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I specialize in Mitsubishi Electric products and there are a few old cranes running Mitsubishi products on them- so it’s mainly just normal factory automation support and nowadays it’s basically all dried up. They either switch things to Siemens or Allan Bradley, well all the Draglines run AB for ages. I think Mitsubishi only do mostly switchgear now- I still remember when we did Gullyboxes by the thousands, doubt that’s even a thing anymore, I’m not your guy if you want any work on the mines, sorry.
🇿🇦 Read and weep... its about time the truth starts coming out...‼️
"I am a contractor and I worked at the Medupi Power Station. I wish to add a few comments...
"The working staff get the last day of each month off as well as half the previous day for pay day.
"General workers arrive between eight and nine and start working on the new substations by ten.
"Lunch starts at about 11:30 and finishes about 14:00
They leave at about 15:30
"These are the general workers pulling in new cables, moving panels etc.
"So very little real work gets done because of the short working hours.
"I was working in a substation. The air conditioning system was not working because the controller is the wrong type. It has taken four months to find a replacement. It was 40 degrees in the substation
"The two main chimneys at Medupi have been built facing the wrong direction. They are 180 degrees the wrong way round. This means the pipework will all have to be changed. The efficiency of the blowers will be affected as the pipework is incorrect.
"The management of staff is a mess. The staff sit and look at you if you ask them to do anything. They know that if they don’t like what you are asking, they can on strike and they have done it. So nobody messes with them.
"The engineer who signed off the building of the chimneys the wrong way round has disappeared. There was insufficient management oversight. The wrong air conditioning unit in the substation was also due to lack of management.
LUNCH
"Apparently the “kitchen” or food contract is run by the local ANC mayor or leader.
The workers are guaranteed a hot lunch every day.
There is a central kitchen and mess.
"Thus a worker who is an hour away from the kitchen, is transported in a little bus. His lunch hour only starts when he picks up the plate to be served.
"So an hour lunch break lasts 2 or 3 hours in some sections.
"When the workforce was on strike the lunch providers were paid full value – not just the profit section even though they were not supplying any meals.
"The lunch contract has come up for review many times and every time the same person is awarded the contract despite better or other bids."
Now this is just lunch.... Imagine the rest ?
The first trillionaire in human history
- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders
Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible
Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion
Most people quit when the world laughs at them.
Elon Musk built the future instead.
Love him or hate him…
Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.
Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.
History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.
It will remember the people who did it anyway.
Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀
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What am I doing with my life that I didn’t know about this?! 🤯
Loop a zip tie around a nut, stick the tail in your drill, and spin it right up the threaded rod. Works like a charm to save your fingers!
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