What made you feel good today?

[.:4:.]

It always sucks working Saturdays but today was not bad considering the deadline of the job I was on today. So the job wasnt difficult as such but there was just a lot of work to get done. Typically for a work load like that I'd be thrown an apprentice or 2 and slug it out for 12 hours only to spend a further 3 hours fixing up mistakes at the end, but not today. So today the other leading hand from my team was in, the leading hand from the company's other team was in, and also their gun tradesman. It's been a long time since I have worked on a site with a semi unrealistic deadline where all people take charge and with 1 set of plans there is no questions and no mistakes. The odd whaddya reckon on occasion but not any explanation of how to get things done. It was also good to catch up with 2 guys from the other team at lunch. The gun tradesman doesn't know much English so on breaks you have to explain colloquialisms which is fine, but on site even if he doesn't fully understand what you say, he fully understands electrical work so he just gets things done. That's the only reason he isnt bumped up to the leading hand role. Language barrier. But he is working on that. For a solid days work even with the extra hour on top it feels good on occasion to go home knowing that a quality job has been done within a tight time frame and I know everything is faultless. Well on our part anyways. But as not to be unexpected the plans were being changed as we were leaving so there may be some minor teething issues come Monday morning, but as of 3:30 today the original plan was executed brilliantly. Just working with a few people and no one was a wet blanket having to work a Saturday and over 8 hours bumps up my morale. Typically even if people want the extra pay they still drag you down doing weekend work. But today was a morale booster even though I'm not looking for extra hours. Its helped by the fact I had good blokes as help and guys who know their business.