Out on another field effort for "the project." It's crazy that I can recall various details about this whole pipeline in just a manner of minutes as if I never left. Its scary and sad at the same time. Two years I've been on "the project." Which is good that I've been billable. However, its pretty much been a big part of my career and even life. I've gotten to know people along the entire line that are good, hardworking folks that are trying to make living in a very unforgiving and relentless project that is basically working for "The Man." And it is "The Man."They don't care anything but about the bottom line and liability. And that's how they treat everybody on this pipeline. As a liability that could possibly give the project a "recordable." They wanna look "good." Avoid incidents and recordables. And they focus on that rather than the people that work the line and don't consider the real circumstances and safety issues we mitigate everyday. If they'd really care about us, they'd think about actual protective gear specific to our job description.
Whatever...I'm almost numb from it all. Almost.
