News On The Job Front

[Raider Nation Fisher]

So I got my final three picked out. I've gone a totally different route then what I was expecting too. One is light industrial. One is commercial. The other is service and lighting. The lighting company I have worked for before. Pays good and they always have work. The commercial company is strictly construction. Which depends on weather and the economy. The industrial company would get me fire alarm certified. However they do a lot of tedious maintenance work too. All three pay phenomenal for the amount and type of work involved.

The service company has the best benefits. I also can average 60 hours a week there if I want. While I was there before I set several sales records as well as customer satisfaction records. I believe the negatives that were there when I was have changed since I left 2 years ago. So I'm now leaning towards them. I will keep yall posted and updated on my decision in the next two days.

[slonezp]

The fire alarm stuff is low voltage. Doesn't seem like it's your cup o tea.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

The fire alarm stuff is low voltage. Doesn't seem like it's your cup o tea.

I do lighting contacts and relays, PLCs, VFDs, and MCCs. I ain't never tried fire alarms. Seems like an entirely different animal. At least as far as how its wired and inter connected. The biggest PLC job we had. We were landing 500 plus wires into the cabinets. We were running 2 1/2in EMT for the branch feeds, and pulling between 70 to 85 14AWG THHN wires through each pipe. We had 18 cabinets set up like that. It took weeks to ring out and land all those wires.

[slonezp]

I've got a buddy who does 911 communications. Installation, connection, and programing. A number of years back, they finished connecting all the municipalities thru hard wire and codes have changed so everyone is going wireless. He's been working 40hrs a week for almost 20 years and probably has another 10 years of work ahead of him.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Sounds like job security to me.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Well that ended badly. I no longer work for my previous employer. We got into a huge verbal altercation over the phone this afternoon. He basically lied to me and I called him out on it. He then brought my abilities as an electrician into the argument and I flipped out. You can lie to me all day and preach loyalty all day to me. That's fine. However, I will be danged if someone, who isn't even an electrician, tells me I'm nothing more than a glorified apprentice! I busted my tail for my license and have worked my tail off in the trade for the last eight years. He told me theres no requirement for me to work out a 2 week notice. I told him he was right and where he could stick his job and a few other choice phrases. Its not like he has any impact on me. I already took a new job. I just tried to do the right thing here. Never thought it would end this way. Now I have to get my termination notice and final check tomorrow. Should be fun.

Also. As per him I was terminated, I didn't quit. All the better for me. Now I can get my insurance through my wife's company. So its a win all the way around. I get what I want and get to move on. He gets to avoid paying me benefits and cheap out on paying decent wages.

[flyfisher]

you did the right thing.  Go in get your check and if you really want to tick them off be extremely nice and smile  nothing gets under the skin of someone more than someone who appears completely happy about getting their last check....

[Raider Nation Fisher]

you did the right thing.  Go in get your check and if you really want to tick them off be extremely nice and smile  nothing gets under the skin of someone more than someone who appears completely happy about getting their last check....

I am so doing that.

[bigbill]

Being out of work in 83, 84 & in 85 during the first so called recession we had I learned to interview every possibly New employer as they interview me. Trust me some I found out later why they were hiring. I figured in the end I wasnt looking for making new friends nor additions to my family I figured after being out of work so many times I'd go for the gusto, the money after all I was going to be there for 8 hours a day anyway. Trust me I've had the worst bosses on the planet. I just took it smiled and laughed all the way to the bank. It's nothing but a game. Don't let anyone break you.

I was fresh out of the woods logging. I was at 300lbs, a walking tree trunk. I'd run a 100cc 26lb husqvarna chainsaw over 8 hours a day. I took a new job as a repairman in a sheet metal production shop on the night shift. The very first day the little weasel day boss took me in the repair room and went up one side of me and down the other for no reason. I can't say what I told him but my last words to this little punk was be careful the door opens to the inside and you'll never make it out of here. He was nice after that. He just pushed my buttons. I've learned after that its just not worth it. When I became the boss I treated people the way I wanted to be treated. When the crew is happy they work harder. I bought them breakfast and lunch on somedays. My department had the most output.