-Understand there is no overtime. If you answered the phone for every call you’d get maybe 500 hours of overtime at the end of the year. Management doesn’t care about the crafts. Only thing they want from lineman is to answer the phone outside of work hours. They give all the hours and big projects to contractors. Get used to hauling a backhoe everywhere, glueing conduit togethe, messing with fiber mixed in with primary and secondary boxes, lots of undergrounding. Their switching procedure is clunky. Not very competitive pay or contract for the industry. Doing line work for the PUD is like stepping back 20 years into line work. Trucks are old, and aren’t tooled out all that well. The lineman here deserve more backing and support. Not many opportunities for lineman outside of line department. Your career progression, will be lineman, inspector, serviceman, forman, supervisor (if you fall in line and drink the coolaide).
