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Had a guy in a suit ask me if the dredge could 'filter for gold' while I was working the San Joaquin.
We were pulling up river silt near Stockton last fall, and this guy in a full business suit just walks right up to the edge of the work zone. He points at the slurry coming out of the discharge pipe and asks, completely serious, 'So, does that thing have a setting for precious metals?' I told him if it did, I wouldn't be here. He just nodded like it made perfect sense and walked off. Ever have someone ask you the wildest question on site?
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matthew_patel686mo ago
That line about consultants hits home. It feels like there's a whole class of people who get paid to ask obvious questions that anyone on the ground already knows the answer to. You see it with inspectors, new managers, all kinds of folks who just parachute in. Makes you wonder what their meetings are even about if they don't know how basic equipment works.
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fiona7496mo ago
My buddy had a consultant come through his shop last year, guy in a clean suit asking how the floor buffer worked. The crew had to show him the on switch, which is pretty much what you said, matthew_patel68. The report they got back was just a list of things the workers already told their boss every week. Felt like a really expensive way for management to hear the same stuff from a stranger in a tie.
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