Simone's friend was very relieved that her husband enjoyed his new work.
"He hated working in an office so working on telephone wires outside, driving his own truck - it totally suits him," raved Monique.
"Has he completed his training yet?" Simone asked.
"Nope. He still has a week and a half before his month's training is over. He didn't have any experience for the job so that's why the training is taking so long."
"So when the training is over, he gets to work on a team, right? Climbing telephone poles and fixing wires and stuff?"
"Uh, no. Actually, he'll be all on his own."
A silence ensued as Simone pondered this. "So," she said at last. "You mean he's going to climb 30 foot poles all by himself with nobody around in case of emergency?"
"Well," Monique laughed. "Not really. He'll be in constant radio and phone contact with head office. He checks in at the beginning of a job then he checks in at the end. And if they can't reach him in a 20 minute span, they send someone out to the site."
"Uh-huh," Simone replied, unable to keep the sarcasm from her voice. "That sounds safe enough..."
Perhaps head office figures that if a worker falls down off a 30 foot pole or inadvertently electrocutes themselves, there ain't much to be done about it anyhow...
1 comment:
i am sure it is comforting to know that after you bite into the wrong wire and are flung off your ladder to land face first in the mud, it will only be 20 minutes until they begin to try to find someone to drive over hill and dale in search of your seared, broken corpse!
Does this job include life insurance?
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