Sometimes you just need to scream!!!

[pbrme]

Am really glad I stocked up on what I could get before the crap hit the fan!

x2.

Who'd of thought 22lr would be so hard to find. It's like manufacturers are being subsidised like farmers for supply control.

 

[Supe]

I've only got about 500 rds of .223 ammo outside of the .22LR. Just a handful of my self defense loads which are in the mag/chambers of my pistols, and that's it. .380 and .45 rounds are impossible to find.

 

[knight1fox3]

 

[blybrook PE]

^^ NICE

Too bad that Illinois has lost their battle to prevent concealed carry licenses. Those that want to jump through the hoops and cut through the endless red tape can now legally carry a concealed handgun in that state (some cities are still fighting this).

 

[envirotex]

When I point out inconsistencies (euphemism for flat out wrong) in your work, don't reply that you are not inclined to make changes at this point...

grrr.

 

[envirotex]

and stop sending me stuff I have to fix. I don't have time fo dat.

 

[Master slacker]

You can't say that without using this:

 

[Master slacker]

When it rains, it pours! The holes in the swiss cheese and the planets must have aligned this week. One of our plants is in an outage and they're using some of our craftsmen to do the work, which leaves us short handed. And since I am acting as maintenance superintendent this week as well as engineer, it's been interesting...

• On Monday, a compressor ate sh*t (which brought down one plant) and had to be replaced. The millwright crew worked 16 hours that day and more were called out to work through the night.
  
• On Tuesday, we kept working on the compressor swap and were nearly complete at 7 PM... until an open oil valve blew Lord knows how many gallons of oil onto the ground. The compressor also flooded, which put oil into the suction pipe, which blew out the o-ring due to uneven flange faces, which pushed us into another all-nighter. I left at 11 PM... starving.
  
• On Wednesday, the compressor was finished and put online, but another one of my plants (the entire unit) sh*t itself. While down, we decided to repair a critical pump.
  
• On Thursday at midnight-ish, the pump was installed but its alignment was WAY off. The bearing is 220 F and we are now working on the alignment correction. We probably just toasted the bearing.
  
• Friday and possibly Saturday, on this holiday weekend, our entire crew will be working to finish the outage currently in progress, but way behind schedule. They've already worked enough this week to hit overtime at about lunch time on Wednesday.
  

I don't have to show tomorrow with no crew to work and there's no need for me. Also it's my AFO.

Beer

 

[Master slacker]

Why is it that I am most productive on my working Fridays... but I don't really get anything done? Being the point man on the day no one else works can be a biatch.

 

[Supe]

No kidding! There's a nuclear outage going on right now which is handled by another division. Turns out their quality program doesn't address the work being done, so they're piggy backing off of ours, which is based on new construction work. All day has been spent writing and issuing abbreviated project specs, transferring employee qualification, etc. so they can get cranking on it. Been non-stop since 6:30 am.

 

[cdcengineer]

Oh the Bruins broke my heart last night. Gotta hand it to the hawks, they are worthy champions.

 

[YMZ PE]

Autocad rant: Years and years of COGO points in my office have all been created on Layer 0 and it's driving me nuts because I can't turn off the superfluous information in my XREFs. I feel like in any private firm, the CAD gurus would have busted heads a long time ago over this.

 

[snickerd3]

Oh the Bruins broke my heart last night. Gotta hand it to the hawks, they are worthy champions.

Now that was a great game! Got to watch it with a bunch of bruins fans.

 

[maryannette]

What a way to start the day! Before 8:00 and I have already spilled coffee on myself and cleaned up the mess in the freezer from my exploded drink that I forgot! It will get better ... I hope.

 

[engineergurl]

Autocad rant: Years and years of COGO points in my office have all been created on Layer 0 and it's driving me nuts because I can't turn off the superfluous information in my XREFs. I feel like in any private firm, the CAD gurus would have busted heads a long time ago over this.

There was a unique kinda special person in one of my classes in college... managed to somehow print the COGO data... she had nearly 6 reams of paper before someone caught it and cancelled it and from that point on all of her assignments were submitted with the data printed on the back...

 

[YMZ PE]

^ LOL! I didn't know that was even possible!

 

[Road Guy]

Painting my kitchen ceiling. F'n a this is a complete pain in the f'n ass!

 

[MA_PE]

Painting anything is a PITA.

 

[Road Guy]

I had a plumbing leak that I had previously completed the sheetrock repair on and needed to paint, total area is 400 SF, I called 4 painting folks (smaller guys) and the lowest quote was $1100..

Give me a fucking break, so I just wasted 8 hours on a sunday and did it myself..

I think most small time residential contractors are just out to screw anyone they deal with.... I have no respect for any of these people!

 

[Capt Worley PE]

^They really don't want to mess with jobs that small.