Serious question, my foreman is rushing us past proper weld procedures

I'm on a big plant shutdown job right now. My foreman is pushing us to finish welds faster than the code allows. (It's really bugging me, you know?) Last week, he told me to not do the post-weld heat treatment on a key joint. I said no, but now he's acting like I'm the problem. How do you handle this without making things worse? I want to keep working, but I can't ignore the rules. Any tips from others who've faced this?

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4 Comments

the_thomas2mo ago

My buddy in bridge work saw the same thing, rushing specs on beam connections. Reminds me of what @kelly638 said, where skipping steps just kicks the problem down the road.

kelly6382mo ago

Watched a crew once skip the root flare inspection on an oak removal. Boss said just trench and drop it. Two hours later the backfill soil gave way, whole thing leaned into a power line. Cost them triple in emergency fees and a fine from the city. Sometimes rushing the steps that seem slow just breaks everything worse.

violah432mo ago

Yeah that part about rushing steps breaking things worse is so true. Read an article last month in a trade magazine about a crew in Portland. They didn't check for a girdling root on a big maple. Whole thing failed a year later, crushed a client's shed. The inspection they skipped would have taken ten minutes.

the_claire2mo ago

Man, that hits home. You see it everywhere once you start looking. Like when I rush patching a small hole in drywall without cleaning the edges first, then the new spackle just falls out in a week. Or skipping the degrease step before painting kitchen cabinets so the finish peels by summer. It's never the big, hard steps we skip, always the stupid little ten-minute things that seem too obvious to matter.