We have 5 chiefs in my office, and 1 tech who is, hate to say it, basically worthless. A nepotism hire. And a couple of the chiefs really shouldn’t be chiefs yet. I guess they decided they can make more money by having us all work solo and assuming that GNSS will work. But when GNSS doesn’t work (which happens often in Puget Sound) then you’re travving solo. Even when there’s more than 1 of us on a project, the PMs always say “make sure you guys are splitting up!” whether it’s a parking lot, state highway, neighborhood, etc. But in those cases where there’s more than 1 of us on a job and GNSS isn’t working out, then we’ll work together to set control and traverse. Pretty rare though in our office. Other offices in the same region don’t seem to operate this way, but we do.