Sorry friends, I have not been able to post anything from quite a long time. Actually i would say i was a victim of mismanagement.
My office timings had been increased, and including commuting time, I spent almost 13 hrs daily, that 6 days a week made almost 78 hrs a week.
The management of my company had decided to extend the work time so that the engineers can spend more time on the site. According to them, this will help increase the project speed and hence meet the project deadline.
Now why i call this a mismanagement is that the management of this company which hardly comes to the job area, has, i think, not looked into the real problem for the delay.
The reason the delays are occurring is not lack of engineers on site, but lack of labours. So if they dont increase the workers, what the hell is going to happen by making engineers to stay more (i m not saying work more, coz the work is hardly of 5 hrs a day).
In fact the engineers are in excess. Can u imagine what is the ratio of engineers to workers (the term engineers here include managers, engineers, contractors, supervisors.... infact all those who dont do the work but monitor the work...)
Once i went for a safety meeting of an area. All the people related to that area were present. Mechanical team, civil team, electrical team, safety team, contractors and of course the most important workers. The crowd consisted of around 40 people and only 5-6 of the where workers.
That means 7-8 engineers per worker.... that means, 1 person works and rest (mis) guide him. What happens most of the time is the workers sit idle because the so called guides keep fighting amongst themselves on the way to do the work... and of course the blame game...
Infact I have found that most of the work is carried out during after hours, when only engineers and 2-3 contractors are present on the whole site. It seems that less engineers cause less disturbance to the workers and more efficient work.
That means 7-8 engineers per worker.... that means, 1 person works and rest (mis) guide him. What happens most of the time is the workers sit idle because the so called guides keep fighting amongst themselves on the way to do the work... and of course the blame game...
Infact I have found that most of the work is carried out during after hours, when only engineers and 2-3 contractors are present on the whole site. It seems that less engineers cause less disturbance to the workers and more efficient work.
That means, if the engineers time is increased, the project may decrease instead of increasing....
