Yea...
Seriously though I quite like the job but I do a lot more than just the supervision.
One of the hardest jobs for anyone is man management dealing with all the different personalities.
Had 2 guys this morning arguing who was going to sit next to the window in one of the lorries this morning....I mean ffs...what do you say to 2 adults arguing like that!!
The hardest part about being a supervisor is
-Getting the scaffs to do a days work safely,getting the manager to pay for the days work, getting the cleint to sign the v.o. so the manager can pay the scaffs to do the days work.
Not having enough scaffs, having too many scaffs, scaffs taking days off ,scaffs leaving early and not answering their phones.
Having to make a margin when you know the estimator has gone in cheap to get the job to keep the scaffs in work, explaining to the scaffs the estimator's not a Wan**r he's just trying to keep us all in work so get on with it and stop moaning.The other gang aren't making a fortune on that other job, so you can't go there instead.
Explaining to your customers that having a gang of scaffolders on site every day regardless of what there is to do is a lovely idea, but if they planned properly (did their job) we might make a proffit and I wouldn't get a shoeing once a month.
Having to deal with site agents who know nothing and have been employed because they are young and cheep, having to deal with clients,site agents who have been on a 2 day scaffold awareness course and are now experts in everything scaffold related, having to deal with members of the public who take exception to you because "this used to be fields before you lot ruined it" calming down clients because your scaffs broke their window/ cracked their paving slabs/ knocked down their wall/ broke their gutter/ abused their teenage daughter.Calming down the manager for one or all of the above.
Having to deal with various excuses as to why the scaffs are not at work , sick,wife's sick, children are sick, someone's died again, ( had that one before) car broke down, missed my lift, over slept, didn't put my clock forward/back, left my tools at home, went to the wrong site all usually occur after the weekend or a major sporting event.
Apart from the above its a doddle.