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Posted: 3/28/2024 7:17:52 AM EDT
Once again, I'm sitting in my truck for 12 hours a day and getting paid that sweet O&G money. I'll be doing this for over a month.
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Can you just drive home and still get paid?
How about sitting on some patio and hanging out with a few cold ones? |
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Make sure to check the CO levels. Recently a person died because they sat in a vehicle for several hours while the engine was running. CO came into the cab and never woke up.
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I'd prefer ot like that vs. getting ready to walk out the door at the end of the day and getting roped into an extra .5-1.5 hours that they might try to send me home early on Friday to make up for.
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Are you in Baltimore waiting for containers?
ETA: Nope. OK... Marcus or Bracken (sp) fields? Never been to either. How's the weather? Post a pic! |
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As long as it is not a government job as I am sure there is a lot of sitting around doing nothing with most government jobs.
Years back I worked for a large manufacturing concern and they laid everyone off but me in my department. I had to pretend to be busy until they transferred new people in and that took a while. It made for long 8 hour shifts. |
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What kind of truck - pickup, class 8,etc? Are you just on standby for emergencies, in a particular area/sector
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Quoted: Where do you take a dump? View Quote
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Quoted: As long as it is not a government job as I am sure there is a lot of sitting around doing nothing with most government jobs. Years back I worked for a large manufacturing concern and they laid everyone off but me in my department. I had to pretend to be busy until they transferred new people in and that took a while. It made for long 8 hour shifts. View Quote I couldn't do that or what the OP is doing. I would quit and find a new job that actually allowed me to work. Also why I could never be a lazy Union puke. |
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So what do you do all day on the do-nothing days?
Watch Netflix, nap, and shitpost? |
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Quoted: I'd prefer ot like that vs. getting ready to walk out the door at the end of the day and getting roped into an extra .5-1.5 hours that they might try to send me home early on Friday to make up for. View Quote Never been more pissed at a boss than when he stopped me I’m my car on a Friday leaving the parking lot to tell me to come in Saturday… |
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Quoted: What kind of truck - pickup, class 8,etc? Are you just on standby for emergencies, in a particular area/sector View Quote See above. Part of this facility's turn around is one of their plant flares. We rigged to our mobile flare/knockout during this so they have something to release to if it's needed. |
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Are you sitting in an ROW on someone’s land? Can you make friends with the landowner and ask to shoot pigs for free?
(My place has a gas pipeline ROW running right through the middle of it up in the Corsicana area. ) |
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Quoted: I couldn't do that or what the OP is doing. I would quit and find a new job that actually allowed me to work. Also why I could never be a lazy Union puke. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: As long as it is not a government job as I am sure there is a lot of sitting around doing nothing with most government jobs. Years back I worked for a large manufacturing concern and they laid everyone off but me in my department. I had to pretend to be busy until they transferred new people in and that took a while. It made for long 8 hour shifts. I couldn't do that or what the OP is doing. I would quit and find a new job that actually allowed me to work. Also why I could never be a lazy Union puke. There are days that we make more than we earn, but there are a lot if days where that's reversed. |
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Quoted: Are you sitting in an ROW on someone’s land? Can you make friends with the landowner and ask to shoot pigs for free? (My place has a gas pipeline ROW running right through the middle of it up in the Corsicana area. ) View Quote Not this time. I'm inside an Iso-Butylene process facility on the Houston ship channel. |
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Quoted: Gross. I hope your real truck is in the shop and they just stuck you in that old one for the day. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 2019 Chevy Silverado 2500 Duramax/Alison crew cab. Gross. I hope your real truck is in the shop and they just stuck you in that old one for the day. I have a 2024 2500 Z71 on order right now. I should get it within the next couple of months. I put 186k on this one, so it's time to replace it. |
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I knew I guy that worked at Halliburton who bragged on Facebook how he was sitting in his truck pulling OT and doing nothing. Guess someone higher up in the company saw his post and he was fired.
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Quoted: I have a 2024 2500 Z71 on order right now. I should get it within the next couple of months. I put 186k on this one, so it's time to replace it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 2019 Chevy Silverado 2500 Duramax/Alison crew cab. Gross. I hope your real truck is in the shop and they just stuck you in that old one for the day. I have a 2024 2500 Z71 on order right now. I should get it within the next couple of months. I put 186k on this one, so it's time to replace it. That's a lot of miles on one with a lot of seat time, anyway. Have you replaced the driver's seat in that one? |
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Quoted: Where do you take a dump? View Quote Edit, OP chimed in. When I worked at the Exxon Refinery in Baytown, us lowly contractors were relegated to port a potties. Fuck Exxon, never buy their products if I can avoid it. |
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Sounds like a good spot to be this time of year. I'm not looking forward to summer though.
IIRC I've used your company for portable flares in the past - always good dudes that showed up and got shit done. |
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