Topic: Friday the 13th

[blackdiamond]

Today at work certainly lived up to being FRIDAY THE 13TH!

 

It easily ranted in the top three for crazy days in my five plus years on the job and was quite possibly #1.  I don't even know how to describe it but I will try:

I work at a Navy shipyard and am a structural engineer for submarine mainanence.  The engineeringing department has been told to "stay until you are finished" on four of the projects that are finishing up.  I have been the lead on one of the 688 projects and today I was dealing without about 5 urgent problems that were all unrelated but ranged from stupid production workers, to repairs that the shipyard isn't qualified to do, to trying to figure out why a cover was leaking by talking 3rd hand on the phone to a diver that was neck deep in water trying to inspect and evaluate the problem onsite.  The phone was ringing almost before  had hung it up from the last crisis call.  At one point I was working on writing the technical document to fix one of the problems, had mechanics on the phone for another, and a manager sitting at my desk asking about a third.  One of my bosses nearly turned into my secretary because all we could do was answer the phone and find out about the next major issue.  The guys doing the work in some case, to quote Dilbert, "don't know their own masses from a black hole."  Several days ago we issued technical direction to open a tank for some emergent work and today the mechanic said that he wasn't able to positively identify the tank hatch from the drawing.  Another job involves a material that is new to us so we have to be really careful how we repair it or we end up not having any approved methods for repair.  Today we ended up having to make a completly new part because they went crazy with the grinder and dug a 1/4 deep trench in the plate that we can't weld repair.  In reality the most frustrating part of that problem is that the whole design is moronic and serves very little purpose but as the engingeer I have to enfore the technical requirements.

 

I know I am just a big cry baby, but 

[blackdiamond [OP]]

My wife thanks you for reading this as it is one less time she has to hear it! 

[BLACKDOG]

its ok, only 5 hours until it is no longer friday the 13th.  But until then, I wouldn't move   don't wanna test your luck


sounds like a bummer of a bad day.  Did you get everything taken care of?

[DTB]

if it makes u feel better, I'm having a GOOD day




























ok probably not

[blackdiamond [OP]]

sounds like a bummer of a bad day.  Did you get everything taken care of?

I think everything got done assuming the guys doing the work use their brains.  I just hope I don't get called in the middle of the night with a stupid question...yes there ARE stupid questions.

[Shamb]

:shrug:  just another day, had one bad customer today... he wont be liking me very much when he gets his next cable bill.

people need to understand that if they want me to help them fix their problems then they're going to be curtious atleast!

[DTB]

with a stupid question...yes there ARE stupid questions.

no such thing as stupid questions....just stupid people.

[Lady Di]

It was Friday the 13th?

[jimbo74]

i almost got run over by an airplane

[blackdiamond [OP]]

i almost got run over by an airplane

I might have stepped in front of it begging for mercy. 

[jimbo74]

I might have stepped in front of it begging for mercy. 

well, it was about to back up, but it had its beacons on, and the stupid wingwalker cleared me to go behind it.... the gse crew didnt liek that very much, and i got chewed out for that

[topar]

I just got to work so PLEASE keep your bad luck 

[kneedownnate]

no such thing as stupid questions....just stupid people who ask questions

Fixed it for ya   Just work with the guys I work with, you'll quickly find out that there truly are stupid questions. 

[freds40]

Gots me a ticket Friday morning.  5 am and I rolled a stopsign in the middle of no where when I didn't see any headlights. After crossing the intersection a car pulls out behind me from no where. About a mile later he lit em up and pulled me over. Luckily he was decent and I can take traffic school to clear it.

[Hyena]

i sat at an ironworker for 10 hours punching holes and cutting 3/16,1/4, and 3/8's inch flatbar and plate.  and then i went wheelin!

[jimbo74]

haha something else i forgot to add to above... my boss was standing within 5 feet of me when gse chewed me out... why? because my boss was chewing me out for taking too long to setup when gse came back from pushing the plane out to the taxiway......

[Kurlee Daddee]

I left work to go home all happy on Friday. Got home checked my pockets and found out I had left my cell phone at work. And I don't have a land line phone at home. So I had to run back to work and then back home again. 45 miles and wasted gas for a cell phone. It could only happen on Frida the 13th.

[*FFC*]

The only bad thing about Friday (for me) is it dragged on like none other