How about this?

[treemandan]

You know you've taken a job at the wrong tree company when:

The boss rolls up complaining the job is taking way to long and while you are breaking your ass to get it done you look around to see him hanging 20 feet above while the ladder is laying on the ground crushed by the limb

Just so I know what does one do in this situation?


you know you have taken a job at the wrong company when the lead climber puts a bottle of JD between his teeth, his hands behind his back and tilts his head back at 7 am.

what to do, what to do?

You know you have taken a job at the wrong company when you are the only one who speaks English and you only have a few months experiance but are made the lead climber cause the other guy just got deported.

You know you have taken a job ajob at the wrong company when the boss drops you off by yourself next a to big white pine and tells you to " thin it out"

You know you have taken a job at the wrong company when during the interview you say 25 and the boss says ok and then you say 26 and the boss says ok then you say 27 and the boss says ok then you say 28...


You know you have taken a job at the wrong company when you stop by the bosses house at 10 am on a rain day and he gets you to drive him to the licquer store for a 5th of Winsdor and he drinks half of it during the 7 minute ride back to his place.


I figured I would stop for a few minutes to catch my breath and let you guys post some but I could be here all night.

 

[NCTREE]

You know you've taken a job at the wrong company when the boss hires you and your best friend only to show up on the first day to find out that the only other employee, the illegal mexican won't be in for a couple of days because he's out on a drinking binge.


You know you've taken the wrong job with a tree co when the illegal finally shows up drunk after a week and starts climbing a huge tree to take down only to smash his hand witha chunk of wood.

You know you taken the wrong job when the boss piles the saw bregade(10saws) all of which are dull and half don't run in the back of the pickup to go do a tree job.

 

[treemandan]

Well I would like to thank you for contributing to my post NC, it seems that you are the only one who ain't scared to.

 

[NCTREE]

I guess nobody ever had a bad tree job or is that everyone else works for themselves. I mean I work for myself though i've been there. I thought i'd see more responses too. Oh well it could of been a fun thread.

 

[mikewhite85]

You know you have taken a job with the wrong company when the boss tells you to top a tree...

 

[derwoodii]

Great thread heres a few of mine.
2 days in to a weed spraying job the 2ic just turns and say see ya good luck n walks away. I lasted 4 more weeks till had enough the company boss was a NQR nutter.

Took a foreman gig with Asplundh, told tall tails about gear n equipment. Off to collect my "new" lift truck. It was a 10 year bit o crap rig I traded from a previous job that they had bought at an ex gov clearance auction. Same with chipper rig and same with saws, all second hand. Just painted orange. Turns out all the states gear was even worse crap all picked up ex contract and they paid massive to purchase.
I learn't to be a good field mechanic.

Lesson, at the job interview you check them as much as they check you.

 

[treemandan]

Great thread heres a few of mine.
2 days in to a weed spraying job the 2ic just turns and say see ya good luck n walks away. I lasted 4 more weeks till had enough the company boss was a NQR nutter.

Took a foreman gig with Asplundh, told tall tails about gear n equipment. Off to collect my "new" lift truck. It was a 10 year bit o crap rig I traded from a previous job that they had bought at an ex gov clearance auction. Same with chipper rig and same with saws, all second hand. Just painted orange. Turns out all the states gear was even worse crap all picked up ex contract and they paid massive to purchase.
I learn't to be a good field mechanic.

Lesson, at the job interview you check them as much as they check you.

Are you saying you went to work for a company and saw that had bought or obtained your old truck?

 

[371groundie]

you know you work for the wrong tree company when:

there are bars in the bucket truck that dont fit any saws the company owns.

the toolboxes on the bucket truck have holes rusted in the bottom and no one cares. wet ropes, rusted chains and files, YUCK!

youve worked with the same boom operator for 6 months and he hasnt greased the boom yet. (if we worked on the ocean whales would come in thinking its a mating call)

superiors wonder why you dont want to get bucket experience in said boom.

you spend 4.5 days on storm duty out of town and your time gets 'lost in the computer' naw, i dont have bills this week, its ok.

 

[derwoodii]

Are you saying you went to work for a company and saw that had bought or obtained your old truck?

Yup a 10 year old lift truck traded from a previous job. I looked, rubbed my eyes looked again yep my old girl 40 foot scissor boom just turned orange. A POC then, now I was hold her hand again.
We killed her off in about 10 months. Then they gave me an older POC 4x4 Merc 60 foot scissor that was completely useless in urban streets. (the bucket was near higher than the street trees when packed up) They then imported those LrV over center jobs we called em ferris wheels, dunno how you guys use them in the burbs over here they were useless in streets you could not unpackem because all our ohead wires.
No regrets did 5 years got paid, those days are gone and so has assplundah from downundah.

 

[treeman82]

You know you've gone to work for the wrong company when the groundies are saying "this guy isn't like the rest, he's not a drunk of a drug addict, he actually produces"

You know you've gone to work for the wrong company when the boss needs you to start in a pinch, because their last climber is in jail.

You know you've gone to work for the wrong company when you have more ropes on your harness than the entire company has.

You know you've gone to work for the wrong company, when the boss is spending more time on jobs fixing equipment than actually running it.

You know you've gone to work for the wrong company, when you show up in February to a job where you were to take down a larch, and when you get there it's a blue spruce.

You know you've gone to work for the wrong company, when they are dragging the boss out of bed at 2 PM because he was out drinking until 3AM.

You know you've gone to work for the wrong company when the boss tells you he can't pay you right now, because he had to give his money to the loan shark last night.

 

[lxt]

you know you work with the wrong group of guys at a utility tree company when: the journeyman training you rustles himself into the home owners rhodedendrons to crap on the side of their house.......then later in the day tells the lady of the house "something smells good, thats kickin..can I have some?", Now he`s sitting on their porch eating their soup for lunch!!

Ohhhh,.. only to go back & relive those apprenticeship moments!! LOL




LXT................

 

[derwoodii]

you know you work for the wrong tree company when:

there are bars in the bucket truck that dont fit any saws the company owns.

the toolboxes on the bucket truck have holes rusted in the bottom and no one cares. wet ropes, rusted chains and files, YUCK!

youve worked with the same boom operator for 6 months and he hasnt greased the boom yet. (if we worked on the ocean whales would come in thinking its a mating call)

superiors wonder why you dont want to get bucket experience in said boom.

you spend 4.5 days on storm duty out of town and your time gets 'lost in the computer' naw, i dont have bills this week, its ok.

:agree2:

Had a similar Otime ripp off. Crew did a all day all nite storm that gets good media report and commendation by US head office. Nup you only get time after mid nite as it was new day??? But they billed customer double costs Go figure?? the crew went sour after that rip.
Ta thread I,m feeling better each post.

 

[NCTREE]

You know your working for the wrong co. when the first job you do with the illegal mexican is taking down 5 larches that the mexican calls "dead pines."

You know your working for the wrong co. when the boss plays up the fact that the illegal mexican used to run a whore house in D.C.

You know your working for the wrong co. when the boss gives you a gas can filled with diesel fuel and chainsaw and tells you to go cut some stumps lower to the ground.

 

[NCTREE]

you know you work with the wrong group of guys at a utility tree company when: The journeyman training you rustles himself into the home owners rhodedendrons to crap on the side of their house.......then later in the day tells the lady of the house "something smells good, thats kickin..can i have some?", now he`s sitting on their porch eating their soup for lunch!!

Ohhhh,.. Only to go back & relive those apprenticeship moments!! Lol




lxt................

lmfao!

 

[Slvrmple72]

you know you work for the wrong tree company when after toking up the co-owner walks past the tree with the big orange "X" spray painted on it and drops the only good White Pine on the property making this the third wrong tree cut down by him this month!

 

[treemandan]

you know you work for the wrong tree company when after toking up the co-owner walks past the tree with the big orange "X" spray painted on it and drops the only good White Pine on the property making this the third wrong tree cut down by him this month!

I think that has got to be the worst a treeman can do. Sure I have cut down the wrong tree... under direct orders from the baws though. I did have a few of my own customers try to tell me I cut the wrong tree down either to get out of the bill or to get another tree down.

 

[RAG66]

Wrong co. when I've been there 2.5 Hrs. no one else has a license so I get to drive the truck with 2 "ground workers", I get to the customers house and begin the backing in and no one is anywhere to guide me. I do not know how to back a trailer. They say DUDE it's all good! I get done and where are the GW's, in the back yard smokin up a rope out of a 9/16 deep well socket. DUDE, did ya geter done?

 

[treemandan]

Wrong co. when I've been there 2.5 Hrs. no one else has a license so I get to drive the truck with 2 "ground workers", I get to the customers house and begin the backing in and no one is anywhere to guide me. I do not know how to back a trailer. They say DUDE it's all good! I get done and where are the GW's, in the back yard smokin up a rope out of a 9/16 deep well socket. DUDE, did ya geter done?

5/8 for me.

" Socket man, burning up his rope out back alone"
Elton

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

You know...the boss is mad about how slow the chipping is going and jumps up on the infeed chute to push stuff in with his feet.

 

[TreEmergencyB]

you work for the wrong tree company when the 'climber' smashes a porch roof and says "thats why we pay insurance."

You work.......when the 'climber' cant climb without spikes

You work.....when the owner asks you what ISA Certified is

you work.......when the 'climber' "limb walks" on his butt


thats it for now