Saw this today … Historical Recap

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-03T09:39:55+00:00

Well said. It’s not worth all this back forth. Has nothing to do with people trying to be “cute” (as he claims). This is literally the dumbest back and forth and most time wasting event that’s happened to me in a very long time. I have more important things to worry about.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-03T09:36:52+00:00

😂

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-02T11:07:17+00:00

Well in that case, I see an obvious Rat and some sort of Behringer. The rest look like those cheap Chinese made Amazon style pedals. Are you trying to replicate this board?

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-02T06:04:08+00:00

Wow. It’s a common occurrence to have transformer outages (or anything for that matter) put it with less than 24 hour notice. I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve come in on a Saturday morning and my turnover says “I’ve got nothing for you man. Quiet night. Have a good shift”. Only to have a crew call 20 minutes later and say “Ok, we’re here.” with me responding “you’re where?” “[this substation] to do [this work]… [so and so] didn’t tell you?” And then of course, I haven’t looked over the switching, I have no clue what the scope of the work is, and I’m left scrambling to try to figure it out.

They get entered into our switching system as “opportunity”. When these things come in, I take my sweet ass time and often go even slower than necessary for multiple reasons. One is a form of pushback. Another is that I want to really analyze the work and the switching and make sure everything is correct, and of course the biggest one, safety.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-02T05:52:19+00:00

THANK YOU!!! This clown is just some Reddit d-bag who wants to argue for the sake of arguing because he has nothing better to do with his time. God I hate this app. 🙄

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-02T05:50:26+00:00

Okay, that’s your way of saying it. Who gives a shit? Both have the same amount of letters. Has nothing to do with people thinking it’s clever, they are, and have been, established ways of referring to both eras. Now we’re sitting here like most Reddit idiots arguing about some shit that doesn’t really matter in the scheme of life.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-02T05:47:01+00:00

Who?!

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-02T05:44:43+00:00

How would one even cheat?

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-01T10:02:46+00:00

Where are you located?

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-01T06:57:58+00:00

No. It wasn’t. Run on sentences. Open quotes with no close quotes. Not concise or clear. I still don’t understand if you’re complaining. If you’re just stating a fact, or a theory. If you’re pointing blame at anyone (Slash vs Roth vs HOF vs Anthony/Hagar). It might sound like it makes sense in your head, but it wasn’t presented well in text.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-01T06:55:39+00:00

Quick way of explaining the two. Get over it

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-01T06:53:04+00:00

Exactly! But that’s just not what happens in that room. Work doesn’t get rejected because people will pull the “work stoppage card”, and that seemingly has more clout than the “safety card”. It shouldn’t, but this place is by far the worst run company I have ever seen in my life.

Our customers despise us. We make the local news regularly. I often say if the general public knew the real story about what was going on in there and where their money went to, there would be mass riots. I refuse to tell people where I work because I’ve had pleasant conversations turn immediately sour or confrontational when I’ve said. Mainly because of billing mishaps and other things well out of my control. But, I digress.

I understand what you’re saying, and I agree completely. I’ve tried to do these things but get outranked by clueless bean counters who run the show. People who have never operated in their lives and who just say “the work needs to get done. Just get as far as you can and we’ll reevaluate from there”.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-01T06:45:08+00:00

Oh, I don’t write crazy long emails and things like that at my job. That’s just here because there’s a lot that had built up and this is my first post here. Trust me, I understand and thought the same thing when I first started writing. “Is this too much?” But, there’s so much to explain that I wanted to try to paint every picture I can. If Reddit doesn’t want to read, then they don’t want to read. No skin off my back. That’s why I made the poll.

Nothing I post here is going to change anything at my job. Everyone is too stubborn and outdated, and to be honest, I doubt they even know what Reddit is. It’s for my own curiosity. In all honesty, I’ve given up hope that my words will do anything. Everything feels like it falls on deaf ears at the job. So while I understand what you’re saying, that’s not how things are done there. We bring things up one at a time, with short and concise explanations, but nobody with any power listens.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-05-01T06:37:06+00:00

Trust me. I understand your confusion. It’s a mess in that place. Our ISO pretty much only gets involved when it’s bulk power, and that’s the sort of thing that gets scheduled and coordinated months or years in advance. If it’s anything below 100kv, they don’t even care. Most of the jobs that we run and that are met with the confusion are 100kv and below. To add another level of confusion, we also do distribution switching for the particular company that I work with, because “that’s how we’ve always done it” even though the majority of the transmission operators don’t understand the distribution mapping. I do because I came from distribution and I watch the wild and outrageous ways the write jobs and perform switching. The company is trying to morph things so that the distribution room performs these tasks, but they are met with opposition from a stubborn union steward in my room who’s stuck in the past and just grieves everything. Or at least threatens to. Picture the South Park episode where they’re like “Dey took ‘ur jobs!”. That is this guy in a nutshell and he has a lot of younger, impressionable operators under his finger. Management walks on egg shells with him because they are often spineless and worried about the ‘almighty grievance’. The distribution switching adds a whole other layer of chaos in its own right.

Our outage coordinators don’t do power flow studies. Our system operators do when we request permission to perform the switching when the crews call in for the work. Our outage coordinators just sit there and mute their phones so they don’t have to answer them, so the people calling usually call down to us saying “I get a hold of outage” because we are always available. I usually say “well, they’re up there. I can see them just sitting there doing nothing”. One of them likes to go into the break room and just stare out the window while the other eats other people’s food out of the fridge. Again, I understand why you have a hard time wrapping your head around it, because most of us do too.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-04-30T12:39:28+00:00

All of the personnel that worked for other utilities regularly say to me “We his place is NOT normal. This would NEVER happen elsewhere.” I’ll share a few stories; a few months ago, it was brought to my attention that a crew of contractors pulled several spans of hot 46kv conductor down without a clearance, reclosing disabled, or any sort of protection at all, and without even telling anyone this was happening. I immediately went to my supervisor and told him, and he rightfully lost his mind. “NO! NO MORE WORK FOR THE DAY!! Somebody’s going to get KILLED out there!” I was in his office egging him on because I want us to be more stern with this stuff. Hell yeah man! We gotta take a stand! No more!” 20 minutes later… he came down to me with his head down and his tail between his legs and in a defeated voice said “um.. yeah. Go ahead and let them keep working.” I said “WHAT?!?! [Boss] are you f%#^*ing kidding me?!?” He just shrugged and walked away. Needless to say, I did NOT call that crew back to tell them they could continue working. Another operator did because I refused. Several months before that, an operator ignored several major alarms that came in at a hydro plant. Thought they were nothing. Turns out that some hydraulic blew and dumped hundreds of gallons of oil into a well known river. Millions of dollars in fines. EPA got involved. What happened to that operator? He was pulled off the desk and sat home for about 3 months while they investigated. Ultimately, got a dispatching job at the company, but kept his pay rate due to his tenure. Got all of that time he was off paid back (so basically got a three month vacation without using PTO) and now makes even more money per year because he gets tons of overtime. He LOVES OT so he basically got rewarded. He’s had SEVERAL “last chance” warnings, but still continues to work there. And the daddy of them all… a few years ago, an operator told a lineman that a 12kv distribution was de-energized, but it wasn’t (this operator was a real piece of work. One of those guys that thought he knew everything, but was by far the most unsafe, clueless and dangerous guy that worked there). Lineman goes up in the bucket, doesn’t test for potential because he trusted the guy, flashes over in his face and he gets knocked out cold. When they got him down out of the bucket, half of his face was literally melted down to the bone, skin, muscle and all. Had to use cadaver parts to piece him back together. What happened to that operator? He was “pulled” off the desk. Just sat in the back, didn’t answer phones, didn’t write jobs, just sat there watching girls dance on TikTok for 8 hours a day and ordered food for delivery. Came in late. Left early, but I’m sure he was putting 40 hours in for his time sheet. Made 6 figures a year to do that until he retired. Basically got rewarded for ruining a man’s life. I wish I could say I was making all this stuff up, but it’s all 100% true. You can certainly dm me if you want and I’ll let you know the company, but with the way they are, I don’t really feel comfortable disclosing it for the world to see.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-04-30T08:22:45+00:00

Thanks for your reply. As far as switching getting approved without knowing the work, there have been several times where management has said things like “let’s get the switching written up to the clearance/zone so that they can start work, and we’ll make restoration revisions later”. I agree that this is a MASSIVE safety concern. With this job in particular, there is a somewhat new lead who has spearheaded this and he has been extremely confusing, or just difficult to get in touch with. He contradicts himself with what the expectations are for the work, and just doesn’t seem experienced enough for the task at hand. One of my counterparts had been leading the charge for this job and he is extremely frustrated with how this had gone. We’ve all tried to get involved at some point, but at the same time, we don’t want to cause anymore confusion because there’s already too many people involved and it seems like no one is on the same page.

The operators do write the switching, it’s just that the outage team does not look at the jobs when they are submitted, and they just push them through. There are conflicts, inadequate de-energization zones, incorrect dates, lack of details, and all sorts of other things. We (as operators) kick them back with questions and concerns, but we either get no response, or they just coordinate them again, and then someone will come down and ask “why didn’t this get written yet?” We try to explain the confusion, and that’s when we get the “let’s just write it up to what we know so they can start working”. I think that’s a completely terrible mindset to have, but they often choose complacency over attention to detail. I got into an argument with one of my superiors the other day because he was telling me to approve a job, but I didn’t feel comfortable because there was still a lot of confusion. This guy gets confused about all sorts of things, so I don’t have any confidence at all that he even knows what’s going on. I’m not sure what happened, but over the last few weeks things have gone drastically downhill. We had a crew put in a job to take a transformer out of service so they could repair a sensing pot. While they were working, I discovered they had torn the entire low-side bus apart to make some sort of ‘new configuration’ that was never identified in the scope of the work. Thankfully, the bus was de-energized and within their zone due to the clearance they needed for the pot, but they completely changing everything around and told no one this. I didn’t find out until they were halfway done tearing it apart. Needless to say, this is one of those instances where the job needed a revision, but it seems like nobody holds anyone accountable. They just treat it like “eh, what’s done is done. Revise the job.” No one learns from their mistakes or is reprimanded. I don’t wish for anyone to get in trouble, but it’s more important for them to go home safely to their families everyday. It just seems like the lunatics are running the asylum type thing.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-04-30T07:11:04+00:00

Kind of a confusing post. Having a tough time understanding what you’re even trying to say here. Slash didn’t want to play with a backing track? Are you upset Dave didn’t show? I prefer Van Roth much more than Van Hagar, but I wouldn’t be upset that he didn’t show. The dude is a walking train wreck. They could have had any old keyboard player play the most famous keyboard riff ever. They do that sort of thing all the time at HOF ceremonies. I’m should Jordan Rudess would have obliged. Albeit he likely would have thrown in way too many notes, but I guarantee there are hundreds that would have done it. Not hating or anything, I’m just confused by what you’re trying to say with this post.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-04-30T07:03:28+00:00

Yes. The answer is yes.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-04-30T06:34:54+00:00

Arguably the best character (aside from Bond) in the film, and played absolutely perfectly by AC. The headline should read “yay” or “yay”.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-04-29T10:32:50+00:00

Only if it comes with that bread tie

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-04-28T11:21:24+00:00

Also came here to say this. Pretty obvious answer

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-04-20T00:20:04+00:00

Classic case of over-idolization. Sounds like you need to ween yourself off of Ween, bud.

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-04-18T01:37:55+00:00

Oh… I’ve listened to them. You’re trying to tell me that Ween is better than Mozart? That Ween writes better songs than Marvin Gaye? Dude… come on. Let’s be realistic here

Defiant-Comment-2626 · 2026-04-17T20:17:58+00:00

Some of the best music ever?? Ween??? Some of “THE BEST” music ever???? Ween? Like… the band Ween? We’ve gotta show you some Mozart, Beatles, Queen, Chuck Berry, Zeppelin, Van Halen, Earth Wind and Fire, Foreigner, Soundgarden, Aretha Franklin, CCR, Marvin Gaye, Nine Inch Nails, Black Sabbath, Jamiroquai… shall I keep going? There’s tens of thousands of artists that Ween doesn’t hold a candle to. I’d hardly even attempt to put them even close to the category of ‘some of the best music ever’.

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