Tundras live: Dumb Dad Jokes, Incorrect Opinions, and Relationship Advice.

There are great benefits to salary though, as you guys know

 

Yes
I get to fuck off in Orlando and Atlanta starting Sunday for a week. Everything paid for, including wages.

 

Hell yeah! What's on the agenda?

 

Construction Technology conference part of the week (my line of work), meetings with our sister companies the middle of the week, then touring some fabrication shops in Atlanta. A few really good meals intermixed and probably a couple shows. And in Atlanta I’m staying with my friend who has a 1400 bottle wine cellar and she wants to talk shop (we’re in similar lines of work) and drink wine…

 

What a week, enjoy!

 

In my union wee have two groups of peoplez. Prof’s (stands for Professionals?) that have engineering degrees from accredited programs. Tech’s are basically everyone else.

Profs (like me) are salaried, but we still have to itemize our time and OT is our “hourly rate” + $6.50. Maybe more on Sundays and holidays…not sure. Techs are true hourly with 1.5x pay for OT (more on weekends and holidays). Generally speaking Profs have better base pay than Techs, but not by much in some cases.

Travel is where things get interesting. In my contract, weekend travel and anything over 8 hrs during the week is “free”. It is Saturday morning here in Dublin and I checkout soon for home. All is “off the clock”. I can shift my calendar, so today is technically a normal work day (8hrs) and I get Monday off.

If I was a Tech, I could get paid OT for my entire return trip…17hrs. Many of our trips can last 25-30 hours each way. Years ago I worked with a few techs and they always pushed to travel after a workday or on the weekend. Smart move on their part…

 

Deal Google,

If you want more effective ad revenue on Youtube you should fire the algorithm monkey serving up my ads.

You know I am from America and in Dublin…what makes you think I speak German or that I need to send money home “fast and easy” to Africa!?

 

We have this interesting contract agreement for travel pay. OT no matter what over 40, but only during normal "office hours". So if we fly out for training on a Sunday @ 0700 and check in at the hotel @ 1630, it's all paid for. You fly out early or get in late, oh well.

Not a terrible deal, just weird

 

Mine is way simpler. Anything over 40 hours in the same Sunday through Saturday week is OT paid x1.5 hourly rate. Any and all travel is paid time and eligible for OT. If you use your own vehicle you can get reimbursed for mileage (don't know the rate because I don't travel in my position), and any training or convention stuff is considered working hours.

 

Love handling immigration before I depart. Thank you Canada and Ireland.

Confirmed this trip a rumor I have heard about for years. The “one bottle of alcohol is duty free; gotta pay taxes over that” rule is more like “just buy less than how lazy you think the Immigration agent will be”. I put my two bottles on the counter and said “I will pay the taxes” and all I heard was “Pfffft”.

They have much better things to do than dig around for paperwork.

Next trip the wife is coming along. Guess we will be replenishing the entire liquor cabinet.

 

Cold this morning.

 

Yeah, that sucks. When I drove for my current employer hotels were covered, and lunch and dinner were too. Meals sucks because I was in a department with a micromanaging dick wad who set specific limits per meal, including tips. Before he was in charge it was just a general "Try to keep the meal expenses below $40 a day." That was back in 2010-2012 times, so $40 a day was pretty solid. Also had a company card, so just had to do the paperwork.

 

The limits on how much liquor you can bring back into Canada vary based on how long you're out of the country and I always have trouble remembering what they are.

 

Not bad. No booze on our company stuff either. Like you, no problem with that for me.

 

I have not worked a job that provided an hourly wage or overtime since the 70s.

Edit - since the early 80s

 

Given your profession that's kind of expected though. Certain jobs aren't ever hourly.

 

We're at $80/day Per diem. We can choose to get it paid on the check before the trip, which is kinda nice

 

You work at a dam. Where/why in the world are you travelling?

 

You know who hasn't shown up in here for a while?


@Lovetrucks where are you at? How's that gorgeous Ram treating you? Any cool adventures with it lately? How's life going?

@APalmTree same for you. You've been absent a while. Everything going smooth? Cool stories to share?

@RichterScale and @Tripleconpanna you've both gotten quiet recently. You still alive and kicking?

@rons23 you still crankin' the tunes while knockin' the hell outta the fish?

@SwitchThrottle I know you said you weren't coming back, but I'm hoping you've changed your opinion?



Any other hooligans that used to play here that haven't been back in a bit? Tag 'em up!

 

@WBW Bruce, you still around these parts?

 

Training dude!
I've got a NCCCO crane/rigging class coming up, down by @RainMan_PNW
Going down near LA later this year for some VEGA look down transducer training, looking forward to that one!

Plus we manage other remote hydros that require maintenance.

 

I'm always right here,....under the stairs,.....making your life a living hell......

 

I haven't posted much because everything's been mostly negative lately and I don't like to bitch (unless it's sardonic humor) and bring everyone else down or tear jerk.
But I'm usually on here, monitoring.