Good thing we tied down the binch mark...processing field data this morning and came across this.?ÿ
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Is it the I that's wrong or is it the N?
The company I worked for in the late 80's hired a PC over the phone. They sent him out to do topo on his first job (pre data collector days). I was given the notes to run up and draft the topo. There was a series of shots all labeled "drit brim" that lined up. What? When I asked him he looked at me like I was an idiot. Clearly a "dirt berm."
He didn't last long. We knew he was a problem when we were talking about playing golf and he chimed in: "Boring game. Way too easy. I shot 5 under par the first time I ever played." Not even for miniature golf....
Years ago, my crew chief and I were performing an as-built survey for some settling ponds not far from my parents house in Kansas. Anyway, it was windy (weird, I know) and my crew chief called out the number code for the flow line of the outfall ditch and I punched in the wrong number by one digit. Once the data got to the tech, he said the outfall ditch wasn't going to flow very well with all those concrete columns built where the flowline should be. Lol...oops!
The company I worked for in the late 80's hired a PC over the phone. They sent him out to do topo on his first job (pre data collector days). I was given the notes to run up and draft the topo. There was a series of shots all labeled "drit brim" that lined up. What? When I asked him he looked at me like I was an idiot. Clearly a "dirt berm."
He didn't last long. We knew he was a problem when we were talking about playing golf and he chimed in: "Boring game. Way too easy. I shot 5 under par the first time I ever played." Not even for miniature golf....
Lying about something like that is a really bad sign. It indicates lying as a way of life...and that is the absolute worst quality in a PC. I would rather have a lazy PC than a liar.
Lying about something like that is a really bad sign. It indicates lying as a way of life...and that is the absolute worst quality in a PC.
Amen Brother, The absolute first sign of a terrible employee is when they come into your office and ask for an advance on their salary before one day of employment so they can "get by". Show them the door and bid them good luck. You want to succeed, sometimes you have to be a bastard to avoid problem "children" employees whom will cause nothing but problems. Get off my grass. ?????ÿ
Slight step sideways----Shouldn't the area in front of the tee box be a driveway instead of a fairway?
We use terms all the time that are rather uncommon to the general public so we probably shouldn't expect perfection on day one.?ÿ But, we should correct those who don't know any better.?ÿ Staydea shots, for example.?ÿ In Texas, a road ditch is a borrow ditch, bar ditch or simply a bar.?ÿ My area might have a slough, slew or slou wandering along a field edge.?ÿ Then there is the creek/crick issue.
@dmyhill?ÿ
I had a crew chief who always closed his level loops flat. He did not last long.
Over 40 years ago, that actually happened one day.?ÿ We were using a 12' wooden rod and a genuine transit bought secondhand from Moses, himself.?ÿ The final shot closed dead-on the starting number.?ÿ Dangdest set of compensating errors had to be the reason.?ÿ We were both shocked.?ÿ We had started on one side of a river, went down at least a half mile, jumped the river, worked our way back and shot to the starting point.?ÿ It was the Marais des Cygnes west of Ottawa.?ÿ Didn't see a single swan.
I once suspected a bench mark in a small town had been disturbed, as the ties didn't check well and a railroad signal building was so close I wondered if the post had been moved to put in the building.?ÿ So on a hot Sunday afternoon I coaxed my wife into holding the rod and ran from the post office to the railroad crossing, some fraction of a mile.?ÿ I used a medium grade Topcon automatic level and a topo rod (read 3-wire) estimating hundredths between 0.05 divisions, turning on chalk marks on the sidewalk. I closed 0.007 ft from the data sheet where I was hoping for better than 0.030. Must have been a very lucky bunch of compensating errors.
I decided the bench mark was not disturbed. Unfortunately, it was destroyed a few years later, shortly before I went to set up GPS on it.
I submitted its picture for the calendar, but it wasn't one of Wendell's picks.
@bill93?ÿ
The secret to success was the proper handling of the rod by your wife.
At least they didn't set up on the Birth Mark!
The company I worked for in the late 80's hired a PC over the phone. They sent him out to do topo on his first job (pre data collector days). I was given the notes to run up and draft the topo. There was a series of shots all labeled "drit brim" that lined up. What? When I asked him he looked at me like I was an idiot. Clearly a "dirt berm."
He didn't last long. We knew he was a problem when we were talking about playing golf and he chimed in: "Boring game. Way too easy. I shot 5 under par the first time I ever played." Not even for miniature golf....
If I was playing a par 108 course, I could be shooting 5 under.
Being a Texan, of course I don't have an accent. My wife, a Hoosier, always made fun of me for the way I say my "E"s. Words like ten she always claimed I was saying "tin". So maybe your PC just had a similar accent. Or accint.
