On Friday 30 December 2016 01:03:04 Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/29/2016 10:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Yup that too. Chances are such places were a union shop & lots of > > those places are busy protecting the crane operators job. > > No, that place is NOT union, and the real crane operator > thinks it is totally crazy, too, and will tell you so. > But, "rules are rules..."
Makes me ask what "genius" is running such a place. :) I am amazed at the inefficiency of such places. > > Now, at Oak Ridge, which is union, many years ago, we almost > cause a job action by soldering a wire. Crazy. I personally have never met an "electrician" that could even solder a water pipe, let alone make a good solder joint. Usually, their hands don't "fit the tools" and the solder joint is colder than a wedge. > My boss ended up packing the gear in a box and taking it to > his hotel room to fix. Later, we seemed to get lucky and > the place was always on strike when we went there. Then, we > could do anything we wanted without interference. > > Jon Which SHOULD have been the assumption since you probably were called to service something there in the first place. :) Are we off-topic yet? ;-) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
