On Thursday 29 December 2016 22:17:50 Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/29/2016 07:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Darn it, I meant CTA, for Cover Their A$$ above. > > Yeah, lots of that. At Argonne, they have all the ladders, > and I mean ALL the ladders, down to one foot tall step > ladders, chained to the wall! Only the trained people can > check out the keys to unlock the ladders. So, people end up > climbing on stuff not meant to be climbed on, because they > can't get an approved person to do it.
I've seen that attitude here and there. Being a git-r-done type back when I could, I didn't get too many paychecks from places like that. The most asinine was me being a tech, with a 1st phone in his pocket, and 11 years later a CET, then once in CA in the late 70's, I grabbed a ladder and changed a light bulb that I had asked be replaced for 4 or 5 days, and of course the shop steward walked in and had a herd of cows. I got fired of course. I walked by his cubicle as I headed for the parking lot, and thanked him because now I could go get a good job. I had to come east of the river, but it was a heck of a lot better. At a tv station, the GM, once the Chief Operators Letter is in the public file, may need reminding occasionally of just how little power he has. One of the 3 GM's I had in the 18 years I was there, wanted to do some rigged payola, which the commission takes a very dim view of. I heard the first spot promoing it air, and it was off the shelf in 5 minutes. He got educated by reading a couple pages out of 47CFR, part 73. Didn't make him too happy but within the year that war was over, a deputy gave him 20 minutes to get his stuff in one box and out of the building. Seems he had also been cooking the books. I mentioned that spat to Russ, who owned the facility, when we had some face time in his airplane, that I thought he (the GM) was going to fire me over that. Russ said he couldn't do it without going thru me. He did call me. I don't fire honest people. All I could do was say thank you. And thank you for fixing it because it sure needed fixed. > At MSU/NSCL (National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab) they > have insane stuff with massively excessive training required > to do anything. So, to use a small chain hoist to lift > something that is just a bit heavy for two people to lift by > hand, you have to have crane training, and go through all > the rigamarole required to lift a central air conditioner > over people's heads. There's lots more, it gets pretty crazy. Yup that too. Chances are such places were a union shop & lots of those places are busy protecting the crane operators job. > Jon > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- 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 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
