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R & M something or other at Akar Shipyard. The company and management were out of Germany. Some of the Germans working there were ok. One guy from Scandinavia I think who was a really decent guy but both the supervisor and his fat side kick were Germans and stupid. It's impossible they got the job based on merit.

Here's a horrible dirty secret. Our government paid them to build a liquid cargo ship with no customer. Just to keep them afloat. So they did a shitty job. One bulkhead in that ship has a seam running top to bottom that was welded with a subarc process they never got right. After it was welded the entire seam split. Huge crack all the way down the seam. They ordered a friend of mine to weld over it. Not arc it out to reweld, just weld over it to hide the crack.

Some day that seam will split. It will be catastrophic. It will happen while the ship is being loaded. My only hope is that the ship forever remains out of service with no buyers. As it stood when I left , it was a multimillion pile of defective steel with no takers except us tax payers.

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Strange, the whole PCism diversity hire stuff started in GER only what feels like 10 years ago (so it actually probably started around 00s)

Well fuck them all may they die on an on job accident and the insurance doesn't pay out.

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Walking behind the supervisor one day I literally heard him say, "fuck America". Kind of shocked me.

I'm a rock solid dedicated welder and have spent my adult life perfecting my craft and taking every weld seriously. People's lives depend on us doing our job right and having professional integrity.

I've seen trash work many times in my career and been called on to gouge out welds with an electric arc gouger and carbon rod so I could then grind it back down and replace the defective with a good honest weld that looks good as well. I've seen stupid mistakes due to ignorance and lack of understanding of the process but never until I worked at Akar Shipyard for R & M did I see deliberate sloth work.

The foreman got orders to deliberately sabotage my work efforts so I could be fired. It's technical so I won't bore you but I saw fits done wrong, untrained welders sent in who messed stuff up and then send me in on overtime to weld in the same area. I looked it over, saw the work was extremely bad and refused to do the overtime. I made my report and went home. The next day the supervisor not knowing I had refused to engage in that area blamed the entire mess on me, claiming since I had worked there I was responsible. Nope. I told him to check the time logs. I had never struck an arc in that area, it was his guy he had sent in there on first shift who had done the defective work.

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Lazy bum, can't even check if his plan to frame a guy works out, I would have shown up when you were supposed to be there with a bunch of witnesses to make sure it sticks.