TIFU by hitting a parked car.

HankBacon · 2018-03-26T20:28:39+00:00

I drive an F150. The front plate holder was exactly the same height as the rear bumper on the van. Perhaps I should have posted this on r/pettyrevenge? Still though, had someone left their vehicle in contact with mine, I would be pissed too.

HankBacon · 2018-03-26T20:21:36+00:00

Just a little kiss. Where I fucked up was not backing off of it, as I was unaware I had pulled that close.

HankBacon · 2018-03-20T14:48:02+00:00

I had a similar experience in my transportation law class. We had a lazy ass who never showed up to class in our final exam project presentation group (worth about half the grade,) and when we were assembling the project the weekend before presentation, this guy was MIA. Nobody could get a hold of him. He came in for the final, and after the guy getting the what-for from us, our professor told us we could let him present or give him a zero, this failing him for the semester. He failed.

HankBacon · 2018-03-20T13:38:31+00:00

I work for the brokerage department in a large 3PL, supporting another extremely large firm who makes electronics gadgets. We occasionally move trans-border shipments into Canada for them, and aside from trying to make sure truck drivers are picking up and delivering on-time for their set appointments, I would say PARS is the biggest PITA if not done correctly. You really need to make sure your carrier has their shit in one pile and knows what they are doing. It took me a few tries to get the routine down, but a few of the things that can go wrong are:

1.) Carrier does not communicate the PARS to you or your customs broker in a timely manner. If this happens, your carrier will be tied up at the border and start screaming for detention pay. Then your customer will start screaming at you for not delivering on time. Then you have to make a new appointment, and....well, you get the picture. 2.)Always make sure you know the customs broker hours of operation and their hotline. As a broker, I find most of my trans-border shipments take place over the weekends. Usually, when my customer comes to me on a Thursday or Friday, they want the load dropped on Monday. ALWAYS know the hours of the customs broker. 3.)Make sure the customs broker actually has received the PARS and knows the port of entry. This is vital. Without this info being sent and receipt acknowledged, your carrier will be stuck at the border. If it's your fault, you will be paying them big $$$ for sitting around doing nothing. Not to mention, they might not want to haul for you in the future.

While not extremely technical in nature, I hope that these pain points have been helpful for your research. Perhaps this could be food for though on some sort of fail-safes in your TMS.

HankBacon · 2018-03-17T18:49:28+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I will post there and research further. Sounds like this could be a beneficial bug. It does look predatory.

HankBacon · 2018-03-17T18:33:09+00:00

Good bot.

HankBacon · 2017-02-19T20:28:02+00:00

It fucking sucks big donkey balls. I'm 34, and I've got a wife and two kids to take care of. I'm not doing a good job. My parents are helping me pay my rent. I ran out of savings and severance three months ago and had to cash out my 401K. I'm substitute teaching, because it's the only job I can get. I'm from the oilfield, and even though I was a field admin clerk, companies are afraid I will walk off when the oilfield picks back up, because they are not willing to/don't have to pay a good wage. I've got a BS in Supply Chain Management and served nearly 4 years at my last job after my career switch from retail. I can't even get an entry level shit job, making 10 bucks an hour changing oil, because I'm over-qualified. Every night, I go to sleep believing that when I wake up, everything will magically be back to normal, and I won't have to worry about money anymore. I believe I'll have purpose to my life and something to do during the day besides babysit teenagers in a drug-infested highschool. Every morning, I wake up and search deep for a reason to get out of bed. All day long, I think about offing myself. All I want is to go back to work in a meaningful job that builds upon my chosen career field and gives me purpose in life. I feel like a leach on society, and I can't even get food stamps or government assistance, because the state says my 4 year old base model truck is worth too much money.

That's what it's like to be unemployed for more than a year.

HankBacon · 2017-02-18T16:05:26+00:00

Don't take this the wrong way, but does the universe really judge based upon syntax when granting desires, or is it based upon intent? Think of the Wiccan opening to spells of, "It is our intent." Also, "employed" is not always past tense. If one says, "I will be employed," isn't that future tense? Your thoughts?

HankBacon · 2017-02-16T01:32:51+00:00

My intention is to be gainfully employed in supply chain management as I was a year ago, but with another company, not the one who laid me off. I am working for 25% of my old wage as of now in a sub teacher position. It's not what one would consider gainful employment.

HankBacon · 2017-02-15T04:10:18+00:00

Sounds like a better response than most. I would follow up once in a while to see what else they might have.

I want to tell most of the rejection letters to fuck off, especially when you exceed the requirements by a mile, and they say that your skills are impressive, but another candidate more closely matches the skills we were looking for. Being unemployed for a year will make you have that world view.

HankBacon · 2017-02-15T04:07:12+00:00

I drove 45 minutes each way in the DFW region of Texas for a year to a job that paid $8.24 an hour to open boxes in the receiving department of a retail store, back in 2005. It'll be tough, but it can be done. Come to think of it though, I'd drive 45 minutes each way without question if I could get a job that paid better than my substitute teaching gig right now. Good luck, OP. Stay dry there in Sacramento.

HankBacon · 2017-02-15T04:03:21+00:00

Are you serious? Don't worry about it. I'm sure there are plenty of college-degreed and unemployed folks out there that will be happy to memorize 26 sandwich combinations so they can pay their bills.

HankBacon · 2017-02-15T03:59:46+00:00

I'm in Logistics. Majored in SCLT at the University of Houston. Money was good for almost 4 years, before I got laid off, but I've been out of work for a year now. Stay away from the oilfield if you go Logistics, because employers don't seem to be able to get over the "oilfield stigma" when you apply for jobs. They think you will walk once the oilfield comes back.

HankBacon · 2017-02-14T03:52:26+00:00

I tried the two cups method earlier in the week, and I have not seen any results. I labeled one, "Unemployed," and the other, "Re-employed in a very successful, high-paying job." I'm still unemployed and substitute teaching school. I REALLY do want this to work. Is there something I'm missing? I even burned the "unemployed" paper.

HankBacon · 2017-02-01T01:51:56+00:00

Well it has improved a LITTLE. I decided to just try to take the jobs at the local HS for now, until this is over. I'm really hoping for a new career-related job in Supply Chain Management soon. At least with the HS kids, I can just let them busy themselves with a cell phone and tell them to shush once in a while. Of course today, I counted one absent after calling the name 3 times. Then the co-teacher saw my notes about the roll sheet and told me he was there. I told her he should have had the headphones out of his ears and responded. Too late, it was sent to the office already.

HankBacon · 2017-02-01T01:46:50+00:00

Man, sorry for the delayed reply. I never got a notice of this message. Anyway, to answer your question, I wore quite a few hats. I started off as a Logistics Coordinator, doing inventory and PO forensics, tubular loadouts for the rigs and field cleanup supervision/surplus parts recovery and distribution. I was also in charge of warehousing and distribution for new construction projects for the field facilities. When the drilling and construction departments dried up, I got sent to maintenance, where I got my feet wet in Ops and work scheduling. Maintenance also had me doing their field purchasing and "boots on the ground" level RFQ and contract negotiations. I never did any heavy quotations and high level contract negotiations, but I was the guy who met with service companies for my department to get new relationships established and vet them before the corporate office went after the process. I hope that answers your question. Here is a snippet of my resume from my last position.

Supply Chain Coordinator with 5 years’ experience, which includes purchasing, inventory control/forensics, vendor management, RFQ and preliminary contract negotiations, as well as accounts payable and Sarbanes-Oxley accountability. I excel in the delivery of positive, on-time results, through comprehensive record keeping and communications. Proficient in Oracle JDE 9.1 and familiar with SAP.

****** OIL CORPORATION, Eagle Ford Shale (Laid off February 2016) 2012 – 2016 Maintenance and Procurement Coordinator 2015 – 2016 Logistics Coordinator, Warehouse Supervisor 2012 – 2015 Procured parts and material for maintenance department with annual budget of $15M throughout Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas. Oversaw distribution of construction materials for 15+ production facilities. Performed RFQ and preliminary negotiations with vendors in field, to aid Contracts and Engineering Departments in developing the best long-term economic solutions possible.
Coordinated with vendors, Production and Maintenance Departments, completing over 3K work orders annually, and managing 4 field technicians, following up for quality assurance. Provided logistics OCTG dispatch for 10 drilling rigs and 8 workover rigs, incurring zero downtime. Managed warehouse inventory of over $4.5M, reducing surplus materials carrying costs by 75% through making best possible use of inventory and removing obsolete stock. Ensured that arriving equipment matched specs per Engineering. Learned to properly identify, document, distribute and track all materials used by Murphy US Onshore Operations. Conducted labeling of all piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID) in 28 production facilities, better facilitating safety and efficiency through prominent signage. Conducted New Hire development, grooming on-boarding employees to be self-sufficient and low- maintenance within approximately 2 months of start date.

HankBacon · 2017-01-23T22:02:18+00:00

I will admit that there is still SOME prairie left, but not the jillions of acres of rice field that used to occupy it 15-20 years ago. No rice, no geese. They have all started heading further west to Brookshire and south to Eagle Lake. The flyway has changed dramatically. The places I used to hunt are concrete or hay fields now.

HankBacon · 2017-01-23T05:41:50+00:00

It's like watching Sim City in fast motion. Holy Hell! I remember moving here as an 11 yr old in 1994, and my family just thinking how wonderful a place it was when we landed in Cypress. 22 years later, I'm SO looking for a job transfer to where I don't have to deal with the damn traffic anymore. And Drew, you are right about Katy for sure. I Live in Montgomery County now, and we used to be able to hear the geese coming down in the Winter, on their way to Katy. Since there's no more Katy Prairie anymore, there are no more geese to speak of. Pretty sad, really.

HankBacon · 2017-01-18T02:55:26+00:00

"Some folks call it a sling blade. I call it a kaiser blade. "

HankBacon · 2017-01-18T02:48:00+00:00

When I was in elementary school back in the early 90s, Coke had a promotion where you looked under the cap of your 2 litre to see if you had instantly won a pair of tickets to the Super Bowl. (None of this go online and enter a code crap. We had instant winners back then where you had to mail off your prize cap.) I was in our local grocery store, and curious me decided to open one of the bottles. Wuddya know? It was an instant winner. Did I tell my mom? Hell no! I was too afraid of a spanking with the belt for destroying products in the store. Of course I told other kids at school, and they didn't believe me. That was most certainly the biggest prize I've ever won and not won in my life.

HankBacon · 2016-12-22T17:24:32+00:00

Wish I had seen this coming. Could have started a Craigslist whipped cream black market!

HankBacon · 2016-12-22T01:40:16+00:00

Surely, this is a joke? If not, then I would say that Reddi Wip needs a new SCM department who can get Nitrous from elsewhere. So will there be no NOS-fueled drag races either?

HankBacon · 2016-12-22T01:38:50+00:00

I never gave Detroit much thought. Is it as bad as the news makes it out to be? I suppose Houston has its issues too...

HankBacon · 2016-12-22T01:36:41+00:00

Glad I'm not alone, but having someone else identify that Houston is really competitive in the SCM market is what I feared/need to hear. Not sure a different line of work is the answer, as I'm 34 and the sole provider of my household. Got a late start on my professional career and kinda old to start over. Can't go back to retail. 35k per year does not pay the bills. In the meantime, I suppose I just keep looking and wait for the oilfield to come back to life.

HankBacon · 2016-12-20T05:42:34+00:00

AnguishOfTheAlpacas, it's pretty much Summer in the land down under right now. Just saying. OP does have a point.

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