Yep... it gets even better.. I kept asking Ford for flashlight batterys so my shift partner and I could see at night working the pipeline and measuring tanks. I called him on his cell twice when he was goofing off at Doc's telling him to get a case of D batterys while you are there for us. He blew me off for months..
And then word went around that I tig welded adult stainless steel products in my shop at home, Ford called me in his office and told he that he had spent hours searching on the internet looking for my website that sold adult products but he was unable to find it. He wanted to know if it was true because working for NuStar we had certain lifestyle agreements that I might be in breach of. I replied Are you fuc&ing kidding me Ford? Do you really want to travel that road with me?
Or did your girlfriend order an attachment for her harness that shes unhappy with?? I said you have hearsay about me, And you just admitted you spent hours the last few nights looking at adult websites looking for things you think i'm building. How about we talk about the lesbian her openly gay husband that work in the office..
He started to back up with our conversation really fast... He was stuttering... He could put that lid back on that can if he tried that afternoon.
I put my notice in a few months later and he said a woman from HR would be calling me for an exit interview. I said Ford, do you really want me to talk to this woman about why i'm leaving?
he looked at his desk and said, no I do not, it wouldn't look good will it. I said don't worry Ford, I wouldn't answer the phone. And I didn't.
D is good guy, All the guys I worked with were a good bunch of guys. A couple were F'ing comedians. The shop mechanic and the young gay ( manager?) in the office were both dickheads.
When you mention Chiefs on here, it makes me want a meatloaf sammich from there.
Before NuStar bought the place, Ford would send all sorts of repair jobs to my shop on the island. After NuStar took over he wasn't allowed to do that..had to jump through new hoops and only deal with "pre-approved" vendors, get multiple quotes, yadda yadda.. Never saw another bit of business from that place.
Did you know Roy Goddard? He was one of the many that NuStar gave retirement packages to to get them out the door as they were winding down operations. D, being too young for retirement, was offered the position he has now, up the road at the air base. Unfortunately, Roy passed away last year....retirement didn't suit him very well.
I used to lease 1/3rd of the big hangar that was off to the right of the first left-hand jog of the main road going in to the faciility. That was one of several properties that the Steuarts sold separately when they sold off the facilities some 20 years ago or so.
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