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How does work make you feel today?

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Quickly being reminded of why I hated the idea of an office job. I can wake up feeling energetic enough to run a marathon and after an hour sitting in the chair at the office I've lost almost all of my energy for the day, and I go home sapped and feeling ready to sleep. Long flights are torture for me, and being in an office is like a front row seat with more leg room. Thank goodness I get to spend an hour outside the office at one of the hotels tomorrow morning filming and taking pictures for a study.
 
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scarletmike said:
Quickly being reminded of why I hated the idea of an office job. I can wake up feeling energetic enough to run a marathon and after an hour sitting in the chair at the office I've lost almost all of my energy for the day, and I go home sapped and feeling ready to sleep. Long flights are torture for me, and being in an office is like a front row seat with more leg room. Thank goodness I get to spend an hour outside the office at one of the hotels tomorrow morning filming and taking pictures for a study.
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I feel your pain, getting in a hike in morning or weights directly after work can help but the office/desk job just sucks the life out of you

...at least it's friday!
 
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scarletmike said:
Quickly being reminded of why I hated the idea of an office job. I can wake up feeling energetic enough to run a marathon and after an hour sitting in the chair at the office I've lost almost all of my energy for the day, and I go home sapped and feeling ready to sleep. Long flights are torture for me, and being in an office is like a front row seat with more leg room. Thank goodness I get to spend an hour outside the office at one of the hotels tomorrow morning filming and taking pictures for a study.
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Been doing office work/desk work for 20 years. I make it a point to get up and move every 20 mins to 1/2 hour. Go grab more coffee, check the mailbox, go shred obsolete work papers, etc. If I don't do that I will zone out just sitting and working and find myself reworking things because my mind drifts.

Then you have Fridays, like today, when I really just field calls and cruise the web
 
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I'm mostly in the office, but due to experience at times I have to perform a test in the field or calibrate some equipment in the shop.

recently I was "promoted" and am now over the services division of our company. a huge part of that position is coordinating personnel between 2 locations (Louisiana and Texas) and offshore work.

as an oilfield company we have been very fortunate in that for the last 2 months we have been really busy when nobody else really is.

we have 2 major offshore projects on the horizon that we are trying to prepare for. the headaches that come with that process are not exactly fun.
 
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muffler dragon said:
@Nutriaitch Quit one week, promoted the next. I think you're doing something right! :lol:
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actually, the promotion happened before the quitting.

unfortunately, my old position is still being filled by me at the same time as my new position. And I'm also still heavily involved in my position prior to the previous promotion as well.

that's what led up to the quitting.

it's only been a little over a week, but some of my prior duties will be handed off to someone else.
 
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long last couple of days.

had 2 of our guys working at a natural gas plant when a major explosion happened.

fortunately our two came out physically uninjured. but 3 guys died in the accident and at least 4 more are seriously hurt.

our guys had to jump over the dead burning bodies to evacuate the plant while a chain reaction of smaller blasts erupted behind them.

I was able to speak to our lead guy on that project. He's probably going to need counseling after what he described to me.
 
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Nutriaitch said:
long last couple of days.

had 2 of our guys working at a natural gas plant when a major explosion happened.

fortunately our two came out physically uninjured. but 3 guys died in the accident and at least 4 more are seriously hurt.

our guys had to jump over the dead burning bodies to evacuate the plant while a chain reaction of smaller blasts erupted behind them.

I was able to speak to our lead guy on that project. He's probably going to need counseling after what he described to me.
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Goddamn man. Sorry to hear that. Stay safe!
 
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Saw31 said:
Goddamn man. Sorry to hear that. Stay safe!
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yeah, we got the call probably 30 minutes after it happened.
our HSE coordinator tried to get to the site to get them, but couldn't get closer than 2 miles by vehicle. so he walked the rest of the way.

by the time we got them out of there, to a medical facility to get them checked out, and back to the office, it was every bit of 7 hours after we first heard about it.


we go into the office everyday knowing full good and well that what our guys do (both offshore and on land) is dangerous. We have guys that have had minor injuries, and we've seen some close calls.
but this is the first major incident at a site we we were on in company history.


investigations are still on going, so it will be at least several days before we know what happened. The line that blew was supposed to have been isolated, blown down, and purged 4 days before the accident. Meaning nothing explosive was supposed to be there while the plant maintenance was happening.

unfortunately, something went terribly wrong somewhere.
 
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Jesus. I was going to bitch about my 9:30 appt lasting 3 hours this morning making me miss the first quarter of the game. Doesn't seem so bad now. That's brutal.
 
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so now I'm stuck in the fucking wasteland know as Texas for at least a few more days (was originally scheduled to go home tonight).

on top of that, today I get to call a guy who I consider a friend who just went through a rather traumatic experience and probably a solid candidate for PTSD and tell him he has to go to sit through a course on pipeline isolation. one week to the day after a faulty isolation almost cost him his life.
 
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