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Quoted: 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? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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? Nah... I'm not a heavy guy. This truck is actually in really good shape. |
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Quoted: 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. View Quote Well, they're a shitty company to work for. Depending on his job, he may well have been stuck waiting on something. Cement crews pretty regularly get ass time waiting on a rig to finish their casing run, at least up here in the northeast. They show up, run their lines, then wait til the customer tells to they're ready. Could be minutes, could be days. I've seen both. |
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My BiL years back worked in the local county jail. Some company was building a giant NG pipeline in the county and they contracted the county sheriff to guard the parking lot where their equipment was at night or weekends.
My BiL sat in a sheriff's car all night making $30/hrs or whatever watching this lot. Paid for most of his college tuition that year. |
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Sounds better than sitting in an office. I’d prefer to be out in the field with our guys than sitting here reading emails and troubleshooting by pics and emails. I take any chance I can to get out and see the projects in person. My field supervisor is a good guy with his shit squared away so it doesn’t happen often.
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Quoted: This would have been back around 2015 when I was at Southcross. I left a few years before they were bought by Targa. I'm with a smaller PE transmission pipeline company now. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Who do you work for? Hell, I might know you. This would have been back around 2015 when I was at Southcross. I left a few years before they were bought by Targa. I'm with a smaller PE transmission pipeline company now. Oh... We just had to move our base because Targa bought the land to expand their Mont Belvieu facility. |
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Have you ever been close to a detonation of some kind in the O&G?
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I've heard about many of these "do nothing" oil and gas jobs
Is there a lot of these jobs? Is it like 8 hours of boredom and 4 hours of chaos? |
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Quoted: Quoted: Is this what the Teamsters call a “Slowdown?” No, it's call a "turn around". Having worked many, many turnarounds as an engineer, sounds like the company needs a better TAR planner, just saying. I am all for making money, but sitting around in a truck for 12 hours a day for a month, we would have fired planners for this standby time waste. Again, just saying. |
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Quoted: My BiL years back worked in the local county jail. Some company was building a giant NG pipeline in the county and they contracted the county sheriff to guard the parking lot where their equipment was at night or weekends. My BiL sat in a sheriff's car all night making $30/hrs or whatever watching this lot. Paid for most of his college tuition that year. View Quote That’s pretty common with pipeline construction contractors. Sometimes they even get their speeding tickets dismissed. |
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Quoted: Having worked many, many turnarounds as an engineer, sounds like the company needs a better TAR planner, just saying. I am all for making money, but sitting around in a truck for 12 hours a day for a month, we would have fired planners for this standby time waste. Again, just saying. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Is this what the Teamsters call a “Slowdown?” No, it's call a "turn around". Having worked many, many turnarounds as an engineer, sounds like the company needs a better TAR planner, just saying. I am all for making money, but sitting around in a truck for 12 hours a day for a month, we would have fired planners for this standby time waste. Again, just saying. We're babysitting PRV equipment, so though we're not doing much, it's absolutely necessary. |
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Quoted: We're babysitting PRV equipment, so though we're not doing much, it's absolutely necessary. View Quote This. I'm assuming you are the "emergency back up" control plan. As long as everything works right you do nothing, but if the control system breaks down... you are there to keep the shit out of the fan. |
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Quoted: Probably in the woods or if you are lucky, there is a Buc-ees close by. 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. View Quote Sadly this is the case at almost every large manufacturing facility in the chemical, refining, or power industries You can blame the very small percentage of contractors who are shit-smearing animals with snakes in their heads who were raised in a barn by psychopath parents for these policies. |
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Quoted: What is "O&G money"? Can I call dibs on it if you croak? View Quote It was like a gold rush out here, till our libs put so many Regs in place and pushed all the rigs to the Dakotas and TX. I bought this duramax new in 06 and what I charged customers for it had it paid off in 3 years. Then there was my outrageous hourly rate as a oilfield I/E guy. Travel time, per diem, OT . Attached File I must’ve billed 40 hours in 3 days running all thru those canyons trying to find a way to repeat radio signals to and from a new pad way back up there. Chained up twice. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Is this what the Teamsters call a “Slowdown?” No, it's call a "turn around". What is a turnaround? |
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Quoted: Probably in the woods or if you are lucky, there is a Buc-ees close by. 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. View Quote |
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Quoted: This. I'm assuming you are the "emergency back up" control plan. As long as everything works right you do nothing, but if the control system breaks down... you are there to keep the shit out of the fan. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: We're babysitting PRV equipment, so though we're not doing much, it's absolutely necessary. This. I'm assuming you are the "emergency back up" control plan. As long as everything works right you do nothing, but if the control system breaks down... you are there to keep the shit out of the fan. Yes |
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Quoted: I'd rig my Starlink up and have a PS5 in the cab View Quote My truck has its own Wi-Fi, and there's a few unused outlets on this light plant I'm parked next to. I could bring my Xbox and a monitor, but I'm not going through all of that. I have my streaming services along with my Direct TV app on my phone. |
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Quoted: OP do they provide uniforms or is that on you? https://images.ctfassets.net/23wh7e5ryr18/photo-39815/e4257af35f08498b9780fccfbed7a6c2/39815-maytagresized.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: We're babysitting PRV equipment, so though we're not doing much, it's absolutely necessary. This. I'm assuming you are the "emergency back up" control plan. As long as everything works right you do nothing, but if the control system breaks down... you are there to keep the shit out of the fan. Yes OP do they provide uniforms or is that on you? https://images.ctfassets.net/23wh7e5ryr18/photo-39815/e4257af35f08498b9780fccfbed7a6c2/39815-maytagresized.jpg My company provides our FR shirts and I expense my FR jeans. We also get $150/year towards boots. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Is this what the Teamsters call a “Slowdown?” No, it's call a "turn around". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gCk9yBBOUo Presume Tits McGee made for greater viewership by the mainly male workforce? |
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one of our investigators left a mounted camera running and got some great video of herself taking a piss on her front bumper
(too bad she I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried |
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Quoted: 8168 hours 186,246 miles. Probably average 50 mph, so... 3725 hours at 50 mph = 186,246 miles. 8168 - 3725 = 4443 hours at idle. View Quote routine synthetic oil changes and electric engine cooling fans make cars do things we only dreamed of back when we had the old patrol cars with fan clutch assemblies |
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Quoted: Quoted: 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. Now I'm scared. Face truck into the wind, don't back up against a wall. You'll be fine. Oh and make sure you have no exhaust leaks. |
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You work 60 hours of OT in a week? Almost gonna hoist the BS flag on that.
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Whatcha gonna do with all the OT scratch?
What gun is on your next to buy list? |
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Kinda like my old job. Boss said if we were tired to park in our yard and sleep so the public would not see us choking the chicken. Federal job LOL!
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