Aren't hovering clients a blast!!!!! Even when they are friendly and supportive, they are incredibly distracting.
Yesterday's example was a really nice guy who had retired from the military and later retired from being a high school band instructor. Only 63 and nothing to do. His father had been a Civil Engineer so he had experienced being a "pole lock" fifty years ago. Fortunately, we found a pipe at the very first potential controlling corner. After 16 searches we had four recoveries. He will understand why his invoice is more than $100, unlike the lookylews who call around trying to find El Cheapo Surveying Co.
I once had a client like that. He would follow us around for hours sometimes. On one of his projects we got into a yellow jacket nest and covered the area with yellow flagging so we could avoid it in the future. Along comes the client and starts kicking around in the yellow flagging to see what it was. It was several days before he came back to follow us again.
Andy
This is how a former crew chief of ours handled one pesky client.
The fellow was standing around the instrument, asking all sort of questions. At one point, he started to walk in front of the instument while asking, "what does this do?" Before he got there, the crew chief held out his arm, blocking the fellow, telling him loudly, "Whoa now! That thing shoots out a laser beam that will cut you clean in two!" At that point the fellow went back in the house.
Many years ago one of our PC's yelled back to the instrument man, "turn it on high" and shrunk away from the glass. The group that was standing around question asking, dispersed quickly, ducking for their safety
I had a client like that recently. He was a retired chemical engineer. Very nice guy, but nothing to do except follow us around all day. After the first day on site, I didn't tell him when I was coming back. It worked most of the time, but he did find us on site one other time.
