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re: Any of you know of or have worked at the Exxon Mobil Baton Rouge refinery?
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:54 pm to RoosterCogburn585
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:54 pm to RoosterCogburn585
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Are 50-60 hour work weeks the norm?
Welcome to the real world.
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Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:56 pm to lsufan1971
Hmmmm...I been in the real world for 15 years. Haven't worked 50-60 for extended periods in any of those 15 years
Posted on 4/20/24 at 7:01 pm to RoosterCogburn585
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This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 4/20/24 at 7:02 pm to chalupa
Mechanical and electrical.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 7:24 pm to RoosterCogburn585
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Hmmmm...I been in the real world for 15 years. Haven't worked 50-60 for extended periods in any of those 15 years
20 years in plants for me and the only time ive worked those hours were turnarounds and occasional emergency type stuff
Posted on 4/20/24 at 7:32 pm to RoosterCogburn585
My summer job while studying Frat at LSU was 70 days straight doing engine room maintenance on tugboats run out of the Exxon Docks. But I was usually somewhere on The Ohio or Mississippi Rivers. I worked a 12-hour shift in the engine room. There were no soy dispensers.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 8:07 pm to RoosterCogburn585
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Posted on 4/20/24 at 9:00 pm to chalupa
I worked there for 32 years in operations. No backstabbing at that level. Wasn’t really any reason for it being unionized. However, my daughter is an engineer and it’s very competitive between them. It’s like a contest in that nobody wants to be the first to go home each day. Many operators when I first started were overtime hogs and would almost live out there. I could see that was changing with the younger generations where they preferred their off time. Just my 2 cents.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 12:38 am to RoosterCogburn585
typically the larger the plant, the bigger the shite show. It's a really big plant.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 1:51 am to RoosterCogburn585
Ain't no Standard Oil man gonna run this state,
Gonna be run by little folks like me and you
Gonna be run by little folks like me and you
Posted on 4/21/24 at 3:19 am to Klingler7
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When I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s, my step-father lived a block off of Hollywood Street in NBR. The refinery smells gave me headaches almost every other visit to my mom and step-Dads residence. My head would pound and I lived on BC powders.
That's one of the strongest memories I have of Baton Rouge in that time frame. Every single time we would go into BR on the newly constructed 110 from our home in BFE E. Feliciana to visit relatives all over town, the rotten egg skunk fart smell that permeated everything near Exxon was never more noxious than in the Governors Mansion curves.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:09 am to RoosterCogburn585
I work in the refinery. It’s really what you make of it. OT is strictly unit dependant. The unit I’m in has more OT than most. Sucks at times but having a family and raising kids are expensive so there are two ways you can look at that. Work is work but I feel there are more days that we have little to do than busier days.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 6:48 am to RoosterCogburn585
"Avoyelles Parish" click!
Posted on 4/21/24 at 6:51 am to RoosterCogburn585
My older sister worked there for 35 years. She retired OT Baller status.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 7:37 am to HarryCallahan
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The only thing I know about the engineering side is most of the time-their education level far exceeded their level of intelligence
90% of engineers fit this description. I'm currently a plant operator...hoping to change that soon.
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