At work, we traded a piece of equipment for another piece of equipment from another district. Specifically, we traded one cement pump unit for a different cement pump. The one we gave up was relatively new and reasonably well maintained. I had a few issues with some of the things the crew it was assigned to did, or perhaps didn't do when it came to maintenance. In the end, cleaning up and fixing the things I had a problem with wasn't more than a days worth of work for a couple guys.
The pump we received was in operational, but poor shape. The other district said it was in regular use up until we traded units and I believe that. It's just that it would have been leaking oil like a sieve. That and it had the wrong fluid in the transmissions, needed new filters of almost every kind, and was probably a few jobs away from burning up seals unless they were continually dumping extra oil into the lubrication system. Hey, it worked for them, but we have standards. I can pretend to spin this positively and say it's giving some new guys a chance to do important maintenance and it is. However, it's bothersome that a district can let equipment maintenance slide that badly. We're not perfect here, but I like to think we try.
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Doesn't that reflect the leadership? Poor maintenance also shows poor quality of work. You know the end result. Unfortunately half of the workers here do not take pride of their works. Take the automobile industry for example. They never have enough time to do it right the first time but spend a lot of extra time to do it over. Is there an old saying going something like one stitch saves nine!
Was this sort of like a baseball trade where you also get a future first round draft pick or was this someone's idea of a straight-across trade?
This is absolutely not a fair trade. Do you really want to stay around for the first round pick? Not a chance. Not in your line of work.
Who said this was supposed to be a fair trade. The whole point was that it wasn't a fair trade. That doesn't mean the pump unit we received had to be so shoddy, but we knew we were getting an older unit. An older, less expensive unit. Less expensive.
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