Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the outage, Hurricane Fred strikes again. He was seen at the gate, comparing gate times with the times logged in the time book and the official time sheet. Bad thing is, he did it only to one shift, and only on the way out, so then we caught hell the next morning. We were told what times to put in the book to take credit of the hours we are here, but now we have to check and see what time is on the gate when we come in and not leave until 12.5 hours later if we want to get credit for 12.
Personally, I think that Fred is trying to do whatever it takes to get rid of Bartlett and bring in one of the other vendors that he is used to dealing with. He has already let us know what he thinks of Bartlett. I guess that he is trying to drive the techs away so Bartlett can't staff the outage next time and the backup will have to staff.
What he doesn't realize is that techs work for the company that pays, and Numanco, Atlantic Group, and Bartlett, as well as all the other companies out there, draw from the same pool of techs, although some techs, like me, have a tendency to go with one company just for consistency. If he drives techs away from one company, he may not be able to staff with any company. But it is his ball of wax. I was just to the point of reviewing my options as far as PI's spring outage, but forget that.