Where did I say they PURPOSELY mess it up?
I know it goes both ways, but seeing as you have what seem to be a much better handle on the day to day, how much budget is blown on worker inefficiency, that is to say man hours billed for non-progress? Also if a worker does fuck up, what repercussions do they have? Do they get there ass covered by the union and move to the next job or are they weeded out?
The point I'm trying to make is not that our guys are unqualified or incapable but as in any position where there's too big a security behind them, people get complacent. Just look at most marriages. People think they got that shit locked down, so they get a little fat, a little lazy and the quality of the relationship starts to deteriorate. You either need to be noble or have consequences and it's sure as the day is long that very few people have high principles these days.
The goal is to find that happy medium where our workers don't go home worried about losing their job to a foreign firm, but at the same time don't have the gall to stand around chatting while they watch one guy do the work.
Unions are strong and protect shit workers. CCQ makes sure shit workers have work. Buuuuut.
People get fired for that shit. There’s little normes du travail when you work CCQ jobs. And some companies don’t give a shit about the union.
You can pretty much get fired tomorrow for no good reason.
Companies want to make money not waste money. I know an operator, got fired in his 150 hours garantie for cracking sidewalk with the mini excavator. If you know construction, this sort of stuff happens and can’t be avoided on old ass sidewalk. Still got fired because it cost money.
Worker ineffectiveness is part of having a work force that gets trained, is tired, works along the weather, broken or malfunctioning equipment, cnesst, etc.
Usually budgets account for fuck ups.
Also think for a second, you have 5 guys; 1 of which operates a machine alone. 2 of which drive trucks, 2 of which are labourers.
Sometimes the drivers are standing and waiting, sometimes the labourers are waiting, sometimes the operator is waiting.
You can’t step on peoples feet on big job sites.
If you drive around 9:30am, 12:00pm, 3:00pm people usually take their breaks at those times...
Also, we bill for «*perte de temps*» and explain why, it’s mostly when project management fucks ups or client fuck ups or subs fuck up (concrete not showing up, cnesst shutting down, material not showing up) For instance where I work we have a three day perte de temps and 100 tones of mg20 as well as 120feet 6x20ft sections of conduit because one resident of an adjacent street of the Main Street we are working on deposited a complaint about some rain water during the spring. Eng decided fuck it let’s use Main Street budget and send this one company on a change order, have to raise the road almost 3 feet. Add a downward drain on a road that goes up and down. 3 wasted days off the main project. Unrelated to the workers.
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