I do some construction - and love it as it is very challenging and fulfilling work, when I do it 30-40% of the time. You don't get pincushioned after doing a good construction layout. You DO get pincushioned after doing a GOOD boundary.
NOT getting pincushioned after doing good work makes it twice as valuable. What a great achievement to do something perfectly good and professional and NOT get pincushioned! Not only do you get paid for watching a building, infrastructure, tunnel, bridge, airport or road rise up, but you also can rejoice because you are not dealing with the embarrassing, unnecessary, pointless and shameful debacle of getting pincushioned!
Pointing to an area and saying "I surveyed that place." is pretty much just a bunch of words to most listeners, but pointing to something significant and structural and claiming participation in its construction is far more likely to get the listeners attention. This can be particularly fun if there was some screwup on the construction plans that you caught in time to prevent something like having a 100' light pole placed five feet in front of the loading dock.
That is a great example of the phrase, "An accident, waiting to happen."
Richard Imrie, post: 435228, member: 11256 wrote:
I staked out a exit driveway for McDonalds like that. LOL! I informed them (clients) way ahead of time that the power pole was in the driveway by several feet (not in the middle though). The engineer just wanted to move it out of the way. Stated the City would do it. Too bad it wasn't owned by the City. State owned the ROW and that power pole. An we all know bureaucracy too well. Ended up redesigning the driveway.
