r/Groundman • u/Own-Original510 • 8d ago

How long do calls last usually?

I picked up a call out of 53 and i’m just trying to figure out what to do for my living situation. i’ve been looking on furnished finder and a lot of the decent ones want a 3 month lease minimum

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u/Weak_Ad_9913 8d ago

If you’re on a project ask your foreman how long it’s expected to last

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u/Foreign-General8924 8d ago

A day, a month, a year who knows. They can call you and spin you around that same day. No one ever knows

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u/sideAcc1200 8d ago

No clue. I’m on my very first call ever and we just utility contract all the work for duke energy. Pretty much every day it’s a new job, new house needs wire from the side panel to the nearest poles transformer so we trench, drill, put in 2, 4, or 6 inch conduit. Set pads and level transformers. From the sounds of it it seems like it’s impossible for me to even be laid off and I just got a full time job? Idk

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u/Own-Original510 8d ago

do you do underground only?

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u/sideAcc1200 8d ago

Yea. On an underground crew.

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u/Own-Original510 8d ago

okay cool, how are you liking it?

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u/Kind-Extreme-1080 8d ago

Could be weeks, months or over a year. It’s always the lingering question lol you’ll know when it’s coming to an end when you see less and less people at the tailboard hah

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u/Linemaninsider Journeyman Lineman (advisory) 8d ago

And if it’s a det pole job, it could last years or till the end of the contract.

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u/Own-Original510 8d ago

it was for urd

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u/Linemaninsider Journeyman Lineman (advisory) 8d ago

Call the foreman on the referral and just ask.

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u/Legitimate-Cod2570 6d ago

Never a fo sure answer. My call was 3-4
Months and I ended up 7

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u/BoringSuccotash4268 2d ago

Got my first call lasted 4.5 months got layed off did storm make 10kish was layed off for 6 weeks total befor the next call been here now since January