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Had the worst shift of my career last Tuesday on the Mississippi
Ngl, I've been running a dredge for about 7 years now and last week was a nightmare. We hit a buried cable near Baton Rouge around 3 PM that wrapped around the cutterhead so bad we had to shut down for 4 hours to cut it free. Then the hydraulic temp gauge started climbing and we lost pressure on the starboard ladder arm right as a storm rolled in. Ended up working 14 hours straight to get everything back online, and my foreman just said 'that's river life'. Has anyone else had a shift where everything went sideways at once?
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emma_rodriguez304mo ago
Did your foreman at least buy you a beer after all that? I had a day on the Ohio River where the barge broke loose, my radio died, and a seagull dropped a fish on my head all in the same hour. Sometimes the river just decides you're its personal punching bag and there's nothing you can do about it.
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nelson.wren4mo ago
Is getting beered up really that big of a deal?
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alice9284mo ago
yeah but that's not really what getting "beered up" means in most trades. getting beered up is when you finish the day and someone cracks a cold one on the tailgate, not when you're still on the clock trying to fix shit. the foreman buying you a beer after a rough day is just common courtesy, not some big bonding ritual. but i get what you're saying about the river kicking your ass, that seagull story is wild. some days you just gotta laugh or you'll cry, right?
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