Good things happen at the scrapyard where I work

I have worked for NES as a burner/crane operator for three years now. When I go on road jobs with the crane,our maintenance supervisor feels it is his duty to come and supervise the job.As usual,he over rides me,screws something up and tells the boss it was all my fault. He is a real (I will put this politely) boot licker.
Friday morning I was called in to the office and promoted to maintenance supervisor with a fat pay raise,a company phone and my own office. For some unknown reason the aboriginal maintenance supervisor was given his severance pay and sent down the road. My first official move was to promote our WitOutPapers maintence helper to my old position as a burner. He is functionaly illiterate,overweight 63 year old and cant weld so he is of no use to me. He came in Saturday morning,cleaned out his locker and quit.
This leaves me with three broken excavator mounted shears,a broken and mangled car bailer,two Senibogen cranes sorely in need of attention and a 98 Freightshaker with a timberjack mounted crane that has issues.
Massive overtime,here I come. It is so nice to get ahead for a change and I guess I will be doing nothing but eat sleep and work for the next year to get all these problems sorted out




life is good these days

Did you get promoted from an hourly rate to a salary as well? Tough break.
There's countless stories of people who are in the position to make a company work well, but instead allow preventative maintenance to suffer horrendously while making the books look better(they usually get promoted, leaving the fix-ups to the poor fella who has to fix what they left un-maintained for years), and the guy behind them is expected to make everything work on a minimal budget, which is sometimes impossible. Maybe in your case that's all different, and I hope so, but it still sounds like you've got a long road ahead.
Good luck with it man.

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

Originally Posted by hmburner

For some unknown reason the aboriginal maintenance supervisor was given his severance pay and sent down the road. My first official move was to promote our WitOutPapers maintence helper to my old position as a burner. He is functionaly illiterate,overweight 63 year old and cant weld so he is of no use to me. He came in Saturday morning,cleaned out his locker and quit.

Maybe he had just a little more sense than you thought he had ; )

We never dropped his pay when we promoted him,so he made 2 bucks and hour more than I did. We are cutting 3 x 4 bales of rebar only and a good burner can outcut the crane,which means you sit for a half hour waiting then another half hour while the crane cleans up and lays out four more bales to cut. You sit longer if the crane breaks down. All this and a heated Uhaul truck. In Canada you cant collect unemployment if you quit. Makes no sense to me

Originally Posted by hmburner

the aboriginal maintenance supervisor ..... our WitOutPapers maintence helper

Makes sense to me, I still recall your ship scrapping thread, you blamed the helper. Until you can take credit for your own leadership, you really have no business bashing the help ; )