On 18/09/17 03:17, Greg Sutherlandgregsutherland@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
> Unfortunately they are 100% correct.

>

> And there are no 'government workers' involved just contract employees

> of the major contractor with all of this being paid for by the

> taxpayer!  Value for money?


And often it's not the workers fault - i've spoken to some one (Irish tradie working with a contractor I know) who said he had mates working on the LR project and they were starting to get ticked off over the amount of standing around doing nothing they did.
They would be digging, hit some 'undocumented' service and all work then stopped while 'upstairs' work out what to do about it.

The contractor supervisors are not managing the labour well (or at all).

While I accept undocumented services are a problem they should be able to put the workers on other tasks while the engineers work out what to do with the latest thing that was uncovered. What appears to be happening is a purely linear work flow. They decide to dig in one spot and the entire crew stay at that one spot till finished instead of when hitting a problem moving the labour to the next parcel of work along and bring them back when the engineers have decided what do do about the latest problem.