In our line of work we seen people come and go like seasons in a year. As I-man at the time during the Barnett shale in Dallas Fort Worth area,we had a wave of temps come through our company. I love to help the up and coming. But the kid they put on our crew was cocky arrogant and wreck less. Within the third day he was confident, I asked him to start the job on the dc and he lipped, you do it man I already know this pipeline stuff it's easy, you'll be on my crew one day. My PC looked at me and smirked, he said mario, it's all yours. We had a small topo to collect but we couldn't drive it. It was 3800 feet away, so I told the rookie, were going to go do a topo put about 30 lathe in the bag 2 cans of orange paint and the 2lb sledge hammer. As we get there my pc can't stop laughing..the rookie asks what's so funny, he said boy you've been yapping you know everything about pipeline right? He responds yes sir I do, we'll you should know you don't need lathe for topo! Boy that rookie cussed and cried all the way back to the truck. He called in the next day . Day after that he was as a humble as can be. Thanks for reading.

This Content Originally Published to Land Surveyors United Network

Views: 93

Find Similar Content by Clicking These Tags ☟
Subject Tags: Dallas, TX, mistake, rookie, surveying

Say Something ⇣

Reply by LSU Justin on March 11, 2013 at 7:07pm

Its amazing what you CAN'T learn in school huh

The largest geospatial network on planet earth, covering all land surveying related topics! Share surveyor knowledge with media in forums.

What You Missed

LSU Justin's 2 groups were featured
12 minutes ago
ePalmetto shared LSU Justin's group on Tweet This
17 minutes ago
Scott D. Warner, R.L.S. posted a status
"This can be helpful http://ning.it/12CoZZM when you want to quickly know what time it is somewhere else in the world."
1 hour ago
ePalmetto shared Surveying Jobber's page on Tweet This
1 hour ago
Profile IconAhmad Klzia, fuad jamal yosef al manasser, Paul Blackadder and 4 more joined Land Surveyors United
1 hour ago
Surveying Jobber shared their page on Tweet This
1 hour ago
Surveying Jobber added a page to the group Survey Earth in a Day
Land Survey Media Thumbnail

Explore Survey Earth in a Day

Get Ready for Survey Earth in a Day 2.0 Survey Earth in a Day event is evolving into a powerful way for land surveyors to connect with each other, no matter where they are located. Some great enhancements and interactivity has how been added to the…
1 hour ago
Mo Damery replied to Mo Damery's discussion Encyclopedia of laser tape measure.
2 hours ago

Search and Find

Take this Page With You

QR Code for This Page: What is this?

Surveyor Goodies

© 2013   © Created by Land Surveyors United

Badges  |  Contact LSU  |  Privacy Policy  |  Terms of Service

Related Posts for Land Surveyors UnitedRelated Posts Plugin for Land Surveyors United Network ForumRelated Surveying Photos Land Surveyors United