People walking through your jobsite

[Doug Tait]

Same, too many to mention but in the last week alone there was a runner broke through barrier tape as if it was a finish line, a taxi driver that drove round our signs and cones to stop right at me, standing with chainsaw running in front of a decent sized tree over the road, he said because there were no signs at the last junction I couldn't close the road so I stood aside and told him to carry on then, 3 point turn and away he went, then there was today. Unimog and trailer set up in school playground and skidding limbs to it with alpine tractor. No work while kids are on breaks policy, it was like being in a riot! We sat in the mog at lunchtime surrounded by a ring of "playground escorts" in hi vis keeping the screaming hordes at bay, incoming balls of all sizes, scooter collisions, a cone was stolen.

 

The public in general are a nightmare, but going by today the future's bleak!

[Steven P]

I tend to just watch out the window when the road is closed, spot the car go left, spot the car go right 30 seconds later. No doubt cursing that they didn't take the 1 minute longer detour - always well signed too - but now have a 5 minute detour to turn and take it.

[AHPP]

Peasgood makes an excellent point about the boy who cried wolf. Similarly, I expect a level of assertiveness from someone asking me to keep out of their work site but, as a member of the public on a piece of public (my) property, I won’t tolerate entitlement. I’ve worked with plenty of gobshites who think it’s their divine right to tell people to stop, wait, go around etc. I remind them that it is we who are causing the inconvenience and that we should kindly ask people to stop, wait go around etc, not demand that they do. That kind of respect (or usually lack of) just radiates off you.

Number of times I’ve seen the public barge through sites from up a tree - many. 
Number of times the public have got arsey with me, treating them with deference and asking, not telling them to wait - none this last decade. 
 

tl;dr Don’t be officious. 

Edited 3 hours ago by AHPP

[AHPP]

And since I haven’t evangelised about helmet comms this week yet, this is another time they’re great. I have many times tricked an otherwise arsey groundsman into being nice to the passing public by using an assuring tone of voice and words like, ‘ask’ and ‘please.’ It goes into their ears and then comes back out of their mouths. 

 

“Fuxcking stop that fxcking bike.” is just going to make someone stamp over all ready for a barney.