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Second day on the job and the news crew shows up. They just pulled up, set up their cameras, and started filming. We kept drilling, butt-scratching and all, until one of our bosses comes tearing up in his truck.
"Cody, you're on break, right?"
"No, actually we just finished our lunch break."
"No, you're _ON_ break."
"Ahhhh. Okay, we're on break."
So we shut down the drill rig and just sat on our hands. After a few minutes the camera guy came over and asked if we were going to start drilling again. I told him we were waiting on a part. So he breaks down his tripod and moves to the next drill rig, which shuts down too. The news people kept moving from one drill rig to the other untill all 6 rigs were quiet. It was stupid, both sides were trying to wait the other one out, and we wasted a few hours doing so until the news people finally left and we could get back to work.
Later that afternoon they came back. My boss didn't stop by this time, but my driller did ask me if we should stop working. I told him we weren't doing anything illegal, so keep working. I kept my back turned to the cameraman and ignored him.
This morning the drillers informed me that we had been on the 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock news. I didn't get to see our four minutes of psuedo-fame because I went to my brother's place last night. We hung out at his place for a while before going out to a movie/grill place where we had dinner and watched Gran Torino. Oh man, I've never really laughed so much in a Clint Eastwood movie before. I know it was wrong, I know I'm going to PC hell, but the curses and slurs were just OMG awful. Heck, he must've covered Volumes 1-8 of Webster's Unabridged Racial Slurs in this movie. Wow.
Day 9 Update: It seems the News 8 crew has figured out that we refuse to work whenever they show up. So today their news helicopter hovered over us for at least 20 minutes, no joke. Man, don't they have anything better to waste their time and money on?
( I have a camera too! )
"Cody, you're on break, right?"
"No, actually we just finished our lunch break."
"No, you're _ON_ break."
"Ahhhh. Okay, we're on break."
So we shut down the drill rig and just sat on our hands. After a few minutes the camera guy came over and asked if we were going to start drilling again. I told him we were waiting on a part. So he breaks down his tripod and moves to the next drill rig, which shuts down too. The news people kept moving from one drill rig to the other untill all 6 rigs were quiet. It was stupid, both sides were trying to wait the other one out, and we wasted a few hours doing so until the news people finally left and we could get back to work.
Later that afternoon they came back. My boss didn't stop by this time, but my driller did ask me if we should stop working. I told him we weren't doing anything illegal, so keep working. I kept my back turned to the cameraman and ignored him.
This morning the drillers informed me that we had been on the 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock news. I didn't get to see our four minutes of psuedo-fame because I went to my brother's place last night. We hung out at his place for a while before going out to a movie/grill place where we had dinner and watched Gran Torino. Oh man, I've never really laughed so much in a Clint Eastwood movie before. I know it was wrong, I know I'm going to PC hell, but the curses and slurs were just OMG awful. Heck, he must've covered Volumes 1-8 of Webster's Unabridged Racial Slurs in this movie. Wow.
Day 9 Update: It seems the News 8 crew has figured out that we refuse to work whenever they show up. So today their news helicopter hovered over us for at least 20 minutes, no joke. Man, don't they have anything better to waste their time and money on?
( I have a camera too! )
