re: Explosion at Marathon in Garyville

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Old operators don’t give a shite about training young guys. Sit in their retirement home unit, and talk about how clueless new operators are. Every plant, same scenario.

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Perhaps this is your professional opinion based on scientific data BUT as a now retired plant shift supervisor with 33 total years experience what I EXPERIENCED was exactly the opposite. As my years passed by I found the younger incoming operators cared less and less about my info.

I started that unit up as did my co-workers. I heard the same from them as time passed. I have no idea what generation they were. It didn't change over night from one to another. It just seemed to flow slowly in that direction.

Then we got a punkass superintendent that ran a large chunk of us startup operators off over a 2 year period of time. Wanna know what happened next?

They started calling some of us back on contract to work while they could get the new guys trained. Yeah, the clueless ones.

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Old operators don’t give a shite about training young guys. Sit in their retirement home unit, and talk about how clueless new operators are. Every plant, same scenario.

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Pretty much my experience as well. Or maybe it's not that they don't want to train. It's that they get frustrated that a person with five years' experience doesn't have the same knowledge that a person with 30 years has. So that person is called stupid, worthless, etc. You learn to blow the old farts like that off. But you pretty much nailed it though with that statement.