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Any of you know of or have worked at the Exxon Mobil Baton Rouge refinery?
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:13 pm
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:13 pm
Is it as much of a meat grinder as it is rumored to be? Is the culture as cutthroat as Ive heard? Are 50-60 hour work weeks the norm?
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Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:19 pm to RoosterCogburn585
I’ve bought their gas a time or two. That’s all I got
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:24 pm to RoosterCogburn585
I know a few guys who are operators out there, but I’ve never talked to them about those things.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:25 pm to RoosterCogburn585
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.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:26 pm to RoosterCogburn585
Got a tar ball from their tanker Exxon Valdez.
B-I-L was up there to protect beach cleaners from bears and other critters.
B-I-L was up there to protect beach cleaners from bears and other critters.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:41 pm to RoosterCogburn585
Yes. To sum up employment there-it is a shitty job with good insurance. You can work as much as you’d like or work when you don’t want to work (more common with forced overtime). Great benefits. shite leadership from the plant manager all the way down to the STLs. If you’re white-embrace the DEI promotions and all of the bullshite “clubs” they have to force diversity down your throat. Expect to pull more weight for the minority employees as they aren’t really capable of pulling their own. The equipment is old and has not been maintained. What is replaced on turnaround doesn’t last. If you kiss arse really well-you’ll fit right in. Just my experience.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:54 pm to RoosterCogburn585
I work in the chem plant so can’t speak for the refinery. Your OT is gonna strictly depend on the unit you go to and how well it’s staffed. I agree with everything one of the guys mentioned above. Upper management is relentless with justifying their jobs by head hunting. They’ve got people scared to do LOTO because of the safety audits we go through. And then they preach safety, but will rush results and nail you to the cross if you make a mistake. The money is worth the headache, but sometimes I question my sanity.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:21 pm to RoosterCogburn585
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Are 50-60 hour work weeks the norm?
Is this supposed to be a lot?
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.
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 4/21/24 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 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.
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