Dear Friend...TwoNewbie Flash Froze my road...

....and is very proud of himself.

I have never been treated with such hate from the traveling public as I have these past 3 long, long long years that TwoNewbie is in charge.

I get flipped off and cussed out all the time.

This never happened before TwoNewbie.  He is so proud of flash freezing Hwy 115 on the last snow storm, Dec 9, 2024.  We had 9 crashes on our road because he shot it and shot it and shot it and kept scraping off my sand and flash froze it - 3 crashes maybe but not not 9.  He is so lousy at plowing snow it's laughable only I'm not laughing because it's actually a safety hazard.  It just makes me think, GRRRRR how I hate the cronyism that goes on here at the company and HR is part of allowing the cronyism.

4 of the wrecks was going northbound up Sullivan Hill.  I have NEVER seen crashes in that area before.  TwoNewbie did a great job!

TwoNewbie was so proud of himself and what HE did to our road.  Ugh, it makes me sick to my stomache to think about it.

The road was frozen clear to Penrose because the Penrose guys didn't do any better. They had a jackknifed semi-tractor trailer on their road. They sprayed a bunch of liquid too.

I will state, management has a lot to do with it and their encouragement to spray liquid when it shouldn't as a frozen road is all you are going to get.  I felt sorry for our night guy, but he surprisingly did a great job.  I put out 54 tons of sand and still couldn't stop the train wreck of TwoNewbie.

Our road is still condensating from all the liquid.  I came down 24 Ute Pass as they sprayed too much up there too. I almost slid off the road today up there because of it.

Dear Friend...I bet you're brilliant...

But only if you're a man. 

Well let's count down the male ego crap for this past week, I can't make this fodder up. I'm working nights, BTW.

1.  Tuesday night I'm driving the one-ton and someone (an insecure, hateful man) undid my passenger side windshield wiper because he's an ass.  I was driving in a rain storm and it flipped off.  The only way this happens is if someone purposely pulled it loose.  Also, they are hard to pull. In his mind the passenger side is not as dangerous if the wiper goes. In his mind what he did is OK to do. When in fact this is lousy reasoning.  I cannot believe the crap men pull because they are so INCREDIBLY insecure.

2. We changed blades on my truck and TwoNewbie was not happy about changing blades and said there were 3 maybe 3 1/2 fingers left.  My fingers are small and I was getting 2 fingers.  I left the call to L2 and he said to change them.  For me, they would last as I run a light plow.  For L2, no.  I've seen L2 run through half of blades in a night when they should last most of the season.

 Jeez-O-Peeze doesn't anybody know how to plow snow anymore?

Anyway the story goes like this.  We double blade a 12 foot plow.  Three 4 foot and two 6 foot.  The four foots are carbide and the 6 are steel. You keep carbide with carbide and steel with steel.  I suggested we put the 4's in back closest to the plow and the 6 in front to cover the seams of the 4s. TwoNewbie couldn't tell me fast enough how wrong and stupid I was.  So we did it his way.

Next day we are changing blades on TwoNewbie's truck, and Popeye is helping.  Popeye has the EXACT SAME IDEA that I had just that morning, and TwoNewbie couldn't fall all over Popeye fast enough and tell Popeye how very brilliant he was.  

SAY WHAT???? I had the EXACT same effing idea.  WTF!!  I said something and was told to, hush, by L2.  ugh

When it was my idea it was crap, now that it's some great idea from a man, IT'S BRILLIANT!!!

GRRR.

Send me all the news,

L

PS another patrol left their old blades laying around for others to trip and fall. Common sense and courtesy is to pick them up and put them in the metal recycle bin right away not days later. sigh

I lurvs it here...

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Is today.
No need to say anymore.

Good Day!
L