the trivial complaints thread

[SXIPro]

I am perfectly healthy and read the same thing.

Which proves you are perfectly healthy.

 

[imabadfish]

I've had to cancel a Thanksgiving trip planned because of wildfires.

 

[Wetbuffalo]

When your car decides to crack a piston ring and ruin your winter build plans

 

[OCD Solutions]

Woke up tired and cranky and my wife decided to give me the "Speaking Treatment" today.

 

[mxmark4]

When your car decides to crack a piston ring and ruin your winter build plans

Subaru?

 

[Wetbuffalo]

Subaru?

No Chevy Cruze. Worst part is it's 3 months out of warranty. Next car will definitely be a Subaru. It just sucks having to fight with the dealership to try to get the cost of the new motor covered or partially covered. It had regular documented oil changes at the dealership and they are trying to tell me it was starved of oil at some point. Under my ownership it has never once been low on oil nor is it leaking or burning any. It only has 87,000 miles on it.

 

[OCD Solutions]

Got called in to work at 4:30pm yesterday...and I'm still here.

The good news is, Sunday's are triple time.

 

[BruceSki]

Got called in to work at 4:30pm yesterday...and I'm still here.

The good news is, Sunday's are triple time.

I don't see that as a complaint. Double time or higher is gravy money. I very rarely turn that down.

 

[OCD Solutions]

32 plus hours of banging your head against a wall with nothing to show for it is a very trivial complaint. The money soothes the wounds though.

 

[BruceSki]

I hear ya. Just had a few 90+ hour checks the last two weeks.

We shut down the steam side of our plant for 8 days. It hasn't been shut off on purpose since it opened in the 60's. Ran on all diesel power during that time with a portable boiler on a trailer in the parking lot to make domestic hot water.

Everything went smooth until we tried to fire our boilers back up on natural gas. The new regulators they put in just would not work. We tried them a few different ways before giving up and going back to the originals.

 

[Big Kahuna]

I hear ya. Just had a few 90+ hour checks the last two weeks.

We shut down the steam side of our plant for 8 days. It hasn't been shut off on purpose since it opened in the 60's. Ran on all diesel power during that time with a portable boiler on a trailer in the parking lot to make domestic hot water.

Everything went smooth until we tried to fire our boilers back up on natural gas. The new regulators they put in just would not work. We tried them a few different ways before giving up and going back to the originals.

Is that 90 for 1 week or 2?

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[BruceSki]

Each week

 

[OCD Solutions]

I do not miss those hours. I'm pretty spoiled these days.

 

[Jyzmbe]

It's not uncommon for me to get close to that in overtime but lucky for me I only go on call once every 7 weeks


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[BruceSki]

10/31-----6am-8pm(14 hrs)17
11/1-------6am-6pm(12 hrs)14
11/2-------6am-2pm(8hrs)8
11/3-------10pm-2pm (16 hrs)24
11/4-------6am-2pm (8hrs)8
11/5-------10am-10pm(12 hrs) 27

11/2-11/3 was work a day shift, go home sleep, come back and do a midnight into the next day. The numbers to the right of the parentheses are what it's paid out as, the numbers in parentheses are hours spent at work.

 

[Jyzmbe]

10/31-----6am-8pm(14 hrs)17
11/1-------6am-6pm(12 hrs)14
11/2-------6am-2pm(8hrs)8
11/3-------10pm-2pm (16 hrs)24
11/4-------6am-2pm (8hrs)8
11/5-------10am-10pm(12 hrs) 27

11/2-11/3 was work a day shift, go home sleep, come back and do a midnight into the next day. The numbers to the right of the parentheses are what it's paid out as, the numbers in parentheses are hours spent at work.

You get paid 8 hours of rest time?


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[BruceSki]

Nope. They just went through the crew and asked if each guy would be willing to do one short swing for the week. I was home at 2:30, in bed by 3 and up and 9 to go back in.

Double and a half weekends are the money maker though. Wish we got more of those. They only pay that rate when it's Unscheduled OT.

I was on the scheduled HVAC watch today and only get 1.5 time for that since it's a weekend.

If they ask us to stay for blizzard watch or anything like that they pay you 1/2 time to sleep at the job.

 

[OCD Solutions]

I finally called it quits at 5:30 this morning.

 

[SXIPro]

Been doing 80+ Hour weeks since October 1st. And I'm salary.

 

[Big Kahuna]

Been doing 80+ Hour weeks since October 1st. And I'm salary.

No, Your getting screwed unless they giving comp time.