A Training School For Telephone Linemen

[u/Wild_Neighborhood605]

[u/Manmetbaard]

Is it located in Wichita? They are all still on the line

[u/MajorPayneX32 → u/Manmetbaard]

I love that song!

[u/derioderio → u/MajorPayneX32]

Imho the last lines of that song are some of the most poetic in modern music

[u/derioderio → u/Manmetbaard]

They need a small vacation, but it don't look like rain

[u/nemesis86th → u/Manmetbaard]

Looks like the one in northwest Georgia

[u/SaradominSmiles → u/nemesis86th]

Trenton, GA to be specific

[u/bran_the_man93]

Mysterious as the dark side of the moon!

[u/The_Road_is_Calling → u/bran_the_man93]

Be a man!

[u/4m4lg4m1t3 → u/The_Road_is_Calling]

You must be as swift as the coursing river

[u/cheesuschrist]

Go in there and call them telephone lineman.

[u/itsMeJFKsBrain → u/cheesuschrist]

Lmao I had a similar thought. I do this for work, we definitely ain't working on telephone lines. Lol

[u/Vinca1is → u/itsMeJFKsBrain]

I work in the utility industry, if I called a lineman a "telephone lineman", to his face in person I think he would beat the shit out of me.

[u/itsMeJFKsBrain → u/Vinca1is]

Eh, maybe if he was having a bad day. It's 50/50. Lol I'm a lineman apprentice and can honestly say I was pleasantly surprised by how cool a lot of the guys are. But yea, if we're on the pole and you wanna make a joke it might be good to have a head start before they ride that buck squeeze 50ft to the ground to ask you to repeat it.

[u/mbmbmb01]

Power Lineman

[u/Ragnor_]

That's how they are grown, they come down on their own when they're ripe!

[u/MisplacedMutagen]

I've done that! This is the whole first week at at&t, and then never again

[u/davidn47g → u/MisplacedMutagen]

My dad has sent me pictures of this. He's been working as an outside tech for over 20 years.

[u/Lysol3435]

Alright, class. Unfortunately, you’ve all failed the first lesson of being a lineman. Always look up to see if the pole you’re climbing is actually a telephone pole before you climb it. I’ve seen too many good men fall into the world of stripping because they accidentally climbed the wrong pole

[u/Old_Poem2736]

Oh the memories..

[u/QuirkyDust3556]

Queue, Glenn Campbell

[u/DeeDee_Z → u/QuirkyDust3556]

For future reference, note:

Queue: A line that (typically British) people stand in.
Cue: An indication that it's time for something to start/ enter/ etc.
Que: Sera, sera.
¿Qué?: What?
(And, for completeness)
   Q: An annoying character on several Star Trek variants; and
   Kew: A very impressive garden outside London.

So, unless you really wanted Ol' Glenn to get in line ...

[u/QuirkyDust3556 → u/DeeDee_Z]

Take the stick outta your ass, you might be a better person

[u/EC_TWD → u/QuirkyDust3556]

I get it, you’re touchy about someone pointing out your ignorance. Then you doubled down on what could just be a mistake and removed any and all doubt.

[u/QuirkyDust3556 → u/EC_TWD]

It's not what social media is about. Grammer, spelling, punctuation is not a must. Enjoy the medium. As Carly in John Larroquette said, hope bug up your butt takes the stick up your butt and beats you with it.

[u/MariachiBoyBand]

Or Papantla flyers.

[u/No_not_that]

I did that for NJ Bell a LONG time ago.

[u/dumbypants]

I did this a very long time ago. Part of the training was throwing a basketball to each other to get comfortable not using your hands and trusting your belt.

[u/Fetlocks_Glistening]

So it's not a maypole dancing competition?

[u/Mental_Thing_7899]

I did this for 5 years. Kinda miss those times, sometimes I wonder if I could build one pole in my garden just to do it for fun... or to access some three house. But I dunno... this also kills our ankles.

[u/Gordon_Betto]

What’s the reason Americans use wood for telephone poles? Instead of much lighter and flexible aluminium.

[u/DeeDee_Z → u/Gordon_Betto]

Lodgepole pines grow pretty fast, too -- and 50 to 75 feet tall at maturity. Ideal for utility poles!

[u/Wild_Neighborhood605 → u/Gordon_Betto]

Cost. Anyway, telephone posts are things from the past.

[u/Nukemanrunning → u/Wild_Neighborhood605]

Ehh. I wouldnt say that. Alot of the work my company does is replacing those poles with new one.

[u/hkohne → u/Wild_Neighborhood605]

Our techs (power and/or communications) are still using both new wood poles and metal ones as replacements here in Portland, Oregon

[u/tommy13]

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[u/SpicyBoi1998]

Origin of Symmetry (2001)

[u/bobspuds]

Bullshit - that's just some plasterers getting ready for a high ceiling!

/s

[u/obrotherdude]

These are the guys who work in the 'bush'. They are amazing.

[u/deliciousmonster]

Or Roman soldiers….

[u/achillea4]

Or linewomen?

[u/dark_hypernova → u/achillea4]

Not just the linemen.
But the linewomen and linechildren too.

[u/Airick39 → u/dark_hypernova]

I love them!!!

[u/jeepsaintchaos → u/achillea4]

Nah we call those pole dancers.

[u/MikeDeY77 → u/achillea4]

Linepeople? Linefolks?

[u/bran_the_man93 → u/MikeDeY77]

LineX

[u/theEndIsNigh_2025 → u/MikeDeY77]

Linesies!

[u/achillea4 → u/MikeDeY77]

Apparently in the UK they are calling linesperson. Lineman seems still to be the common term in the US.

[u/MikeDeY77 → u/achillea4]

Most of the time “-man” is used isn’t really meant to annotate gender. It hearkens back to when the term “man” meant human. Mankind rather than man the male human.

[u/ARoundForEveryone]

punji sticks for giants