Not-My-Job Department

Re: Not-My-Job Department

vlparisian - Houston

>Look at who they are hiring for this work. It's only taxpayer money...

LOL .. very funny, but very sad and VERY True

Bartee (metro Atlanta)

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Re: Not-My-Job Department

Bob Lemon

>The previous related post was a white strip over a dead animal. How sad!

Contrarian Opinion

mdclor

>OTOH, if the paint truck driver stopped to move the branch or the dead animal, there might be a safety concern and/or traffic would be inconvenienced also can taxpayers afford to pay truck drivers to move branches, etc. Another option would be to have another truck with a driver and a picker-upper drive in front of the paint truck to pick up the extraneous materials. Again, this would cost us tax payers more.

I am not a state employee or in anyway connected with state employees other than paying their salaries.......

Merle

Re: Contrarian Opinion

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>apparently we can afford to send men into outer space constantly, so the question of whether we can afford to pay someone to paint straight lines on the roads is a moot point. I think the post was really meant as a joke though, and not as a discussion point. I was thinking about how easy it would be to take any picture of a road and put anything into the picture using any number of different photo programs.

You're absolutely right

Mark Goodall - ATL - tooljunkie

>We shouldn't require paint truck drivers to do things that are clearly out of their job description. If their job is to drive the paint truck, then that's all they should do. If it runs out of paint near the end of the day, the driver should continue painting faint lines and let the painter truck fillers fill up the paint truck with new paint at the end of the shift. If the paint nozzle gets glogged halfway through the day, the driver should continue his job until which time the paint nozzle maintenance crew can get to fix the nozzle.

In fact, the operator of this paint truck went above and beyond the call of duty on this one. He should have continued driving straight, and painted over the branch. By swerving like he did, he used more paint than necessary, endangered the safety of himself and the public by swerving quickly into traffic like that.

He probably was thinking he would spare the county any costs associated with tire damage if he had he hit run over that branch, but at what cost? Paint does not grow on trees. Branches, on the otherhand, do.

;)

Happy Woodworking!

Another opinion, and reminds me of...

Dale Sherman - Manlius, NY

>I think the paint truck driver did drive straight. The paint nozzle is mounted on a boom off the front of the truck and has a trolley (caster) wheel. It looks more like the nozzle was deflected by the branch, then sprung back onto track.

This also reminds me of a local crew painting lines down one of the roads here. Nice job, too. The next day the paving crew showed up and paved over it. I think they were two days behind schedule.

Then there's the story of the two guys working down a grassy boulevard median. One guy was digging holes every 30' or so, the next guy was filling them in. When asked what they were doing, they said, "Planting trees. But the guy who puts the trees in the holes is out sick today."

Dale,

shoveling snow from the sidewalk to the road so the snowplow can push it back onto the sidewalk.

No such thing as photographic evidence anymore.

Rod Peterson -- Ormond Beach

>I am extremely suspiciuous of any pictures I see on the internet. It's too easy to make all kinds of modifications to an image to make something appear real that isn't. Photoshop, which used to be a noun is now also a verb as a result, as in “that picture's been Photoshopped.” That's not to assert that this one was, I'm just sayin'…

Rod

LOL ;)

Mark Goodall - ATL - tooljunkie

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Re: No such thing as photographic evidence anymore

Ray Newman

>BINGO!

& Rod gets the brass ring.

A few months ago, this same picture was posted over on the Shiloh Sharps rifle site. The poster later did admit that the picture had been altered.

Re: No such thing as photographic evidence anymore *LINK*

Lee Gordon

>For proof of exactly what you are saying -- not to mention the entertainment value -- just take at the Worth 1000 website. Some of the photoshopping displayed there is amazing.


Worth 1000

Re: Contrarian Opinion

Ernie Miller

>I should probably keep my mouth shut but alot of these types of jobs are contracted out by state and local governments as it is cheaper than buying all sorts of specialty machines. most striping machines would have just painted over the object. rodes are usualy driven and stuff picked up the day before but things can fall off trucks just hours or minutes before roades are painted. Things happen at least it isn't a pot hole with a front end laying in the street just beyond it. I'm betting the people who drive thet road are quite happy.

Happens here too.

Brian in Brighton

>I had a chance to see something first hand. The guys down the steet when they painted the stripes on the road ran over a dead fox. I kid you not. I called CDOT and they were going to look into it.

Brian in Brighton