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Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 01:37 AM
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Pat Goff
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How do these companies ever make a profit? Was at a new site in Portland, we're a year and a half behind schedule, didn't matter to us, everything was paid for, but I do like to have stuff up and running. Just not going to happen today. Last week, site engineer was sending panicked emails, we gotta go, this has got to be up and running, yak yak....We can do our part, is the electrical finished and tested? Yes. All ready. Did you get your fuel delivery? Be here tomorrow. Ok, great see you Monday. Monday....it's raining. Start tomorrow. Ok, fine, we're all seasoned enough to bid the job by the hour, you want to waste time? Nobody is going to complain. Show up this morning, do basic run through, no power. Breakers look fine, everything is turned on, no power. It's a crisis. Call in electricians, yep, no power. They have a meeting. Pull out diagrams. Meet again. It's missing a jumper here. Ok, get it in and let's go. Oh my no, we have to get a work order, then a permit, then put this on the schedule. 5 1/2 hours later, jumper installed, we have power. Ok, start testing and setting up. Somethings wrong, tank is showing empty. Oh yeah it's empty, they're showing up Friday. Arghhh. How can you even function? Amazing. And yet they're shipping polymer. Train loads of it. Amazing again. Convention of electrical experts.
Pat Goff Seadrift TX
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 01:41 AM
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DanDaBald
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Hopefully you are paid by the hour +mileage.
Why are you ranting?
Openings ? Website for applications ?
NEVER FORGET 9/11/2001
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
[Re: Pat Goff]
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04/28/22 01:51 AM
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grandbassslayer
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Looks like they were having their daily tailgate talk or toolbox talk or whatever those stupid safety meetings were called..😆
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 01:53 AM
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ReelBusy
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Pretty sure the USPS could fix this
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
[Re: Pat Goff]
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04/28/22 02:08 AM
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malibu6501
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Too much belly here to rock a coverall.
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 02:08 AM
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Duke 22
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Pretty sure the USPS could fix this
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 02:28 AM
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fishmagnet
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Looks like a TXDOT convention, 5 stupervisors, 2 workers!
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 02:30 AM
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PowerLizard
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Somebody is failing Project Management 101.
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 02:38 AM
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Moto-Moto
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We do a ton of blasting in plants. A lot of oxygen thieves working in them for sure.
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 04:06 AM
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outfishdya
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Were they union? I am gonna guess no. The jumper wouldn't have gotten done same day if union.
Woke up this morning Got yourself a gun....
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 09:44 AM
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Teeners boat
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Sounds like my job, tell the Engineers what is wrong & how to fix it, off to a meeting they run. Fast forward 2 hours......they come up with something brilliant, we laugh, try their brainstorm, epic fail . They run off to another meeting and when they return, it's all fixed and working. They ask what changed, we shrug and say it just started working...carry on. When actually it was a whole lot of magic.
Reality. What a concept!
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 12:32 PM
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Dan21XRS
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Having worked it power plants for the last 25+ years I'm sometimes amazed that when I get home and flip the switch I have lights... A lot of them are held together with duct tape and silicone... Dan
"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood"... Lou Holtz
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
[Re: Pat Goff]
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04/28/22 12:42 PM
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bigrebar
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I had to read that three times before I realized you didn't hate working in pants.
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
[Re: Teeners boat]
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04/28/22 02:21 PM
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the skipper
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Sounds like my job, tell the Engineers what is wrong & how to fix it, off to a meeting they run. Fast forward 2 hours......they come up with something brilliant, we laugh, try their brainstorm, epic fail . They run off to another meeting and when they return, it's all fixed and working. They ask what changed, we shrug and say it just started working...carry on. When actually it was a whole lot of magic. Your creating more problems because now they think they were right. Lol
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Re: Seesh I hate working in plants
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04/28/22 02:27 PM
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Nickbyrd
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I’ve been to that party tooooo many times. And I feel your pain lol I think the one that sticks out to me the most was a site everybody was screaming to get out too . I had trouble finding it and passed it like 6 times before I started making phone calls and finally found it ..... it was a basically a pile of dirt and they were just now getting it leveled out 🤣🤣🤣. More phone calls later the conversation pretty much went “so you want me to hang the doors over by the porta Jon or dozer ?” They didn’t think it was as comical as I did . Sometimes it’s easier to laugh than to choke somebody
Last edited by Nickbyrd; 04/28/22 02:34 PM.
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