What do you guys do at work?
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Keeping a 70 year old facility that's 50 years beyond its projected life safely operating.
I was a tool and die grinder for 20 some years. Now I work for the RR keeping trains running safely and protecting the public from trains. Look both ways b4 you cross the tracks.
Sounds like you and I both know what makes a track circuit tick. Agree too, look both ways at a crossing, always, always, always...
I fix shit that engineers fuck up and browse snipershide.
“Beryllium cloud” as in berylliosis for the masses?I work in hydraulics repair now (You haven't lived until you see a 1/2" wall 7" bore cylinder fail under full load. Hydraulic fluid tastes nasty!) Before that there were parts for F-22s, BUFFs, F-16s, etc. and a gig where I did lots of parts for the 4 letter national laboratories. When a physicist from LANL starts telling what the parts you made go on your ears prick up! "A beryllium cloud? What the hell ?!?" Pretty sure that should have been a "Now I have to kill you" conversation.
I make high end fly fishing rods, design fly lines and do fly casting instruction.
I lay pipe 5 days a week, adult film star stunt double.
I do too. I figure if a truck hauling hazmat and a bus full of kids has to stop, there's a reason.
Run a very large cnc cutting plane wing shapes and other odds and ends for gulfstream,boeing,airbus,space x
Same factory we also do automotive alumin sheeting,tread plate for fire trucks and ballistic armor plate
Same factory we also do automotive alumin sheeting,tread plate for fire trucks and ballistic armor plate
I don't build the bombs or the seekers. I just work on the stuff that tells the bomb/seeker where to go, at least in my younger years. Now I dither in this and that, from a data fusion perspective...
en.wikipedia.org
Here lately, I get paid to think of "out-of-the-box" ways to, well, "shorten the kill chain" would be a nice way to put it.
Precision-guided munition - Wikipedia
Here lately, I get paid to think of "out-of-the-box" ways to, well, "shorten the kill chain" would be a nice way to put it.
Hi,
I enjoy reading about people too smart to join the military yet they are on a majority military forum seeking answers and advise for why their Larue build shoots shitty and how to be better at reloading....
In my spare time I like to discuss the nuisances of International Government relations, specializing in DDTC business developments.
Sincerely,
Theis
I enjoy reading about people too smart to join the military yet they are on a majority military forum seeking answers and advise for why their Larue build shoots shitty and how to be better at reloading....
In my spare time I like to discuss the nuisances of International Government relations, specializing in DDTC business developments.
Sincerely,
Theis
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I actually install, calibrate and service flow computers for gas production and midstream companies. Also run a gas chromatograph lab and soon a mobile gas chromatograph to run as I calibrate.
I used to lay pipe like a champ.
Miles and miles of big, black ductile iron pipe.
Laid a lot of PVC pipe as well.
I laugh at stuff @THEIS posts often.
I do a lot of paperwork/computer work and occasionally my hands-on work saves a life or limb.
I learn some stuff from time to time as well.
1: Don't re-holster without looking. Its hazardous.
2: Also, dont waist or pocket carry with the trigger exposed.
I do a lot of paperwork/computer work and occasionally my hands-on work saves a life or limb.
I learn some stuff from time to time as well.
1: Don't re-holster without looking. Its hazardous.
2: Also, dont waist or pocket carry with the trigger exposed.
That just reminded me of this past weekend. New shooter, at USPSA match, no holster. Just tucking it in his waistband.
Not allowed to carry hot, but at the starting line on the "make ready" command you can load weapon, and reholster.
I just cringed every time he put it back in his waistband waiting for him to shoot himself in the leg.
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Whatever I'm stupid enough to take payment for.
My youngest is into watching Jerry Miculek shooting videos. Last weekend he was watching one on tv and Cash said it was amazing he could shoot that fast. I told him that he gets paid to shoot and shoots all the time, and that is part of what makes him so good. Cash’s rye got huge!!!? I wanna shoot for a living too!!!! He said ? I said, I do too
I never make enough
. That is why in my later years, I move around a lot. I seldom stay at any company for more than 2 to 3 years. There is always another more interesting tech company that is willing to pay more. It is a stressful job or can be. I find many are very receptive and open to suggestions. Some are not. I use the term "suggestion" carefully. To be good at what I do and what you are looking to do requires
- Support from superiors. They hired you or me and there was a reason for it. When it comes down to the wire, they need to support you.
- Your ability to suggest and drive versus dictate. If you come off as an overbearing know it all, you won't be successful. You need patience. You also need to drive accountability. Millennials are missing accountability. I have no issue giving you the responsibility provided that you understand the ramifications and consequences.
- The ability to put your morals, values and principles aside. Never treat them poorly because of their beliefs. Business is business. Fact is that 85% of the ones I deal with are leftist in political and moral perspectives. I don't care and I never participate in these type of discussions. They do know I am an avid shooter and 2A supporter. That has never been a problem. Politics and the rest of it never is discussed.
Only Homos and women wear Lucky Jeans......?
had a gf buy me a pair for Christmas years ago. Returned them and got 3 pairs of carhartts with the $........ Fit like crap and too dang pricey.
had a gf buy me a pair for Christmas years ago. Returned them and got 3 pairs of carhartts with the $........ Fit like crap and too dang pricey.
Stay at home Astronaut.
My Creed- We have been doing so much with so little for so long we are now qualified
to everything with nothing.
R
My Creed- We have been doing so much with so little for so long we are now qualified
to everything with nothing.
R
They are super comfortable when you sit on your ass all day looking at a few computer monitors
Boss makes a dollar I make a dime, that’s why I poop on company time!
Good guess, but no.
I ran my own business for a while years ago and did support some doctors (eye surgeon, orthodontist, plastic surgeon) so I get you 100% :lol: I also tried to support a law firm once, I just fired myself, that was a nightmare.
I am baffled how in the year 2019 that anyone can hire anyone that seriously doesn't know shit about a computer, but their job REQUIRES use of said computer 100% of the time.
If you have ever heard that old joke about a tech support call where the user says my computer won't turn on, help me. The tech on the phone is able diagnose that the power is out in the persons house (re: are there any lights on in your house? no) and the tech then tells them to find the box the computer shipped in, put the computer back in the box and send it back to them. Conclusion: you are too stupid to own a computer if you don't understand it won't work when the power is out.
I feel like that most days.
Its from people that have multiple college degrees and appear accomplished in life, but really have book smarts only and absolutely zero life skills. Or they are so highly specialized in what they know, they can perform differential calculus in their head, but need someone else to figure out how to turn on the coffee maker and tie their shoes.
Use to play with trains.
They have the dubious distinction of moving yesterday's freight tomorrow.
If nothing weird happens on your (shift) anything from 1 to 20 hrs it was a weird day.
If you seen the news some climate change activists tried to stop a coal train and were shocked they were ignored by the train but reported none of them hurt. They don't know how that works and were obviously trespassing on RR property and interfering with interstate commerce and some other shit.
They have the dubious distinction of moving yesterday's freight tomorrow.
If nothing weird happens on your (shift) anything from 1 to 20 hrs it was a weird day.
If you seen the news some climate change activists tried to stop a coal train and were shocked they were ignored by the train but reported none of them hurt. They don't know how that works and were obviously trespassing on RR property and interfering with interstate commerce and some other shit.
I don't think Mr. Salk would like
That was at the scotts fertilizer plant some dick head left a main line switch open in dark territory. Both buddies survived that 3 foot piece in front was a 50 foot car the rest of the train derailed (intermodal) .
So you fill in when the women call out sick?
Don't know if that would suck, or be a pain in the ass.
I fix the broke things the idiots I work around break. Or things my company doesn't allow me to get down time for too PM so it breaks.
But mostly I fab and weld stainless steel. Generally tig, sometimes mig. Regular steel I'm doing a lot of right now as I'm repairing warehouse racks fork truck drivers have hit over the decades.
Also play with anhydrous ammonia every once in a while.
But mostly I fab and weld stainless steel. Generally tig, sometimes mig. Regular steel I'm doing a lot of right now as I'm repairing warehouse racks fork truck drivers have hit over the decades.
Also play with anhydrous ammonia every once in a while.
We use to catch new guys in the bathroom and throw in a rag soaked in ammonia. That was a make or brake moment in their career at Luker Engineering.
Got enough NH3 to evacuate the plant and part of the town if we have a major leak. Enough that maintenance gets trained in SCBA and level A hazmat suits. Chuck a rag with ammonia in the bathroom and im just going to sit there and wonder why there is an ammonia smell in the head.
