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having done some steam work before... that's the one thing that terrifies me in industrial settings. so much pressure and heat with little margin for error. hav
by weaksauce 5y ago
having done some steam work before... that's the one thing that terrifies me in industrial settings. so much pressure and heat with little margin for error. having worked with the people that install things like that is no comfort at all.
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- quickthrowman 5y agoI’m not sure what you have against union pipefitters, they’re probably one of the highest skill building trades. They’re generally at the top of prevailing wage scale, they do clean looking work, and pipefitting is still pretty much exclusively union labor. I’m on the commercial side, so maybe industrial is different?
- wahern 5y agoI have a relative who is a boilermaker, though now he supervises. Listening to his stories, there's never any shortage of idiots. A good team requires some veterans and some good supervisors, all whom need to constantly keep an eye on the idiots, lest they kill or maim themselves or someone else. Also, AFAIU, there are often rules requiring a minimum percentage of local union members on a project. So the number of idiots on a project is both a function of the quality of the local membership, as well as how many reliable veterans the national union and contractor can put on a project, assuming a project will even have non-local union members. While much less physically exhausting, he doesn't much like his new job supervising, which entails alot of walking around and exclaiming, "WTF!?"