I went from 16 hr to 20 hr with a promise of 5 hr more when I prove myself. All the overtime I want with time and a half after 44 hrs. The big problem with the shears are that no build up welding has been done in three years on the shearheads and my predessor (who was very proud he never finished high school) had no idea how to measure in thousands of and inch. Wear tolerance is 20 thou and the worst shearhead measures at 750 thou.He got the job because he has been a bailer operator with the company for thirty years and spends a lot of time kissing the owners ***.Last christmas,I gave my supervisor a copy of my maintenance mechanics diploma and started the ball rolling. My yard supervisor is wise to the former maintence supervisors way of padding expenses and the thefts that went on (over five hundred new industrial batterys and a new mig welder comes to mind) So I guess it all came to a boil,they gave him his walking papers and I was qualified for the job
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