On Feb 26, 5:52*pm, Roland Perry wrote:
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09:41:53 on Thu, 26 Feb 2009, remarked:

Why keep blaming the workers? What kind of agency signs someone up,
sells their services to a client, and then fails to get confirmation
from the workers that they'll turn up?

The one where the workers are signed up to more than one agency. A
worker may have signed for a morning shift on one job with one agency
and an evening shift on another job with another agency, having a
shift or two in between (depending on the day)

That's fine, as long as the two sites aren't as far apart as East London
and Rugby (and Modulo the Working Time Directive). It's up to the agency
to make sure those aspects are OK.


Replace agency with agencies and maybe you can grasp the problem.

And big re-wiring jobs have happened at the same time before, why
should the project managers think it would be any different this time?

I don't know - that's why we are blaming the project managers for
failing to spot what was going to be different this time.


Blaming the project managers for something that has never occured
before seems a bit harsh. Why should they question an agency that has
provided the workers on all previous occasions?

Remember, the original question was: Has Bechtel ever been involved in
a disasterous project? I would say not, as the OHL problems that
Christmas were only a small (although important) part of something
much bigger.

Both sets of project managers should have realised that they'd been
promised "too many" engineers because there simply aren't enough to go
round, and even if that penny hadn't dropped when they placed their
orders with the agencies, it should have done so on the first day the
workers failed to tun up.

But that fails to take into account that there might be enough
workers, but that more than expected have taken a break over
Christmas,

A strange thing to do when your main job is wiring things during
maintenance windows like Xmas.


Actually, their main job won't be working at Christmas, otherwise
they'd be very poor. There will be work all year round on repairs and
replacement jobs.

And something the agencies should have seen coming weeks ahead when the
workers concerned confirmed (or not) their availability.