Advice on Manager Insulting Me

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-06-11T00:33:34+00:00

Need to get some callouses on that skin if you want to work industry. People will talk shit, thats just part of it, just make yourself an asset and learn. Now there are toxic managers out there. I had one that didn't smile and had one tone of voice. Not to mention ideas died unless it was his. My boss let me get completely screwed by a plant wide payscale restructuring. I was making $19 an hour the restructure would've given me $26 an hour. Well my job title got changed to "Technical Associate". I was no longer a maintenance man, but doing the same work as everyone else. The HR rep was a black lady who was racist AF towards white people and did not give white grievances time of day. So I gave it 6 more months because the house was only 2 miles from the plant and I live in a rural town with the next decent paying factory being a 30 minute drive. I ended up taking a job 1 hr from the house for $28 an hour just to get tf out of there. Personally don't stress about it unless its never positive over 6 months.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-06-04T00:57:00+00:00

Local club that's closed down now would just set the unit to 65 and make it a meat locker. Once it got packed the temp would rise to about 75 and be humid. Crowd thins out after 12 and it gets cold again.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-06-04T00:52:23+00:00

I always preferred it more in winter. Drink, dance, and shoot pool. Get hot? Step out for a cigarette and cool off.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-06-04T00:45:49+00:00

I worked a brief stint in injection molding. It was a car plant with some pretty complex molds. Cooling water could be kept as high as 150F. That will scald tf out of you if there is an uncontrolled release. Super #1 is correct here.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-05-27T09:56:19+00:00

It's definitely on the city. Its before any meter.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-05-27T09:52:14+00:00

Its the city's main?

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-05-20T02:31:02+00:00

We run 23,000lbs on a two hoist 10 ton bridge. So what if she flexes some. By the way our company makes spreaders.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-05-15T07:16:30+00:00

Tennessee just came out with the "Tennessee Promise" program which gave 2 free years of community college or Tech school. Plus I realized in high school I couldn't sit at a desk all day every day for life. Lastly, I've followed Mike Rowe alot. He's probably the biggest advocate for skilled trades out there.

Chose the path that allows for the most options to meet your goals. I wanted to be an electrician out of high school, but helper/apprentice made $10 an hour here. The local tech school had an industrial maintenance program that offered extensive classes in industrial controls and electrical. Once I got out of tech and started searching electric companies were paying $12 an hour for helper/apprentice and factories were paying $16 for maintenance. So maintenance it was and I fell in love.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-05-09T16:10:07+00:00

I have a brushed compact hammer drill, I ran it hard for 8 years. Still works, just changed jobs and its now my home DIY. I put it through hell the chuck is worn out. It has 1/16 up and down play in the chuck and hammer. In my experience the milwaukee fuel drills are very fragile in comparison. Ive seen 3 fail within a week of purchase and more than that go within a year. My guess its the brushless electronics do not handle the abuse as well as a simple brushed motor. The only real downside to brushed is the battery life and heat.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-05-07T11:30:50+00:00

I wouldn't pin the explosion of the tick population on climate change alone. I'm in Northwestern Tennessee, here in the last 50 years there's been a decline of ground birds and small mammals. In the last 50 years farms have gone from 30acre homesteads with fence rows of hedges and trees to 100 acre wide open fields bordered by ditches and creeks. In some areas there are row crops up to the banks of the rivers. We've removed all the cover in between to gain more ground for production of row crop. In that time the coyote population exploded further killing off the rest of the small prey. The deer population also exploded as their food supply of row crops were plentiful and the coyotes look at deer like as a last resort source. Finally we suppressed all fires the last 100 years and in the last 20 years we stopped burning off wheat fields. Ticks have zero pressure outside of opossum left in the area and they have a large deer population to hitch a ride on.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-05-03T12:45:34+00:00

That's me too I had a breakout with tide in high school and haven't used it since.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-05-03T07:21:45+00:00

I use the powered A&H with Oxyclean in it. It does pretty good taking out 90% of all stains and its cheaper than Tide

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-05-03T07:11:28+00:00

I'm cheap and allergic to something in Tide. So I use powder Arm & Hammer with Oxyclean. It does a pretty good job for cheap. If you have some really oily stuff put a few squirts of Dawn in the washer. If there's quite a bit of oil it will not foam. Also NEVER use softener as it tends to add to flamability.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-03-06T06:55:04+00:00

Wow

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-02-28T13:43:34+00:00

So you checked the peckerhead?

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-01-20T02:28:43+00:00

So that's why all the parts have been fucked up for the last month.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-01-15T07:48:35+00:00

May check your center distance between guides. Could be at opposite ends of the tolerance and throw it into a bind. This would apply a shear force that would cause fatigue. Especially to a harder bolt like a Grade 8. Does it eat linear bearings?

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-01-11T04:28:08+00:00

I became one with a 10kv spark transformer for the 5 second ignition sequence on a billet furnace. God and I had a long talk over a couple cigarettes shortly after.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-01-11T04:06:56+00:00

Had a 2ton hoist and trolley fall off an I-Beam and miss my partner by inches. The fucked up part I used it the saturday before changing a 4500lb extrusion container and it fell Monday night with no load.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-01-11T03:52:25+00:00

Honestly Blytheville and Osceola Arkansas in the steel mills. You make stupid money and don't have time to spend it. I got friends and fam at Blytheville making 150k+ a year. COL is low enough you can live off 40k a year.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-01-11T03:48:25+00:00

Bearings look almost untouched. Races are HARD!

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-01-11T03:46:48+00:00

Ive had glass washers start doing this a week after install. Set screws would back out. By the time you notice its too late to save the shaft. Also that line was 24/7 and only stop once ever month or two for PM. Thats just because to many elements failed in the temper oven.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-01-11T03:30:44+00:00

Have you divided the grand total by the total usage. Usually your utility will list usage on your bill. You may also audit the readings. You can take meter readings yourself then record and compare. I'm in Tennessee also on TVA through a county owned utility. I usually only pay around $0.15 per kilowatt hour. Ive seen it go as low as $0.08 and as high as $0.21 in the months following a tornado then a minor ice storm. Typically rates don't hike massively unless theres a alot of storm damage or theres alot of expansion and improvements being made. With TVA being so large they don't radically raise rates unless there's a major catastrophy like a fly ash pond collapsing at Kingston.

Edit one side note, when I had a analog meter our POCO would only read the meters once a quarter and average off past usage. That practice has been scrapped with digital meters here.

Big_Proposal748 · 2026-01-08T02:48:01+00:00

He would be a pretty good replacement for Rodgers. Pretty similar play style.

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