A Project you had been working on gets ruined

**rush2049** · 01-10-13, 10:31 AM

So I had been working for a month and a half with about five other guys to package a shipping container with enough wiring and control cabinets to test the oil and hydraulic system of a hydroelectric dam at a remote location.

It was very very closely packed, the control cabinets had about a 1/8th inch of room to spare above them in the container, not to mention the 4 inch thick solid copper wire we had coiled around the inside spaces.....

So after about a month and a half of mock-ups, staging and eventually managing to move everything into the container and wire it all up in such a small space we ship it off on an air ride to go half way across the country.

We shipped it yesturday, today we get an email that had the body text "crying" and that was it from my boss's boss. Attached were photos of the container, it is now 1 foot shorter and bent on one end. Apparently it hit a train bridge.........

The container contents were worth well over a couple million dollars, not to mention the many many years that went into building the cabinets............

To top it all off we just got a text message asking: "How quickly could you build another container?" AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *hysterical laughter*

Work is going to suck for the next few months, all this on top of a schedule that was already tight and had me traveling a lot in the coming months.

**Partyball** · 01-10-13, 10:46 AM

Good thing fuck ups cost more.

**dex71** · 01-10-13, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by Partyball

Good thing fuck ups cost more.

Add to that some job security.

You should buy that driver a beer. The insurance guy probably needs one more, though.

**Alundil** · 01-10-13, 05:42 PM

Is this a good time for a Soviet Russia joke? Of course Al.

In Soviet Russia, train bridge hit you.

Geez. That sucks Rush. So......how quickly can you build another one? And that was not kind to laugh hysterically at the question I texted you

**rush2049** · 01-10-13, 07:19 PM

Well to answer honestly:

If we have the 8 control cabinets completely finished and ready to be prepped for testing like we did a month and a half ago then we could probably do it in a month and a half.....

If any one of those cabinets need to be re-built (or at the very least have everything retested both structurally, mechanically and electrically | if the client is ok with that decision) then we are talking a year to two years........

The insurance guy / the high ups at the company I work for (located in Germany) need a case or two of something stronger than I have ever drank.......

We are talking a 6+ month set (at least) back to a couple billion dollar project here......

It is definitely job security, but it also makes the already high stress levels go to near snapping points.....