County Worker Observation

Here on Old Frankfort Pike in Lexington we have a few blacktop areas being resurfaced. We are not talking miles of work more like yards at different points along the road with the biggest maybe being a 1/4 mile stretch. I'm not a Asphalt guy but regardless it just looks bad to me....Naturally there will be delays which is fine but as I sat there waiting for my turn to go I noticed the following:
6 guys sitting on the fence doing nothing, two flagmen directing traffic, a driver in each vehicle who was not asleep and one who was asleep with his legs hanging out the window. Gubment work at its finest!! Send 11 men to do a job that can prolly be done with 5! That is all.

WE DID. have seen the same thing in Cumberland county. those are patronage jobs at their finest.So who puts these guys in office. Guess?

Ha Ha I laugh at this stuff all the time, such a waste.

I've never done asphalt, but I can see where it would be a lot like concrete work. A good bit of standing around followed by frenzied activity to get everything right before it sets.

[QUOTE=mhall;523115]Ha Ha I laugh at this stuff all the time, such a waste.[/QUOTE]

I work downtown Louisville......you'd be AMAZED by the waste I see all the time with these "construction" projects.

a 1 mile stretch of Main Street has been paved about 40 times in my 25 years of living here. Every year and sometimes twice a year. AMAZING........simply AMAZING.

[QUOTE=jcb;523120]I've never done asphalt, but I can see where it would be a lot like concrete work. A good bit of standing around followed by frenzied activity to get everything right before it sets.[/QUOTE]

I've seen this too. You will see four guys leaning on their shovels. Usually it's around lunch time though.

If you have worked construction you know what it's like to actually work for a living. These guys do very labor intensive work and it's not easy.

I've seen private company guys doing the same thing as the county workers. They all are paid by the hour and have no real incentive to work faster and work themselves out of a job. That's up the boss man to get them all work to do.

A lot of the road work in our area is contracted out to private companies.

I used to work for a private contractor right after highschool and I will admit there was times that me and my crew would be just standing around looking at the dirt. BUT when we worked we did work hard. That job was actually the main reason I enrolled into college