Definitely not.?ÿ We're an elite group.?ÿ Don't even ever try to talk like us
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Trust me, I try to avoid all of y'all.
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I call it a gun.?ÿ Always have, and every place I've worked, they called it that.?ÿ
Clients call the monuments pins, even if they're pipes, so I'm not letting what they think or say change what I do
Atta boy, Tommy.?ÿ We are all equal, but, we don't all need to sound the same.
With certain clients, the client feels better if you roll up with a high-priced survey chariot and the shiniest, new equipment while dressed for the country club because, to them, that signifies you must be successful
With other certain clients,?ÿ the client feels better if you drive up in an old work truck and dress more like they do every day.?ÿ They think they are getting the job for fewer dollars and are happy about that.?ÿ What they don't know, won't hurt them.
Right, we wouldn't want southerners understanding and using sarcasm
I always try to use words that I think the client will understand, or words I already heard them say even if it's different than the term I use....
Sometimes I catch myself though when I can't quickly think of a layman's term way of saying it....I told a woman today i would "shoot her shed and garage" etc so they would have an easy time discussing with the office where they would like to put the house". Not sure shooting is the best term, but she seemed to understand.?ÿ
Or I could tell her "I will take observations on the corners of your shed and garage"
I've had quite a bit of luck using the word "map".?ÿ I'll map whatever pins I find, map the house, map the creek, etc.?ÿ I've yet to have a client be confused by that.
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Truth is stranger than fiction.
Yesterday, my draftsman was following an example I had given him of work by a different firm doing an identical job and the similar wording I was wanting him to put on my 3-D drawing.?ÿ The other firm had noted they had placed bars with a lathe beside each.?ÿ One of his co-workers came along, looked over his shoulder and laughed.?ÿ He had noticed the draftsman had used their "lathe" in place of my "lath".?ÿ This is along a river bank where lathes would be subjected to rather poor environmental conditions.
What? No Stobs? Did no one ever stab a stob? Around here we don't talk about setting steaks, we talk about grilling them. I must laff about 5 pages of lath comments. And don't forget the pie cuts either. Wow, surveying makes a person hungry.?ÿ
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We have one little rural subdivision where an imaginary point in the middle of a small pond is the common point to about seven lots.?ÿ If anything needs done to the pond, all the different owners first need to agree.
FWIW...just got a construction RFP for a $2M gas transmission job and the client (an S&P100 firm) used "lathe" when describing the ROW & LOD staking requirements.?ÿ?ÿ
Different project 90 minutes later (first one was Illinois, this is Texas)
