Council workers

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Originally Posted by trog

For the past six weeks a section of road opposite my place has been closed for resurfacing due to damage caused by the construction of a new block of flats. Very nice. The road is now single lane , two traffic controllers operating three remote boom gates 24 hours a day. Now after 90 minutes work the road crew dropped tools for smoko ! Word is at least another week til the road is fully open , and it is less than a hundred metres long.
If this were a council crew the resulting outcry would have seen this done much quicker I bet.

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Quicker with council crew? Can we borrrow yours please. Council guy with a ute parks out side my house almost every day for 2-3 hours. Freindly chap waves if I am coming or going. I did wonder once if it was a council secuirty service but give he some times does some gardening I might be wrong or it could of course be a cunning cover for his secuirty work[bighmmm] We have construction near my work moving several thousand tonnes of dirty blocking a road and access to a car park. At a guess I am up for it for at least the next year.[wink11]

The Council just did the foot paths in our street. The workers came and I have to admit I thought, "Here we go. They'll take weeks to do this." but they got stuck in, were courteous, did all they could to ensure there was minimal inconvenience to the residents and did a really nice job.

I can't comment on my council workers - in the twenty-three years I have lived here the only council workers I have seen has been a "rural addressing officer" and a building inspector.

We have a small crew of council workers in my area that consists of a grader driver, roller driver and a water truck operator that looks after the dirt roads here.
They always do a great job and they don't take forever to do it either, No 2hr smoko's for these Lads although I have seen them pull up for a quick lunch at times.
I am pretty sure that it is the contractors not the Council crews that are "Milking" the road jobs and in many cases making a "Fist" of it as well as taking an inordinate amount of time to do the simplest work.

Normal stuff has a pre planned budget and just gets done.
private customers often get us to do works as we have all that is needed to complete a job.

Lot of extra work around here is done on a grant or similar basis and that dont work.
Most of these jobs have restrictions like outside contractors.

Just been amalgamated and up north they won the game and took the doe.

Very rare to have unhappy public have words with me in work clobber-most people approach to find a contact that actually knows the area.

Having maintained the hi-abs and workshop cranes for a number of central Queensland councils I can only say that the leaning on shovels days are gone.
The workshops are clean, the vehicles appear to be well maintained, the council workers all seem to be up to date with SOP's and training and WHS policies and seem to put in fair days work.
I think they are well payed these days and have all been through the workplace agreement thing many times. It was probably a result of an inevitability to perform or lose your jobs to the vultures.

Well it looks like another week of single lane and 24 hour tc's. If the people that put the building up can't get the bcc and the contractor working. ,they must not be too interested in getting people into the units.
Positive spin is another week of security for my place.