wage requirements?