- Sep 19, 2000
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ok, I'm 19, my family owns a telephone company and told me that they really needed my help to finish some stuff before winter comes (trenching in phone cable and Fiber optics conduit) Well we finished trenching the conduit and are mostly just hooking the cables ends together. So at this time there really is not a whole lot for me too do as the work takes only one man to do it (operate a tractor and dig a hole deep enough to put the ends in) So I've been floating around doing the odd jobs and such.
Anyways, Im basicly watching a co-worker trench in some cable to a house for phone service when another employee drives up ands says theres a problem with the fiber and he needs to come help. they tell me to plant a post and put a pedistal on it, and then, if I felt like it, run over the area that had just been trenched to smooth it out. I plant the post, but find I have no tools for mounting the pedistal on it, I have never operated the heavy machinery and fear that if I did I would probibly cause a wreck, So I do the best I can, and go to the truck and wait for my older more experianced co-worker to come back.
Four hours later, and after several times thinking I should go find others but then thinking he would probibly show up soon, he arrives, says nothing about the ped or the unsmoothen trench. I ask him where the tools are to mount the ped, he shows me, and I mount the ped and help fill up the holes (even though he is in the tractor and does it much faster) We go home, and go to sleep.
The next day, a man that is over me (not family) tells me "Your 19 years old you can find something to do without being told." At this time im thinking "well I really dont know the situations that well and how to operate most of the machinery required to do the work." This is out of the blue btw. Anyways as time goes on I find out from my parents (owners) that I was reportedly just sitting in the trucks all day long and doing nothing.
Well this made me a little mad as this is the first instance where I have spent more then 10mins in a truck and not traveling. I asked my older co-worker that I had been working with most of the time (the other I had worked with only that one day) if he thought I was lazy, he said no just inexperianced running the heavy machinery, Understandable considering I have only been working for 2 weeks now.
So basicly Im ticked off that I am thought of as lazy in a situation where I had nothing I really could do.
Cliff Notes:
-19 work for family buisness.
-boss (not family) basicly tells me im being lazy out of the blue.
-find out later I was reportedly just sitting in the truck every day and not doing any work.
-There is really nothing that I can do that ONE day and I do sit and wait for a co-worker that I had only worked with that day.
-Co-worker that I do work with a lot thinks im inexperianced with heavy equipment but not lazy.
Anyways, Im basicly watching a co-worker trench in some cable to a house for phone service when another employee drives up ands says theres a problem with the fiber and he needs to come help. they tell me to plant a post and put a pedistal on it, and then, if I felt like it, run over the area that had just been trenched to smooth it out. I plant the post, but find I have no tools for mounting the pedistal on it, I have never operated the heavy machinery and fear that if I did I would probibly cause a wreck, So I do the best I can, and go to the truck and wait for my older more experianced co-worker to come back.
Four hours later, and after several times thinking I should go find others but then thinking he would probibly show up soon, he arrives, says nothing about the ped or the unsmoothen trench. I ask him where the tools are to mount the ped, he shows me, and I mount the ped and help fill up the holes (even though he is in the tractor and does it much faster) We go home, and go to sleep.
The next day, a man that is over me (not family) tells me "Your 19 years old you can find something to do without being told." At this time im thinking "well I really dont know the situations that well and how to operate most of the machinery required to do the work." This is out of the blue btw. Anyways as time goes on I find out from my parents (owners) that I was reportedly just sitting in the trucks all day long and doing nothing.
Well this made me a little mad as this is the first instance where I have spent more then 10mins in a truck and not traveling. I asked my older co-worker that I had been working with most of the time (the other I had worked with only that one day) if he thought I was lazy, he said no just inexperianced running the heavy machinery, Understandable considering I have only been working for 2 weeks now.
So basicly Im ticked off that I am thought of as lazy in a situation where I had nothing I really could do.
Cliff Notes:
-19 work for family buisness.
-boss (not family) basicly tells me im being lazy out of the blue.
-find out later I was reportedly just sitting in the truck every day and not doing any work.
-There is really nothing that I can do that ONE day and I do sit and wait for a co-worker that I had only worked with that day.
-Co-worker that I do work with a lot thinks im inexperianced with heavy equipment but not lazy.
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