Thread: Council workers

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.