NWI INGO General Post - Part 22 - Racoon Pets, Sadclowns Kids, and golf carts

[Snapdragon]

OMG.

I can smell that thing from here.

I did see a rollator in one of the pictures, so it may have "old people smell".

 

[GRAVES219]

OMG.

I can smell that thing from here.

smells like my childhood

 

[jedi]

Smell or no smell one starts at the bottom after the D. It's the pits for a while but we'll worth it.

 

[actaeon277]

I've never operated a piece of machinery as crappy as an EOT crane, I swear. If cars had the seconds long input delays that these things have, the interstate would be a bloodbath

Well, cars aren't lifting hundreds of tons.

Also, could be the crane is broke, and no one knows how to fix it.
You know, since they got rid of the apprenticeship 20 years ago, and called a learner a "rated".
Then put the rated with a senior guy.
Then after a while, they started working the learner by himself, because he's "rated".
Now those guys are senior, and teaching the new guys, even though they didn't learn stuff.

Snowball effect.

In the last month before I left, I went off on an area manager.
He was griping about having only ONE trained, and 4 new people.
So I YELLED that HE was the one who determined he had enough people, and DIDN'T put a new guy into the shop to learn stuff.
So when he forced so much overtime, after a while those old guys left, increasing the overtime, until only 1 guy is left. And now, he can do ALMOST anything he wants, cause other wise the shop shuts down and they look to fire a manager.

 

[actaeon277]

Hey, now. Please support my bread and butter.

Sorry, that's a bridge too far.

 

[actaeon277]

Well, cars aren't lifting hundreds of tons.

Also, could be the crane is broke, and no one knows how to fix it.
You know, since they got rid of the apprenticeship 20 years ago, and called a learner a "rated".
Then put the rated with a senior guy.
Then after a while, they started working the learner by himself, because he's "rated".
Now those guys are senior, and teaching the new guys, even though they didn't learn stuff.

Snowball effect.

In the last month before I left, I went off on an area manager.
He was griping about having only ONE trained, and 4 new people.
So I YELLED that HE was the one who determined he had enough people, and DIDN'T put a new guy into the shop to learn stuff.
So when he forced so much overtime, after a while those old guys left, increasing the overtime, until only 1 guy is left. And now, he can do ALMOST anything he wants, cause other wise the shop shuts down and they look to fire a manager.

And don't get me started on them trying to send people like me on a crane and say "Well, you're an electrician.".
NO! I'm not.
Electronics is NOT electrician, no matter how many times you say it.
And laying out a training course for me, but then NOT GIVING ME THE CLASS does not help either.

 

[patience0830]

Sorry, that's a bridge too far.

Guess we'll just have to trundle on without you, Act. Hope your day and retirement continue to go well.

 

[tv1217]

Well, cars aren't lifting hundreds of tons.(1)

Also, could be the crane is broke(2) and no one knows how to fix it(3)

1)True
2) Unfortunately it's working as it's supposed to. The fancy new "drives" they put in the cranes over here are supposed to make them better but the only crane worth a damn is the one they didn't put them in. You can't plug them at all. I could have preferenced that one but I chose being able to actually see ****.
3) Some of those crane repair guys, I tell ya hwat... Some are good but some of them couldn't fix breakfast with the cereal box, milk and bowl sitting right in front of them. There were a set who didn't know how to change a broken tong cable. Our team lead had to show them how.

 

[actaeon277]

1)True
2) Unfortunately it's working as it's supposed to. The fancy new "drives" they put in the cranes over here are supposed to make them better but the only crane worth a damn is the one they didn't put them in. You can't plug them at all. I could have preferenced that one but I chose being able to actually see ****.
3) Some of those crane repair guys, I tell ya hwat... Some are good but some of them couldn't fix breakfast with the cereal box, milk and bowl sitting right in front of them. There were a set who didn't know how to change a broken tong cable. Our team lead had to show them how.

MOre things will be converted to drives, because the old DC stuff gets harder and harder to get.
Before, they just threw more money at it, but now, not even money helps.

And as they install the drives, they DON'T train the crew on how to work on them.
They figure, the men will "figure it out."
Management figures, that worked for a 100 years. Not realizing we're not working on simple systems anymore.
You're working on something as complicated as the space shuttle, and asking a random person of the street to figure it out.

 

[chef larry]

Smell or no smell one starts at the bottom after the D. It's the pits for a while but we'll worth it.

Only makes one stronger with time and friends.

 

[CTC B4Z]

Ah. The D...

Yes that's still on my list...

I have yet to cross off anything on the basic life list


Marriage
Bankruptcy
Divorce
Illegitimate Child
Child by mistake

 

[CTC B4Z]

What else does everybody do by age 33 thats a major **** up?

 

[CTC B4Z]

Still have plenty of time

 

[jedi]

Still have plenty of time to .....

Oh jedi wants to finish that sentence so badly but jedi won't be that bad.

 

[Bill2905]

Smell or no smell one starts at the bottom after the D. It's the pits for a while but we'll worth it.

I can attest to that statement. Life will get much better with time.

 

[Bill2905]

What else does everybody do by age 33 thats a major **** up?

A felony conviction

 

[CTC B4Z]

A felony conviction

Ah yup. Good one.

Never had cuffs on

 

[radar8756]

Never had cuffs on

Never ??

 

[CTC B4Z]

Never ??

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No.

I've put them on though.

 

[actaeon277]

What else does everybody do by age 33 thats a major **** up?

Significantly exceed the start up rate in the Intermediate Range on an S5W reactor because you forgot you weren't on a S8G.