re: Any plants hiring operators???

Why don't you go work the docks or be a boilermaker for a year or two? I have plenty buddies who got in that way.

Also, I know people that made 90k working the docks for SGS on a 2-3 schedule last year. That's not a bad life.

I have to call bs on 90k working for sgs. My buddy that works for them at CF and he said they are one of the highest paid locations around. He said top pay is 26/ hour. Even with OT he only cleared about 60k

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"majors" are female or minority.

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I can vouch for this. My company hires at a 2:1 ratio. wont go into any detail as I don't really feel like being banned...

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3 ways to get hired as an operator:

1. Know someone high up
2. Don't be white
3. Don't be a male

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I'm an operator in a chemical plant and don't really find this to be true. Yes they do have some minorities/women that definitely seem to have gotten hired based on their gender/ethnicity but there's not too many. There's less than 10 female operators in my plant.

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I have a B.S. degree.

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You may be overqualified

I also call BS on 90k as a Tankerman/Loader/Dock Operator

An operator at my plant now was a Dock Operator for SGS at Valero a few years ago and made $19 an hour.

SGS employees at Valero are killing it and are almost a shoe in to get hired on as Operators as their tank field has a high turnover/retire rate.

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He would talk about the classes he had to take after being hired and how they pushed through some of the people despite them not knowing the material simply because they were a minority or femal

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They do that to dumb white guys too.

Truth of the matter, women and minorities have a spotlight on them out there. Any frickup they make is because they are a woman or minority. A white guy makes a mistake and it is just another operations mistake.

I know for a fact Dow has been looking for Operators with a 4 year degree but it has to be something relevant like engineering, industrial technology or chemistry

If you call BS on 90k as an SGS tankerman you just don't know the business. Their top guys make 34/hr if not more. Consistently pulling ~60 hr work weeks. Gets to the point where they turn jobs down because they don't need the money.

All that being said it takes a special person to sit on a barge in the elements in south Louisiana for 14 hours in the summer where the heat kills you during the day and the mosquitoes frick you up at night. They can have that shite .

Oh and about the degree, you may be right about what they perceive my intentions to be, but it couldn't be further from the truth. Regardless though, you'd think they'd want someone already educated and capable of learning to step into the plant and pick things up quick. Time spent training is a continuous headache when you hire dumbass after dumbass.