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Good Evening

 

You should get a new rule in place. When a sub contractor drops the ball, those effected get free lunch.

 

They can't do this on off hours?!

 

Processed some pics today. Had a horrible spot for photography but managed 4 or 6 good one's out of 1,200 I took. LMAO.
Y'all be safe out there on the Forest Roads. LOL
Zim

 

That’s a lot of money flying down a dirt road toward trees

 

Well, my dear, people are stupid.

 

Or it’s that bad things happen with people and machines sometimes. Find out what went wrong and learn from it.

 

Politics=no no

 

Good evening everyone.

Hump day came and went. I'm updating my resume and start looking looking for a permanent job. The place where I'm contracting is just bananas.. I think that the upper management reads Weesa's posts about her employer, then tries to out-do them!

In the past, the Bridge Authority ( Their real dept name!) would close down the south span of the bay bridge and have a ' walk across the bay' day.. I never realized how much that contraption moves around until I was at the top of it and the wind picked up.

Just about NOTHING would win against the impact of that ship going 9 knots. I saw a pic of the port anchor that was dragged a decent distance, the pilots and captain trying to turn the bow away from the bridge abutment.

It's amazing that there's still no mention of the vehicles that went into the water ( besides the contractors). You can see a car and a semi fall in.

 

Morons would be more like it.. The whole ordeal is just silly, the dead line for the drawings that need to be released so that materials can be ordered to start construction of the 1st trailer is in 2 days. There's upwards of 400 parts that still don't have initial drawings made. There's literally a few thousand drawings floating around that have been through the initial review/markups. There's 3 official checkers, each one seems to have their own idea of CAD standards and the lead designers all have their own ideas of which standards they feel is necessary to pay attention to on any given day. I've been given a stack of red lines/ markups to fix, as I open the models and DWG in the software, it quickly becomes apparent that none of the models were ever done correctly, so there is no associativity to the drawings. I don't know how much you've worked with 3D design software. The models drive the drawings. If a dimension needs changing, the model gets changed then the DWG should automatically update. Except here...

There's text in title blocks that have been basically overwritten, but upon a refreshing, the text gets jumbled. BOM bubbles that have been hand placed instead of being driven from the BOM.. BOM tables that aren't tables, just generic grids that were hand dropped in. Shit like that..

The software doesn't help, either. No one has ever used it before, so there's very little in the line of training except what you can figure out on your own. We have a CAD manager that will nit pick the smallest of insignificant details, yet he will not make a person that has incorrectly made /modified a model or a bad detail on a drawing FIX their mistake, he lets them constantly start on more drawings and other people get to fix the messes.

I just keep telling myself " I get paid by the hour..." and the memories of not having a job are fresh in my brain. May 14th will be 1 year that I've been there, I won't be there for another one.

 

Pretty much sums it up perfectly!

 

Retirement.

Now I have time to do things right.

Cleaned the bed of my truck and corrected the mess of wiring. Now I have bed lights that work and I fixed the USB and 12v plugs in the bed. Had to take out all the gear and cubbies boxes and gas can holders, crawled under the truck, ran loom. Worked 6 hours and realized I was exhausted. Forgot I was retired. I will finish tomorrow.

 

Evening folks!

 

Mine is in 1 1/2 weeks…can’t wait haha

 

Good morning friends coffee is tasting excellent today. The weather remains a bit fickle. Our local weather guy has a sense of humor, a good trait for the job.
Be smart, be safe

 

Oh yeah the Detroit Tigers are playing the Chicago White Sox in Chicago, come on Tiger’s.
I guess they call it OPENING DAY
PUT ME IN COACH

 

Morning!!!

Ohhhh the good ol days!!!


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