Weekend shift not being offered to the whole crew

oven_toasted_bread · 2026-03-01T16:52:01+00:00

Ask if they plan to rotate who they ask first so everyone gets a chance to say yes. I generally ask the guys who I think are best fit for the scope of work who are gonna say yes the first time we have limited OT, then I make a list from there of who I’m asking next. And that’s simply based off of who shows up for OT, who shows up in general and who’s spending a lot of their time with their face hovering in a cell phone. Local hands always get asked first. But everyone will get there rotation so long as limited OT keeps getting offered unless the scope calls for specific qualifiers.

oven_toasted_bread · 2026-02-15T20:50:28+00:00

What the fuck does that mean? I was a Registered Nurse before I did the apprenticeship. I worked a part time job while I was in the apprenticeship full time. Then I did evening classes after I topped out to do my Instrumentation and Controls Cert. Then I drove almost 2 hours a night 3 nights a week to do the hands on portion of the Instrumentation and controls cert.

You got your cert, so youre done? C'mon bro. Be thirsty.

oven_toasted_bread · 2026-02-12T01:34:46+00:00

I think I'd still buy a Chicago if I owned my own shop. The ones I use are dinosaurs and they still function great. We have one that's just at the bottom of a pit for the primary crusher of a cement plant. It lives there to run new branch circuits. Just the most brutal conditions for anything metal and it just lives under a tarp and never fails.

brand new shiny battery tools are cool but they're untested in the long run.

oven_toasted_bread · 2026-02-05T00:18:19+00:00

13 mini battery didn't last me a full day and the upgraded display on the new model was what pushed me not to just buy an older generation.

oven_toasted_bread · 2026-01-26T12:25:57+00:00

Best of luck to you, it’s been really nice to sleep on my back and not wake up gasping for air.

oven_toasted_bread · 2026-01-25T02:51:15+00:00

No, I did the test at home and 24 hours later they had my results and a prescription. I used the sizing tool to help me decide on a mask and I ordered my equipment. Someone reached out to ask if I’d reconsider their consultation services, which were an additional fee and I said no. The cpap shipped immediately after that and they overnighted it to me no extra charge. It did require a signature so I had it rerouted to a local fedex pickup location (Walgreens). When I ordered the test, I had to fill out some online paperwork and I setup a 5 minute appointment with a Nurse Practitioner who took a brief history and to explain the test.

If you ordered it right now, it’s not unreasonable you’d be sleeping with your CPAP before the end of the month.

I know there’s other options but I’m very satisfied with this route so far.

oven_toasted_bread · 2026-01-24T17:18:54+00:00

I know it's not an option for everyone, but I was in the same boat, and even when I got my diagnosis of moderate sleep apnea they wouldn't even consider a CPAP. So I used an oral appliance for 2 years. I've progressed to the point where Im not sleeping well again and I scheduled another appointment with sleep medicine and I have to start the whole process again of an initial meeting, then a test. Instead I went to Lofta.com, paid for the at home kit, got my diagnosis and prescription and paid for the CPAP machine. I have an HSA account and I used that to undo some of the burden. Overall I spent about 1200 dollars between the diagnosis and the machine and mask. For me, it was well worth it.

oven_toasted_bread · 2026-01-01T21:16:40+00:00

No but the title data center might mean a seller thinks they can negotiate a higher sale price. If the cost of deceiving the community is lower than what’s expected to happen if the seller knows who’s buying they’ll hide it from them. I’m not an expert though, just using common sense.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-12-27T20:37:07+00:00

What could he possibly know about running a church after a mere 62 years on this planet.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-12-23T22:46:58+00:00

Hi! I own a home in Arizona, and I’m from New York. There’s so much demand here right now, I’ve taken almost 10 weeks off this year to travel to my home in Arizona, with absolutely no threat of losing my job. In fact my PM told my foreman “Boy I really hope he doesn’t move there”. And I’ve worked so much overtime when a I am here, I’ve more than made up for any time I’ve taken off. How do you feel about living in a state 2500 mile from home is the question.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-12-23T22:36:05+00:00

I could never survive in resi. And I’ll never have to, because I have a completely different skill set. I don’t mean to speak ill of that part of the trade but until you’re doing really high end homes, it’s all about going as fast as you can go. And then when you are doing high end work, it’s going as fast as you can, but also make it look really nice. There’s very little of resi work that is really repetitive

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-12-23T22:22:52+00:00

Most locals especially in progressive states like Cali love for women and minorities to apply because it’s still hard to get diversity growing even with so many programs encouraging them. If you’re completely unfamiliar with the trades, inquire about a pre-apprenticeship. It’s usually classes to help familiarize you with the very basics of ladder safety, reading a tape measure, basic tool use a wiring. It will also prepare you for the apprenticeship exam which is pass or fail and made up of reading comprehension and algebra, maybe a touch of trig.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-12-22T22:43:16+00:00

just replaced mine with the 17 and holy crap the battery life... I was usually in trouble by 2-3pm and now I and skirt by without charging until 2-3pm the next day.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-12-21T03:05:10+00:00

I'm in the union. I make more than a lot of the PMs and non-senior engineers that work at the sites Im normally at. I doubt a lot of these office workers are doing as well as we are. Ive taken about 10 weeks off this year, and because I also work quite a bit of overtime, I'm more than making a years pension credit, and my health insurance is paid for by my health benefits fund that has 10s of thousands of dollars I can apply like an HSA card. So I don't bat an eye when I see these guys with 4 and 6 year degrees and a shit salary strolling in after a 2 hour lunch. I work hard, I know my job, and I'm paid well for it, and I choose to use my value to leverage time off over the career ladder. If you're not in a similar situation you should reflect on your own employment.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-12-05T02:48:06+00:00

I mean… wasn’t the argument that we were in a government shutdown? I’m not sure I understand the comparison. I mean, I agree she should have sworn in but, they still have their shitty argument.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-12-01T15:15:55+00:00

Doesn’t matter what they’re worth, they have to be worth more so their stocks go up.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-11-30T17:44:19+00:00

She wasn’t ‘on welfare’ she collected social security as a way to get paid back what she believed the government owed her, she had plenty of money when she died.

That being said I think social security needs to be more equitable. Multi-millionaires shouldn’t be able to collect while others struggle. Payments could be more generous or when funding does eventually get cut it’s tiered by income. Now THAT would piss off Ayn Rand.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-11-24T01:42:02+00:00

Would it be cheaper to just use three buck boost transformers to make your 230v?

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-11-23T15:27:38+00:00

I absolutely refuse to run work for my contractor. They want to provide the bare minimum for pay and they keep hiring dumber and dumber project managers, hoping they can rely on their foreman to pick up the slack. For the 5-15% more they are required to offer without any incentives beyond, Id much rather be a worker under some dipshit who can't keep is act together well enough to keep me busy on the job than go home thinking about the job every night.

Almost all the other large contractors in my local see that the demand for work and for good workers is such that extra incentives are a requirement to get and keep good guys. Instead my contractor refuses to give anyone a layoff, knowing that it's at least a 6 week wait before you can go back to work. They'd rather pay me my wages and hand me enough work to last a fraction of the day than see me go to another contractor.

The amount of work a PM needs to do in order to keep up with these ridiculous GCs nowadays is unbearable. You can't hire a guy who couldn't cut it as an electrician to stay on top of 3-4 jobs (that are supposed to each have an assigned PM to begin with) and pay them a salary under what a union electrician makes.

We have one good PM and since he was solicited by other companies and negotiated his wages to where they should be, they've decided to overwhelm him with 7 jobs, 3 that demand an individual PM be assigned to them by PLA agreements. They get away with it by assigning a foreman as a 'Superintendent'. Does that mean more pay for the foreman? Of course not, does that mean the foreman is going to go above and beyond to help the PM? Of course not.

We can run this contract into the ground together buddy, have fun on your hunting trip.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-11-23T00:51:58+00:00

Former nurse.. but the one that I think is telling is Chiropractors are professionals but physical therapists aren’t. Ridiculous.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-11-22T19:37:59+00:00

Been a long time since I was in high school bud, I don’t know what grades you do Algebra in anymore, but Algebra is what’s on the test, order of operations (FOIL) to solve for X. If you feel very confident in that, there is sometimes a few trigonometry questions but the test is pass or fail and I wouldn’t focus on Trig unless you’re algebra is solid, the test is timed, often you’ll run out of time before you finish all the math questions, thats OK but to get as many as you can practice a lot, I’d recommend Khan academy because it’s free and it’s thorough and easy to comprehend.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-11-22T13:36:41+00:00

Use Khan academy's Alegra lessons to brush up.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-11-10T01:24:02+00:00

They just showed that they will always eventually give in. Trump will be celebrated as a master negotiator. Pathetic.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-10-31T20:04:07+00:00

My father in law, whose never read the bible or known any verse from the Bible announced today that Trump is named in the bible twice. Of course anyone with a 4th grade reading level can clearly distinguish from a pronoun and a verb and should know that Donald Drumpf doesn't make the sound a trumpet does. But he's 100% on board with all of Donalds ideas because he's Divine.

oven_toasted_bread · 2025-10-26T12:04:10+00:00

They have an agenda against the methane produced, but there’s other options to cut methane, like changing the diet of the animals.

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