They have those too.
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Samesies.
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Another boring and slightly weak but hopefully helpful gym session.
Seated OHP uni converging machine plate loaded
135/side x 7
115/side x 8
115/side x 7
Incline converging chest press
115/side x 7
115/side x 6
90/side x 10
Low to high cable flys
50 x 11
50 x 9
Weighted dips
Bw+40 x 9
Bw+40 x 8
Lateral raises
25’s x 31
30’s x 19
30’s x 17
15’s x 20
Over head cable tricep rope extensions
115 x 12
120 x 11
120 x 9
Abs
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Glad you’re ok.
Things get ugly when people get run down.
Take care of yourself!
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We’ve had a decent amount of small things and close calls that could have been much worse. We all know what that means, this is the warning. Bad shit is about to happen if we don’t get our heads out of our asses.
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I agree.
Are you guys (as a company) getting run too hard, or is it a shift in attitudes among the co-workers?
I have a very long reply but it’s late. I’ll tag you tomorrow when o post it!
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Thanks! Looking forward to it. Subject is near and dear to me, being part of a couple a d seeing waaaay too many work related incidents in my life.
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@SkyzykS I haven’t forgot about you buddy. I’ve been thinking about what I wanted to say but I’m so short on time right now 
today has been wild.
official training journal update
Today was back day and I ducking crushed it. Bumped the weight up just a touch on every back exercise.
My chest is also super sore from yesterday which is rare. Been goin hardddd boys. Gonna be thicc and sexy soon
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as if you weren’t already
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I wish man. Getting there though I hope.
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I think there is a few reasons why. It’s also worth noting that there always has been work accidents and there always will be, it’s just inevitable with the work we do.
As of now we have quite a gap of knowledge. Due to reasons I’ve forgotten my company went through a couple lengthy hiring freezes the last one around 08-2012. That didn’t help things. At the location I’m at the senior lineman usually have 9-11 years of experience, I’ve worked for the company for 8. A lot of the old heads who have 20+ years have moved to work locations that are far more desirable with an easier work load. We have a couple lead lineman, who have the most time here but they have their own duties and can’t see everything.
The quality of new hires has also gone down. The company, like most, has people in charge of hiring that have no clue what we do or what it entails. Like not even a hint. A white collar yuppie will never be able to talk to a man and ask him questions and know whether they stand a good chance of being cut out for this line of work. We have guys getting hired that have zero business out here. Everyday I put my life in the hands of someone else, just this morning I’ve already done hot work with an apprentice I trust.
Having people that can’t hold their own or just don’t have what it takes is not only a danger to themselves but to others around them.
The way people are treated coming up through the ranks has also changed. When I was coming up I got my ass chewed daily. I got the shit worked out of me, and when I didn’t do something right, shit got wild.
I was fortunate and got to learn with some of the best lineman I’ve ever known, but they’ve moved on to greener pastures.
Now days it seems most don’t have the drive to succeed, no hustle, and a firm ass chewing is met with a “idgaf” attitude.
I’m also guilty of taking it too easy on some of the newer guys, just because I know how bad it sucked, but it’s not doing them any favors.
We also haven’t been having good safety meetings. For the last few years it’s been dog and pony shows. 90% of the training is a fucking joke. The last all day training class I sat through was how to do computer work. We were told ahead of time we would never ever ever use any of this, but the company was making us sit through it. What little bit does pertain to us is so watered down and basic it’s not even remotely useful.
Used to someone would get hurt, have a close call or accident and we’d sit down and talk about it. We’d go over what and why it happened. Now, we don’t hear about anything. The company does a useless “investigation” and we never hear shit. It’s so dumb.
I think taking more time with the new guys will help. I think letting someone with a brain do the hiring will help. I think having training that isn’t stupid would help
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Oh we have a safety department that could fill a small city. The problem is corporate correctness and being more worried about checking boxes and making a show is really more important than actually making a difference.
We also just seem to make blanket safety rules for everything. Oh, someone got hurt doing that? We need a new rule.
If we followed everything by the book and did exactly what they thought they wanted us to do, we’d go under.
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Sounds like the safety department has a rule/protocol to implement control measures for every accident, and this can lead to paralysis via safety measures. Either that, or someone is padding their stats and wants to show how many corrective actions they’ve shit out.
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It’s all about looks and pretending you’re making a difference to make your boss happy in the name of climbing the ladder. One reason I hate corporate and will never go to the company side. It’s disgusting.
It’s all ass kissing and so much fakeness
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There has been a tremendous dilution in the work safety/skills culture. A lot of it, I believe, is on purpose, strategically implemented from the top down.
It’s no longer preferable to have guys on a crew with 20+ years of hands on telling a new guy how they used to do it. A lot of those old ways took more time and cost more money. It’s like companies separate those guys from the pack on purpose. You’re looked at as a cost, not an asset.
Now it seems it is preferable to have a people who don’t even know what they don’t know, but are more than willing to run out and do it real hard until stuff breaks/people die. Then it goes to the insurers and is not our problem.
Of course they do the safety dance. Stand down, root cause analysis, check the boxes…
And then do it again.
Sorry to see that trend is continuing. Any time I hear people bemoan that “Good help is hard to find…” I can’t help but follow it with “And expensive!”.
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I have more to say about this but unfortunately don’t have the time right now. I shall be back!
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It’s a different line of work but this is what my dad went through when he began his career as a mason. He was basically just yelled at for the first couple years on the job, haha. Nowadays people quit because the older guys aren’t nice enough to them. I’m sure there’s a better way to teach someone than by screaming at them all day but not having the attitude that, “Okay, the best way to end this is by listening and being as good at the job as I can be” isn’t going to go over well. Ignoring it or being offended won’t lead to good results.
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The problem with this job is when you mess up you can die and/or kill other people. You can only be so polite. I see your point, and we definitely don’t start out just being an asshole for no reason but we can’t fire these guys, and we can’t let them kill themselves so 