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| Thread ID: 104821 | 2009-11-09 15:54:00 | Gotta Love Those Unions! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 828595 | 2009-11-09 15:54:00 | I don't know if youse guys know anything about this or not - but the whole Los Angeles County has been having some serious underground water pipes breaking . I'm not talking about pipes that feed the homes - but great big 3' (1 meter) up to 10' (3 . 5 meters?) pipes and larger that for some reason have been exploding under the streets for the last two years or so . The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) states it's from the slow-down in water use from the mandatory conservation laws that were put into effect a couple of years ago . Bull cookies! Pressure and flow are not the same value - URGH! Anyway - the local KTLA-TV/5 just ran a small soft-news story about the new pipes that are being installed by the city's OWN unionized labor pool . That's right - UNIONIZED labor pool . I think placing those words together in the same sentence of even the same paragraph creates a huge oxymoron . The county of LA has over 7,000 miles of water pipes - all old and in serious need of replacement - some is still the "hot sheet-and-rivet" kind from the 1800's . The humor in this story is that these fine, unionized workers have just celebrated the ninth year of new pipe installation and they have passed a golden point in their work - THEY HAVE NOW (in those nine years) REPLACED SEVEN MILES OF PIPE . Any of youse guys got your sliderule and can figger out when they should be able to complete this task? Here's a link if you wanna see: . ktla . com/news/extras/ktla-dwpmap,0,2567279 . htmlstory" target="_blank">www . ktla . com |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 828596 | 2009-11-09 20:05:00 | Yep. It's gonna take a while. Get Arnie down there as the Terminator to scare them into some speedier action. Mind you, I don't think our guys would work any faster. Got to make the work last you know. As they say, work expands to fit the time available. :thumbs: | Richard (739) | ||
| 828597 | 2009-11-09 21:08:00 | Management claim to have a new plan to speed things up. Maybe management getting any plan would be a start. They are still trying to find a reason for so many water pipes bursting in the LA area that doesn't blame years of ignoring the age of the pipes. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 828598 | 2009-11-10 02:28:00 | If the pipes have been there that long i dont think it is that much of a problem. Probably no pipe left just water passing through dirt lol | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 828599 | 2009-11-10 02:38:00 | Management claim to have a new plan to speed things up . Maybe management getting any plan would be a start . They are still trying to find a reason for so many water pipes bursting in the LA area that doesn't blame years of ignoring the age of the pipes . I think it's either vandalism or terrorists . Either way - a small flash/bang grenade or percussion grenade will take a lot of pipes out with the percussive wave and not leave any evidence since it's flow with the gushing water and be lost . We have "cherry bombs" here that will burn their fuse and explode under water . In high school it was THE prank to drop one in the toilet and flush it into the sewer and blow the underground pipes out . Great fun! I - OF COURSE - never participated in this recreation . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 828600 | 2009-11-10 03:54:00 | If management was really worried about the problem they would roll up their shirt sleeves and get on with the job to give the slacking workers examples of how the job should be done instead of just moaning that they can't find good help these days. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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