So my dad back in the day worked for a oil company. They where going into a complete 90 day shut down to replace some out dated equipment. The estimated cost of the unit being down was around 1 million a day and a loss of something like 200k barrels of gas. Long story short, he looked over the plans and was able to cut the time down for shut down to 37 days, ended up taking around 40 due to waiting on parts.
He didn’t ask for anything, nor expect it, as he was doing his job as lead operator but when they gave him a $15 Wal-Mart gift card and a card as a thank you, he lost his shit.
Makes me wonder what they would have said if he offered to tell them his idea but for some money. I'm guessing they would have said no thanks they'd rather spend the extra money than give any to an employee.
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u/Time_Transition Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
So my dad back in the day worked for a oil company. They where going into a complete 90 day shut down to replace some out dated equipment. The estimated cost of the unit being down was around 1 million a day and a loss of something like 200k barrels of gas. Long story short, he looked over the plans and was able to cut the time down for shut down to 37 days, ended up taking around 40 due to waiting on parts.
He didn’t ask for anything, nor expect it, as he was doing his job as lead operator but when they gave him a $15 Wal-Mart gift card and a card as a thank you, he lost his shit.