We're still hiring. Starting pay is $16hr. (Not bad for Midwest). No experience needed. No diploma or GED needed. Just gotta show up and be breathing air...

 

Ima start one upping you. I assume you are in private industry, so at least you CAN fire someone.

Government industrial maintenance be like:

AC unit 1 of 3 for our server room. Contactors 1 and 3 wouldn't pull in because safety switch was doing it job. Luckily it failed in some other way before the pressure relief had to do its job. The employee still works here. He makes $30/hr.

edit- *** i think i posted this in here when it happened. Oh well. Ill have plenty more

 

My god... Why wouldn't they just jump the coil like everyone else?

 

Because that requires understanding how a contactor works in the first place. The same employee tests for live voltage with a screwdriver and ground, instead of you know with a meter or something. We only have literally a couple hundred flukes laying around here. But who am I to judge.

 

 

Touche.

 

Oh good, leme go take a pic of something right quick lol.

Edit- pic tooken

 

I've got a few geniuses around me, too.



For those who don't know, that's a 60,000lbs machine and parts of it are 8ft or more underwater. It's still running, barely.



This has happened more than once.

 

I'm curious how you got it out? Mud is like a giant suction cup.

 

That stuck machine is awesome. You know the guy got it to that point and was still trying to get out by itself.

This is MCM 1500 cable... Good to up to 700ish amps.




Did i post this? Maybe i did.

Either way, 2000F and nobody in the area noticed a thing... Was probably a nice lightshow too.

 

I bet it looked like an old time flash photograph.



Usually the guy who got the machine stuck will only make it worse. The one in the picture should have stopped way before this point and waited for help and certain supplies. But stupidity and stubborness seem to lay eggs and multiply between certain ears.

I've had to get them out and it is work.

 

Usually it involves 4 or 5 crane mats and shoving them beneath the tracks of the machine with the bucket while moving the tracks to get the machine up on them.



Here's one who is not stuck using them:

 

Even when the operator does everything correctly it's risky with some of the specialty machines we sell.

 

We had a loader burn that was on rent recently.

The granulated sulphur caught fire and the people didn't go move the machine as the fire slowly went towards it. They had plenty of time. $280k machine.

 

sometimes at work, people still put images as the background-image in the css, in a blank div with the width and height of the div set inline to display it.

 

Since this is the kindergarten class and you didn't post a picture I have no idea what the **** you're talking about.

 

I assume this is in a location where, if it fails, it will in no way cause severe property damage and / or bodily harm.



Dafuq?

Was the bolt loose on the terminal nearest where the failure occurred?


I wish I had a glorious failure pic to share. Most of the stupidity in my shop simply results in this:



Well, it used to back when that was a thing.


So, here's a picture I took inside the Blue Line station at ORD recently:



Train-control systems amuse me.

 

Last couple of days have been fun. Repairing the upper wing skin of a Boeing 757, crawling inside the wing fuel tanks.



This video shows the conditions inside, only in the wing there isn't even room to sit, so it's crawling and turning in limited space all day while dragging hoses behind you. good times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giEM...ature=youtu.be