Nepotism in the industry
TL;DR: Four guys related to eachother at site who get easy assignments despite their tech levels. Wonder how many sites are like this.
I work at a site in USA.
It's pretty large, large enough to have 30 full time technicians, two supervisors, one manager, two warehouse guys and an office Coordinator.
Of that number four are blood relatives. The current acting lead technician is brother to one of the techs. Then, the lead tech has two cousins that also work at the site. In addition there's one more guy who's friends with one of the cousins.
Now if our site was performing great and/or there was a fair split of the workload, I wouldn't bother to post here.
The reason I'm posting however is that our site regularly is at the mid sixties to mid seventies in availability.
These four guys regularly get softball assignments, sit together like some high-school clique and the other techs at site see how ridiculous it is. Many of them don't go the extra mile anymore as they know they'll just get rewarded with more work. These guys will be back at the O&M for hours sitting around talking buy other guys will hang back at their towers as they fear being sent out to another tower by the supervisor who tolerates all this. The result is lower productivity and a demoralized work force.
I've seen father-son and brother-brother duos, but never a whole clan from the same extended family. It's just ridiculous.