"How do I know Maintenance is doing their job?" "Is everything running smoothly, no trouble, no hiccups or breaks?" "Well, yeah, but--" "Then stop worrying about their job and do yours, ghat-dayum."
@@inkyfingers317 This mentality exists in the auto industry too. it is so unbelievably annoying. especially the part when they wanna bother you on break. though in my case it was the off-the-clock break they couldnt help but bother me on.
@@OnyxTheWiseWolfthat's why I leave the building if off the clock. People who I'm cool with, know my phone number. Otherwise no one dares to come over to my car and bother me cause they know I am off the clock.
As a amintenance tech for 32 years. I can tell you this skit is spot on. And side note we have always told the engineers that god made maintenance because engineers need heros too.
And because engineers usually don't know their behind from the hole in the ground, they kept this welder and master service tech happily employed for 15 years, lol. You be surprised of any engineers that are nowhere near the fields I work in trying to tell me how to do my job.
@@Patric-y1g dude i have some stories for you. We had this one many moons ago make this type of trimmer. After I took it apart and use vertical mill on it. it was able to run product he flipped out on me that I runied is design. owner of the company told him to shut it and leave me alone.
@@vector150 the war stories many of the people in this comment section could share 😉. Bring a couple dozen cases of beer go out by the lake and get some tents , lol. I have probably a hundred or more that stick out in my head. When was an electrical engineer who was the head of r&D a a former Midwest based appliance manufacturer who was purchased by someone named girls school or close........ The man was trying to tell me that thermal resets never go bad????? Another one was an engineer that worked on computers that swear to God his electronic control module went bad, would not pay the diagnostic fee but I noticed on the way out that the house ground was no longer attached to the ground???? Perplexing 😉?????? Although I did have one was a computer engineer who work from home who said he had no idea why this was short cycling, diagnose what's the problem and fix it...... Do you know how rare that is?
As Dad used to say, Ignorance Knows No Mercy, Stupidity Knows No Bounds. 40 plus years in Industrial Maintenance, been around several operators like this.
Same here. Did cnc for many years, the tools have to be at 5500psi to make a clean cut. Had an operator push them to 7200 and kept popping hydraulic lines, and the tools would crash. Each tool is about 5 grand to replace. The head decking tool is like 55 grand to replace. The operator got moved over to this mazak head cutter, and crashed it in less than 5 minutes. Ol boy bout got beat with a 5lb mine sludge.
Got the 3am call ins, Had 'LEAD MEN' testing fuses and saying they were good but the machine still wouldn't run. Just could not get it through their thick skulls that you can't test fuses on a steel table!! Electricians they were not!!
I remember my Dad once getting a call out at 3 am. From the line manager at one, the site's saying all the lines we're down my Dad asked if they had checked the circuit breakers getting the reply. Of course we have, we're not that stupid, so Dad and I head out there. Bear in mind that so far, it's just cost £700 to call us out, plus a £150 for the hour it took us to get there now here's the kicker it took less than five minutes to get all the lines up and costing a £1000 for the 5 minutes we spent resetting the circuit breaker and that line manager to this day still can't understand why he got demoted for calling us out costing £1850 plus £20000 in lost production and wages 😂😂😂😂
If maintenance had enough personnel, I wouldn't have to fix it myself. And if the owners invested in preventive maintenance, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
As a service technician, I feel Roscoe's pain and anger The number of times I have to fix/repair what some employee or manager at one of the restaurants "adjusted" and causes the item to break. One of them actually told me that if the equipment wasn't so badly made they'd not have to adjust it every day they work. I told them the reason they have to adjust it is we've put it back to where it is supposed to be any some moron adjusts it back
God damn it, I hate it when people adjust something that I just fixed for no reason other than the fact that after me fixing it it stopped working properly 🙄
@@BreakingNVain we had issues at my company with managers resetting certain machines as opposed to cleaning them fully -- items like countdown timer is "taking too long" or not starting and stuff like that. So they'd use the hidden reset button inside the control box to "fix it" We went and put security screws on the units so they couldn't do that and less than a week later the complaints started. My boss basically told them to f*** off
See, I always called my guy before fucking with my equipment. Eventually they just started sending me the maintenenc manuals if it was a smaller job just so they wouldn't have to come through post security.
@@StoneAgeDudemanGaming that's how I started out at my job I used to be a shift manager but asked our service guys if there was some way to help out as there was only 2 of them and 14 locations They gladly sent me the info/parts and if I couldn't do it I could at least troubleshoot ahead of them
@@NEEDbacon Currently work in a factory, got offered a promotion to be a backup supervisor/supervisors assistant after 5 months as a machine operator with no other experience. The turnover rate for new hires at my job is like 2 weeks during the busy months.
Worked as an electrical tech and engineer for 35 years after 4 years as army radar tech on a missle system. Had some good operators and quite a few bad ones. One operator was bragging about having higher production rates than any of the other shifts on the stranger he ran. Turns out he would go into the drive control cabinet and turn the max rotation speed up at the start of his shift and back down at the end of the shift. 36 bobbins of 1500 lbs each rotating around like a ferris wheel beyond the maximum safe speed before failure limit. Then wonder if the stories about bobbins coming off and crashing out through the roof and coming back down into other machines two bays over were true.
Roscoe is going to knock that mustache off that guy’s lip and that shiny new white helmet, you gonna be able to see him from a mile off that he’s the new guy but really and truly I wonder what Ricky has to say about this
I was a slitter/rewinder operator for 15 years. In my experience, if you have a good working relationship with your maintenance and electrical departments, they will be more willing to go out of their way to help you. Being an asshat like that guy turns maintenance against you. Not many people in the plant knew much about our machines, including maintenance, electrical and management, including specialists. Treating them like work friends made them willing enough to spend time even on days following a problem we aren’t sure of yet, to come up to me either at the machine or coming on shift to discuss potentials, theories, solutions, then we go try it on the machine together. It’s always better when operators and maintenance work together for solutions, because fucking with them won’t unfuck your day
Yeah, having friends at work, or just general politeness can help smooth over most problems, or like you said make others willing to help out beyond their duties. Assuming the other people are not too rough around the edges or down right jerks.
As an electromechanical tech turned supervisor i can assure you youre correct. I let people fight problems all shift because theyd act like a jerk. Id spend hours chasing down the smallest problems for people who were nice to me that rarely called. Every minute that maintenance is sitting down os another minute that plant is making money. You dont want us busy, you want us doing preventive maintenance during scheduled down time.
@@UserFormelyKnownAs_hjkh BINGO!! PMs should be the bulk of maintenance's workload. Not fixing broken equipment. Operators that pull stupid one off adjustments or mods to the machine are total arrogant dipshits.
I was a slitter and Caster Level 5 operator at JW Aluminum for 14yrs. Even though I knew my machines like the back of my hand and every single sound the motors, rewind, hydraulic and pneumatic locks made, etc. I was always very cool with maintenance guys and many were my friends. Only a few of them were hard headed and wouldn't listen when there was a problem that was serious.
As an Operator I've have never bitched about Maintenance sitting on their ass doing nothing . Now, taking fucking forever to grab one part, or them constantly walking back to the bay to grab a tool cause they don't wanna drag their box. Like alright but if you have to leave three times bring your fuckin box back.
Being in building maintenance we get this stupid $hit all the time. That is why we had to install thermostats that are not connected to anything just to let people think they have some control of things around here
I've seen that fake thermostat trick quite a few times... they did it poorly cause the ones that worked were all behind locked clear cases, but the fake ones weren't. I even tried to be "nice" and explain to the people in the building that the thermostats were fake and didn't do anything, but they swore they worked, and I was full of shit.
Dummy thermostats have existed forever. I have one in my house for the wife. Even adjusted the offset so she thinks it’s 76° in the winter when the real one is set to 68°.
Seen both sides of this. I’ve seen machine operators that thought they knew better than veteran maintenance. I’ve also seen operators get ignored when they’re ringing the alarm bells and get summarily ignored until there’s a rather hefty repair bill and get blamed for not ringing the bell “ loud enough”.
As a former line operator, I did all the maintenance on my machines. But for some reason the line I ran didn’t have any maintenance schedule with the maintenance department, so they did nothing till it broke then repaired it. I got tired of working weekends from downtime so to thing failing from lack of grease and oil so I read the manual and started doing the maintenance myself as dictated by the manufacturer. For some reason it stopped burning up shafts after maintenance started getting done, so peculiar. For those wondering I ran extruders, making puffed and crunchy corn snacks. Basically I made off brand Cheetos, if you have ever eaten Trader Joe’s white cheddar puffs I used to make literal tons of that stuff every shift.
That's how it it at my job currently, maintenance isn't allowed to actually fix or maintain anything because management wants all the lines running for all 8 hours of every shift. Then they bitch about how the company doesn't have the money to replace trashed parts or to pay for a third party to come and repair the machines when the maintenance guys can no longer rig the machines to run for another day. But they have no problem having the whole plant work mandatory overtime Saturday and Sunday at double the pay because we cant keep up with customer orders.
1st off, we ain't talking about work BS while on break. 2nd if you continue to talk about work BS while on break, then we are going to have to start break all over again with a added 5 minute penalty.
@@btbatesy2207lol, if I used that rule when I worked for the last contractor, nothing would get done. That guy thought he could take up every minute of your day, on or off the clock.
I worked industrial maintenance at Electrolux. One of the most needed tools to diagnose an issue with equipment is the operator. They supposedly know what is going to happen and when it happens if the machine is properly working. I have been issued many work orders stating the equipment stops. I get to the machine, and no operator is there. So i would have to look up the step by step process and schematics to fix the issue. Saves a lot of time if the operator is there and can answer questions.
I started in industrial maintenance in 1993. I left maintenance work to do machine tool service work 10 years ago. I can say for a fact that being able to discuss the machine problems with the operator will cut down on having to search for the issue by a sizeable amount of time.
As a former line operator, half of the maintenance guys of the maintenance guys showed me some quick fixes in case the line ever went down so they can do their job elsewhere or sit around so respect to those guys for taking initiative and makeing everyone's lives easier
I'm just gonna say this now. I was the line operator. And I did fix some shit. Adjusted photon reflectors so that they'd actually reflect and turn that section of the conveyor back on (typically from where it was loose, and someone had previously hit it). I also put the rubbery band things back on the conveyor from where they'd popped out of their groove. I even removed plastic out of the conveyor pins and motor areas. (We used this thin, non-sticky, plastic strips that was about as durable as seran wrap only it didn't self-cling, to keep the lids closed on boxes as they went down the conveyor and, because they didn't self-cling, they had a tendency to just fall off randomly.) And if I adjusted the speed, at all, it was usually to make it run slower. I don't need my machine to operate at a speed that can hit a daily output of 2,000 units per shift when rate is only 1,200 units per shift. That's just unnecessary and unnecessarily unsafe. Plus, I figure it'd save a bit of wear and tear on the machines as the parts wouldn't be slamming into each other so fast.
This is accurate. Have an industrial dishwasher I repair and maintain and there's just one second shift "operator" that has an issue with it about once every other week or so and maybe once every other month I can verify or duplicate the issue. One day I spent 4 hours watching the temps on the machine because he swore it wasn't reaching temp or would randomly drop temp. 4 hours later and no issues. I think he gets lonely
As a Manual Machinist & maintenance mechanic for 38 yrs this is why we look pissed off and ready to throw hands when we walk out on the production floor !😎
Hey boss, we need a Rickys the Boss part 3. Is Ricky the owner 🤔 Maybe Debra 🤷♂️ Ever thought about the Safety Man 😐 why is Rickys write ups never get to the "right people" 🤔 🤔🤔
Is anyone else impressed yet with *another* new character with a distinguishably different voice?! John Michael you really do a great job with the voices! Each character that you voice specifically has his own dialect, I feel like I could almost identify them each without looking, you do THAT good of a job! Keep up the GREAT WORK!! 🎉
I have watched this play out too many times. For some reason, every new guy thinks he knows what a setting should be better than those who've kept it running for years. If you notice a change, then tell maintenance. Your job is to use it, not fix it.
Been in maintenance for 7 years and if it isn't the operator messing with the equipment and then claiming they ain't, it's the operator ignoring the equipment while it screeches to death like some unholy banshee.
In my defense the line I work on is 50 years old.... The factory is only 25 years old and most of the maintenance guys that knew how to fix it have retired. I've been working that old hag for 7 years and it always brings a smile to my face when I call for maintenance and one of the young bloods comes over and asks where the panel view or the teach pendant is
I love this it’s on point on every level and I can’t stop laughing I worked maintenance for 20 plus yrs and this was how are day started and ended. The old man in the chair is golden I’m guessing he’s been there for 40 plus years and has fixed everything there and the 3 month in sse that’s still on new hire probation is the back bone of the plant it’s because of him that the plant operates lol. No the old man who forgot more about the line than he will ever know. Keep it going my friend lol thanks for the memories.
Hey Breadstick! Just wanted to say your vids are great and pretty much on point about work. My names Patrick. I'm an Iron worker in Oklahoma. I was shown your videos by a brother from work a few years back. Watched you ever since. Hell I'd watch some new videos you'd put out and show him. We would die laughing. He was my Forman, my Journeymen, and a great friend. Well he fell Monday afternoon while doing a walk around and rolling up. He didn't make it. I just wanted to write and say keep up with the shit. It helps with shit show days. Plus it would be cool to watch everybody age too in the videos. Anyways much appreciated brother. Keep it up and thanks for the laughs I had with a brother.
Ya know growing up I heard "operator" and I had instant respect for the guy. In my first week at a plant I understood that not all operators are created equal
😂 This one is gold! As for myself, the maintenance guys at my shop both love and hate me... I know exactly how to un-f#*k most problems with my machines, so they seldom have to mess with it. HOWEVER, if I have to go to them for a fix, they know it's well and truely RAILED!
10 years working for 1 manufacturing company. I literally had to bring my own toolbox and tools to work on equipment because it was considered standard operating procedure. MTX was only called if it required us to remove a safety door completely, and even some of that work was left to us to do depending on the part. My current job MTX does all the adjustments and work on stuff except setting up our extruders, setting the lines up to run, and we do adjust the air pressures or water pressure on set machines. An odd thing happened a few months back. I'd set the air up on one of the parts that was mine to adjust, and the head of maintenance would go back behind me and readjust my adjustments. So I'd have to go back and redo it all over again . He did this until one of the maintenance guy on my shift, knowing why I was cranking the air up at the max setting, told him to stop messing with my line.😂
"Maintenance ain't doing their jobs!" "Really? Why do you think that?" "Because I have to keep fixing the stuff here!" "...Have you reported something as broken?" "No." "Have you talked to Maintenance about getting these things fixed?" "No! Why would I! I do it myself!" "So you're telling me that, not only are you doing work you aren't paid for on company time, not only aren't you reporting problems to the correct departments when problems come up, but you are preforming maintenance on company machinery without the certification to do so?" "I...I uh...they" "I'm gunna stop you right there. How about you take your tools home and the next time you need maintenance done, you call Maintenance. K there kid? Then you get to watch Maintenance do the job Maintenance is supposed to do because YOU'RE doing the job you're supposed to do. K? Now, if you call for Maintenance, and Maintenance THEN starts sitting around and doing nothing, then you call me. K cupcake? We understanding each other?" "....yaaaa."
Reading these comments makes me feel not alone! Im a factory maintenance technician, and we deal with this daily. Operators asking why were in the break room, when were on lunch 2 hours late because of a major repair, often because somebody screwed with the machine.
Yeah this reminds me so much of a job I had about 20 years ago in a food plant. Though I was one of the line operators and none of the maintenance guys wanted to be part of trouble shooting a chocolate slurry in 100F heat and 90% humidity. One of them even admitted to me "well you know this system better than I do."
Operating engineer here from Canada . Tell my coworkers all the time. Don’t fuck with the equipment. Your job is to diagnose, complain and operate. Unless you get told by someone to fix it yourself you don’t pick up a fuckin thing XD
Hey ive been on the other side of the tracks on this boys, maintenance was too busy figuring out where to score the next bag of ice to do their job and we have 12 ppl on a line doing stuff by hand because the machines are down. I’m sorry I brought in my own hammer drill and screwed the vibrating MF to the ground because duct tape wasn’t gonna keep that sifter attached to the capping machine. There was a 50yr old lady “bless her heart” putting on spice Capps by hand…standing on a stack of expired phone books because she’s 4,7” and the line is as tall as her shoulders. Started bringing my lunch box”tool box” to work and we got down to just the personal that reloaded machines instead of personal that was taking the place of machines.
Had to explain to more than once boss. We are maintenance technicians, if we wanted to work non stop we would be production hands. And I’ve had to ask what piece of equipment would you like me to shut down to perform “maintenance” on. It usually doesn’t go over well. That attitude is extremely prevalent in the south.
Just the opposite where I used to work. 21+ years of industrial manufacturing myself. Responsible for machine change overs in my department of production. Sure, we weren’t manufacturing precision units of .001 tolerances but when it’s spitting out 1700 units a min. you better be damn sure of your micro. adjustments. One of the many reasons I left is the maintenance department or lack of it.
Yeah I am sitting the the break room drinking coffee at 8am. That's because I got called in three hours early to fix the machine that some operator hit with a forklift at 2am, and I want to take a break before I start doing my regular duties that will take me the next 10 hours to complete.
Can confirm. As an industrial mechanic I can assert that the better portion of my job is spent putting the machines back to the way they should be after line operators "worked on them" 😂
I love the barley two year operator, telling me, the 33 year technician/mechanic, how to do things. That did not go over really well. I'm Roscoe. I need a Roscoe tee shirt!
Lmao, my old job was smart. Maintenance gave us a course to do minor maintenance on our machine due to the different products needing different calibrations. On top of that, we are the ones required to break down, clean, and put back together our multiple machines on our production line. We knew our spit inside and out.
Im in such a small company that even the janitor is also a line operator and repair tech, i say this as that janitor. In the next few hours I'll either be pushing a broom, running a 570t milling machine, or chasing wires on a custom 570t milling and boring cnc,
When I ran Techmire die cast machines the maintenance guys actually liked me because I did fix my own stuff within reason, and usually if it was something I couldn't/shouldn't fix I usually had it already troubleshot so they knew what tools or parts they needed to bring. I usually fixed the minor stuff only because it would sometimes take forever to get them down there. My hard limit was usually electrical, those things had a lot of voltage in places and I didn't feel like being the main course at the BBQ.
"How do I know Maintenance is doing their job?"
"Is everything running smoothly, no trouble, no hiccups or breaks?"
"Well, yeah, but--"
"Then stop worrying about their job and do yours, ghat-dayum."
Boss: Don't do anything without a work-order!
The same boss somehow: Why aren't you doing anything right now!!?!1!
This shit is so true! Most maintenance reaction work is do to operators either not properly using equipment or "fixing" it themselves, lol
@@inkyfingers317 This mentality exists in the auto industry too. it is so unbelievably annoying. especially the part when they wanna bother you on break. though in my case it was the off-the-clock break they couldnt help but bother me on.
as long as nothing is broken or needs PM, maintenance can take a nap or what ever, as long as they get their ass moving when something breaks.
@@OnyxTheWiseWolfthat's why I leave the building if off the clock. People who I'm cool with, know my phone number. Otherwise no one dares to come over to my car and bother me cause they know I am off the clock.
This guy is about to catch some hands trying to complain about Roscoe.
We're going to see him hit him with his "hands" but ole boy going be out right after the first one hits so he aint going know til he wakes up 😅
@@MakeURHoodieold age and treachery beats youth and reflex every time 😂
That line operator you know, is the reason people like me run on caffeine, nicotine and hatred
Hi, are you me?
If your running on caffine, nicotine and hate, sounds like you were in the army before there
@@Raptor40699bro get over it. Soldiers aren't the only ones running on coffee nicotine and hate
@@BawkBawkBawk666calm your ass, I meant it as a joke as I was in the navy and our basic diet is caffeine, nicotine and alcohol.
@@BawkBawkBawk666Damn Straight. Those are the only things that keep a rotating Maintenance Man going 😁.
As a amintenance tech for 32 years. I can tell you this skit is spot on. And side note we have always told the engineers that god made maintenance because engineers need heros too.
And because engineers usually don't know their behind from the hole in the ground, they kept this welder and master service tech happily employed for 15 years, lol. You be surprised of any engineers that are nowhere near the fields I work in trying to tell me how to do my job.
@@Patric-y1g dude i have some stories for you. We had this one many moons ago make this type of trimmer. After I took it apart and use vertical mill on it. it was able to run product he flipped out on me that I runied is design. owner of the company told him to shut it and leave me alone.
As a industrial hvac technician i can concur the skit is spot on. Maintenance doesnt do shit but sit in the room and dont ever fix NOTHING 😂
@@vector150 the war stories many of the people in this comment section could share 😉. Bring a couple dozen cases of beer go out by the lake and get some tents , lol. I have probably a hundred or more that stick out in my head. When was an electrical engineer who was the head of r&D a a former Midwest based appliance manufacturer who was purchased by someone named girls school or close........ The man was trying to tell me that thermal resets never go bad????? Another one was an engineer that worked on computers that swear to God his electronic control module went bad, would not pay the diagnostic fee but I noticed on the way out that the house ground was no longer attached to the ground???? Perplexing 😉?????? Although I did have one was a computer engineer who work from home who said he had no idea why this was short cycling, diagnose what's the problem and fix it...... Do you know how rare that is?
YES.
As Dad used to say, Ignorance Knows No Mercy, Stupidity Knows No Bounds. 40 plus years in Industrial Maintenance, been around several operators like this.
Same here. Did cnc for many years, the tools have to be at 5500psi to make a clean cut. Had an operator push them to 7200 and kept popping hydraulic lines, and the tools would crash. Each tool is about 5 grand to replace. The head decking tool is like 55 grand to replace. The operator got moved over to this mazak head cutter, and crashed it in less than 5 minutes. Ol boy bout got beat with a 5lb mine sludge.
Got the 3am call ins, Had 'LEAD MEN' testing fuses and saying they were good but the machine still wouldn't run. Just could not get it through their thick skulls that you can't test fuses on a steel table!! Electricians they were not!!
I remember my Dad once getting a call out at 3 am. From the line manager at one, the site's saying all the lines we're down my Dad asked if they had checked the circuit breakers getting the reply. Of course we have, we're not that stupid, so Dad and I head out there. Bear in mind that so far, it's just cost £700 to call us out, plus a £150 for the hour it took us to get there now here's the kicker it took less than five minutes to get all the lines up and costing a £1000 for the 5 minutes we spent resetting the circuit breaker and that line manager to this day still can't understand why he got demoted for calling us out costing £1850 plus £20000 in lost production and wages 😂😂😂😂
Been in maintenance 13 years. Dead on accurate
If maintenance had enough personnel, I wouldn't have to fix it myself. And if the owners invested in preventive maintenance, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
As a service technician, I feel Roscoe's pain and anger
The number of times I have to fix/repair what some employee or manager at one of the restaurants "adjusted" and causes the item to break.
One of them actually told me that if the equipment wasn't so badly made they'd not have to adjust it every day they work. I told them the reason they have to adjust it is we've put it back to where it is supposed to be any some moron adjusts it back
IT guy for a large restaurant company here, I feel ya
God damn it, I hate it when people adjust something that I just fixed for no reason other than the fact that after me fixing it it stopped working properly 🙄
@@BreakingNVain we had issues at my company with managers resetting certain machines as opposed to cleaning them fully -- items like countdown timer is "taking too long" or not starting and stuff like that. So they'd use the hidden reset button inside the control box to "fix it"
We went and put security screws on the units so they couldn't do that and less than a week later the complaints started. My boss basically told them to f*** off
See, I always called my guy before fucking with my equipment. Eventually they just started sending me the maintenenc manuals if it was a smaller job just so they wouldn't have to come through post security.
@@StoneAgeDudemanGaming that's how I started out at my job
I used to be a shift manager but asked our service guys if there was some way to help out as there was only 2 of them and 14 locations
They gladly sent me the info/parts and if I couldn't do it I could at least troubleshoot ahead of them
"I've been here for three months!" LOL like that makes him the old hand or something.
I can say, depending on the job, you may end up being the old hand after three months.
In most places he would have seniority. The churn rate is high.
@@NEEDbacon Currently work in a factory, got offered a promotion to be a backup supervisor/supervisors assistant after 5 months as a machine operator with no other experience. The turnover rate for new hires at my job is like 2 weeks during the busy months.
I have known guys like that…. They don’t last long
I've been in places where the 90-day+ folks ARE the "old hands." They WERE the shit-show you might imagine them to be.
As someone who began his career as a line operator and is now maintenance... FUUUCK this was real
Oh the defeated 'i'll grab ma-toolbox' broke me
That wasn't a 'defeated' glint in Roscoe's eyes 👹🙉🙊🙈
Oh, it's not to fix the line, it's to "fix" the operator.
Engineer: "Errectin' uh dispenser!"
That's not defeat; that's "oh, great... I have to unfuck it... AGAIN..."
Well he's got to have something to put the line operators tools in when he's done.
He's not getting those back.
Worked as an electrical tech and engineer for 35 years after 4 years as army radar tech on a missle system. Had some good operators and quite a few bad ones. One operator was bragging about having higher production rates than any of the other shifts on the stranger he ran. Turns out he would go into the drive control cabinet and turn the max rotation speed up at the start of his shift and back down at the end of the shift.
36 bobbins of 1500 lbs each rotating around like a ferris wheel beyond the maximum safe speed before failure limit. Then wonder if the stories about bobbins coming off and crashing out through the roof and coming back down into other machines two bays over were true.
"And when was the line operator promoted to supervisor?" 🤣🤣🤣
Tell 'em Roscoe!
Roscoe is going to knock that mustache off that guy’s lip and that shiny new white helmet, you gonna be able to see him from a mile off that he’s the new guy but really and truly I wonder what Ricky has to say about this
LMAO 🤣
Anybody who has a shiny new helmet . All they do all day long is stand underneath it .
I was a slitter/rewinder operator for 15 years. In my experience, if you have a good working relationship with your maintenance and electrical departments, they will be more willing to go out of their way to help you. Being an asshat like that guy turns maintenance against you. Not many people in the plant knew much about our machines, including maintenance, electrical and management, including specialists. Treating them like work friends made them willing enough to spend time even on days following a problem we aren’t sure of yet, to come up to me either at the machine or coming on shift to discuss potentials, theories, solutions, then we go try it on the machine together. It’s always better when operators and maintenance work together for solutions, because fucking with them won’t unfuck your day
Yeah, having friends at work, or just general politeness can help smooth over most problems, or like you said make others willing to help out beyond their duties.
Assuming the other people are not too rough around the edges or down right jerks.
As an electromechanical tech turned supervisor i can assure you youre correct. I let people fight problems all shift because theyd act like a jerk. Id spend hours chasing down the smallest problems for people who were nice to me that rarely called.
Every minute that maintenance is sitting down os another minute that plant is making money. You dont want us busy, you want us doing preventive maintenance during scheduled down time.
It's the people you work with that make a job
@@UserFormelyKnownAs_hjkh
BINGO!! PMs should be the bulk of maintenance's workload. Not fixing broken equipment. Operators that pull stupid one off adjustments or mods to the machine are total arrogant dipshits.
I was a slitter and Caster Level 5 operator at JW Aluminum for 14yrs. Even though I knew my machines like the back of my hand and every single sound the motors, rewind, hydraulic and pneumatic locks made, etc. I was always very cool with maintenance guys and many were my friends. Only a few of them were hard headed and wouldn't listen when there was a problem that was serious.
as a maintenance guy in a factory, I can confirm. this is the most accurate series of conversations i've ever seen.
As an Operator I've have never bitched about Maintenance sitting on their ass doing nothing . Now, taking fucking forever to grab one part, or them constantly walking back to the bay to grab a tool cause they don't wanna drag their box. Like alright but if you have to leave three times bring your fuckin box back.
Being in building maintenance we get this stupid $hit all the time. That is why we had to install thermostats that are not connected to anything just to let people think they have some control of things around here
I've seen that fake thermostat trick quite a few times... they did it poorly cause the ones that worked were all behind locked clear cases, but the fake ones weren't. I even tried to be "nice" and explain to the people in the building that the thermostats were fake and didn't do anything, but they swore they worked, and I was full of shit.
Dummy thermostats have existed forever. I have one in my house for the wife. Even adjusted the offset so she thinks it’s 76° in the winter when the real one is set to 68°.
Oh that's just fucking evil
Sounds like DEI hires😂
This trick works surprisingly well. Until something is actually wrong and you don't do anything with the dummy stat
Best Maintenance moto I came up with. "If it ain't broke we fix it. But if it's broke, we don't fix it."
I always liked " if it ain't broke, fix till it is." But we mostly use that when referring to management.😄
Here's one official vote for line op to be a reoccurring character. Also if a break is interrupted in most states it restarts, roscoe is owned a break
bro line operator should be in more episodes from now on hes an entertaining character
Next episode he's missing that mustache 😂
This will be the only episode he is in. He died today.
If Roscoe has his way the guy will be memorialized every ep with a cross that says R.I.P.
As a 20+ year Mechanic...i completely am Roscoe in this situation. Word and heavy sighs and homicidal thoughts all wrapped up into one. 😂
Seen both sides of this.
I’ve seen machine operators that thought they knew better than veteran maintenance.
I’ve also seen operators get ignored when they’re ringing the alarm bells and get summarily ignored until there’s a rather hefty repair bill and get blamed for not ringing the bell “ loud enough”.
As a maintenance guy, this is true!
That all you do is hide in the tool room collecting a paycheck?
@@davidbeppler3032 we’re not hiring, so don’t quit your job dude
@@Hrmn8tor Love my job. Thanks. Trophy man. My woman bought me a Tesla.
@@davidbeppler3032 your a trophy man?
You must be good at polishing knobs.
Get in where you fit in I guess 🤷
@@Hrmn8tor You seem to be a homophobe. Why would you care? Are you hitting on me?
As a former line operator, I did all the maintenance on my machines. But for some reason the line I ran didn’t have any maintenance schedule with the maintenance department, so they did nothing till it broke then repaired it. I got tired of working weekends from downtime so to thing failing from lack of grease and oil so I read the manual and started doing the maintenance myself as dictated by the manufacturer. For some reason it stopped burning up shafts after maintenance started getting done, so peculiar. For those wondering I ran extruders, making puffed and crunchy corn snacks. Basically I made off brand Cheetos, if you have ever eaten Trader Joe’s white cheddar puffs I used to make literal tons of that stuff every shift.
That's how it it at my job currently, maintenance isn't allowed to actually fix or maintain anything because management wants all the lines running for all 8 hours of every shift. Then they bitch about how the company doesn't have the money to replace trashed parts or to pay for a third party to come and repair the machines when the maintenance guys can no longer rig the machines to run for another day. But they have no problem having the whole plant work mandatory overtime Saturday and Sunday at double the pay because we cant keep up with customer orders.
@@redacted5736It's like looking in a mirror. Know that you are not alone in your pain, my friend.
Same here at mine, wish these two comments would get upvoted more
1st off, we ain't talking about work BS while on break. 2nd if you continue to talk about work BS while on break, then we are going to have to start break all over again with a added 5 minute penalty.
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@@btbatesy2207lol, if I used that rule when I worked for the last contractor, nothing would get done. That guy thought he could take up every minute of your day, on or off the clock.
I worked industrial maintenance at Electrolux. One of the most needed tools to diagnose an issue with equipment is the operator. They supposedly know what is going to happen and when it happens if the machine is properly working. I have been issued many work orders stating the equipment stops. I get to the machine, and no operator is there. So i would have to look up the step by step process and schematics to fix the issue. Saves a lot of time if the operator is there and can answer questions.
I started in industrial maintenance in 1993. I left maintenance work to do machine tool service work 10 years ago. I can say for a fact that being able to discuss the machine problems with the operator will cut down on having to search for the issue by a sizeable amount of time.
As a former line operator, half of the maintenance guys of the maintenance guys showed me some quick fixes in case the line ever went down so they can do their job elsewhere or sit around so respect to those guys for taking initiative and makeing everyone's lives easier
Roscoe's about to learn that line operator
Next episode: Safteyman: An employees head is not a hammer we use to bang on the machines
I'm just gonna say this now. I was the line operator. And I did fix some shit. Adjusted photon reflectors so that they'd actually reflect and turn that section of the conveyor back on (typically from where it was loose, and someone had previously hit it). I also put the rubbery band things back on the conveyor from where they'd popped out of their groove. I even removed plastic out of the conveyor pins and motor areas. (We used this thin, non-sticky, plastic strips that was about as durable as seran wrap only it didn't self-cling, to keep the lids closed on boxes as they went down the conveyor and, because they didn't self-cling, they had a tendency to just fall off randomly.)
And if I adjusted the speed, at all, it was usually to make it run slower. I don't need my machine to operate at a speed that can hit a daily output of 2,000 units per shift when rate is only 1,200 units per shift. That's just unnecessary and unnecessarily unsafe. Plus, I figure it'd save a bit of wear and tear on the machines as the parts wouldn't be slamming into each other so fast.
The NEW new guy
You busy? Yeah busy relaxing! 😎
This is way too accurate 😂 most operators are the reason I have job security.
Oh sh!t lol we got to see a part two 🤣🤣ol’ Rosco bout to show this lineman where to put the knob🤣🤣🤣
This is accurate. Have an industrial dishwasher I repair and maintain and there's just one second shift "operator" that has an issue with it about once every other week or so and maybe once every other month I can verify or duplicate the issue. One day I spent 4 hours watching the temps on the machine because he swore it wasn't reaching temp or would randomly drop temp. 4 hours later and no issues. I think he gets lonely
As a Manual Machinist & maintenance mechanic for 38 yrs this is why we look pissed off and ready to throw hands when we walk out on the production floor !😎
The sign at the end he knew it was going to be fucked up 😆 🤣
Hey boss, we need a Rickys the Boss part 3. Is Ricky the owner 🤔 Maybe Debra 🤷♂️ Ever thought about the Safety Man 😐 why is Rickys write ups never get to the "right people" 🤔 🤔🤔
This skits always just rekindle certain HIGHLY specific emotions that i forget ive felt.
im getting ptsd from, this vid
I was thinking the same thing 😅
"I've been here 3 months, and I know how things work" tells you everything you need to know.
I think Roscoe is owed an apology, a little comp time, an ice cream, and a case of his favorite beer.
Love theses and to add someone new such a good change of pace love it
Line guy is a great add to the line up. 😆
Oooohhh Roscoe is fixing to show ol boy what them hands do and not just maintenance 😂😂
Is anyone else impressed yet with *another* new character with a distinguishably different voice?! John Michael you really do a great job with the voices! Each character that you voice specifically has his own dialect, I feel like I could almost identify them each without looking, you do THAT good of a job! Keep up the GREAT WORK!! 🎉
I’ve talked with customers I’ve delivered to and there’s always someone like this just making peoples lives harder
Oh, look, a new skit with potential to be a series. Safty man, saving Pablo, new hire is a cat, now we have a potential VS series.
I love when new characters are introduced, great videos. Thanks for the laughs bro, keep em coming!!! 😊
I have watched this play out too many times. For some reason, every new guy thinks he knows what a setting should be better than those who've kept it running for years. If you notice a change, then tell maintenance. Your job is to use it, not fix it.
Been in maintenance for 7 years and if it isn't the operator messing with the equipment and then claiming they ain't, it's the operator ignoring the equipment while it screeches to death like some unholy banshee.
We definitely need part 2 of this one
My dad's friend is a maintenance guy he used to tell me that a good maintenance man always looks like he's not working cause hes doing a great job
In my defense the line I work on is 50 years old.... The factory is only 25 years old and most of the maintenance guys that knew how to fix it have retired. I've been working that old hag for 7 years and it always brings a smile to my face when I call for maintenance and one of the young bloods comes over and asks where the panel view or the teach pendant is
Maaaan, I wanna see the altercation between Roscoe and the Line Operator and watch ol' boy catch that charge! 🤣😂🤣
I love this it’s on point on every level and I can’t stop laughing I worked maintenance for 20 plus yrs and this was how are day started and ended. The old man in the chair is golden I’m guessing he’s been there for 40 plus years and has fixed everything there and the 3 month in sse that’s still on new hire probation is the back bone of the plant it’s because of him that the plant operates lol. No the old man who forgot more about the line than he will ever know. Keep it going my friend lol thanks for the memories.
Hey Breadstick! Just wanted to say your vids are great and pretty much on point about work. My names Patrick. I'm an Iron worker in Oklahoma. I was shown your videos by a brother from work a few years back. Watched you ever since. Hell I'd watch some new videos you'd put out and show him. We would die laughing. He was my Forman, my Journeymen, and a great friend. Well he fell Monday afternoon while doing a walk around and rolling up. He didn't make it. I just wanted to write and say keep up with the shit. It helps with shit show days. Plus it would be cool to watch everybody age too in the videos. Anyways much appreciated brother. Keep it up and thanks for the laughs I had with a brother.
Sorry for your loss of a a good brother of your industry. 😇🙏
I'm so sorry for your loss. The good ones always die young. Keep his legacy alive thru the knowledge he shared with you. God bless🙏
Oh does fit my factory to a T. I’m glad I don’t work a production line.
For having such a cool mustache that machine operator does not seem too cool. Give Rosco his break 😎👍
Man its insane that theres not a Ricky & the boss tv show or movie. All your characters r hilarious 😂
I know we don't necessarily get them but I need a part two to this
Ya know growing up I heard "operator" and I had instant respect for the guy. In my first week at a plant I understood that not all operators are created equal
Loving the new character. Keep him coming.
Every job has that one guy that knows more than everyone in the company after the first week
I swear you so amazing with these characters, that when i see your videos I feel like it is diferent people 😂
Chalk up another assault charge for Roscoe 😂
One more and he unlocks a new handcuff skin.
😂 This one is gold! As for myself, the maintenance guys at my shop both love and hate me... I know exactly how to un-f#*k most problems with my machines, so they seldom have to mess with it. HOWEVER, if I have to go to them for a fix, they know it's well and truely RAILED!
That's just about the truest thing I ever heard!! Every plant I go in has at minimum 1 operator like that!
I feel like the safety man is the next one to show up😅
10 years working for 1 manufacturing company. I literally had to bring my own toolbox and tools to work on equipment because it was considered standard operating procedure. MTX was only called if it required us to remove a safety door completely, and even some of that work was left to us to do depending on the part.
My current job MTX does all the adjustments and work on stuff except setting up our extruders, setting the lines up to run, and we do adjust the air pressures or water pressure on set machines. An odd thing happened a few months back. I'd set the air up on one of the parts that was mine to adjust, and the head of maintenance would go back behind me and readjust my adjustments. So I'd have to go back and redo it all over again . He did this until one of the maintenance guy on my shift, knowing why I was cranking the air up at the max setting, told him to stop messing with my line.😂
"Maintenance ain't doing their jobs!"
"Really? Why do you think that?"
"Because I have to keep fixing the stuff here!"
"...Have you reported something as broken?"
"No."
"Have you talked to Maintenance about getting these things fixed?"
"No! Why would I! I do it myself!"
"So you're telling me that, not only are you doing work you aren't paid for on company time, not only aren't you reporting problems to the correct departments when problems come up, but you are preforming maintenance on company machinery without the certification to do so?"
"I...I uh...they"
"I'm gunna stop you right there. How about you take your tools home and the next time you need maintenance done, you call Maintenance. K there kid? Then you get to watch Maintenance do the job Maintenance is supposed to do because YOU'RE doing the job you're supposed to do. K? Now, if you call for Maintenance, and Maintenance THEN starts sitting around and doing nothing, then you call me. K cupcake? We understanding each other?"
"....yaaaa."
Lol😂 R.I.P DAD, LOVE AND MISS YOU. MAINTENANCE IS WHERE THE REAL WORKERS ARE AT.
And they wonder why they call me the Angery German
Truly. Operators are the bane of my existence.
I can relate to that. Been in engineering for 35 years and I can’t count the number of times this has happened to me.
Line operator is about to learn whats its like for his shoulders to clap when Roscoe gets ahold of him
I enjoyed the visual from that statement. 😁
So surprised Rosco . Didn't get up throwing fist
Reading these comments makes me feel not alone! Im a factory maintenance technician, and we deal with this daily. Operators asking why were in the break room, when were on lunch 2 hours late because of a major repair, often because somebody screwed with the machine.
I worked at a copper manufacturing plant as a machine operator and this is spot on! 😂
Yeah this reminds me so much of a job I had about 20 years ago in a food plant. Though I was one of the line operators and none of the maintenance guys wanted to be part of trouble shooting a chocolate slurry in 100F heat and 90% humidity. One of them even admitted to me "well you know this system better than I do."
Was in maintenance for 10 years. I have... "Confescated" operators tool stashes and given them to my chief on more than one occasion.
I need a part two for this! Hilarious!
Operating engineer here from Canada . Tell my coworkers all the time. Don’t fuck with the equipment. Your job is to diagnose, complain and operate. Unless you get told by someone to fix it yourself you don’t pick up a fuckin thing XD
Hey ive been on the other side of the tracks on this boys, maintenance was too busy figuring out where to score the next bag of ice to do their job and we have 12 ppl on a line doing stuff by hand because the machines are down. I’m sorry I brought in my own hammer drill and screwed the vibrating MF to the ground because duct tape wasn’t gonna keep that sifter attached to the capping machine. There was a 50yr old lady “bless her heart” putting on spice Capps by hand…standing on a stack of expired phone books because she’s 4,7” and the line is as tall as her shoulders. Started bringing my lunch box”tool box” to work and we got down to just the personal that reloaded machines instead of personal that was taking the place of machines.
Had to explain to more than once boss. We are maintenance technicians, if we wanted to work non stop we would be production hands. And I’ve had to ask what piece of equipment would you like me to shut down to perform “maintenance” on. It usually doesn’t go over well. That attitude is extremely prevalent in the south.
Look forward to Ricky and boss videos 🥰 makes my day
The Roscoe I know exactly how you feel. 😂🤣
Going to be a hold my beer situation. You're about to see a PRO do his job.😎
Life of a technician never stops working
I need more operator! That mustache is amazing
Just the opposite where I used to work. 21+ years of industrial manufacturing myself. Responsible for machine change overs in my department of production. Sure, we weren’t manufacturing precision units of .001 tolerances but when it’s spitting out 1700 units a min. you better be damn sure of your micro. adjustments. One of the many reasons I left is the maintenance department or lack of it.
Brings back bad memories!! Retired Maintenance Manager
May we please have a part 2?
Yeah I am sitting the the break room drinking coffee at 8am. That's because I got called in three hours early to fix the machine that some operator hit with a forklift at 2am, and I want to take a break before I start doing my regular duties that will take me the next 10 hours to complete.
Accurate. Every maintenance guy has that enemy.
I sent this to my brother who's in maintenance, by the end his face was priceless 😑
Can confirm. As an industrial mechanic I can assert that the better portion of my job is spent putting the machines back to the way they should be after line operators "worked on them" 😂
This thumbnail almost made me spit out my coffee through my nose again
I love the barley two year operator, telling me, the 33 year technician/mechanic, how to do things. That did not go over really well. I'm Roscoe. I need a Roscoe tee shirt!
Lmao, my old job was smart. Maintenance gave us a course to do minor maintenance on our machine due to the different products needing different calibrations. On top of that, we are the ones required to break down, clean, and put back together our multiple machines on our production line. We knew our spit inside and out.
Im in such a small company that even the janitor is also a line operator and repair tech, i say this as that janitor. In the next few hours I'll either be pushing a broom, running a 570t milling machine, or chasing wires on a custom 570t milling and boring cnc,
When I ran Techmire die cast machines the maintenance guys actually liked me because I did fix my own stuff within reason, and usually if it was something I couldn't/shouldn't fix I usually had it already troubleshot so they knew what tools or parts they needed to bring. I usually fixed the minor stuff only because it would sometimes take forever to get them down there. My hard limit was usually electrical, those things had a lot of voltage in places and I didn't feel like being the main course at the BBQ.
As a maintenance specialist at our facility it really be like that. They dont need us till its broke then we are the hero.