RE: New COMMON Conference

They get cranky when you try to glue those labels on them.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob P. Roche
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 1:41 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: New COMMON Conference

Which still seems easier than convincing all these guys to get bar coded
so they can be scanned coming and going from the job site.





And you used to have to fill out time cards while walking uphill with
no shoes in the snow.

Darn kids...get off my lawn!

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

We're talking about construction job sites here, not an office

environment

or even a factory floor.

North of the Mason-Dixon line, these sites are typically manned by

workers

from different trade unions. Some of them even require paper copies of
timecards or timesheets when they come in to do their audits.

If the job is time and materials, many of the customers for whom the

work is

being done require their personnel to sign the timesheets and invoices

as

well as putting their own cost codes on each sheet of paper.

Technology has been a late arrival to the industry, except for the
engineering and heavy equipment arenas. Nowadays, a grader operator's

job is

made much simpler by mounting laser receivers onto the blade to

coordinate

with the laser set up by the grading foreman.

Bunch of babies. We used to do it with hand levels, folding wooden

rulers,

wooden stakes and eyeballs.

I did this kind of stuff for a living before getting into this line of

work

38 years ago. Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7m7xHYUaTQ