we're hiring welders for 2nd shift at around $20/hour. and I'll probably be the underpaid day shift worthless scum that shows you how to do your job.
Things about your co-workers that annoy you
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Where at and what kind of welding? I can arc weld reasonably well, just learning tig aluminum and pretty bad at it
Two staff off for medical reasons, one ****ed off and boarded a plane and left for 2 weeks (without approval), one woman who doesn't help me lift cargo, and one guy off hunting for 48 hours.
Now I have to offload a DC3 cargo plane by myself of 3000 kgs of freight. Without a forklift.
Now I have to offload a DC3 cargo plane by myself of 3000 kgs of freight. Without a forklift.
That's effed up... Sorry man
no TIG. all wire feed (except I run 7018 once and a while because I'm fancy). it's 98% pulse hard wire. Windom, MN. Fast Sprayers. but if I'm training you, it's to leave my stuff alone and to go in the order I do. if you're being hired at that high rate, you should know how to read prints and weld.
autobaun70
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Wow. Reminds me of my boss at my last job. Pretty sure he was bipolar, and had pics of
the CEO screwing a goat.
Heavy equipment shop of about 20 guys, and he would loose his mind if there was a collective 0.2 hours of total overtime for the entire place. He would lie to the entire staff that it was corporate policy, even though half of us had been part of the meetings where the higher ups asked to keep the average below a certain percentage of total revenue, which we were nowhere close to hitting. I made a point to call him out on it once, and passed around printed documentation that this message was not "coming from corporate" and made sure he knew I was the one that was behind it. He got all pissed and blew his lid. I knew I was either quitting, or changing stores, and challenged him to his face to fire me, knowing that if he did it would force him to work much more than he wanted to.
A few months later I quit. Funny thing was that my replacement was fired about a year later, quite literally for following policy. We hired him at my new place immediately, and he is a great guy.
I have a staff member who, whenever I try to talk to her about anything such as time reporting, errors, etc, she tries to to call me out on why her coworkers are not being talked to. Every time I have to tell her that it's not her business. And anything less than a perfect review results in an hour and a half long conversation about why its not. There's also plenty of crying and snot during these exchanges.
I've got one of these. She keeps a notebook about what everyone else has done. When I call her out for something (usually for coming in late, leaving early, and excessive breaks) the notebook comes out with names and dates of other people who did similar stuff. Its infuriating. I tell her that we're talking about her actions, not everyone else's. She just doesn't get it.
Just let em post. We'll turn them all into "Please Delete" style threads.
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TheCADJockey
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The people in this establishment that like to stand in the tight spaces, chatting, completely oblivious to the fact that they are blocking the only way through the building and worse... act like they belong there and disregard you walking towards them and move eventually, at their leisure. This is also the reason I do not visit malls. I hate people that do not pay attention more than anything.
If treating this place like its a restaurant when I'm getting **** done and screaming "BEHIND" when I come through is what it will take, so be it.
If treating this place like its a restaurant when I'm getting **** done and screaming "BEHIND" when I come through is what it will take, so be it.
Mismost
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The guy that had three weeks to accomplish a time sensitive task and starts on the due day. Then calls me to call the customer and ask for yet more time....He is the Sales Service Manager....the guy who neither sells or services. How do they make up these titles?
hunter_le five
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There are times that being large-framed comes in quite handy. I'm 6'0", 320 lbs. People in this office do not stand in my way.
Coworkers that have no respect for other people's equipment.
I used to be 100% office based, but a shake up a little over a year ago put me in the position I originally interviewed for (over a decade ago), which is split between office and field -- during the summer, I might go two weeks without setting foot in the office. But I'm not a full-time field tech, so when I'm in the office my equipment gets loaned out to the summer interns. Our GPS recievers use a position correction system that requires an internet connection, so each field tech has a cellular wifi device we carry with us in the field. The last I *know*, (since stuff often gets borrowed without me being told about it), mine was used a week and a half or two weeks ago by an intern... and nobody can find it today. There is a REASON I keep the chargers for my equipment at my desk, and not back in the survey room with all the other stuff -- and if we find this device or replace it, I will institute a strict, "If you remove it from my desk, you put it BACK on my desk before you go home" policy.
Oh, and I got a BRAND-NEW data collector ($3,000+ piece of hardware) three months ago. I've had it in the field a half dozen times. I take care of my equipment, it still looked brand new. It went out with another tech TWO DAYS and looks like he drug it behind him going down the road.
I used to be 100% office based, but a shake up a little over a year ago put me in the position I originally interviewed for (over a decade ago), which is split between office and field -- during the summer, I might go two weeks without setting foot in the office. But I'm not a full-time field tech, so when I'm in the office my equipment gets loaned out to the summer interns. Our GPS recievers use a position correction system that requires an internet connection, so each field tech has a cellular wifi device we carry with us in the field. The last I *know*, (since stuff often gets borrowed without me being told about it), mine was used a week and a half or two weeks ago by an intern... and nobody can find it today. There is a REASON I keep the chargers for my equipment at my desk, and not back in the survey room with all the other stuff -- and if we find this device or replace it, I will institute a strict, "If you remove it from my desk, you put it BACK on my desk before you go home" policy.
Oh, and I got a BRAND-NEW data collector ($3,000+ piece of hardware) three months ago. I've had it in the field a half dozen times. I take care of my equipment, it still looked brand new. It went out with another tech TWO DAYS and looks like he drug it behind him going down the road.
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No, just scream "ON YOUR LEFT!" and push through. Their fault for not following the rules of "on your left."
Its a PITA to deal with yes, but that is likely a product of coming from a bad work situation where such a thing is required. My boss lies to my face about things, so without a work diary, emails, paper trail of some sort, it's my word against his and I lose that battle every time. Keeping some sort of protection against a bad supervisor is just smart imo, but it shouldn't be used as a shield against their own inadequacies either.
I'm no perfect employee, and I'll fess up if I eff up, but sometimes the employees have to hold a supervisor accountable if he/she has free reign and no oversight and a god complex.
Or don't say anything at all, drop a shoulder, and plow on through. They'll get the hint soon enough.
Or rack up a fortune trying to get the coffee stains out of their shirts.
TheCADJockey
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Sometimes, especially if they are one of the kids from basic assembly, I'll just stand behind them until they go to move and inevitably turn around and slam into me. Then I just glare and keep walking.
They should be at their station, doing work anyway.
GrogNerd
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the Navy's term to get out of the way is "MAKE A HOLE!"
unless - and this is the explicit exception - there are females present
unless - and this is the explicit exception - there are females present
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Ugh, my last boss was retired Navy.
I think I heard "MAKE A HOLE AND MAKE IT WIDE" about 3 times a day for 7.5 years.
GrogNerd
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I used to have a written list of terms I would never use again. ones like **navy term for bathroom**, **navy term for floor**, **navy term for wall**, **navy term for kitchen**
"MAKE A HOLE!" is one I guess I still use, if someone is blocking the **navy term for hallway**
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Yeah... he'd also tell me "Bravo Zulu" whenever something I did was deemed satisfactory.
I think he thought he was still in the Navy. Might have been the flat top.
GrogNerd
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I still use BZ, but keep it confined to the veterans' facebook groups I'm a part of
Rhumbline
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"Secure the morale"
"Aweigh the morale suppression team aye, Sir"
"Aweigh the morale suppression team aye, Sir"
they all listen to grunge.
