NWI INGO General Post Part 20 - Raccons 4 Life!

[Bill2905]

Well, the Caster is short 10 millwrights and 1-2 systems repairmen.
All the OT you want, and then some more.

Do you think they intentionally run short handed or is it more a matter of not being able to hire enough replacements to keep up with attrition?

 

[Doug28450]

Do you think they intentionally run short handed or is it more a matter of not being able to hire enough replacements to keep up with attrition?

Intentionally run short handed. The cost is less to pay overtime than it is to hire additional people due to a variety of reasons including training, but mostly benefits. The overtime employee is already getting benefits more employees means paying more benefits.

 

[Doug28450]

1363 Hobart residents are currently without electricity.

@jedi probably turned his pet raccoons loose in a substation.

 

[jedi]

1363 Hobart residents are currently without electricity.

@jedi probably turned his pet raccoons loose in a substation.

Mmmuuhhhaaaaaaa

Nah... hobart is north of us30.
But it is fffaaarrr.

 

[Doug28450]

Mmmuuhhhaaaaaaa

Nah... hobart is north of us30.
But it is fffaaarrr.

Most of Hobart is north of US30. We do have the pesky mall that is about to become a vacant lot.

 

[jedi]

Most of Hobart is north of US30. We do have the pesky mall that is about to become a vacant lot.

Blues Brothers 2022?

 

[Doug28450]

Blues Brothers 2022?

You just sent ctc into a frenzy with the boomer reference.

 

[Snapdragon]

All is right with the world now. Took the plate off my RAV4 when I sold it and put it away so good that I couldn't find it. Found it in one of the garage cabinets.

 

[Snapdragon]

You just sent ctc into a frenzy with the boomer reference.

Nah, he can't hear you from the back bar parking lot.

 

[Doug28450]

Nah, he can't hear you from the back bar parking lot.

Forgot he was enjoying some quality lot lizard time.

 

[CheeseRat]

Don't play near liquid steel.
Getting rid of the body is not a problem.


Damn it.
When I retire I lose my ability to get rid of bodies.

Stay connected on here and stock up on ammo for bartering...

 

[CheeseRat]

You may want to reconsider that.
Any increase in earnings messes with the child support calculations. Overtime really complicates this since it's not a steady amount.

And with the courts involved they will either slap you with say "xyz" of OT assumed per check or worse will ask that every quarter those OT hours be recalculated and you will see quarterly adjustments for thr OT for the child support. So every quarter you will get a nice "bill" from the courts for back payments due.

Even if you pay them on time they appear as back child support and causes chaos on paperwork.

This could go either way. Overtime is not guaranteed. My lawyer didn't get me into a spot with an adjustable payment with incentive or overtime. I know someone who did and it was bad. Mine stayed steady, after about 6-7 years though, I did get taken back to court every year for the next 4 or 5 years. I would get a letter every July twenty somethingth. Never was adjusted. Partially cause of...... Lets just say keep copies of all correspondences...

 

[actaeon277]

if you change your mind.

At least they gave YOU that option.
On this side they played a dirty trick on our staff.

They give us the option, because they don't have enough people already.
So people are tired of the OT and leaving.
Which causes more OT.
Which causes more people to leave.

Every small thing that happens, is now causing large disruptions.

 

[actaeon277]

Do you think they intentionally run short handed or is it more a matter of not being able to hire enough replacements to keep up with attrition?

They intentionally ran with minimum crews, to make more money.
It was a great plan.
Until people retired or got hurt.
Add in the people that randomly call off for FMLA, usually on their last day of their week.

So, as an example, when I left the BOP shop, there were 4 other senior sys-rep.
They put in another experienced/qualified sys-rep, who just had to learn the shop, and how it operates. It's one thing knowing how to program and replace a modern instrument.
It's another to look at a system of 1000 instruments, and diagnose which one is REALLY wrong.

Anyway, the OT was high, so one of the guys got fed up, and left.
Well, now they had 4 shifts. 2 were senior experienced. 1 was senior, but not experienced in the shop.
This continued until now. They have 1 senior experienced guy left.
The senior guy learning the shop, is retiring.
They have THREE TRAINEES.
The trainees are on THEIR OWN. No one to teach them.

Does that sound like a recipe for disaster?

So now.. simple problems require multiple bosses to show up and stand around.
Then they call my shop, to send over their one tech that's out.
But now he's not covering his own area.
So while he's working with a trainee outside his own area, something happens, and both shops go down.
Millions of lost production (or at least $100,000 per hour minimum). If the steel is the right grade, they now lose $1 million per hour.
Caster has a minimum two hour turn around time.
It's a CONTINUOUS Caster. Not meant to go up and down. Just to continuously cast.

So now they've put themselves where even if they bring in 20 new people, the new people have to learn. And no one really to show them.

And that's just for systems repair.
It's the same for millrights and motor inspectors.

And... even bosses.
My boss looks like he's ready to quit, or die. He's the ONLY boss there. Other than a paperwork weinie that they've made start going out on the floor. But doesn't know the operation.
And they have two employees, acting a team leaders.
But they are still employees. Can't make a schedule. Can't pay anyone. Can't authorize anything.

 

[jedi]

I have two home depot gift cards that I would like to part with as home depot is no longer carrying the Ariens brand of snow blowers so I can't buy the model I want from them.

Gift card 1 = $100
Gift card 2 = $990.94

Any takers?

 

[actaeon277]

Reminds me of a process engineer years ago demanding that I discipline some of my guys for missing an alarm that was active 90% of the time on any given day. He wasn't the cause of the crappy alarm configurations, just frustrated with it like the operators. We used the same alarm panel to indicate both nuisance process alarms and the serious alarms that tell you something really bad is brewing. We went on a crusade to stamp out alarm saturation and actually had some success once I got the right people working on it.

Oh. And this wasn't a nuisance alarm.
This would be like your sump alarm never going off.
And then it does.
And the alarm goes of for 9 hours.
And you ignore it.
Then, finally wonder why everything in the house is unpowered.
And you find out your basement is flooded up to the stairs.
Including your circuit breaker box.

 

[d.kaufman]

I have two home depot gift cards that I would like to part with as home depot is no longer carrying the Ariens brand of snow blowers so I can't buy the model I want from them.

Gift card 1 = $100
Gift card 2 = $990.94

Any takers?

Sure. I'll trade ya a raccoon in a tutu for them

 

[1775usmarine]

You may want to reconsider that.
Any increase in earnings messes with the child support calculations. Overtime really complicates this since it's not a steady amount.

And with the courts involved they will either slap you with say "xyz" of OT assumed per check or worse will ask that every quarter those OT hours be recalculated and you will see quarterly adjustments for thr OT for the child support. So every quarter you will get a nice "bill" from the courts for back payments due.

Even if you pay them on time they appear as back child support and causes chaos on paperwork.

I plan on making her agree to my 40hr schedule. I have all the chips to make her barter if she wants to get her grubby hands on my mutual funds.

 

[jedi]

I plan on making her agree to my 40hr schedule. I have all the chips to make her barter if she wants to get her grubby hands on my mutual funds.

Young Palawan this is why you will fail.
You keep thinking in terms of "my", "mine", etc.. Trust me let go of the hate or it will eat you.

Everything gets cut in half. Be nice, don't yell and if you have an atty let him/her do all the talking. That is what you are paying them for. You just stfu and nod.

 

[Ballstater98]

Gelsosomo's pizza and Guiness after the kid's practice. Always hits the spot!