STATigerFan

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I’m just pointing out that most of these dudes in this thread are full of shite

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It’s just a conversation man, no need to get all riled up. It’s about perception for the most part. They feel like they have a great home life and they are just answering questions about pay and stuff. If they like what they do and feel like they have a great family life who are you to say they don’t?

You’re a snarky little biotch. lol. You really do seem to have short man syndrome.

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There's only so many hours in a year. The issue is when you talk about making 150-250k, most seem to think working that much OT is normal.

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Again, you don’t understand what that consists of. Just take a base salary, 40 hours a week, at 120k. Every shift worker has built in overtime on top of that. At my salary with built in overtime and just working 3 extra days a month I can hit very close to 200k, that’s just 36 hour of overtime a month. Because we schedule our overtime in 3 day sets, when I get all 3 days my 7th day is double time. So I get at least one double time day a month. It can be tiring working 9, 12 hour shifts in a row though. That’s not mentioning holidays, if I work a holiday I get paid 32 hour for working 12. It really does add up pretty quickly. I really haven’t seen operators get hurt feelings over others salaries, haven’t seen someone post how much they make and an operator get in their feelings. Maybe that’s a personal experience?

It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, especially if it’s not for you or you have a significant other you can’t trust. The shift worker divorce rate is pretty high (I don’t know the numbers, just going off what I see).

There’s pros to being an engineer for sure. But it’s nice to hit a 3 day set of overtime and make a couple thousand extra on a check too. The unit I work in is overstaffed most of the time so we can take off at the last minute if we need to. We also do shift swaps to take get days off to do things with family and stuff. Works out well most of the time. I rarely miss an activity for my kids and wife and make a great living. My situation is not the norm for sure though.

Average starting pay is around $80k a year and average top out is around $130k a year. Those are true for where I work. Thats based on 40 hours a week. Not counting built in overtime and holidays.

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He's the guy who plans a job for me to rebuild a pump, but orders the wrong mechanical seal, forgets one of the bearings and orders no oil seals. Then its my job to tear the pump apart and hope I can find the parts I need somewhere in the shop

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Pretty much sums it up. He’s also someone’s son or brother in law so if you don’t have that connection, you are probably SOL.

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spicy garlic sauce

It was supposed to be back last week but we are told we should get it again this week. We dont know until it is delivered

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Thanks!

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In my opinion, there’s no question about the first 2 shots being defensive while he was wrestling with someone who lied about a loaded weapon in the vehicle, it being within arms reach, him moving towards the loaded weapon, and then being drug by the car. Emptying the mag as the car drives away, will be what the public is going to question. It could be he was shooting at the tires trying to disable the car from fleeing, the perception of that would look a lot better than shooting at a man fleeing a traffic stop from a busted tail light, which is how some will spin it. I don’t know their procedures or what they’re taught when handling scenarios like this, the trooper could have handled it textbook.

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Pretty much agree with everything you said. They will definitely try to spin it to excessive use of force. The trooper was cordial the whole time before the guy started fighting, the driver seemed like he was handling it well too at first. But once the fighting started all bets were off in my opinion. You don’t know why he wants to get away. I can’t say the officer was even thinking about that though. But when the officer saw the gun he tried to detain him and secure the gun. Guy knew he couldn’t have the gun and was going to jail if he got caught. He took the chance of carrying a gun in plain sight. He was either looking for trouble or trouble was looking for him.

I have 40k miles on my 3.0 Duramax. Comparing it to the 5.3 I had before this truck its better in every way I can think of. My commute to and from work is about 32 miles. With the 5.3 I averaged about 18 mpg between going to work and then running around town when I was off. Similar driving in the 3.0 gets me 28 mpg. That’s hand calculated going by the whole tank. If I only drive to and from work I get over 30 mpg and only around the city I get 23 mpg. I usually get diesel at Walmart and we have a Walmart+ account so we get 10 cents off a gallon, it’s been around 2.95-3.25 per gallon since I’ve owned this truck. The diesel is usually like 50-60 cents more per gallon than gasoline. I get 680 miles to the tank in the 3.0 vs 400 miles to the tank in my 5.3, same size tank in both trucks. My oil changes cost the same as the 5.3 did. The diesel has a fuel filter that costs around $30 to change. And the DEF costs me about $20 every 5k miles. I have a 19’ ski boat that I pull to the lake on weekends and the occasional trip to Arkansas or Florida. It gets around 17 mpg towing but DEF consumption is significantly increased. Towing the same boat with my 5.3 I got around 12 mpg. The torque difference between the 5.3 and 3.0 is very noticeable when towing. The 3.0 moves the boat with way less effort, not that the 5.3 didn’t do well, the 3.0 is just better. I have not had any issues with the truck yet but I am concerned about the DEF system long term. Just because of the horror stories. I really like the truck though and I’d buy another tomorrow if something happened to this one.

One of the only reasons I shop at Trader Joe’s is for their Santa Maria (pretty sure that’s what it’s called) tri-tip. I cook it on my pellet grill on high heat with the grill grates to medium/medium rare and cube it up. Sprinkle a little extra taco style seasoning on it. Then eat it with a home made pico and cotija cheese. Absolutely delicious! That’s the way I do steak tacos but you could just change the cheese up. If you’re close to an Ideal Market they have some good stuff. I like to get the La Chona jalapeño quesadilla cheese to make them. I don’t care for Ideals pico, rather make my own.