Posted by gwstang on April 30, 2017 at 19:59:25 from (96.47.89.142):
In Reply to: Way OT work holidays posted by Kansas4010 on April 28, 2017 at 07:58:21:
I work 7 days/12 hour shifts. A month on days and a month on nights...I'm an operator in a water filtration plant. Of course, I get a week off in between shifts. Only one guy on each shift so we have to be extremely reliable. Got 34 years in and it has always paid well. Of course I have to be at the highest level of certification to be able to operate a surface water plant. It's sort of like they have to have us. Not many people pass the exam and operators are getting older (I'm 61) and there are not very many younger guys/girls that are going into this field. Mostly because we work nights/holidays/weekends or whenever our shift is on duty. I only get a holiday off if it happens to fall at the same time I'm already off for that week. I don't mind working on holidays as I get 8 extra hours for that day plus time and a half if I'm on shift. Jacks the paycheck up for sure. I'm working a little over another year and retiring. They are going to have a very tough time finding another certified operator as they are few and far between now. Probably have to hire a trainee and train for a year and then fail the test...repeat....over and over. They only get two chances to pass the exam and it is hard with lots of math/algebra/chemistry and knowledge of the safe water drinking acts/laws. I can work with someone for about two weeks and tell them if they will pass the exam or not. never been wrong in all these years. I am careful to not overload them with info. I will let them sort of soak up some of the day to day operations for a couple of weeks and then hand them a note pad and tell them to start writing down the different tests etc we do in the lab. Then I tell them, when you see me get up from my desk to go outside to check the basins/water treatment process....you better follow me right quick if you want to learn, because I am not walking way out there for my health. This means, put the dang cell phone down and go into learning mode. I had one guy that I worked with for a month and he could not keep any of the tests or anything that I told him straight. He could not remember any of the processes and sure could not do any math. I handed him a pad and pen and told him to start writing it down and then he could review and learn as he went. he threw the pad down and said, "I got it"! I looked at him and said, "No, you don't get it". I called the big boss the next morning and told him this and said to get him off my shift as I would not work with him. he did that and i told him that he would never be an operator. He sent him to work at our other plant and the guy there told the boss, after two weeks, that he would never be an operator. Luckily, we did have a janitor position open and he could do that. He turned out pretty happy after all. It seems, in general, these kids today want some soft cushy job that involves playing on a cell phone and yakking when they should be listening/learning. I feel sorry for the "New Generation" as it is going to be really tough on the young blue collar type of worker.
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