Sometimes I despair. 5/7/2004
I am currently involved in a project to build a public service building. An essential public service building. The company I work for was tasked with the provision of the essential equipment, and I was seconded from a sister company in the group to this company. The reason I was seconded was because the on site project team lacked someone with my qualifications and experience, and the main project company was asking questions as to why they did not have people on site who were qualified.
Thus, I find myself back in the construction game. Dealing with a bunch of people who couldn’t care any less about the building, or about the quality of their work. They perhaps don’t realise that what they are doing is leaving a legacy of their work, for the use of the public. I find it sad that a sense of professionalism and pride in work is absent from this site. Everyone is only interested in covering their arse, and everyone else can go to hell. As long as I’m covered and you can’t blame me, buddy.
Today I had to look at a mounting for a projector. A big projector. For an auditorium. The vendor supplying the equipment came with us on site, and I showed him the mounting for this projector. Which vibrated if you so much as breathed on it. I told the vendor that this was unacceptable, and asked him to install a proper isolation mounting. He looked at me blankly, and asked me what an isolation mounting was. I could only let my jaw drop in disbelief. This guy was supposed to be the vendor’s engineer, and specialised in the installation of this type of equipment. And he had no idea what I was talking about or wanted. I despair.
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- Author : thesnark
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