How Many Workers Does It Take?

To Fill A Pothole??

The only way to give an accurate answer, would be to first know if you are talking about civic workers or whether you are talking about the private sector workers who are paying the wages.

You know the old jokes about 'are you working hard, or are you hardly working?'. How it always seems on a civic work site, there is one guy in the hole actually digging, while a half dozen are leaning on shovels, seeing he is doing it right? 

Well, this 'crew' was spotted Friday afternoon, filling a pothole at Wallace and Comox Rd., which must have taken at least a half wheelbarrow of pavement patch.

So, back to the original question about how many people it takes? Well in the public sector world you would need four people, one to push a wheelbarrow, another to carry the shovel and tamp and for sure you need two flag people.

However, in the private sector world, you would need at most two people, one flag person for safety, and one person to put some patch in a wheelbarrow, push the wheelbarrow to the site, empty the wheelbarrow and tamp in the patch. The same person would then be required to push the wheelbarrow and transport the shovels back to the waiting truck.

Of course in the public sector, none of this could not have happened without the support of at least half a dozen administrators toiling away at their desks in front of their computers.