Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Wow this place is dead. Hoping for something new to read between flights and yaaaaawn

You in the ATL now?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

You in the ATL now?

Yep. They changed my flights terminal and gate 3 times. Frantically took the train back and forth. Ended up st the gate across from the one I came it at.
Atlanta mayor keeps making a welcome message over PA. But garbled but is her name Lambsbottom?

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Wow this place is dead. Hoping for something new to read between flights and yaaaaawn

We've been waiting for you to get back to work.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

We've been waiting for you to get back to work.

I was working and will have you know that one of my plants won two safety awards this week. Bitch of a time squeezing them into the little bag I travel with.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I was working and will have you know that one of my plants won two safety awards this week. Bitch of a time squeezing them into the little bag I travel with.

That's just what you do between forum posts.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I was working and will have you know that one of my plants won two safety awards this week. Bitch of a time squeezing them into the little bag I travel with.

Let's see if I have this straight. One of your plants won two safety awards - while you were away.


Well, good for them - what did that have to do with you??





humfrz

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Yep. They changed my flights terminal and gate 3 times. Frantically took the train back and forth. Ended up st the gate across from the one I came it at.
Atlanta mayor keeps making a welcome message over PA. But garbled but is her name Lambsbottom?

Close but more unfortunate it's Keisha Lance Bottoms. At least she is more pleasant to look at than the last couple of mayors.

[Clipdat]

Great news, I got a call from their HR rep this morning. They're going to proceed with preparing an offer for me! I should expect to hear back from them next week with the details. Hell yeah!

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

Great news, I got a call from their HR rep this morning. They're going to proceed with preparing an offer for me! I should expect to hear back from them next week with the details. Hell yeah!

Fantastic!

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

Great news, I got a call from their HR rep this morning. They're going to proceed with preparing an offer for me! I should expect to hear back from them next week with the details. Hell yeah!

Yaaaaaaaa!

Way to go.

I hope it's a good offer -


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Let's see if I have this straight. One of your plants won two safety awards - while you were away.


Well, good for them - what did that have to do with you??





humfrz

No no no they presented the awards at the conference I was at the awards were for the last year.

[humfrz]

Speaking of safety, reminds me of a back-in-the-day story.

Oh, my, I might have told this one before - I'm sure Tcoat will let me know.

While I was manager of an agricultural research station, down in California, we had a safety inspection, by our in house "safety committee". Which consisted of a bunch of chemists, with nothing better to do.

So they came down to my "farm" and had a field day. They just didn't quite know where to start. One of the things the wrote me up for was the exposed beams coming out of the Hahn Hi-Boy sprayer that we had extensively modified to adapt it for research purposes, were a safety hazard.

They wrote that the tips of the exposed beams should be painted red, so that they could be seen. OK, so after they left I called in my staff and assigned items for them to correct. When I got to painting the exposed tips on the sprayer, I asked Frank to do that.

Frank said, but humfrz, the whole damn sprayer is painted red! I said, Frank, I know that, but, believe me, it will be easier to just go paint the tips red (again) than for me to argue with the safety committee and trigger a re-inspection.


THE END


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Speaking of safety, reminds me of a back-in-the-day story.

Oh, my, I might have told this one before - I'm sure Tcoat will let me know.

While I was manager of an agricultural research station, down in California, we had a safety inspection, by our in house "safety committee". Which consisted of a bunch of chemists, with nothing better to do.

So they came down to my "farm" and had a field day. They just didn't quite know where to start. One of the things the wrote me up for was the exposed beams coming out of the Hahn Hi-Boy sprayer that we had extensively modified to adapt it for research purposes, were a safety hazard.

They wrote that the tips of the exposed beams should be painted red, so that they could be seen. OK, so after they left I called in my staff and assigned items for them to correct. When I got to painting the exposed tips on the sprayer, I asked Frank to do that.

Frank said, but humfrz, the whole damn sprayer is painted red! I said, Frank, I know that, but, believe me, it will be easier to just go paint the tips red (again) than for me to argue with the safety committee and trigger a re-inspection.


THE END


humfrz

You are safe since that is a new one.
I have thousands of similar stories over the last 30 years. Most involve a highly educated engineer or executive that have no concept of the real world requirements of safety.

A few of all time greats:

We had a safety director once that insisted that our terrazzo floors were too slippery and forced us to cover the whole thing in epoxy with grit. Six months later an operations VP came through and said the plant wasn't pretty enough and made us grind it all off and polish it. I think you know where this is headed. A couple of months went by and the safety director came through and told us to cover it again since he didn't care what the VP thought. We had it done. Any guesses who showed up a short time after the work was done? This went on at least three more times with neither side willing to find a middle ground (there were several other options but they didn't want to listen). Eventually I got fed up and called in the OSHA inspector. Yes, I called in the very people I am supposed to avoid. I explained the situation and showed him some sample areas with my proposed middle ground. He picked one and ordered us to meet that standard. Government order so neither could argue with me any more.

I was doing a site closure once (not my current employer) and we were doing the environmental impact survey. The site was very clean and there was nothing except a report that a power transformer had leaked and spilled 3,000 gallons of oil on the ground. The corporate environmental guy insisted we spend $200,000 on remediation. I pointed out that the spill report was not possible correct since the transformer only held 300 litres (not 3,000 and not gallons) of oil and was only found to be down about 20% in the report. We even had pictures of the very small puddle and the clean up that had been done. He got pissed and told me that his two masters degrees trumped my (at the time) 20 years experience and if the report said it was 3,000 gallons then it was 3,000 gallons. I had to go well over his head to avoid spending mega bucks to clean up nothing. I always wondered how many millions he had pissed away on other projects.

I have told this one before. When designing our new plant the engineering company built this massive drive unit mounted on a swing arm to install 3 3/16 bolts to hold on a brake dust shield. I fought it from the paper design stage but they just said "we are the engineers here", built and installed it anyway. Try to line up three floppy sockets from 4 feet away while maneuvering something the size and shape of a mini gun with a 22 second takt time . It didn't work. I eventually had to have the whole $60,000 unit ripped out and replaced with a $25 nut driver.

The whole point is that smart people are not always all that smart.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

A few of all time greats:


The whole point is that smart people are not always all that smart.

Fer sure, fer sure -


humfrz