I never thought sitting would be so boring. I’ve spent two days this week surfing youtube, reading the news over and over, and just walking around. But there’s no actual work for me to do. It’s strange. I’m still finalizing this project, but we’ve come up to a bottleneck on waiting on other people for the stuff we need to do to finish.
We were supposed to have some overlay coming up in a few weeks, but it’s been pushed back and we might not realistically get it the damn thing until September. That’s two months away, and that’s a damn lot of downtime until my ‘first’ project.
I went out today to help check some bad concrete pavement on I-70, and what was supposed to take twelve hours took only two, probably because the extra fifteen ET’s that were out there. It’s deathly slow all around. When people want to get out of the office just to beat concrete with a hammer, you know you’ve got problems.
And problems we do have. Wog mentioned to me today about how the fuel budget is something like $500,000 over, and we’re only through half the year. We’re supposed to actually turn off trucks instead of idling them. Costs must be cut across the board, and sacrifices need to be made. It probably would do some good to trim the fat off the bureaucracy, but so far, it’s a stop gap, and nothing else.
One has to wonder the wisdom of hiring new people if you had this shadow of a budget looming over you. I wanted this job, and I’m damn happy I got it, but still, there doesn’t seem like too much going on to merit the extra help right now. It’s just so damn frustrating not having anything to do, and I’m sick of going to ‘check on erosion control’ just to get out of the office and walk.
