[SFS] The only time I YELLED at a coworker when I worked for the Railroad. | Stories from the Shop 

True lol

I got to do that earlier this week! had the equivalent of "you know that new safety standard we have to follow next year? the machine doesent support it. we have to machine custom hardware for it from scratch"

I once had to roll 180 breakfast burritos at McDonald's on night shift after I was told 'Hey, we were super busy and straight up couldn't do it.' The next day, I figured out from the manager of last days day shift that they had an hour of downtime around 2pm where there were at least 3 people on their phones in the stockroom. I quit that day.

i package ice cream onto forklift skids. 12 hour shifts. we have been screwed over in sooooo many ways by just about every department we deal with. no cardboard, no skids, broken skids stacked a mile high, a broken fecking door that is the only door that can get a forklift from production to freezer... i go in expecting the place to have burned down just so i don't suffer the disappointment of not having things set up for us to take over the shift. and that old man on day shift that grins and fistbumps me every time he walks past me on my way to take over his spot... i'm sorry, how can you smile to my face when you just slacked off and fell so far behind just before i came to take over your spot? how?

Did you ever find out what exactly was wrong with it?

@@pranavghantasala6808 No. The mechanics deal with the engine stuff. All I know is it wasn't doing that when I pre-tripped it.

New Flyer or Gilig? lol

@@BiggHoss Gillig.

@Trainfan1055Janathan That explains it, lol. I was a bus driver for a few years. I also have a background in the auto industry, and they're all junk, especially the new Electric New Flyer Excelsiors. MCIs were the only ones I liked driving they were mostly reliable and drove great.

It originally known as sailor mouth.

Some things just get you up to steam faster than any oil burner ever would. 😂

But Where did the poop go?? 🥲

6324 return to service covers BNSF 6324 on its journey in the shops

You stole my joke...

"6324: Return to Service" covers the current Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE ES44AC #6324's continual revenue service for current owner BNSF. As an added bonus, you will see two seperate break in runs as the BNSF crews struggle with repairs while working on other projects other than testing the locomotive. Then, it's the first revenue trains in the fall of 2018, operating on the line between Seattle and Chicago. Minimal camera angles of this common work horse documents the mundane operating career for this is one of the most common locomotives operating west of the Missisipi River in the United States.

That reminds me of something someone told me which is that if you don't normally swear, it makes people all the more aware how pissed off you are when you drop the F-bomb or something else like that.

@@turnerdeedo4633 And if you swear often, the clue you're really really mad is when you don't swear at all while screaming your head off.

@@KidarWolf that's not even the worst. It's when the typically loud "mad" swearing guy all of a sudden talks very calmly, when you know he should be completely livid.

So what I'm hearing is, when it's suddenly opposite day, some bad shit is about to go down. @@TealJosh

@@ProtoV33MK1 yup.... welcome to the trades . a bunch of REALLY smart, hard working, shirt off their back type dudes. but have a drug/crime issue.... dont play well with others.... cuss a lot... ETC . at my shop.... if i know the customer.... ill swear and drop F-bombs on the phone with them.... . "well what the fuck man.... stop running over deer horns with your combine! fuck sake man!! 4th one this year!!!!" customer "HAHAHA! ya, tell me about it.... if i didnt have bad luck id have no luck at all.... FUCK!!!!!" me - "well, i gotta finish up this rotate.... then ill load up the tire truck and head your way bud" customer - "sounds good, see ya then man" . other customers..... im like a Puritan from 1754

I came here to say exactly that.

Or some policy that "once a tag is affixed it can't be reused, even if the tag was used as a post-it note" or something silly "but rules". Agree...the full story is even wilder.

Yeah, I assumed once it was in the shop the day shift would have chucked the bolts

Same. I used to work as a diesel tech for Penske and my god can I empathize friend!

Cheers my friend!

As a technican who is maintaining and repairing electrical stuff in factory, so the machines can go brrrrrr and produce things I have always appreciated people who are interested in their individual machines. They know what the machine do, in what condition it stopped, what is possible cause of malfunction. Go, chceck that thing they spotted and in 95% the problem is solved. Everyone is happy, curtains falls down. But sadly, they are in minority. So I am very pleased to know, that you are one of those people who are interested in what they are doing. You are like little diamonds wich are shining in a big caves full of stupidity- I'm serious right now. Keep it up your interest and go to maintenance team, really! It will make beeing more knowledgeable, curious about new things and down the rabbit hole she goes. It can be challenging forsure, but is also very rewarding. And when all of the things are working proprerly- you have bassicaly free time shifts. Story from my yard, that is similar to yours: We have a girl, like 22 year old one which is making 50% less "calls for emergency" for a robot sequence problems because of her interest in "what my machine is doing and why". We are in process to change her mind and join our maintenance division right now. She is worried of course. Electrical stuff can be dangerous as much as one bad line of code in a PLC controller. But she did that progress in less than a f...in year, and around her are people working like for 15 years in our facility, and they are knowing soooo much less about their stuff. Don't be like her, talk to the maintenance guys, they will guide you what to do :)

20:23

Instead of train whistle intensifies we should have an image of the whistle and the scale with musical notes 🎵 for the tone of the whistle. That'd be the f-bomb! 🤣

@@darylmorning I'm certain the whistle in question is the Huber Six-Chime

Railroads don’t generally have very high profit margins, kind of like grocery stores

@@andrewreynolds4949 They make enough for stock buybacks.

@@andrewreynolds4949 That is a problem of their own making. Remember, taxes are paid on profits. By spending all of that money on capital projects, they plow the money back into the company thereby increasing shareholder value and minimizing taxes.

Too real, right?

Not gonna lie i was half expecting to hear him say the bolts were shot put from the office in roughly the drop bay's direction

@@callsignapollo_ I'm almost certain that he would have wanted to do that!

I did play competitive team fortress 2 back in the day so I was born an idiot

you should watch SFS they are really neat

You’re missing out….

Just wait til you find the STS of "the literal shit-ton".

I think a lot of that would’ve been shipping time for the wheel sets, but it sounds like definitely a week or two

Lol, probably true.

you probably felt like shit afterwards, I know I would have

I feel this so much night shift cleaner here day shift are some lazy bastards I swear

@@Tater_Lord yup. I had one day where we came in and had to spend 2 hours cleaning up about 15 pallets of trash that was left behind by day shift before we could even start unloading our truck for the night.

I read it as - in the span of 5 days the dayshift managed to release 4 locomotives. I, too, have done many nightshifts. One of the many things that always frustrated me was when the rush job, that had been getting pushed all night, was still sitting in the same place the previous nightshift had left it.

Well it's gotta get into the siding somehow, haha. Makes sense.

Yup i'm sure in due time everyone ends up with that kind of story

Allegedly