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cgod  ·  57 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 26, 2025

I'm on my last week of training for my new job, 2.5 months of training. It as at least a half a month longer than it could ever possibly need to be. I'm am tired of listening attentivly.

I get $2.50 raise at the start of next week and then a $5 raise in four months. It super strange to have things like that plotted out in front of me. Union certainty is swell.

I just have to make it seven months to get off probation and I'm virtually unfireable if do the bare minimum for the rest of my career.

I probably have about 3-5 years of night shifts ahead of me, which I'm ok with.





ButterflyEffect  ·  56 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Full on nights? How are you handling that? I worked nights/swing for 9 months a few years back and it was a hard as hell adjustment.

Congrats on where you’re at. It’s been something that’s been nice to keep up on as you’ve shared.

cgod  ·  56 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Even worse than nights, I'm working relief so I have to cover all the B and C shift vacations with no set schedule but I've always been good at working chaotic scheduals.

NikolaiFyodorov  ·  57 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You operate a dredge for local government, don't you? Does that entail excavating waterways, or something else?

cgod  ·  56 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I work at a wastewater treatment plant.

The dredge is a small part of the plant that I'm probably not going to operate very often for a few years.

Regionally it's a pretty big plant at 45 million gallons a day average but maxing at 450 MGD. Nationally it's maybe a biggish medium sized plant.

kleinbl00  ·  56 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I loved learning that sewage is measured in MGD almost as much as I loved learning that pig launching stations are for launching pigs.