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Caption This for 5/27/16

Posted May 26, 2016 4:45 PM by LakeGrl
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Re: Caption This for 5/27/16

05/26/2016 4:59 PM

The Engineering Manager brings his novice CAD Draftsman out to the field site to show him first-hand the result of errant OSNAPS.

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05/26/2016 5:22 PM

The ugly consequences of nepotism....

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05/26/2016 5:45 PM
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Re: Caption This for 5/27/16

05/26/2016 6:13 PM

If you find the pole a problem, just work your way around it, and we will sort it out later.
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05/26/2016 7:29 PM

General Contractor: ''Well, we tried to negotiate a reasonably priced ''extra'' to relocate the pole, but the Client kept insisting that it was (obviously implied to be) included in the scope-of-work, so we should move it for free... Ha, Ha, Ha...''

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05/26/2016 7:29 PM

Whadda ya mean, the plans are metric?
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05/26/2016 11:00 PM

Roller operator:

" not my job - not my job - not my job - "

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05/26/2016 11:05 PM

"Has anyone checked GPS sync lately?"
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05/26/2016 11:23 PM

"It wasn't there this morning."

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05/27/2016 12:08 AM

Shockingly the pole is in the right place, its the road and path that are wrong!

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05/27/2016 2:30 AM

We decided to spread the investment:

Next year we install the sewer

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05/27/2016 3:21 AM

"Don't dig there

Dig it elsewhere

You're making it round

and it ought to be square.

The shape's all wrong

It's much too long

And you can't put a pole

Where a pole don't belong."

- with apologies to Bernard Cribbins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShvgXZQBTs

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05/27/2016 1:18 PM

Like this?!?!

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05/27/2016 3:36 AM

The below one is better prepared for the road traffic:
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05/27/2016 4:42 AM

So that's what the Brexit campaigner meant he said "We've got too many Poles here already."

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05/27/2016 5:04 AM

Self-driving car extreme hazard test track.

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05/27/2016 5:33 AM

"I have been doing this for 15 years and I fail to see the problem"
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05/27/2016 7:11 AM

So, that's what the unlabeled "DOT" on the plans is?

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05/27/2016 8:17 AM

"Why is everyone laughing? We've been doing it this way for many years here in (insert name of old Soviet-bloc nation)!"

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05/27/2016 9:06 AM

The State Siting Council really isn't doing their due diligence!

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05/27/2016 9:14 AM

Politician:
"We don't have to stop drunk driving to prevent them hitting telephone poles. We just need to move the poles and they should naturally swerve around them."
"Our next legislation will be to mandate that everyone drive backwards to prevent head-on collisions"

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05/27/2016 9:26 AM

Imagine you are responsible executing the job: "don't touch the electricity pole, we told them 5 years ago to move it"

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05/27/2016 10:09 AM

Roller Operator "Boss, I've done all that I can but the pole is sticking up out of the sewer manhole!"

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05/27/2016 10:19 AM

Obviously, the nationality of the design engineer is not German.

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05/27/2016 10:22 AM

Civil engineer... "What do you mean it is no good? They told me to make the new road electric vehicle friendly".

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05/27/2016 11:53 AM

News Flash!!!

The local town planning have admitted they got it wrong, the camera never lies!

So until further notice please treat the pole as a roundabout! Until such time as the town planning move it or it is demolished by a driver, whichever comes first!

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05/27/2016 11:54 AM

Power supply line for for Charging BATTERY DRIVEN BUS.

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05/27/2016 12:00 PM

Poland!........Previously Planted Polish Power-line Pavement Poles.

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05/27/2016 1:10 PM

The electric company is waiting for the road to be finished.
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05/30/2016 4:42 PM

Of course! Otherwise they won't be able to get their trucks in to work on it.
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05/27/2016 2:25 PM

I thought I saw this before..... This happened to Bugs Bunny when the interstate ran right through his home.

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05/27/2016 2:27 PM

Dam immigration, they're leaving too many poles into this country.... they come into this country and then settle everywhere.

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05/27/2016 3:51 PM

I thought that DOT next to "Approved" on the plan meant Department of Transportation.

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06/05/2016 8:03 PM

Hey look! It's the same guys that worked at the railyard.

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06/06/2016 8:15 AM

Yet another example of the bad blood between the Utility Workers Union and the Highway and Transportation Workers Union.

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