Hell if I know...you're the one that showed up here.
I guess, in combination of working terrible hours and the isolation that comes with being stuck in a foreign country for work, I have decided to start a blog.
I fucking hate that term..."blog". It just brings to mind hipster assholes with dirty feet, sitting in a Starbucks (or the appropriately "authentic" coffee store), sucking up space while they type up the wisdom they have gained since they left their parents' home in the suburbs those long seven months ago. These were the same assholes who give me shit for smoking camels instead of rolling my own. (side note...going back to college 9 years late is a bizarre experience which everyone should try at least once).
I am stuck in Australia, trying to automate a bunch of cranes. Basically automation cuts down on energy consumption, manpower costs, increases safety...and most importantly, stops letting longshoremen make whole containers worth of stuff disappear.
You can imagine how popular I am on this site.
I have also never actually automated shipping cranes before. I mainly work in steel mills. Its similar equipment (the drives I work on) but its used in very different ways. So I find myself struggling to deal with a customer who expects everything done as quickly as possible, all the while, his employees are doing everything they can to fuck with me, and my own company hasn't done that great of a job supporting me.
I keep getting threatened that I will get sent to a steel mill in India if I don't get results. I would rather be in India, where I wasn't losing money to work because the per diem is so fucking off track with actual costs.
Also...the TV and food here sucks. Australia is the single most whitest, boring place on the planet.
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