FNG's

where's the receiver?

To funny. How long did it take him to realize soemthing was missing?

I dont know, maybe he was GPguessin?

He's a new guy. Been here two weeks and still pretty green. His chief was letting him check in to a point. He got excited and forgot to take it off the magmount on the truck.

Could not figure out why the robot would not lock on last week. I could see it was pointed at me. tried to recock 5-6 times, turned the point, rebooted and everything. :-S

Darn cover was on the prism. o.O

At least he did not come back and say he got it.

looks plumb!

I can remember when everyone was issued a shovel to keep in hand in case an inspector drove by.

I reckon technology is putting a new twist on that ideology.

😉

Had a new guy take 300+ topo shots of the backsite using a robot.

So what's the real problem?

Did he not spray enough paint around that point to satisfy the boss?

I had one do exactly the same thing, didn't realize what had happened until I downloaded his data. Of course this was after the pipes he had been as-builting had been backfilled.

That Leica robot was R2D2. My first purchased 'bot was 401k, the one I have now is IRA.

The Sokkia 'bot I'm using now is HAL. All day yesterday I kept hearing in the back of my mind,"I'm sorry Dave, but I can't do that." And it couldn't.

I'm still chalking it up to FNG syndrome, but darn it all to heck am getting tired of walking back to the gun.

Looks like it might be clouding up, better issue him an umbrella to hold over the antenna.

I still have guys that do this. I tell them to look at it and see if its pointing at them every once in a while. they have worked here almost 5 years.

Just to make the new guy feel a little less bad about himself, I'll relate an embarrassing FNG moment of mine that was very similar.

Working as a summer intern, I was out doing a topo with the resident expert on the GPS system we were using (?Trimble 4600 SSE? I believe). On that system, you had a backpack to wear with the antennae mounted on a rod that extended above your head. Measure up, then walk back and forth to get ground shots. In retrospect, I don't care for that method.

When you wanted a shot on a hard surface, you placed the antennae on a plumbing pole for more precise shots.

Well I was running the collector and getting ground shots. I was told to get the road center line when finished with the ground shots. Meanwhile, the boss pulls up to talk with the GPS expert.

I'm walking along the center line of the road plumbing up at each shot and of course I had not switched the antennae from the backpack mount to the top of the pole. The boss leaves and GPS expert comes over and points out what had happened. So we re-shoot the center line.

Luckily, the GPS expert noticed it and we quickly fixed the issue.

Those were the days - To be a newbie and it be more acceptable and expected that you'll make a mistake.

Oh I let him know that I am sure glad that back when I was new that not everybody had a camera and there wasnt no internet 😀

FNG's-I feel your pain

Clyde