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re: What's the best job in a plant/refinery?
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:24 pm to Chastains
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:24 pm to Chastains
Be a lazy worker, you won’t even be given a job or any kind of responsibility.
I am not that guy, I am one of the few that gets the work and responsibilities while the lazy skate and do just enough to keep from getting run off.
I am not that guy, I am one of the few that gets the work and responsibilities while the lazy skate and do just enough to keep from getting run off.
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 4:09 pm
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Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:29 pm to jake wade
Safety guy. Sure, everybody hates you but you can make a living lightly policing workers if you choose to.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:30 pm to Chastains
The one I had!
Posted on 5/16/26 at 1:12 pm to Chastains
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What's the best job in a plant/refinery?
if you like to do the bare minimum (lazy) then its operator all day. If you like to be involved and control youre own destiny so to speak then its maintenance planner. ...
If looking to make good money, be involved and have a high level of job satisfaction then its Instrument tech early career and work into process automation
Posted on 5/16/26 at 1:40 pm to Chastains
Owner
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:09 pm to Gee Grenouille
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Controls/Automation guy
Job is great when the operators at the plant are both good, and non-union. I used to be a contractor doing projects, and it was always a hassle when the board operator who’s been working there for 20 years complains about something after a big project and whatever he is complaining about was something that wasn’t even touched
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:17 pm to Chastains
Only poors work in a plant.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:20 pm to Chastains
Coach of the plant sponsored travel ball team.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:20 pm to jmh5724
quote:double down on the hate if you are female
Safety guy. Sure, everybody hates you but you can make a living lightly policing workers if you choose to.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:30 pm to onelochevy
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I/E. I love killing myself swapping a 12" 600# control valve that's been in place for 30 years so I gotta cut every bolt to get it out, only to have to I/E come to their part of the job which is hooking up 3 wires and a piece of 1/4" air tubing.
You’re wrong, it’s 2 wires.
I’m an I/E guy. Feels good
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:32 pm to SulphursFinest
Gotta say "we have to go look at some drawings" at least three times before hooking up the wires.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:36 pm to Pledge
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Job is great when the operators at the plant are both good, and non-union. I used to be a contractor doing projects, and it was always a hassle when the board operator who’s been working there for 20 years complains about something after a big project and whatever he is complaining about was something that wasn’t even touched
Just shut the frick up and fix it
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:40 pm to madamsquirrel
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double down on the hate if you are female
The head of health and safety at our plant is a female.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:44 pm to tigahfan747
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Operator if you wanna sit around all day and then complain about actual work.
And tear shite up and jump up and down and cry about it.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 3:00 pm to jmh5724
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Safety guy. Sure, everybody hates you but you can make a living lightly policing workers if you choose to.
Been there; done that. Job is absolutely miserable!
Posted on 5/16/26 at 3:36 pm to Pledge
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Controls/Automation guy
Job is great when the operators at the plant are both good, and non-union. I used to be a contractor doing projects, and it was always a hassle when the board operator who’s been working there for 20 years complains about something after a big project and whatever he is complaining about was something that wasn’t even touched
I tell them to email the project team. Once you put them on the hook for the complaint they either don't want to look like a fool if they're wrong and don't formalize the complaint, or they look like a fool publicly when they're wrong.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 4:14 pm to AgCoug
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Owner
They make almost no money and lose money as many years as make a small profit. The money is made as either a consumer of crude oil produced and/or trading the products or even downstream with chemicals manufacturing. In 2020, Exxon lost money and even kept the cat crackers operating in BAton Rouge so that Exxon Chemical could make isopropyl alcohol, which made bank at well above nameplate capacity of that unit.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 5:15 pm to Chastains
Manager - it is hard sometimes to put up with a spoiled workforce, but outside of that it is easy. Just make sure everyone adheres to the rules and gives an honest day’s work and chill put from there.
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