Sudden extreme employment

[Darthomas]

Laid off May 4.
Unemployment until Aug 18.
I guess they needed an electrician.
Worked 10 hour days Monday to Friday,
14 hours Saturday, and tonight, begin 9 PM to 6 AM shift, or maybe 8 to 5.
Gonna be a good first paycheck.
No end of failures, faults and mystery problems to diagnose.
Find 'em and fix 'em.
Rebuilt failed $$$ Siemens 3 phase inverter drive on the spot rather than pull the whole unit and mix/match parts from the wrong drive the lead electrician purchased, we have water cooled, he bought an air cooled unit,and we don't have air conditioned cabinets!
110 degrees on the mezzanine where this was. Job done in 5 hours instead of 18.
I think they like me, I never even submitted a resume, just had multiple recommendations.
Now if I can just get packed up to move out of this house by Aug 15!

 

[joseph p.]

yeah ,,,good tradesman.

 

[eric383]

Congrats on the new job and good luck.

 

[69a100]

Wish I could get that lucky! Good for you.

 

[Darthomas]

My supervisor recommends using the machine shop mechanics to modify a new motor mount to prevent separation on driver's side.

Off to install rear seat belts in my friend's
1963 Valiant, it never had them.

Thanks for the well wishes.

 

[Mike67]

Sounds like your fortunes have changed for the better, congratulations!
A good electrician is worth their weight in gold to a shop that has drives and other control systems compared to contactors cost & time savings when a machine is down.

 

[Darius]

Congrats Bro! Nothing like a great motor control guy.

 

[MarPar]

Great to hear things are lookin up for ya, Tom!

 

[GetX'd]

Congratulations - it looks like the loss the old company brought on themselves was your new companies gain! Good/great tradesman are hard to find.

 

[Car Nut]

Congratulations!

 

[Budnicks]

Congrats, I hope it lasts as long as you want it to, too !!!

Idle minds are good...LOL

Yep great tradesman are getting harder & harder to find...
it's like they don't want people going into the trades,
they {schools} push college instead, like trades are
demeaning/beneath them, that's great for those that want & need it...
{I went to college too, mainly because of sports, I'm not being hypocritical,
I don't work as an Architect or engineer, I was a contractor/consultant thou}

BUT IMO; we have an over abundance of Managers, lawyers, accountants,
marketing, politicians, astrologists, many other "professions",
desk dwellers/cubical occupiers/office jockey's & yes-men etc.
that are unemployed or underemployed, in serious debt, because of the glut too...

The world still needs good carpenters, plumbers, electricians,
ditch diggers, equip. opp.'s, roofers, tile-men/Masons, Lathers,
millwrights, machinists, pipefitters, even welders {LOL}
steel workers & general laborers etc.

People that work with their hands, true tradesman/professionals...

Thank God for the working man...

 

[conv67bdere]

Great news on falling into a new job - your multiple referrals speak volumes of your work ethic . . . hope it's a win/win situation !

 

[MoparMitch]

Congrats Indeed !! Men of Integrity are very hard to find !!

 

[Darthomas]

I'm considering the recent layoff, just like what happened between jan-apr 2009 as my industrial sabbatical, since it's the second time of 2 months off, and separated by 7 years.
Must mean I'm some kind of tenured in this universe.
Friday I was working on infeed headstop sensors on a Mistubishi sheetfed press, and while I was looking at a manual, a guy who had been pushing a pushbroom came by and said "You must be the new electrician!", and we talked for 5 minutes. He was in a pinstripe shirt, so I figured he was supervisor in the sheetfed department.
Nope, turns out he was the owner, and runs the pushbroom a good deal of the day to watch how his place is working.
Mt first contact with this place was him calling me in early June, when I was overloaded trying to sell the house.
It's refreshing to see the owner taking intense interest and not ashamed to actually sweep in 100 degree heat.

 

[metaldad]

congrats on the new gig.

 

[Ranger16]

Congrats Tom!

 

[alsant]

Congrats !!

 

[NJRR]

I'm considering the recent layoff, just like what happened between jan-apr 2009 as my industrial sabbatical, since it's the second time of 2 months off, and separated by 7 years.
Must mean I'm some kind of tenured in this universe.
Friday I was working on infeed headstop sensors on a Mistubishi sheetfed press, and while I was looking at a manual, a guy who had been pushing a pushbroom came by and said "You must be the new electrician!", and we talked for 5 minutes. He was in a pinstripe shirt, so I figured he was supervisor in the sheetfed department.
Nope, turns out he was the owner, and runs the pushbroom a good deal of the day to watch how his place is working.
Mt first contact with this place was him calling me in early June, when I was overloaded trying to sell the house.
It's refreshing to see the owner taking intense interest and not ashamed to actually sweep in 100 degree heat.

It's a good sign that the owner pushes a broom.

 

[MarPar]

It's a good sign that the owner pushes a broom.

damn right.

IMHO, in order to be an effective owner/manager; one MUST know/do EVERY job. from the "bottom" to the top.

 

[kiwigtx]

Congrats and well done on the new job.