Day 6 – and the missed days in between

This job has been going pretty good. It’s mainly been Jeff Johnston and a bunch of apprentices, but we’re so good that we’ve shown that the union side is more professional than the non-union, and we just picked up a huge chunk of the project. The Kitimat Methanex plant is being demolished by a bunch of companies, some Union, some non-union and some CLAC, to ship the whole thing to China where it will be rebuilt. Stelcon, who I’m working for was the first union contractor on site, and since then, one of the companies joined an AFL-CIO affiliated union. I was told when I came here how important it was to be on my best behaviour and I can really see how important that is now that I am here. We need to show that the union is the professional way of getting things done, where usually that is just common knowledge, it seems that these customers are just learning that now.

We have a few pre-apprentices on our crew because people are wanting to leave their company and join us, but the union is sending some more journeymen Ironworkers because we just picked up a huge new project on this site (taken from the CLAC contractors who couldn’t man the job).

I’ve been spending most of this week thinking how blessed my life has been. I’ve been watching the Comedy network, and they’ve been playing a lot of commercials for match.com, eHarmony and Quest, and I’m so glad to have known my wife since the day I met her, and how great she’s been with me. I’m so glad she’s helped to make this website a little more reader friendly even from this distance.

My car may not be fixed yet, but I’ve got pretty well everything I need right in this crappy hotel. Troy (the mechanic) thinks that it probably had something to do with the oil pump. I haven’t gotten a quote or anything yet, and I think I’ll ask for one tomorrow or Sunday.