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Originally Posted by quercus  I fired a guy last year for doing stuff like on the pictures in post nr. 1. He only did that sort of thing when I was not around on the job site, but I was already planning on firing him for being a complete fruitcake as well. He also tipped an aerial platform over a few years ago when he was still working for another company.This I knew but everybody always said that was an accident. After firing him people said the accident was caused by him and it was an act of lunacy as he violently played around with the 22 tonne machine, riding over stems and large piles of branches and so on and so on... |
You have the inexperienced employee who attempt improper techniques. They are vetoed by the boss. Then you have the inexperienced boss (owner operator). He is reticent to use bad or questionable technique for fear that a disaster will happen destroying the reputation of his company and his financial status so he seeks training and is careful. Thus the evolution of a climber. Enter a third classification......the experienced stupid employee. Training and even legislation will not preclude him from having an accident. I think you could search the "Peter Principle". We all suffer from this person in many ways, one of which is massive amounts of PPE and elimination of routine technique (for qualified arborists) that he is destined to abuse by not checking down worst case scenerios.