While waiting on some prints, I was swirling down the time drain that is YouTube.?ÿ Ended up looking at some Parks & Recreation clips.?ÿ I've never watched the show, but am a little familiar with the characters.?ÿ Apparently Ron Swanson is cool enough as to be a surveyor at 4:56 into this clip -
Anybody have "help" as useful as Chris Pratt?
Had some hired help once that broke the windshield to the truck while smacking golf balls with a pick handle.?ÿ He couldn't understand why I was mad because it happened "during lunch".?ÿ His argument was that it "wasn't like I was screwing around or anything"...
But he was nowhere near the lofty heights of Chris Pratt's intelligence level.
When you consider the ROI, and how much you will have paid the dude before he actually makes you enough money to pay for the windshield...I get a bit hot just reading about it.
He was the stepson of my wife's boss at the time.... ('nuff said) 😉
We had a kid working with us; who was the son of the company's attorney.
I asked him if he was going be a lawyer, like his dad, when he grows up. He said; nope, I'm going to win the lottery...
I too work for a family business, but I am blessed in that they have always demanded MORE from a family member and held them to a higher standard.
The memory of those examples of helpers reminds me why working solo is so awesome.
Parks and Recreation is one of the best shows ever. I highly recommend catching the flu and binge watching it.?ÿ
When that show came out I was working for the California State Parks & Recreation Department.?ÿ I remember the reviews saying too ludicrous can't be real blah blah.?ÿ And I'm thinking wow at least one of their writers or creators actually worked for a P&R Dept somewhere LOL.?ÿ It was exactly like that.
When that show came out I was working for the California State Parks & Recreation Department.?ÿ I remember the reviews saying too ludicrous can't be real blah blah.?ÿ And I'm thinking wow at least one of their writers or creators actually worked for a P&R Dept somewhere LOL.?ÿ It was exactly like that.
That was the very same reason I never use to watch "Rosanne" back in the late '80s....I didn't have to...I lived it.?ÿ I thought it was a documentary.
I was watching an old episode of X-Files the other night, and the opening scene was two surveyors doing some kind of stakeout for a new shopping center or development project (I can't remember the specifics).?ÿ The procedures and equipment were surprisingly realistic - one guy on a total station (I think it was Sokkia) & another with a prism pole.?ÿ The project site was inexplicably located miles from civilization, in the heart of a pristine national forest, in an area with no cell service in "Florida" per the captions (looked more like the Pacific Northwest).?ÿ Of course the whole project was ruined by an invisible man stalking and killing everyone just like in real life, but the surveyors got some pretty realistic representation for a few minutes anyway.
Right, Parks and Recreation looks like a comedy but it's actually a documentary.
None of those made for tv moments compare to real like.
Many years ago now I was a new hire for a large east coast firm and on my first day they just stuck me as the 3rd. man on a 2 man crew. I had nothing to do other than stand there and look good which was quite difficult in itself. However the I-Man, now he was something else, he was a tattooed up dude with even more piercings.
As I was milling around smartly I glanced over at him and there he was with his britches down to his ankles and he was cleaning the brand spanking new piercing that went through his pecker. Who thinks its a good idea to get their pecker pierced?
I promptly asked to be removed from that crew.
There is a BBC show about archeology in Britain called "Time Team".?ÿ It's a little hokey because they only allow three days to determine the origins and specifics of the sites.?ÿ They do use total stations and GPS (always in the background) to locate all relics though.?ÿ Since I have a membership in Amazon Prime I get Prime on our cable system for "free", "Time Team" is on that network.?ÿ Since I'm a bit of a history nut I've watched several episodes.
Andy
That guy at about 04 seconds was the kid on the crew when I was the instrument man in Paramus, NJ.
Fantastic. The mighty surveyor saves the day. Just the way it should be reported.
