Locator Spotlight

[Wingfoot]

Is this one of our members?

The Beginning - Featuring FiberBoy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOoq2WvJaqY&NR=1)

Old School Locating (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THtkvkgPOJY&feature=related)

9:22am The Emergency Call (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Akydi1hqY&feature=related)

12:38pm The Lunch Break (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPsqX5Xnfts&feature=related)
I start my lunch break at 10:30am and wake up much later than 12:38pm........

And my personal favorite:

Safety First (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrbL0agN1y8&feature=related)

[Goldenboy]

The lunch break one made me laugh my a$$ off.

[TheCableVine]

Those are great. I wonder if that person visits the site.

[sprayandpray]

I wonder if he's still employed by UtiliQuest? He reminds me of Ernest

[yahoo]

as usual i can not see anything....you guys will have to tell me about it......

[frostypeters]

Classic stuff.:woot: :clapping: :thumbsup2:

[Goldenboy]

as usual i can not see anything....you guys will have to tell me about it......

Yahoo....When you click on the blue writing does it link you to youtube?

[locator_smbk]

He did these videos near Canton NC. If you look closely at the numbers on the port-a-john, it shows Canton NC.

Either this guy is unlucky enough to really love his job and be obsessed with it, or he filmed it on his last day as a locator and he had a mental meltdown from being a locator and went out with a bang.

Personally, I liked his version of R2D2 and the lunchbreak...."oh...um....I gotta go..." and the puzzled and confused look on his face.

Seriously, if the guy loved his job, he will probably be fired when the top brass from Utilitquest sees his videos and fires him for abuse of company equipment by using the company provided video camera, truck, safety vest and cones.....

I'm finally glad to see some type of locating video on youtube....

[underground quester]

Okay, WING, pretty darned funny stuff...

I wonder if that fine example of a locator was sniffing that NEW MEXICAN water based paint stuff.... OHHH, sorry bout that WING...sore spot I know....

Reading/viewing this late on Sunday night. Woke up my wife in the next room laughing...

[GasMan]

wow.....just wow.

ive done video editing before....he put some serious time into those.

[TBONE]

We all need a little humor in our life this good ol boy hit the spot Loved the Lunch Break :jumpinsmile:

[stormgrey]

I wonder if he's still employed by UtiliQuest? He reminds me of Ernest

LOL EEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

[GasMan]

my source at utili-guess said that the higher ups already knew about this and he was fired yesterday\today. check the links, vids removed by user...lol hes toast!

[underground quester]

my source at utili-guess said that the higher ups already knew about this and he was fired yesterday\today. check the links, vids removed by user...lol hes toast!

Well, that is unfortunate for him if he was an actual employee. His only mistake was using the actual company name. Companies tend to be a weee bit sensitive about that and most prove to have little in the way of a sense of humor. Utili-guess might have been better.

I think back to the lunch break video though and still LMAO!!

[Goldenboy]

Wearing his vest with the Utiliquest logo was a dead giveaway.

It would be very unfortunate to lose your job over. They must be pretty well staffed to fire someone over those videos. I could see a warning and being asked to take the videos down but termination is a bit steep.

[locator_smbk]

Seriously, if the guy loved his job, he will probably be fired when the top brass from Utilitquest sees his videos and fires him for abuse of company equipment by using the company provided video camera, truck, safety vest and cones.....

See, I called it......Perhaps there needs to be more locators doing videos like these.....then we'd all get fired and the locating companies will be forced to hire green locators.....

[TBONE]

Well he asked for it dont put your logo in the video :rules:

[Wingfoot]

It would be very unfortunate to lose your job over. I could see a warning and being asked to take the videos down but termination is a bit steep.
I am saddened over these rumors of FiberBoy getting whacked, and my thread possibly being the catalyst. If true, let this be a lesson for all of us. Be careful of our posts, rants and attacks. It's my opinion that we are monitored by rat bastard snitches on everything we say and do. So let us try, as best as we can, to be on our best behavior. :angelic:

Regardless, FiberBoy - LUV ya Man! Come to Kansas City. We always have a place for an experienced locator!

[TheCableVine]

It never crossed my mind that a person might get fired over that. I think it would be a good moral booster and the guy should have gotten a pat on the back. I'm assuming of course this was done during time-off... like lunch time. Oh well. another one bites the dust.

I hope he joins us and gives us all the details.

Good job on the vids. Loved 'em.

[yahoo]

did the guy really get fired???? what state anyone know?????

[underground quester]

He did these videos near Canton NC. If you look closely at the numbers on the port-a-john, it shows Canton NC.

Seriously, if the guy loved his job, he will probably be fired when the top brass from Utilitquest sees his videos and fires him for abuse of company equipment by using the company provided video camera, truck, safety vest and cones.....

I'm finally glad to see some type of locating video on youtube....



Yahoo: Looks to be CANTON, N. C.

[GasMan]

i subscribed to his youtube page, hopefully they will resurface. i also sent him a message through youtube telling him he is the topic of discussion over here, so maybe he will come over and give us the low-down on what happened.

[GasMan]

..oh yea, his youtube says hendersonville, nc; fyi

[ksm1989]

The guy that posted those videos (my husband) was not fired. He has quit Utiliquest, with notice and under great terms. Utiliquest has been nothing but fair, even giving him his final week off with pay. (they needed his truck). He is working for the City in water/waste-water. This is what he was trained to do and was lucky enough to finally get his foot in the door. The constant go-go of the locating business was crazy. He made those films for fun, its just a hobby.

[ksm1989]

GasMan get over yourself.

[ksm1989]

LOL well staffed, thats a good one

[GasMan]

GasMan get over yourself.

huh? im not sure i follow....explain please.

[ksm1989]

my source at utili-guess said that the higher ups already knew about this and he was fired yesterday\today. check the links, vids removed by user...lol hes toast!

I was responding to this post you had put up. No higher ups knew anything and he is not toast lol

[GasMan]

oh ok, well good. No one wants anyone to get into trouble, because we all enjoyed the videos. The reason i posted this is because an immature utiliquest employee that saw these sent them to Victor, the top boss/cordinator for the charlotte/gastonia office and he was already informed on this matter prior, and Utiliquest was taking actions because it makes the company look bad (which is true, but it would take a complete moron to think it was anything but a funny joke) and then the videos were removed from youtube, if no one knew about it (higher ups) why were they taken down? I really hope he decides to put them back up now, since he left UQ to take a different position with the city. I think i speak on everyone's behalf here when i say that. I personally laughed my butt off at "lunch break"...haha even laughing now.

Out of curiosity, how long did your husband work for UQ? I too worked there and left for another company because I couldnt deal with lies they were feeding me and the empty promises they were making. They also offered to pay me my 2 weeks notice without work, UQ does this because they assume someone who is walking out the door wont have anything to lose if they have a fiber cut, but on their end they could lose thousands of dollars in at fault damages, they offer the 'walking package' as i call, to just about everyone. I stayed and worked and proved to them what kind of employee I am and what they would be losing. anyways, good luck to your husband on his new job, hopefully we will see more posts from you guys on here! :)

[sprayandpray]

GasMan get over yourself.


OOOOOH, someone got thrown under the bus:stars:

[sprayandpray]

GasMan get over yourself.

Oooh! Someone got thrown under the bus!