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I live in Louisiana and everyone around here tries to get a job at a chemical plant/refinery. We have Shell Motiva, Marathon, Valero, Dupont, Dow, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and the list goes on. The area is flooded with them and if you're blessed enough to get on with one then you hit the job lottery. It's really easy work, the money is very good and they only hire if people are retiring, they die or the facility is expanding. Therefore employee turnover rate is almost nonexistent at chemical plants. The company that hired me is Monsanto and that location makes Roundup. Starting hourly rate is $27.00 an hour with night shift differential pay and you top out at $40.00 within 2 1/2 years of qualifying. The job is pretty much doing checks, taking samples, writing permits and lots of down time.
 
Borzak

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You'd make more money in the long run servicing the petro chemical industry but a lot of people want the "I got hired I'll die here" mentallity. Plus it takes a little motivation. I've determined in the last 25 years a lot of on site guys are in love with the fact they never make a decision. Even operators have a flow chart they follow.

Out of the 100+ chemical plants and refineries in the 100 river miles between BR and NO I've been in 75 or so last I added it up. Thankfully now they have a clearinghouse for safety cards and such. In the old days not that long ago each plant you stepped into required a new standard OSHA course or refresher in addition to the site specific stuff. Same thing for drug test, now I'm down to half a dozen a year at most.

If you ever take a course thru your employer at the Allied Safety Council which acts as the clearinghouse, they allow you be caught sleeping once. The second time you have to start over again the next day. Just a tip, you get one free one each class. I've currently got almost 100 current endorsements. I could retire and teach this bullshit.
 
Borzak

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Oh yeah and congrats on the job. Live with your head on a swivel every day. It's been my job to fix the shit that gets broke at all hours. It's amazing the most simple thing can lead to loss of life and disaster in the dumbest of ways, many times by guys who did the same thing every day for years.

So did you wind up at Convent or Kenner? Convent avoided a pretty big possible booboo with the recent tornado there.
 
Nola

Nola

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Thanks Borzak. Yeah complacency will get you. I seen so many guys make simple stupid mistakes that could of been avoided. The last plant I worked for the past 3 years was a hell hole. They had 5 OSHA recordables in 2015 and tons of near misses/incidents. They'll never get a VPP award. lol They just had an incident where a teammate ran over a contractor with the Skytrak forklift. Luckily the contractor only suffered injuries to his legs.

I'm really big on training. I try to acquire any training that my job offers. I tried to get on the ROCO high angle rescue team with my last job but politics favored the ass kissers there so I wasn't picked. But with my new job they have a full time EMT squad and lots of training available from rescue, hazmat to fire brigade.
 
Borzak

Borzak

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I try to avoid training if I can. Of course I normally only show up when shit has hit the fan and they have more safety people on site than you knew worked there. The only one I keep current other than the site specific stuff - which in all honestly should be "In case of an incident follow the people who work there to find safety", is confined entry because I really don't trust some of the people they pair you with. if you don't have it. During a turnaround they'll pair you with people who probably got fired from dollar general, IE black women.

Placid had an incident yesterday I didn't understand. Two guys rushed via helicopter to the hospital because they sucked on a gas mask and thought it was oxygen. They inhaled gas, didn't really get into what they inhaled or what could have been available in a mask....

At least Motiva is relatively new in the grand scheme of things. I have done a lot of work at ExxonBR and the amount of old shit is incredible. I was at a turn around and they were excavating and found a valve with a swastika on it. It wasn't in service but it was on site. It's still in the office there. Plants more than 100 years old now, no telling.
 
chaos

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Vinen_sl said:
My entire job role is over my head.

Being over your head is a good thing. How you learn, react and perform your job while being over your head determines where you are. Eventually, you will no longer before over your head and that's when it's time to start again.

Being in a comfortable position is how your abilities and growth becomes stale.

I'd use my wife's quote but that would be too identifiable.
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Yeah i constantly feel this way. I think I mentioned this before, constant never ending impostor syndrome. I feel like on any given day they're going to figure out that I have no fucking idea what I'm doing. Which is ludicrous, I'm doing quite well and still learning a lot.
 
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So second interview I had last week called me 30m after I left (by passing the recruiter) to schedule a second interview with SR management and the president. I think that's a good sign.

My current positions SR management continues to make terrible business decisions.
 
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Second interview today, I think the job is mine. I spoke with the or sident and 4 other SR managers. Whole thing lasted 4.5 hours.
 
Vinen

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Draegan_sl said:
Second interview today, I think the job is mine. I spoke with the or sident and 4 other SR managers. Whole thing lasted 4.5 hours.
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Hope this is for a Senior Management position because holy fuck that is a lot of interviews.
 
Mist

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Today is my day off. They asked me to cover for someone they fired on first shift. Ended up working 8+ hours.

Tomorrow they want me to work a 15 hour day. Wednesday too.
 
Palum

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Please complain in the rickshaw thread. We've been over this probably 326 times now, you don't want advice or help you just want to whine.
 
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