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Originally Posted by Paulclem
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Who else?:sosp:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Yes. Of course this is perfectly reasonable behaviour for blokes. Killing the snake = fearlessness = more manly.
Therer's very little opportunity to be fearless these days.
Handling the carcass = lack of squeamishness = more manly.
The next stage is to find out who is sqeamsh/ fearful by leaving it in other males' bags/ coats/ on desks/ lockers/ food/ hats/ shoes/ jackets etc. The person or persons can then be ridiculed and laughed at at the time, and the subject can be regularly brought up for future humiliation. They could even earn themselves a new nickname.
Then the chasing around with it begins. (See Jackass 2 and 3).
The final act is then to inflict it on the sqeamish ladies and laugh about that.
Knowledge is of course power, and so all those schooled in the buffoonery of males would have immediately gathered together their belongings and guarded them = wisdom. They may then have warned the general populace of the pranks going on and thus become a protector.
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
You are absolutely correct. I found out about the snake by walking to the maintenance shop and on the way seeing one of the guys trying to scare his coworkers with it.
I used to play rugby and I witnessed this kind of jackassery a lot - though not with snakes - that happened in the army.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Once, we were on a rugby trip to play a team in Lancashire, and so we were on a coach travelling across the Penines. Some of the other lads had played with the Professional team the previous week, and, in a yawningly predictable example of establishing male dominance, the older guys had shaved their privates on the bus.
So, in a predictable continuation of this rock ape behaviour, the now shorn lads wanted to establish their domnance over us by shaving two of the quieter members of the team - me and my mate.
They were young and daft though, and assumed that it would be easy, and so they talked about it in gleeful anticipation. The simple strategy of sitting by the card table on the coach and wrapping ourselves around the legs foiled their cunning plans. They even tried to burn me off, but I was tough and could stand it.
It's just the rich tapestry of male development. Just be glad you're female. Being male often involves pain, humiliation and ridicule. We still laugh though and end up with scars and stories for posterity.
Sometimes on rugby tour, if females are present, I jump onto the nearest tree and shake the branches violently while screaming rugby songs. If any other males try to dislodge me, I scurry over to them and flail away.
I have not met any willing females yet:confused:
Our big rugby initiation was making the newbies shave their heads while we sprayed them with shaving foam-after 20 or so times it gets really unfunny. Then doing a mock trial if they committed an offence like not knowing the words to a rugby sing-song.
ok so listen. I feel tainted and kinda good at the same time. I'm at another site with a coworker from a third site. Yesterday, one of the employees that work here reported that he saw one of us commit a safe infraction. I knew I didn't commit the infraction but I was still beside myself thinking that everyone else thinks I would do something like that.
When it was first brought up to the site managers one of them said "papayahed doesn't do stuff like that" so that's the good part.
The tainted part is that I still feel like I have a mark against me.
(the other coworker confessed but they did have a pretty good reason)
You're worrying too much.:D
You've got a character witness, a witness and a confession. No worries.
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
I guess you're right.
Perhaps worrying goes with your line of work in health and safety. :D
At times. Like when we do big lifts, In my head I know the area is barricade, I know we did the pre lift meeting, I know the guys were trained, but I still stand there and worry that something could go wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
That's normal. A less conscientious person would be unsuitable for the job.
We did a fire evacuation last Friday. It's a four storey building - our biggest - and we share it with 7 other agencies. So I had to co-ordinate them and change the way we check the building. Previously we had a complex system of registers and signing in books, and so we went for a cleared zone approach instead. I had enough anx to get the adrenaline going, and it went pretty well. It was nice to meet all the other people too.
I Don't Order the Freakin' Water!!!!!! And Don't try to tell me Water is a Safety Responsibility!!!!
Regulatory inspection!! No issues found.
You know, I had no idea that was your real name.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
My building is being visited tomorrow. I was going to go round and check everything today, but I was too busy to in the end.
Perhaps there'll be time in the afternoon. I'm teaching in the morning. I seem to be working all the time at the moment. I get a couple of weeks off at Easter though, so I shouldn't complain.
my parents were hippies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
Visited? by whom?Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
By the person who does the venue assessment and who then will give me a list of stuff to put right.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
The last time she said - the first floor kitchen was filthy, and I went up and thought - where?
It's better than it was though. The dead plants have gone.
OK, I broke down and ordered water, but that's the last time.
I have some consultants doing work for me. They are preparing documentation that I need to send to a regulatory agency. I told them back in January that we needed this paperwork quickly, after several phone calls and me hounding them I got the paperwork on wednesday (the consultant told me it would only take two weeks).
I reviewed it yesterday and it's poo. In addition to two major errors they got our company name incorrect. How do you get the name of the company you're working for incorrect??????
Time to call a coupl'a people and have them visit.
You're owed a few "favours" surely?
The Sheriff's are going to be our gate attendants for Turnaround!!! How fun is this going to be?
Like Sherriff Carter???
http://writerwoman61.files.wordpress...uson.jpg?w=500
Do you need someone to run your errands during the turnaround?
:smilewinkgrin:
of all the sheriffs in all the world, Carter works in the best town
Yes, however with my luck the Sheriff's will probably be closer to this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
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right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Helga
What's a Turnaround?Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4MaR3g-4Y&ob=av3nQuote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
:smilewinkgrin:
A turnaround is what we call our annual shutdown. The plant I work at is 24/7 with the exception of 2-3 weeks in the spring when we shutdown and do repairs/inspections/upgrades we can't do while running.
It's quite a time, we go from 30 employees to an extra 75 ~ 100 contractors onsite.
That sounds like a lot of stress potential. Do you employ dogs on herding duties?
No dogs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Last year I saw a contractor pretend to put out a cigarette on his tongue. I told him I'd give him a dollar if he did it for real. Of course he declined. Another contractor overheard, took the cigarette, put it out on his tongue, then demanded his dollar.
Every time I saw him after that if he had a ciggy* he would put it out in the same manner and ask for a dollar. I think I paid him ~ 4 dollars over the course of the turnaround.
(* we allowed smoking in designated areas only which is the reason I was only out 4 dollars)
The only place in the USA I might consider moving to...Quote:
Originally Posted by Helga
What? They might need average Janes like me to use as test subjects or something!
I might consider taking up smoking just to be able to do that trick.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Though, I might demand $2.
That's a little steep for me..Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
This morning a contractor accidently hit a control valve and shut the whole plant down. Before anybody whines the valve is about twenty feet off the ground and the guy had to knock it pretty hard to trip it.
Was he a very tall chap?
No, sorry the contractors were building scaffolding and were passing board up when they hit the valve.Quote:
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So did you all go out and celebrate?
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erm, No.
Turnaround Day 15
I'm pooped. This is the first time in 15 days I've been able to sit in my office for longer then 20 minutes at a stretch.
Finally getting a chance to catch up on non shutdown activities. It seems I missed a star wars weekend here on the forum.
Favorite moments of Turnaround 2012:
The contractors taking pictures of themselves in acid suits.
Having one of my favorite contractors back onsite.
The rescue team being onsite. When they weren't busy monitoring confined spaces they were hunting for brick/wood scrapes to take home, killing snakes, and feeding me little debbie snack cakes.
The man is trying to keep me down. I was asked to be on a reality TV show and I said no. One of those wild life shows want to film wild hogs being captured on our property.
It could have been your big break.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
I coulda been an adopted Kardashian!!
I can not believe you didn't want to do that, papaya, lol!