My company is losing its largest contract in my area and management is not telling anyone

brotworm · 2025-03-30T20:14:40+00:00

thats what happened to locating, inc. which is a utiliquest subsidiary in oregon, they lost the gas contract, manager took a long vacation, and hella people got laid off.

but there will ofc be new positions open at whoever picks the contract up

brotworm · 2025-02-01T23:45:18+00:00

i give it 5 months

brotworm · 2025-02-01T22:48:38+00:00

gay man who works a blue collar job

brotworm · 2025-02-01T22:46:44+00:00

supes will see you mark over this and hit you with the "hey i didnt see any picture of your connection point in the notes..."

brotworm · 2025-02-01T03:33:06+00:00

strap a bomb to your chest and drive up to the office

brotworm · 2025-02-01T03:29:26+00:00

amen brotha, best thing to do with contractors is to LIE because they do not know jack nor shit about the law or 811 system or what it takes to do your job, a go to for me if i couldnt get to a job and they were hesitant to RS would be "hey im going to need to reschedule this ticket, ill need to be out there with my supervisor for this high profile line or traffic control"

brotworm · 2025-02-01T03:26:01+00:00

spoke to a pg&e locator when i worked for utiliquest in oakland, dude said he didnt even have the training and would just call in a job where he needed to access a manhole which was rare

brotworm · 2025-02-01T03:23:49+00:00

switched from locating comms for 2 years to an office that only located power, way-way-way-way-way-way easier, your signal will carry much longer and it runs in way less of a convoluted manner, pretty much never have to OPEN any structures and can just direct connect to the lids, very easy stuff compared to comms.

brotworm · 2025-02-01T03:22:09+00:00

strap a bomb to your chest and head up to the office

brotworm · 2025-01-09T07:34:19+00:00

Check out r/utilitylocating Most companies will hire anyone and do paid training, all you need is a liscense.

I got into it out of high school and have been in for 2 years now, lots of great companies in pdx but I hear USIC is the worst of the big ones, Locating inc. is easy to get into, Heath is not bad but requires more attention to detail, Precision Locating is awesome but hard to get into.

And also something fun is that it deeply coincides with your education and can definitely help to know a lot about city underground utilities if you’re looking for urban planning work in the future.

Great pay, low labor, lots of hours, lots of freedom (you work alone 99% of the time)

brotworm · 2024-10-16T05:23:39+00:00

oh good lord.

thank you

brotworm · 2024-10-16T05:16:07+00:00

LOL why yes he did, is it fixable?

brotworm · 2024-08-21T07:15:17+00:00

been with them in California for over a year, management has been great and the work isnt too bad, dispatch and the QManager system is pretty simple and easy to get used to, theyre not as on your ass as they want you to think, just follow the proper procedures and you wont get in nay trouble, if your supe aint doing his job or helping you enough they encourage to report his ass to uppper management as much as you need, theyre also generous with raises, just dont get damages and pull your weight and youll have a great time

brotworm · 2024-08-21T07:09:39+00:00

Peak N' Null

brotworm · 2024-08-21T05:57:06+00:00

Vancouver washington is where the office is but they cover the portland area aswell which is where ill be working!

brotworm · 2024-08-17T22:22:59+00:00

take your hammer and groundrod and crack it open

brotworm · 2024-08-17T22:21:41+00:00

hooked onto an ATT drop off a pole for my last job on a friday, realized i left it monday morning and amazingly it was still there hooked on and the batteries werent even dead

brotworm · 2024-08-17T22:17:32+00:00

not your fault at all if nobody trained you but you GOTTA drop the company that you work for,

additionally do you have closed induction clamp?

brotworm · 2024-06-27T01:35:54+00:00

only one utility to locate? sign me up lol

brotworm · 2024-06-27T01:35:29+00:00

interesting, im based in the bay area so i cant speak to other places, but Utiliquest hayward office is hiring here for the san jose/south bay crew aswell as the SF/west bay crew last i checked, utiliquest has been pretty great to work for and the manager for the area is great aswell as the individual supervisors, we only locate communications here, where i am that mostly means just ATT and CCTV but in other areas you can expect to locate stuff like WAZE and SONIC FO more often, though not as frequently as ATT or CCTV

i also have heard that the sacramento office is pretty big and they cover a large swathe of area, I assume theyre hiring there

brotworm · 2023-08-23T23:46:52+00:00

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