Barn Bash 2009

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by Tiramisu

Marilyn, I still have my steel-toed boots and pink hardhat from my Brown & Root Fab Yard days.

Sandy, you actually wore the pink hardhat? I have one hanging on the wall in my office, and I was visiting a female customer the other day who had one in her book case. I was given two, at different times by different contractors. One of the ladies I worked with wanted one of them, and she wore it. I never did, but it's still a conversation piece when people visit me for the first time.

I wear the traditional white, visitor hardhat, unless a plant requires that I wear theirs. Alcoa makes visitors wear a florescent green hardhat and vest. My vest is always way too big. It looks like an ugly smock. LOL

[Tiramisu]

Yep - I had three different hat for my different job duties. I was Project Secretary, on the Safety Steering Committee and at the end I was Yard Office Manager (over all offices). So, I had/have a white hat, a gold hat, and my pink one. To be fashionable, I had/have a black pair of boots and a brown pair.

I recently went out to Delta's Fab Yard and Kiewit's and wore the pink hat because I know people at both yards and knew they'd be expecting me to come bold!

I LOVED my seven years at the Brown & Root Fab Yard.

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by Tiramisu

Yep - I had three different hat for my different job duties. I was Project Secretary, on the Safety Steering Committee and at the end I was Yard Office Manager (over all offices). So, I had/have a white hat, a gold hat, and my pink one. To be fashionable, I had/have a black pair of boots and a brown pair.

I recently went out to Delta's Fab Yard and Kiewit's and wore the pink hat because I know people at both yards and knew they'd be expecting me to come bold!

I LOVED my seven years at the Brown & Root Fab Yard.

In my position, it's important that the guys take me seriously. If I turned up in a pink hardhat, I'm not sure what they would do. A few of the guys at Lyndell Corpus Christi would get a kick out of it. They are pretty cool, but many of them would not take me as seriously, I'm sure. I do have pink nails and a pink iPhone sleeve some of the time, but that's different.

I've been trying to get Kewit's business, in Ingleside, but they have been a tough nut to crack. There's an inside sales woman at a competitor down there that they really like. She is tough to compete with. I have inside sales guys, and it's just not the same.

[Tiramisu]

Marilyn, our project (Thunder Horse) is mostly gone out of Kiewit. The people I know at that yard work for BP or Technip. I don't know if my Hubby knows anybody in Management or not.

Trust me, my pink hat doesn't lessen the respect I get from anybody. They know the person that wears the hat, no matter what color it is.

[Tiramisu]

My pink hard hat!

[Marilyn]

Sandy, you should make that your avatar pic. You look very nice in your pink hardhat. Here's mine. As you can see, it's never been worn. LOL
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Now the one I saw in a customer's office was hot pink. I was wondering which color you had. Love it!!

[judy]

The reply was all spellchecked. Sorry.

[judy]

You got me curious about the colors of hard hats. I decided that if I had to wear a hard hat, I would definitely design my own. There's a nice coppery one that I saw.

I would have it done up with designs, like motorcycle or snowmobile helmets have. I think I might have one made now! You just never know when you're going to need a hard hat!