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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory
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To: johnlw who wrote (29343)3/24/2005 10:27:45 PM
From: Elroy Jetson   of 110192
 
I agree that comment was insulting to contract maintenance workers. I apologize for that. It appears I have retained the prejudice toward outsiders, common to the refinery communities I worked with. They are insular communities where people can tell what your function and rank is by the color and markings on your hard hat.

Although contract maintenance is well paid it is frequently an unpleasant, dirty and dangerous job. Most people prefer other jobs if they can get them. These outside workers are also new to the particular plant they are working in and, as such, are seen as a likely problem waiting to happen - an untested new component.

As I'm sure you noticed, outsiders at a refinery are treated with great suspicion. If employees don't recognize you on sight they'll want to know more - even if you're wearing an authentic looking id badge and the correct markings on your hard hat. And that was decades prior to the 9/11 hysteria.

As a result of this culture, its extremely unlikely that any refinery would allow contract workers from outside to be in a position to create a disaster like this.

I will be very surprised if this was not caused by an extended, and thus unsafe, run-time between overhauls. I have no doubt that BP and their full-time employees are responsible.
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