24 Replies to “But Don’t Worry, Their Woke Credentials Are Just Fabulous!”

  1. This means that any breakdowns are critical and cannot be repaired.
    When you adjust to the quality of workmanship and materials are no longer available.

    We’ll just order the parts from China and wait to be repaired.
    Many projects found that the quality is quite bad.

  2. I’m not surprised at the response.

    During my time in the oil industry, I’ve encountered managerial twits like him who have absolutely no clue as to how things really work, let alone know what’s going on.

    (“Female Mannerisms in a Male-Dominated Industry”? Boy, I’m glad I don’t work in that business any more…..)

    1. This all started with the new HR Departments all run by women who had no F*cking clue and still have no clue about Technical shit.
      I watched this change over my 43 years in Heavy Industry and Construction.
      When I started you applied in person for a job in trades directly to another Tradesman or Engineer.
      Usually in my case another older Tradesman. He would look you up and down, ask a few questions, then generally say. OK I will give you a try for a week. If your no F*cking Good I will skid your ass.
      Now they call us old Bastard’s Subject Matter Experts, were before we were called Master Craftsmen.
      This CEO is a dumb ass. You get your E & I techs to force any valves pumps etc on or off as required.
      But it takes knowledge and balls. Something that is in very short supply.
      When I had to leave the field when my wife got inoperable cancer, I was declining job offers of 1500/day plus expenses as a Consultant.
      Why Because I Could Make It Happen. Consistently make it happen with low safety stats and infractions, under budget and ahead of schedule.
      As soon as I got back in town ran into a Engineer doing an install of 6 Aero Derivative gas turbine generators who offered me a job as soon as I saw him…
      Made me feel good.

      1. This all started with the new HR Departments all run by women who had no F*cking clue and still have no clue about Technical shit.

        Yup. They’re now more concerned about whether one is a good “fit”, whatever the dickens that’s supposed to mean, or whether one has “soft skills”. So, if one doesn’t have a certificate from “Be Nice” School, one’s CV is “kept on file for xxx months”, which means that it goes directly to the recycling bin.

        Actual ability to do the job doesn’t seem to be important.

        1. Just wait til the affirmative action, math doesn’t matter engineering graduates start building shit.
          Holy China!

  3. Lets leave everything up to Tits Magee & Company to take over.
    I’ll just swim out past the breakers and watch the world die.

  4. All the retired guys that know how to run stuff manually are still around, they just get to choose when they work,, and how much charge

  5. Also related, the CIO should be fired, for being in charge of a system that is vulnerable to being taken offline by a cyber attack

    1. In a just world, IT managers/directors/CTOs would have to fall on their swords over security breaches of this magnitude. In practice, they often have very little power in the organization despite their department being mission critical. The number of times I’ve seen an executive VP dump his new personal iPhone on the network admin’s desk and demand they make it work on the corporate network – despite the organization having a strict mobile device policy with corporate provided secure smartphones – I think there’s some level of tacit understanding that the IT “managers” aren’t managing squat and therefore shouldn’t be held responsible.

  6. Used to work for a major Canadian pipeline company that’s currently working on joining pipeline across the border. The US president and his handlers stopped it.
    Anyway, the process pretty much runs on its own, there is a lot of code work need as the technology changes, it needs to be upgraded all the time.
    Of course there have to be a lot of technical people that are needed to run the technology. There is the maintenance, an absolute must.
    Removing old and putting up new, my specialty. There is always work, work, work.

    There is really no manually run it, unless you have people stationed at every valve and meter station.
    There are people permanently at the compressor stations, not that many, though they gotta be there, that push the oil or gas along.

  8. I think I will just “identify” as a woman and go. Just have to learn how to pee sitting down. Probably will work just as well as “identifying as “vaccinated”.
    This identifying stuff works like a charm once you know how to use it.
    Identify as a woman at the hockey game and you get to use any bathroom.
    Also you can join in with authority on the abortion debate.
    How about going to a women “only” spa.

    The possibilities are endless.

    .

    1. Here’s hoping guys go overboard with it.
      Nice to see the ladies experience some real pain and discomfort, coming solely from their voting choices.

  9. But I bet they have a really great diversity program, and donate to Pride Parades.

  10. Colonial Pipeline’s owners are

    Koch Industries (a.k.a. Koch Capital Investments Company LLC, 28.09% stake ownership)
    South Korea’s National Pension Service and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (a.k.a. Keats Pipeline Investors LP, 23.44% stake ownership)
    Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (16.55% stake ownership via CDPQ Colonial Partners LP, acquired in 2011[8])
    Royal Dutch Shell (a.k.a. Shell Pipeline Company LP, 16.12% stake ownership)
    IFM Investors (a.k.a. IFM (US) Colonial Pipeline 2 LLC, 15.80% stake ownership, acquired in 2007)[9]

    I wonder if any of them are regretting their investments now

  11. As someone who spent half a career programming and maintaining process logic controllers and distributed control systems for automated chemical plant operations, I’m exasperated that these systems are now connected to the internet to begin with. Why?

    1. because it allows for more remote control, not requiring people at all of those locations….

      Given that they are mostly serial devices, the easiest solution is to cut the receive pin, so you only have data transmitting from the device, but that defeats the control purposes

  12. 50 years ago hitch hiking from University hours to home, I get a ride. Old guy. He worked in the new Zimbabwe, going downhill. He talked of how the Whites got kicked out. But he was safe as he ran the power plant. Had guards, driver, staff. He said if, and they knew, he could toast the plant anytime he wanted and the city would go dark.
    Going that way here now.

  13. I retired from an oil refinery 16 years ago. We could run it manually if we had to. I left it in the hands of people that knew key strokes and little else. We moved away from there.

  14. Holy Crap, how bad is their systems?

    Put all the pump stations in Local control and man them 24/7 on voice chat lines. Lead operator in the control room issues orders. If something goes wrong, just tell them to shutdown. What is so hard to figure out?

    didn’t want to pay the overtime?

  15. Some of us have been saying for decades that the more we rely on computers, the more fragile everything becomes.

    Colonial pipe line is an example of this fragility.

    The day a foreign nation successfully hacks the US military computers, the USA will fall within a days without a shot fired since all the jet fighters and missiles will be as paralyzed as the colonial pipeline were.

    Computers will be our downfall ( well…extreme leftism will be a huge factor too )

  16. I have seen two different situations where investment bankers have bought out creators of businesses, and the bankers simply do not see business in the same terms and do not value the same things that people who actually create the businesses that the bankers want to buy.

    Unfortunately, the bankers end up being the high bidders because their mercenary milking methods work better than the dedicated builder methods at producing ready cash because unlikely setbacks can be disregarded in planning…. until they can’t.

  17. An example of modern technology making us way way more fragile.

    someone I know who is retired, spent a couple years transfering pretty much everything he had to those terabite memory devices, he saved vinyl album music, childhood photos, etc etc

    granted it is AMAZING that a thing the size of a pack of cigarette can hold that much information, very fascinating, yes, but more fragile than walking in a mine field.

    I save my stuff on multiple smaller ( 200 GB for example ) memory devices and keep paper copies of most things and still have my vinyl albums…if I lose one, break one, have one stolen, I lose only part of my stuff not ALL my stuff.

    a few months ago he dropped his terabite thing, it broke in multiple pieces, he lost about 2 years of work and 40 years of his life; childhood pics, vinyl albums, movies from the 1970s etc etc

    that is what modern western society is doing ; putting all their eggs in the computer basket, and then we have colonial pipeline paralyzed as easily by a hacker as ordering food at McDonald…

    soon, very soon an entire nation will be paralyzed by a hacker and we will be f****d.

    but OH! computers are wonderful right?

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