On Nov 13, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Matthew and Julie Bos wrote:
On 11/10/05 10:55 PM, "Robert Seeberger"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I ought to take some pics of the Remote Box Terminations in some
of the Fire
Alarm Boxes. The Fire Alarm company did the terminations
themselves thinking
that we were not as qualified as they were. Their work looks like
hammered
shit in comparison to our work and now everyone can plainly see
why we get
paid as much as we do.
I liked the pictures, very cool stuff. I used to work in a special
automated machine company, so I know how much effort goes into
something
like that. Those people were absolutely incredible in the
neatness. Their
near obsessive compulsive disorder wiring skills resulted in
control panels
that made grown men cry. I don't think they could have been as
fast as they
were without being so neat.
They weren't union, but most of them had journeyman cards from
previous
jobs. But then again, we paid them more than union wage to keep them
around.
The guys who wired Lucas Ranch and parts of Apple TV weren't union,
either. And I certainly wasn't in a union when I did the rest of
Apple TV (and re-did the work that the guys who wired Lucas Ranch
did: all the inputs and outputs for a 64x64 video routing matrix).
That said, somewhere around here I still have my card from when I
*was* a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employee and Motion Picture Machine Operators (IATSE)/Television
Studio Broadcast Engineers Local 620.
Dave
... And I Vote Maru
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