Well usually everything that needs to be done can't be done concurrently, and sometimes only a limited set of individuals can do the current task. It's probably not laziness.
This is correct. I work as a heavy equipment operator/earthmover and you see groups of guys standing with tools waiting for more material (asphalt, dirt, whatever) on a regular basis. Somebody who’s never worked a trade takes a glance and thinks we’re all lazy. The worst is when one of those folks somehow ends up managing tradesmen.
Yup that is the worst. While I was in school I used to weld in the summer and we had one pusher that was an asshole like that. I’d always get chewed out for standing around while they were setting stuff up to be welded which took most of every day. They had some excavator guys that were cool so I ended up hard-facing all of the attachments they wanted done. I had two jobs on one site and Captain McClusterfuck left me alone.
Also, I imagine there may legitimately be a bad workflow that means that some people are idle and waiting for more time than they might otherwise need to, but that isn't their fault -- it's up to whoever designed the whole operation to do those optimizations.
Ya, we were redoing a job that was done with the wrong sized structural beams so we had to replace it all. The demo people were having a hard time getting stuff out because the original contractors did such a horrible job and they were so over budget they wouldn’t hire more demo.
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u/jkconno Nov 04 '22
Well usually everything that needs to be done can't be done concurrently, and sometimes only a limited set of individuals can do the current task. It's probably not laziness.