Journeymen… Foremen… General Foremen… Storm work is where truth shows up uninvited. Not in meetings. Not in policies. Not in after-action reports. In the dark. In the wind. In the fatigue. At the moment, someone trusts your call with their life. Storms do not care how experienced you are. They do not care how confident you sound. They do not care what you meant to do. They expose what you allowed... And right now … too many leaders are allowing gambling disguised as tradition. Journeymen … Your Hands Are the Last Gate The moment you topped out, excuses expired. You don’t get to assume. You don’t get to rely on memory. You don’t get to say “we already checked it” and move on. ET&D Best Practices exist because people died doing exactly that. You test. You verify. You confirm the absence of voltage using layers. A Personal Voltage Detector is one of those layers. If you’re not wearing one on storm work, that’s not confidence. That’s negligence wrapped in ego. And when something goes wrong … it won’t just be on you. Foremen … What You Tolerate Could Kill Someone Stop pretending this is about personal choice. Storms are not the place for optional discipline. If your crew isn’t running PVDs, that’s not a crew issue. That’s your standard … or lack of one. You don’t need another briefing. You don’t need another reminder. You need the backbone to enforce what already exists. Your people will follow what you enforce … not what you say. Every shortcut you ignore becomes permission. Every eye you turn away becomes policy. Storms don’t forgive soft leadership. General Foremen … You Own the Outcome This doesn’t stop below you. You decide what tools are normal. You decide what’s enforced and what’s optional. You decide whether layers are expected … or debated. If PVDs aren’t baked into your storm response, that is a leadership choice. And leadership choices have consequences. ET&D Best Practices talk about defense in depth because storms remove the margin completely.

I mentioned yesterday in another post, that I'd share part of my EB&G Module. There are multiple pages, appendices, math, and explanations of the physics behind EB&G. More than I can share here in a single post. So here is the Introduction and a small example of the content there. I've also included a link at the bottom to the full Instructional Guide. INTRODUCTION — READ THIS BEFORE YOU TOUCH A SINGLE GROUND This guide isn’t about checkboxes, compliance, or the watered-down version of grounding most of this trade grew up with. This is the real thing — the physics, the math, and the Brotherhood-level discipline behind Equipotential Bonding & Grounding (EB&G) and Equipotential Zones (EPZs). Most linemen were taught what to do, not why it works. And when you don’t know the why, you end up relying on habit, luck, or whatever the old-timer before you believed. That’s not good enough anymore. Not in a trade where one wrong assumption can kill you faster than you can blink. This instructional guide gives you the truth — the science underneath the clamps, the equations underneath the current flow, and the principles underneath the Brotherhood’s approach to keeping each other alive. If you understand this guide, you’re not just following grounding procedures… you’re engineering survival with every bond you make. https://www.skool.com/lineman-bullshit/classroom/11154309?md=2f1d6fe97ad64aa887632ac8b3f2879e

I have noticed a trend I am sure you all have noticed or witnessed firsthand as well. The progression to management. We all bitch and moan about the management quality pretty much everywhere, but nobody wants to take the leap and be the change they hope to see. What does this mean for us? As a management role leader now, I see it firsthand. When no one with the skills and the experience want to leave the field and be that change, companies continually rely more and more on DEI, putting know-nothings in positions or leadership and decision making. We all know how that ends, and it is becoming more and more common. How do we drive the change to turn this tide and make management more appealing for the field, so we can start progressing? We all love the trade, but this trend is leading to severe consequences and long-term pain for all. Share your thoughts.