LOL. I tend to find (and am guilty myself), that when relating a tale to others, exagerations will creep into the story to give it more 'impact'. For example Snadge, you must have had to have been watching the 'Skiving engineer' at the exact time he lay down, and made a mental note of this time. You will have then had to watch him constantly for the full 3 hrs to verify the story. If you didn't, he could have actually got up and performed some kind of task, before "Lying back down", again ??
So before we all go reporting an engineer, lets disect the probabilities. Most stories are 'enhanced' by 25-50% to make it sound more interesting. Also, the engineer is allowed a 40-50min lunch break that he can really take at anytime, so long as it's not more than 6 hours after he has 'signed on' for the day. Added to this, I can tell you now in all honesty, performing a 'Lift & Shift' (ie-new FTTC equipment provided), can take up to 2hrs to complete. If the first L&S fails, we have to go back through the whole process again, and there's nothing we can do but sit and wait until we get the call back with the new equipment. Now, I don't know if Snadge has a FTTC across from his house, but thought it worth mentioning for clarity purposes.
Don't get me wrong, we
all enjoy an unofficial break from time-to-time, but lets not get ahead of ourselves on this one. He could even have been talking to his boss and having his 1-1 conducted over the phone. These can take bloody ages to complete !!!
No, I think if anything, we should all ring Newcastle Police Station and report Paul (Snadge) for being a nosey-parker.
Only joking mucker.