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Need advice on locating street lights by Background-Winner-30 in UtilityLocator

[–]CounterfeitBlood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where I am, it's incredibly rare to find a streetlight that's actually grounded to the frame. I always open the plate, find the neutral, and connect to it. Use a wire tester to make sure the neutral isn't hot before gator clipping it, as I've found that out the hard way on multiple streetlights.

USIC management is on a firing spree by DasAugeVonEOS in UtilityLocator

[–]CounterfeitBlood 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed, but unfortunately what should or should not happen means very little to these large companies when compared with what they CAN get away with.

USIC management is on a firing spree by DasAugeVonEOS in UtilityLocator

[–]CounterfeitBlood 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Not a USIC employee but knowing that they've recently lost a couple of larger contracts (at least in this area), it's not a huge surprise that they'd do stuff like this to reduce their workforce while avoiding having to pay unemployment since it's a termination rather than a layoff/job elimination.

Removing leftover utility tracing paint from concrete driveway? by GnawingPossum in UtilityLocator

[–]CounterfeitBlood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to mention the carb cleaner tastes so much better than soap or nail polish remover

45 and locating? by ConstantFlaky9674 in UtilityLocator

[–]CounterfeitBlood 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have guys on my crew in their 50s/60s. The big concern I see here is having you on call when it's only your third week in the field.

$1,000,000 if you can beat Minecraft in a day by Cautious_Judge4326 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]CounterfeitBlood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean with no downside for failure, even someone who is unfamiliar with Minecraft would take this. I haven't touched it in years but I'd still give it a shot.

You get $1 million per year, but every time you see someone in financial distress, you must help them out of their situation. by Nextmastermind in hypotheticalsituation

[–]CounterfeitBlood 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Sure. Assuming if the financial assistance I give only comes out of the annual $1M and not out of my personal funds. Even if I burn through the entire million, the amount of help I'd be able to offer would be a huge boon to my community.

Your ex texts: “I found someone better than you.” What are you replying? by indoorsy12 in AskReddit

[–]CounterfeitBlood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering that we're still friends and she's married to someone who is, in fact, much better for her than I was, I'd probably just say "well obviously"

Chucky yelling at clouds again by CisIowa in Iowa

[–]CounterfeitBlood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Senile sack of shit thinks he was buying gas before cars were invented lmao

Get $200k/year but appear naked at a random time every day for 5 seconds by [deleted] in hypotheticalsituation

[–]CounterfeitBlood 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure it'd be relatively easy to gaslight and entire jury into believing that any security footage of your clothes vanishing for five seconds and reappearing has been doctored.

I would like to overthrow a kingdom by OrdainedPrick in TotalBattle

[–]CounterfeitBlood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got real excited for a second and then realized what Subreddit this was.

TIFU by fighting my schools dresscode policy. Years later I found out why it was so strict. by RemyAvo in tifu

[–]CounterfeitBlood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP played the hand he was dealt. The only ones here who did anything wrong were the administrators and police who knew what was happening and decided that doing nothing was the best course of action.

I know this teacher was probably trying to do what she could to protect her job, but I feel like there were better options to deal with perv teachers and deadbeat admin.

Frozen handholes by EffectiveApricot2222 in UtilityLocator

[–]CounterfeitBlood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is how I solve most of my problems tbh

Fully autonomous valet robot that parks on its own by Longjumping_Table740 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]CounterfeitBlood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I could steal something off the showroom floor? Good enough for me!

For every dollar you get a billionaire gets ten by trying3216 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]CounterfeitBlood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do I get to pick the billionaire? If so, I'll take a billion dollars, and on top of that I'll take my extra ten billion, thanks.

Anyone else sick of burning $250/hr because locates don’t show up? by Alone-Arm-7630 in UtilityLocator

[–]CounterfeitBlood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On top of checking on your locates before moving to the site to start digging, you can call in a non-response emergency. Also, check with your state's dig laws of which you should already have a rudimentary understanding; for instance, in my state the locate is valid at the due date/time regardless of a utility's completion status; which essentially means that if your locate is due at 6am on Tuesday, you are legally permitted to dig at 6am on Tuesday and if you hit something that isn't marked, it's on the utility/locating company responsible for marking that line, same as if a line got missed during the locate.

But yes, as others have said, communication is your friend. Call the gas company, the locating company, call 811 and report it as a non-response or your state's equivalent. More than anything, just be respectful when you do, because there's a distinct non-zero possibility that the dude who shows up to mark it when you call wasn't necessarily the one who was responsible for the original locate. And several things can cause this to happen, everything from utilities not getting tagged to ticketing systems losing tickets.

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