Doing some re-con for a project near Seguin, Texas, we found some surveyors caught on the google cam.
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The one on the right, I have a better truck cause there isn't anyone on the left.
Typical Texas, the nail at the radius of the cul-de-sac is 3' from the edge of pavement. 😉
I can respect someone whose rover is worth four times as much as his truck.
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Looks like a father and son team working out of a service bed that has outlasted several trucks and the son is gettin er done with some new GPS.
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No safety vests or cones or signs or fall prevention devices, they don't even have their hazards on...oh the humanity of it!!!?ÿ I can't look anymore...
It looks like a pretty quiet street. I probably wouldn't have bothered with cones either for an RTK shot.
Might want to have that rear end looked at.
It was a joke for sure...about a year ago I posted a pic of me and my 12 year old daughter hitting property corners in the middle of a field not wearing orange and got my balls busted...I much prefer going camo than painting a target on my back when doing boundary work.
The fellow standing by the door (in the OP picture) at least has his shirt tucked in. The honyock at the rod, with untucked t-shirt, faded jeans, beer belly, and hands in his pockets does not project an appealing look. First impressions are lasting. Your personal appearance when in public is important to all of us. Not expecting white shirt and tie, but if surveyors want to be considered professionals by the public a good place to start is with a tucked in collared shirt.?ÿ
The honyock at the rod
I've never encountered the word "honyock" before. I had to look it up.
The fellow standing by the door (in the OP picture) at least has his shirt tucked in. The honyock at the rod, with untucked t-shirt, faded jeans, beer belly, and hands in his pockets does not project an appealing look. First impressions are lasting. Your personal appearance when in public is important to all of us. Not expecting white shirt and tie, but if surveyors want to be considered professionals by the public a good place to start is with a tucked in collared shirt.?ÿ
Surveyors have always fallen short of displaying a 'professional appearance' imho.?ÿ I'm guilty of it myself.?ÿ In our defense it's difficult to 'look' tidy sometimes when you've spent the day wading creeks full of ripe stump water and crawling through saw briars.?ÿ To this day I buy my field clothes at the Goodwill store.?ÿ Most of them wind up tattered from barbed-wire anyway.
I had a crew (all bachelors) working for me a few years ago that fell WAY short of any sort of tidy appearance.?ÿ Although I kindly mentioned it occasionally nobody ever really looked any neater.?ÿ A worried home owner called me one day and said that someone on the crew working in her front yard?ÿhad given them my business card.?ÿ She was asking if they really worked for me.
I asked her, "Do they look like a bunch of pirates?"
"Why yes, they do."
"Yes they work for me and they're really harmless.?ÿ They're just a bunch of old bachelors."
Her reply was classic, "I can see why..."?ÿ 😉
I'm no Beau Brummell myself. But jeans are $12 at Costco. Shirts are often less. Goodwill has racks of collared shirts. No need to dress in potato sacks.
Just a little pent up rant. I'm done now.
I work for a Fire Department so I try to look the part when in the field...it smooths the way. I can enter a prison camp, no one questions me. All those men wearing orange call me sir or keep clear while eyeing me warily.
Blue tactical pants (rip stop fabric)
Blue station t-shirt (long sleeve)
Blue FD ball cap (the official one)
Brown boots (FFs have to wear black but I do like the HFEOs, brown boots). FF=Fire Fighter. HFEO=Heavy Fire Equipment Operator (mainly dozers).
I found three or four tan khaki shirts once at the Goodwill that were apparently old uniform shirts, maybe some LEO or wildlife department. They had passants on the shoulders and pleated pockets with nice official looking cover flaps. One still had a State emblem. They were starched and looked spiffy. I grabbed them all for a buck or two.
I hadn't realized it but the shirts bestowed on me some sort of higher station in society. County deputies that saw me in the road digging corners would give me their "fraternal chin nod". The clerk at the spit and git called me "sir" and I even got a free cup of coffee once.
Too bad I didn't continue to keep the shirts starched and pressed. But after a couple of washings they started looking like all the rest of my "civilian" shirts.
Yes, tan & greens (you're supposed to wear green pants) are the traditional "resources" uniform and a lot of S.O.s (Sheriff's Office).
Then there is the Forest Service "pickle suit" as one FS guy called it.
Our department switched from Tan & Greens to all FD blue about 15 years ago.
I have a Border Patrol cap that I wear to some sites. It helps when I wear green drab pants and shirt.
People keep their distance and make no eye contact and let me do what I'm there for.
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Dun o if I'd wear that. I'llYou could also pin a bullseye on your back.
Buying shirts - especially from the bargain basement - usually means they're tailored for the more rotund of Americans.
You actually have to shop for athletic cut shirts if you don't want that pleated waistline.
Looks like they might have swapped clothes.
