The strangest thing that's ever happened to me at work?
Driving a boat.
My name’s Andrea Baldrocco, I’m 40 years old,
married and I have a two-year-old daughter.
I’ve been a Blue Team leader since January 2022,
it’s a leadership role at the operational level.
It’s something new,
but with my team’s help
I’m able to do everything I need to get done during my working day.
There are 17 of us and they’re all really good guys.
Have a good day, speak to you later, bye.
I come here every morning,
this is the first thing I check: the fault management,
I also look to see if there were any faults or outages during the night.
And to see if they’ve been repaired
or if another team needs to take a look.
This afternoon we’ll go and have a look at the substation at the Palazzo Ducale,
it’s in this area here, which is in the district of San Marco,
and we’ll get there by boat.
Being a Venetian,
working on my city gives me a great sense of pride
because it’s completely unique,
there’s nowhere else like it in the world,
because we mainly use boats
to get around and then, to do the work,
we use a cart for the equipment and materials.
My passion comes from the satisfaction
of keeping such a unique city alive
because I’ve always felt this way:
I was working, I was tired,
but I was always happy because it gives you satisfaction.
You can say: I did that.
I feel like it's mine, in the sense that it's my responsibility,
but with the help of the team,
by working well together,
doing my job is actually easy.
This is the future in terms of innovation,
because if you think about the fact that it takes time
to get here by boat,
we can now intervene remotely, practically immediately,
this is technological innovation:
a smart substation.