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Old Feb 27, 2013, 07:31 PM
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So I don't do well when questioned by authorities. I lock up, get extremely nervous, lose my cool, say things I shouldn't and just get all kinds of flustered.

Well today I made the mistake of riding the elevator back up out of the mine with a federal and state inspector. The woman was the federal inspector and she started asking me all kinds of questions about what I was doing and why I was there and on and on.

And of course I couldn't give her a good answer to anything which caught the state inspector's attention and he started asking me all kinds of questions as well.

It turned into a real fiasco and ended with the woman snidely saying, "Just give us your name, serial number, social security number and information, and we'll turn you in to the proper authorities." Wanted to punch the ****in ****'s rotten teeth out.

However, the state man's questions brought up something very important. I apparently misunderstood how the duration of the Apprentice Miner's Certification works and my card is most likely expired. Luckily, the state man simply said, "I'd look into that, " and didn't press the issue further.

Shortly after all this ended, a phone call comes through saying that I need to report to the superintendent's office. So I had to go there and sit with my boss, the superintendent and assistant superintendent of the mine and explain to the everything that happened. They also told me how I must now go about getting my time in toward my certification, which will take me considerably longer to complete.

Again luckily, they don't know that my card is most likely expired because that would be a major, potentially employment terminating problem.

So now I have to find my card, see whether or not its expired, then take all the appropriate measures to get re-certified. If my thinking is correct it may have expired in August. Now I don't know if I'll be able to count any of my time from August-Present (I started this all in July) because that would show I was going underground without a valid certification.

I can't stop shaking. All I wanted to do was just run and jump down the mine shaft to make it all stop. I hate being backed into a corned and questioned like that. I react worse that a 5 year old getting scolded by his parents. At least I didn't break down crying or freak out.

FML. Why can't anything just go smoothly for once?
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