When your not a Newbie! I don't agree with the 30R club, even though I am over the mark. Life time dose does somehow display a relationship to experience. It's just hard to believe that a 3, or 5 years senior, with a lifetime of 200MR, has had much experience in the trenches. Todays industry has adopted many new tools to prevent dose, even for the techs. This may be hard to believe, for some people out there, but there was a day when CCTV's weren't available in the industry!
A few months back, I worked with a relatively new senior. He was a great co-worker and had his head on his shoulders. He didn't walk into the job acting like he was the greatest gift to the industry and knew everything there was to know. His first question was, " Fill me in on that is happening "? He actually put his respirator on and walked the job down and asked questions! Over the course of the next five days, he came to the shift meeting, learned all the routines and all the workers by name. I guess you would have to say, he took interest in that he was doing! I was kind of nice knowing that he could answer the questions that I couldn't!
Now, here is how you know your a Newbie! A couple of years back, while at a SGRP. A junior was assigned with me at containment. The junior had been on site for nine months! While we sat at the desk, the tech kept looking at the containment entrance repeatedly. I finally asked, " What are you looking at "? They replied, " Whats inside there", pointing to the entrance. I found out that the tech had never been inside the containment building, or any other containment. I asked them if they wanted to take a tour. The reply was, " NO, I don't want to go in there, unless I absoluty have to!
Draw your own conclusions from the two stories, that junior is now a senior! Maybe working next to you!
I also noted a couple of postings on evaluations on this thread. One major topic to consider in evaluations, Missed Time! This includes late days and absence, there the same thing! If you have two late days and one absence, thats three incidence! In a thirty day outage, that is 10 % of the time! Even your best worker isn't worth a damn if he doesn't show up!