***I have looked at a lot of places where the floor guy does a horizontal eight on the 11-7 and the CRO takes it in the butt because he didn’t notice a obscure alarm.***
I get your meaning now. We have different terms for the “floor guy”. We have found it is the coal yard that does the Horizontal eight (twelve now since they don’t get enough sleep at home) most of the time. the rest are usually in the control room when they are not taking care of the bottom ash or demineralizer, and general walk downs.
We recently switched to a twelve hour rotating shift. It is killing us. Days off are great though.
My biggest problem is the company has promoted people with aabsolutly no CRO experience to supervision and we have taken it in the butt as a result.
One person promoted to Shift Supervisor twenty five years ago retired with the honor of loosing the unit more than anyone because of his general stupidity. When he was promoted years ago it caused half of the “unit attendants”(floor guys) to walk out.
Equal dubious promotions have been made in the last few years which have caused people at other plants in the company to wonder “What is going on there?”
In a lot of places I have been around it works like this. Coal Yard Supervisor (Or Lead Hand), Floor Supervisor (Or Lead Hand), Control Room Supervisior (Or Lead Hand), Shift Manager, coal plants have a lot of troops and lots to look at.
I worked the 12's for a lot of years, which is not bad it you are base loaded, it can suck really bad if you do a lot of start ups.
This is going to sound odd, but there was a method to the insanity and I never liked Floor guys messing up my Control Room.
I am known as a Natural Night Guy, I Liked Working Nights. I also never carried Keys, a Radio, a Cell Phone, or any other method of communication out side of the plant page system. I also got bored easily and liked to wander around at odd hours, if I needed a question answered I called the CRO or the Supervisor and asked him to get the floor guy, to open a door, to answer why the conductivity was high, ETC, ETC.
The CRO and Supervisior knew I was covering their asses and alerting them to possible problems, another problem that was solved was the direction came from Guy operating the Unit or the Supervisor, not me, I was just curious.
What can you do to improve the situation, you cared enough about what I said to jump in my sh*t, allowed. Any Idiot can be an Engineer and manage equipment, to manage people is another skill that has to be learned and it is hard, you have no friends, but they are people and deserve the respect THAT THEY DESERVE. I have taken thousands of hours of leadership courses, most are Bull Shit, the essential is: treat people as they would like to be treated, common manners, take no excuses.