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fatlazyless · 10-29-2008, 06:19 AM

What I was told by my trainer as we drove around in the oil delivery truck was "to listen to the vent whistle and stay close to the delivery nozzle." As I was doing 12 push-ups during a delivery of 150 gallons to a very nice farm-residence at the top of Leavitt Rd in Belmont, my head was two feet from the nozzle delivery, with my ear to the vent, and I was listening to the vent whistle, intently.

It was a 150 gal order, so the pump set to shut off at 150 gal. The oil tank inside the basement holds 275 gal. The vent pipe is next to the fill pipe, outside the house. The tank has a vent whistle which whistles as air is diplaced by delivered oil. When the whistle stops, the delivery guy needs to shut off the nozzle, at the nozzle control, on the nozzle.

I was listening intently, as I did 12 push-ups on the grass, about two feet from the fill-pipe, and vent-pipe..

My trainer, who was right there, should have said, "say, don't be doing push-ups, just stand there and listen to the whistle." But, he says nothing to me, and tells the boss the next morning.

In thinking about it now, it probably would have been much more acceptable for me to just stand there and smoke a cigarette, while fueling the tank. My trainer smoked cigarettes constantly, Pall Mall after Pall Mall, in the blue Pall Mall box, all day long. So's, maybe doing push-ups just seemed a little odd to him as a 50-something smoker. Even left two packs of Pall Malls perched on the little dashboard ledge, right in front of me, like a temptation to smoke, or something? Could be?

As a newly hired employee on the second day at the job, it seems to me that I would have a reasonable expectation that my trainer was there to train me. I'm not a mind reader, you know, and as a new hire I was looking to follow instructions. I wanted to become a seasonal oil delivery driver from October to April, for $15/h & ot. with hope to become an oil burner technician.

As a new trainee just starting the job, I was getting paid $10/h.
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For what it's worth, I just received my paycheck for the two days work in yesterday's mail. And, it was a business check imprinted with a security imprinter, and lo & behold, it was NOT SIGNED.....no signature....empty space where the signature goes..... so I have returned it by mail so it can be signed.

How about that?

10-29-2008, 06:19 AM	#35
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,734 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 300 Thanked 1,005 Times in 733 Posts	What I was told by my trainer as we drove around in the oil delivery truck was "to listen to the vent whistle and stay close to the delivery nozzle." As I was doing 12 push-ups during a delivery of 150 gallons to a very nice farm-residence at the top of Leavitt Rd in Belmont, my head was two feet from the nozzle delivery, with my ear to the vent, and I was listening to the vent whistle, intently. It was a 150 gal order, so the pump set to shut off at 150 gal. The oil tank inside the basement holds 275 gal. The vent pipe is next to the fill pipe, outside the house. The tank has a vent whistle which whistles as air is diplaced by delivered oil. When the whistle stops, the delivery guy needs to shut off the nozzle, at the nozzle control, on the nozzle. I was listening intently, as I did 12 push-ups on the grass, about two feet from the fill-pipe, and vent-pipe.. My trainer, who was right there, should have said, "say, don't be doing push-ups, just stand there and listen to the whistle." But, he says nothing to me, and tells the boss the next morning. In thinking about it now, it probably would have been much more acceptable for me to just stand there and smoke a cigarette, while fueling the tank. My trainer smoked cigarettes constantly, Pall Mall after Pall Mall, in the blue Pall Mall box, all day long. So's, maybe doing push-ups just seemed a little odd to him as a 50-something smoker. Even left two packs of Pall Malls perched on the little dashboard ledge, right in front of me, like a temptation to smoke, or something? Could be? As a newly hired employee on the second day at the job, it seems to me that I would have a reasonable expectation that my trainer was there to train me. I'm not a mind reader, you know, and as a new hire I was looking to follow instructions. I wanted to become a seasonal oil delivery driver from October to April, for $15/h & ot. with hope to become an oil burner technician. As a new trainee just starting the job, I was getting paid $10/h. ....... For what it's worth, I just received my paycheck for the two days work in yesterday's mail. And, it was a business check imprinted with a security imprinter, and lo & behold, it was NOT SIGNED.....no signature....empty space where the signature goes..... so I have returned it by mail so it can be signed. How about that? __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake! Last edited by fatlazyless; 10-29-2008 at 08:50 AM.