Again Im sorry for getting everyone so stirred up,maybe I should relate a story as to why I think this way. This is only the second time I have ever worked in a smaller yard and neither one I ever had to deal with customers. In 20/20 hindsight,I should have just left the guy that bought the loader to his own devices. I started my career in scrap out of high school cutting ships where I got to know the owners of the yards that buy and sell ships all over the world. Back in 1981 I used to go on the tow to bring the ship back to the yard and was asked to train a burner to take my place when I was gone. Normally,we have two burners on board : one cuts starboard and one cuts port. I trained the new guy to cut deck and leave two foot tacks or safetys so nothing falls till I get the crane hooked up to it,cut the tacks and make a lift. While the new guy was cutting on deck I was in the double bottoms cutting all the supports so we can lift twenty ton sections when we pulled the ship out of the water. The new guy decided it would work better if he left 2 inch tacks. While I was in the double bottoms his tacks broke and he dropped a 300 ton section down into the hold. It shook about five ton of rust and mud loose in the double bottoms where I was and I thought my world had come to and end. After I crawled out and found out what had happened our new burner was gone and time to train another one. My new burner this time was told to watch my line and alert me if anything looked screwy (I was cutting in the double bottoms on the last hundred feet of the ship and this is where it gets unstable)The hull sank and I had to swim out underwater while the new burner went for lunch. The second new burner was gone and the boss gave me a C note and was paid to go drinking for the afternoon. So hence,I have carried this attitude in life. I am the first to pick up a hitch hiker or help someone in need,but when it comes to work,you have to prove to me that you can think.
Again Im sorry,I guess im not used to the small time scrap bus.
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