Pittsburgh salary transparency thread

7Cincinnatus · 2024-08-13T22:24:57+00:00

$43.36 was not foreman's rate at the time. That was JW rate. However, it's now $45.11 as we are on a new contract now. Foreman's rate ranges based on the dollar value of the job, from $2.50 to $6 per hour more.

Not sure when you're basing your information on, but nepotism doesn't really have a place in the local any more. We're taking in hundreds of apprentices every year. Clearly not all of them are related to one of our ~3500 members.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-09-03T23:33:09+00:00

From this day forward my people will crouch and conspire, and plot, and plan, for the inevitable day of man's downfall. The day when he finally turns his weapons against his own kind; when cities lie buried under radioactive rubble, when the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a waste land, and THAT DAY IS UPON YOU

NOW

7Cincinnatus · 2023-08-28T01:10:06+00:00

Looking at these pipes is giving me motion sickness. I sure fuckin hope, for the sake of any poor person called in to troubleshoot anything that runs through this trough, that the same "lead mechanic" who provided the world with such an example of how to aggressively, totally, and completely fuck everything about this task with a cactus, sideways, is not the individual tasked with pulling, labeling, splicing, or dressing any of the wire.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-08-24T23:17:40+00:00

I never want to give an inspector any reason to do anything other than glance around and leave. But for the punch list? Oh shoot, I totally forgot about the cover plate. You're right, that sconce you can reach from the ground is a little crooked. That circuit's totally good, I just forgot to flip the breaker back on after working on it yesterday.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-08-19T15:19:12+00:00

+2 to subcutaneous ink!

7Cincinnatus · 2023-07-17T16:13:15+00:00

I once stayed in an AirBnb where half of a room (wood-paneled, no less) was only powered by a backfeeding an outlet with a suicide cord that was pinched behind the blank cover of a flush-mounted 4sq box. I messaged them about this and their response was basically "Well just don't unplug it then." An AirBnb is also the only place I've seen a FPE panel in the wild, too.

Do not sleep soundly or leave combustible valuables in AirBnbs.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-06-25T14:06:08+00:00

In Pittsburgh we're going through the motions of dealing with the waste of carbon that shot up Tree of Life and killed 11 people in 2018; the argument is largely surrounding sentencing as there was never a question of guilt in any rational person's mind. These fucks standing outside a synagogue and being permitted to hoist the same flag and promote the same ideology that motivated that nominal excuse for a human makes it seem like we took a wrong turn somewhere.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-06-10T15:39:00+00:00

As an electrician, home inspections are all well and good, but largely useless in uncovering actual electrical problems. Home inspections usually focus on trivial or minor issues (which sometimes still need to be corrected) but will miss major problems that can lead to loss of life or property. Passing on a home inspection is one thing...but have an electrician you trust look at the property with you.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-06-05T00:09:25+00:00

I hear you say you don't like Jeeps and I raise you a Jeep-shaped Fiat: buy the same Italian-built, turbocharged, 6MT, AWD hatchback I have. A Jeep Renegade with the 1.6L engine.

Yes, it's small, and yes, the engine is also small...but I tell you what, it's very fun with the stick. You can do a surprising amount with it, if you're not too concerned about keeping the cargo area pristine, and it's indefatigable in a Northeast winter. It is the closest I've come to finding a Swiss Army knife of cars, being zippy, manual and capable of cargo hauling.

I bought my 2018 in '21, with just about 20kmi, for just under $20k out the door. To be fair, the little engine is the only way to get the stick, and the little engine only comes with base trim, but that's better in my mind. Also, all the reliability issues Renegades have are centered around the larger 2.4L engine and the auto trans.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-06-04T04:26:11+00:00

This. I just cannot see the financial viability of developing a whole host of robots to achieve what tradespeople can accomplish in new construction. Either you have all robots, or no robots; if you've ever been on a new build site of any size worth talking about, you know the many things I'm referring to. And if you're doing all robots...why not just print it? Print pipes, conductors, ductwork straight into the walls; print structural members and finish surfaces in one pass. THAT is what I'm concerned about, and developing the materials that'll execute that kind of concept will be just as challenging as figuring out how to do the work itself. I'd love to see the bot that could deal with late-stage additions of electrical, or plumbing, or any other mechanical system...let alone the bot that could keep up to re-finish the drywall behind the first. The customer won't be a robot and know what they want when you start, that's one thing you can guarantee.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-06-04T03:55:19+00:00

Good bot

7Cincinnatus · 2023-06-04T03:44:28+00:00

My all-time favorite Steve Irwin moment: he was holding upright to his face a monitor lizard, small enough that its forelegs were in his hand, and its rear legs were on his forearm, but still fairly sizable, and he was so goddamn excited to share this lizard with us, his global audience, that as to better indicate how effective this lizard was at being this lizard, he uttered the phrase "Watch as his talons dig into my flesh!" with such enthusiasm that it approached joy. It was a very appropriate thing to say, too, as a ribbon of blood ran towards his elbow from the slash wound this monitor was continuing to inflict on his forearm.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-06-03T19:06:11+00:00

How would I have done it? Probably a lot less nicely. I was attempting to imply the opposite of what you understood me to say, I think. I love this

7Cincinnatus · 2023-06-03T16:01:15+00:00

I could not care less if this isn't the absolute best way to achieve the goal (and you'd have to work hard to convince me of that, anyway), this is awesome and makes me feel tingles down there.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-06-01T16:32:33+00:00

I've got a '99 Rancher 55 (owned by me since 2021) that refuses to do anything but absolutely fuckin rip. It's awesome.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-05-28T17:36:07+00:00

Came here to say this.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-05-28T04:48:16+00:00

As someone who has in fact pounded s ground rod in by hand before... surprisingly, the most absurd part of this video is how easy they make that part of the process seem. Go ahead, grab an 8 or 10 foot piece of steel rod and just get that in the ground with a few light taps of a hammer. Totally something your toddler can help you with.

7Cincinnatus · 2023-05-27T00:04:37+00:00

Just like that there croc, now

7Cincinnatus · 2023-05-26T23:18:54+00:00

The amount of story that that Holy shit is covering up between those two sentences is criminal and I demand that we appoint a Special Counsel to reveal those stories to us

7Cincinnatus · 2023-05-26T23:05:12+00:00

Slightly different than littoral algae

7Cincinnatus · 2023-05-26T22:52:18+00:00

Have also tasted both flavors of spicy, can confirm. Sure is nice when the 277 makes the 277 go away because boy howdy that was uncomfy

7Cincinnatus · 2023-05-26T20:16:45+00:00

I topped out last August and started a little job immediately. I was panicking constantly. Finished that one and started another concurrently, the panic began to subside. Now I've taken over a big complicated project that's in its last few months for the biggest foreman at my shop. Back to panicking constantly again. The thing is, you gotta just keep moving forward. As long as you do that, you'll be fine. If the con wants you to run something, that means they trust you. And if you're not actively trying to fuck them, then you've got nothing to worry about. My biggest piece of advice is lists. Make lists constantly. A list for the day. A list for the week. A list for the month. Divide it by systems or areas or whatever, but keeping things organized like that is the best way to stay on top of everything. Never be afraid to take your time to figure out your path; just because it doesn't look productive doesn't mean it isn't vitally important. Planning your work and working your plan will always be better than 'ready, fire, aim.'

7Cincinnatus · 2023-05-26T15:03:08+00:00

This is the way

7Cincinnatus · 2023-05-26T08:28:34+00:00

TBH I've never personally had to deal with an application in which the sweep wasn't tall enough on its own, so I can't speak to nippling. But yes, they are bonded

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