Anyone else getting caught in the epidemic (cell phone on the rigging)

[hoechucker]

Couldn't zoom in any further almost every turn. Back to the rigging and staring at the phone

 

[Birken Vogt]

Around here our phones do not work in the woods. Are you working near a highway or something?

 

[hoechucker]

We are pretty close to town for the most part. Phones work on all the ridges and some of the valleys. Only a few of our couple ground guys don't pack their phones, seems like most of them pull them out as soon as they get their last choker set. I must be getting old

 

[Hallback]

You're not the only one that sees that ****. I put a stop to my guys having their phones on them unless they are an operator or hooktender/siderod.

There is absolutely zero reason a riggin' rat should have a phone in the brush.

 

[hoechucker]

It's getting out of hand these days

 

[Camshawn]

Lack of situational awareness is what I see.
Cam

 

[hoechucker]

Lack of situational awareness is what I see.
Cam

Very much so

 

[Jumbo]

When I went into the brush in my day, I emptied my pockets of everything. The only thing I carried was a Pocket Ben watch that was considered disposable. It was way too easy to lose "stuff" out of your pockets wrestling the rigging. I was a cheap date, if phones had been around in my rigging days, it would have stayed on the crummy because in my case I would have lost it in the first 4 hours.

 

[Hallback]

That's the same thing we did jumbo we emptied our pockets and stuck it in our slipper and left it on the floor board of the crew bus. I guess back in those days though we didn't have to worry about some doper stealing our $7.31 or the keys to a worn out ford.

 

[Jumbo]

With the crummy on the landing, what thief would take the effort to come that far off the pavement to steal? Besides, we always seemed to have a second loader who was permanently in a bad temper with a hangover, who was better than any three rottweilers.

 

[hoechucker]

The ole' romeo slipper stash hole. I even used that when I was cutting and driving my own truck. Wouldn't dare throw that important stuff in your lunchbox or even a backpack, especially with a guy like me running the yarder. I've yard saled more than one set of lunchboxes

 

[Hallback]

With the crummy on the landing, what thief would take the effort to come that far off the pavement to steal? Besides, we always seemed to have a second loader who was permanently in a bad temper with a hangover, who was better than any three rottweilers.

Hell, I meant the dopers on the crew!

 

[Truck Shop]

There is a real simple cure for this type of epidemic.

Company rules.
#1 You are hired to work
#2 You are allowed two personal calls a day during break time and lunch.
#3 Your work environment requires constant attention for safety reasons.
#4 If caught on a cell phone you could be terminated-or.
#5 Every time you are caught on a cell phone a one hour will be deducted from your pay.
#6 Rules copied and every employee--signs it.

 

[kshansen]

There is a real simple cure for this type of epidemic.

Company rules.
#1 You are hired to work
#2 You are allowed two personal calls a day during break time and lunch.
#3 Your work environment requires constant attention for safety reasons.
#4 If caught on a cell phone you could be terminated-or.
#5 Every time you are caught on a cell phone a one hour will be deducted from your pay.
#6 Rules copied and every employee--signs it.

If there is actually something urgent that you need to be contacted for anyone who might need to contact you should have the phone number of the office and be instructed to contact them!

 

[Hallback]

No ground guys should have phones on them. End of story.

 

[Jumbo]

No ground guys should have phones on them. End of story.

Way back when, pre-gray hair and I had a youthful bounce....
There was only a radio in the shovel to talk to the shop. Even the trucks had no radios. Nobody had communication of any sort. In fact some had to resort to pay phones at the local tavern to contact others. We seemed to get the loads out, do it safely and had fun doing it. It is interesting to see the "manufactured" need to communicate not just in the woods, but everywhere. Most of us have no real need to communicate but we are told we do. I guess in our deepest hearts we are all gullible to marketing.
I would like to learn the key to break that gullibility, I'd be a rich man.

 

[Truck Shop]

I would like to learn the key to break that gullibility, I'd be a rich man.

Market pandering-you need this you just have to have it in your daily life, everyone else has one
so you need it too. The sellers will tell you.

 

[skyking1]

If there is actually something urgent that you need to be contacted for anyone who might need to contact you should have the phone number of the office and be instructed to contact them!

My foreman on the East main bridge job in Puyallup got a call like that for me, mother-in-law had passed away. I had a cell phone but was leaving it in the car like a good employee.

 

[Hallback]

I remember when all your calls were made at night after you got home and had supper. That's just the way it was.

 

[Pony]

Yep, back before mobile phones, you wanted to call someone, there was no point trying during the day time, who sits in the house during the day?
Night time it was.