Real-Life Communication
As the foreman of a moving crew, you are responsible for filling
out time sheets for each day. The time sheets state the number of hours worked
by each crewmember and also state what was done and make general comments
or notes about anything that went wrong.
You and your five-member team
are moving a submarine that has been stored in dry dock. Your crew must jack
the vessel up in the air, insert dollies or wheels underneath, then drive
it to a barge where it will go the rest of its voyage by water.
Since
city bylaws restrict the times that you can haul the submarine on city streets,
you are compelled to do the move to the barge between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Once
the sub is at the barge, you cannot load or move the barge until high tide,
which is scheduled to occur at 10 a.m. today. The barge trip will take about
an hour. At the destination, the crew must unload the sub and move it over
a concrete foundation.
You decide that the move must be stretched over
two days. On day one, you bring the crew in at 2 a.m., and they work until
2 p.m., at which time the barge carrying the submarine has reached its destination.
The next day, you and the crew go back at 8 a.m., unload the sub, and put
it on its foundation. This takes until 3 p.m.
Fill out the time sheets
and reports for the two days that your crew was involved in moving this submarine.
Include yourself and five crewmembers.