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Supervisor told me to stop "being a hero" on that dry dock job in Norfolk
Last month we were doing hull cleaning on a frigate in dry dock. I kept asking for a second pass on the sacrificial anodes because the readings looked off. My supervisor pulled me aside and said "you're burning daylight and air, the spec is the spec, stop being a hero." He was right, I was checking things that the client didn't pay for. I changed my approach to just follow the checklist and flag anything outside the contract, not my own paranoia. Saved about 45 minutes a dive. But now I wonder if that's the right call when I see something that looks iffy but technically passes. How do you guys decide when to push back vs just do the job and move on?
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sarah53129d ago
Wait, 45 minutes saved per dive?? That's a huge amount of time, like how long are these dives normally that cutting that much off doesn't raise eyebrows lol. And honestly the readings looking off on sacrificial anodes is not nothing, those things are literally there to save the hull from corrosion so if they're failing early that's a real problem down the line. Your supervisor saying "the spec is the spec" bugs me a little because specs get written by people sitting at a desk, not the guy in the water actually looking at the metal. I get the whole billable hours thing but if the client's ship rusts out in two years because nobody did a second pass, guess who gets blamed, probably not the supervisor.
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