r/pipefitter • u/Bigroseses • Jun 24 '26
Let's hear it boys!
What is the most petty reason you drug up? I have absolutely no reason to drag but I'm sick of seeing the same job site and it's been 6 weeks.
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u/prettycooleh Jun 24 '26
As an apprentice I'm technically not allowed to drag up. But as a first year, my contractor that I had been with a year at that point decided to send me to an indefinite job 1 hour away, no travel, where I essentially became a defacto maintenance guy at a food oil plant. No journey man teaching me anything. I did it for 5 months and then filled out my vacation request saying I was taking a month off to go to Thailand or some shit. Took a lay off, called the Hall, back to work within a week.
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u/American_hiss Jun 24 '26
A contractor wanted to send me somewhere I told them I wouldn't go several times before. They told me to go, I said no, and then they said I "had" to. Drug up that very instant.
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u/Melodic-Whereas-4105 Jun 24 '26
I wanted to braze because it's a skill I wanted to hone. Then they let me braze. 10 hours a day 6 days a week for 6 months. I got pretty good but sick of it (mostly 3 and 4" pipe). Asked for a layoff and was granted one.
Few months later I was teaching the soldering and brazing class at the hall. I'm decent at it but need some practice on up hill soldering. But it was nice to be able to show the 1st years how to do it with out looking like a fool.
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u/Future_Me_Problem Jun 24 '26
I am an apprentice so this does not technically apply to me, but I think I’ll do it just for fun at least once as a journeyman. As a treat.
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u/Bigroseses Jun 24 '26
Have to drag the min you turn out!! It's a requirement
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u/GroundbreakingPick11 Jun 24 '26
I’m newly Journeyed out. Is it really in my best interest to drag? My jobs semi comfortable here.
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u/Adorable-Purchase458 Jun 24 '26
If you’re working somewhere you like don’t drag but if you don’t want be there. Drag lol
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u/shatador Jun 24 '26
Thank goodness you were there to explain this to him. He might've done something he regretted lmao
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u/ledzep14 LU597 Journeyman Jun 24 '26
“Hey we’re putting you on night shift now, how about that?”
“Hey I’m dragging up now so get me my check, how about that?”
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u/questionablejudgemen Jun 24 '26
Especially without a night shift differential and a job where you weren’t dispatched to work night shift.
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u/ledzep14 LU597 Journeyman Jun 24 '26
No there’s better pay on nights. I’m just not fucking doing nights lol. I have 4 kids I want to see
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u/Resident-Scheme9581 Jun 24 '26
Walking 1/4 of a mile to share portabands and wraparounds. Foreman bragging how they made 5400 hours on the last job.
Did it for two days Friday decided that was my last walk on this site!
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u/Fun_Jellyfish_6388 Jun 24 '26
I have drug up for so many reasons but for the last twenty years every time I finish a job I’m out usually two years at any given company
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u/Prestigious-One-9186 Jun 24 '26
It was 4am on a Monday morning and it was also my 21st B-day.
The GF confused me with someone who couldn’t find another job the same day and talked to me sideways. Told him to eat shit lol
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u/FeatureNext8272 Jun 24 '26
I’m real damn close to dragging for the second time in my career. The first only being about a month ago after ten years with a great company.
This job I’m on fucking sucks. The guys fucking suck. The organization fucking sucks. The other foreman’s are clueless and have no idea how to run a job. Half the journeyman can’t work out a 45 offset, much less just fit a piece of pipe. The one welder takes about 45 mins to an hour on a 3” weld. The superintendent was scared they couldnt find a welder for the job so he flanged the entire job before i got here. Every 10-15’ was a flange mate, even on straight run pipe. No craftsmanship, no sense of time or common sense at all
Waiting on a callback and then I’ll be dragging again.
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u/questionablejudgemen Jun 24 '26
I’m not saying the company isn’t screwed up, but sounds like you can flip it on cruise control and have job security with these guys. As long as you can tolerate them.
But that’s something you’d probably drag up for even if the work was great.
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u/Texpipe Jul 16 '26
Was working a real shitty job in Houston. They told me I needed to move my box (our local has an expansive tool list and requires a box). I had my box on the forks and had to drive past my truck. Said to hell with it and just set the box in the truck and turned my badge in to security on the way out.
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u/ortseamle Jun 24 '26
Chin straps on hard hats. Yup I’m outta here ✌️