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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:11:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CAR-AR-M16: 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. Apparently, he was supposed to be doing something else. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:12:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RTX: 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? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RTX: Originally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Originally Posted By RTX: Originally Posted By Wandering_Moses: 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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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:13:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By twistedcomrade: Probably in the woods or if you are lucky, there is a Buc-ees close by. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By twistedcomrade: Originally Posted By OUSooner: Where do you take a dump? Closest Buc-ee's is 11 miles away (Baytown). |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:14:08 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Wandering_Moses]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RJH1911: 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. Who do you work for? Hell, I might know you. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:16:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CAR-AR-M16: 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. 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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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:18:05 AM EDT
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Houston City employee?
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:18:16 AM EDT
[#7]
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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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:18:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By erazor55: Houston City employee? Hell no! |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:20:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: 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. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:21:09 AM EDT
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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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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:21:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RJH1911: 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. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RJH1911: Originally Posted By Wandering_Moses: 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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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:25:35 AM EDT
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Have you ever been close to a detonation of some kind in the O&G?
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:27:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Tangotag: Have you ever been close to a detonation of some kind in the O&G? Nope Hope my luck continues. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:48:19 AM EDT
[Last Edit: AmishElectrician]
[#14]
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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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:51:22 AM EDT
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Are you saving for the next bust?
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:51:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: No, it's call a "turn around". Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Originally Posted By eurotrash: 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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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:55:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jerret_S: 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. That’s pretty common with pipeline construction contractors. Sometimes they even get their speeding tickets dismissed. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 9:01:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AmishElectrician: 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? Sometimes |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 9:02:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By terryj: Are you saving for the next bust? I'm Midstream. It's the least affected by boom and bust. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 9:03:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 77Bronc: 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. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 77Bronc: Originally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Originally Posted By eurotrash: 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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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:00:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: 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. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:16:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By twistedcomrade: 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. 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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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:20:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Pipeline Srvices company. Flaring, tool runs, separation, etc... I would have guessed fireman, but then you would be in a recliner on overtime, not sitting in a truck. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:22:10 AM EDT
[Last Edit: DVCER]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WileyG27: What is "O&G money"? Can I call dibs on it if you croak? 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 FileI 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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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:27:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: No, it's call a "turn around". Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Originally Posted By eurotrash: Is this what the Teamsters call a “Slowdown?” No, it's call a "turn around".  What is a turnaround? |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:28:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By twistedcomrade: 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. 
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:29:33 AM EDT
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I'd rig my Starlink up and have a PS5 in the cab
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:49:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 545days: 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. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 545days: Originally Posted By Wandering_Moses: 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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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:52:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Yes Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Originally Posted By 545days: Originally Posted By Wandering_Moses: 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? 
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:54:06 AM EDT
[Last Edit: cavedog]
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edit: beat like a rented mule on a turnaround.
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:54:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Kuraki: I'd rig my Starlink up and have a PS5 in the cab 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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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:56:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Kuraki: OP do they provide uniforms or is that on you? https://images.ctfassets.net/23wh7e5ryr18/photo-39815/e4257af35f08498b9780fccfbed7a6c2/39815-maytagresized.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Kuraki: Originally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Originally Posted By 545days: Originally Posted By Wandering_Moses: 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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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:05:24 AM EDT
[#33]
How many idle hours to you have on the pickup ?
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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:12:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4q2: How many idle hours to you have on the pickup ? 8168 hours 186,246 miles. Probably average 50 mph, so... 3725 hours at 50 mph = 186,246 miles. 8168 - 3725 = 4443 hours at idle. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:14:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By bulldog1967: Originally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Originally Posted By eurotrash: Is this what the Teamsters call a “Slowdown?” No, it's call a "turn around".  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gCk9yBBOUoPresume Tits McGee made for greater viewership by the mainly male workforce? |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:17:03 AM EDT
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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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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:19:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: 8168 hours 186,246 miles. Probably average 50 mph, so... 3725 hours at 50 mph = 186,246 miles. 8168 - 3725 = 4443 hours at idle. 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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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:21:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Now I'm scared. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Originally Posted By kcolg30: 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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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:35:05 AM EDT
[Last Edit: NotMrWizard]
[#39]
You work 60 hours of OT in a week? Almost gonna hoist the BS flag on that.
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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:36:27 AM EDT
[Last Edit: towerofpower94]
[#40]
Whatcha gonna do with all the OT scratch?
What gun is on your next to buy list? |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:37:29 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wandering_Moses: Now I'm scared. Maybe not a bad idea to put a CO sensor in the cab. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:37:30 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NotMrWizard: You work 60 hours of OT in a week? Almost gonna hoist the BS flag on that. I'm guessing it's 60hrs per month, or he does 14 days on and 14 off, paid for any hours he's awake? OP, how's that work? |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:49:39 AM EDT
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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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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:42:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NotMrWizard: You work 60 hours of OT in a week? Almost gonna hoist the BS flag on that. 14 hours/day 14x7=98 98-40=58 Our shift overlaps go a little long on occasion, so 30 minutes here, an hour there... More than likely puts me slightly above 100 hrs/week. |
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