Posted on 07/16/2010 2:06:59 PM PDT by SvenWaring
PennDOT is asking the Obama administration for new signs that better protect the five guys watching the one guy working.
Current signs only point out the man at work, said PennDOT representative Stu Hardcleft.
"That doesn't really address the other guys standing around shooting the shit and watching him," said Hardcleft. "The motorist should exercise the necessary caution for those folks, too."
Last year, two guys watching another guy work were nearly injured by careless motorists.
"One guy spilled his coffee," said Hardcleft. "Not just a little bit. It was a complete loss."
Hardcleft said another worker in the Philadelphia area was burned when he dropped a lit cigarette onto his beer belly after a car swerved near a group of guys he was standing with while watching another guy work.
"He's on light duty now," said Hardcleft. "He is back at the office with some other guys watching another guy type."
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I’ve woked in many plants that had the same situation going on. Surpisingly over half of them are still inbusiness.
It’s a good thing you put “satire” in the headline.
If I would have added $20 million for signs, you really would have believed it.
The “One Guy Working” syndrome is true in Oregon and Washington.
But in North Dakota across several full summers of construction, and thousands of guys working, I never saw one guy not working, ever. Everyone worked, every minute. I never saw even a single guy on a coffee break.
Think how effective your tax dollars would be if government workers actually worked for them.
They’re trying to be funny, but PA already uses, “Men SHOULD Be Working” (emphasis mine).
Old joke.
5 highway workers are on the job and their supervisor gets a call.
“Boss”, the Lead worker says, “ all of our shovels are broken”.
In a display of quick thinking that proves his leadership qualities, he quickly replies “Don’t panic. Just lean against each other untill I get out there with replacements”.
Cheers,
knewshound
I love it!
one time I worked for PG& E in CA the driver of the truck was backing up and he ran over all the shovels and broke the handles, so I called back to the office iin the radio and asked what we should do, he said just lean on each other till we can bring you out new shovels
They’ve been spending our money on painting the bridge down by Philly International Airport. They employ a hundred workers, and create a traffic jam that wastes a couple hundred man-days every day. I guess the logic is that, not only did they create jobs for the painters, but they also created jobs for all the people hired to replace the lost productivity of the people stuck in traffic. You see? That is how government investments stimulate the economy!
This was a joke in the 70’s in Indiana about the DOT. One guy working and three watching. Unfortunately, it was no joke.
I have to admit, I've never once seen a North Dakota road crew guy on a coffee break either. Of course, I've never been to North Daokta, either.
In Massachusetts with mandatory police ‘safety’ details, it’s one man working, three men standing, a State Police trooper with a coffee watching and sometime even a local officer watching. So, one working, five watching.
The Alaska Highway was built during the war, with shortages of everything and unskilled labor, over the winter, in 6 months. Now? You can’t do 6 miles of sidewalk in six months.
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