dave And if you tell that to kids today, they won't believe you.
That was the primary reason we lost so many new hires, I would get a new hire to train, we drive to the job and he gets to carry the extension ladder through the weeds and all of the crap in folks back yards, after a few days of sweating his butt off in the Florida sun they would just walk away from the job.
Kind of foolish, the job paid well and in the over 100 year history of the phone company no one ever died from working too hard.
If a tech paced themself and didn't FO a lot he could be done for the day at 3 and then go disappear in a park somewhere.
As lest when I was there, now with GPS tracking in the truck and the company phone things have changed and not for the better.
Which is one of the reasons I took some advice from my Second Lever and did a lateral over to Wireless, it was a lot more laid back and hadn't gotten around to so much tracking, they major difference was we where not represented as we where considered management and the Union couldn't organize management.