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Hey Morgan, Seen Henry Murray?


Hey Morgan, hey Morgan, got your ears on, hey Morgan! See, my psychedelic psycho-pathetic personality keeps reaching out, in search of an answer only you can provide. I was given your name by Kathy Carr, once-upon-a-time the Alyeska HR person in charge of misinformation, so by reaching out no intent to disrupt your peace and quiet. Just hoping you can help, shed some light on an ancient wound that still aches. And that contact information was approved by James P. Hermiller, once-upon-a-time the 5th Floor Bragaw “Houdini” who tried to correct the “misinformation” through a 3-cent apology for what was said by some, but it did not go far enough, it did not disappear - so I am reaching out to you now that you have completed that PHD. Did not want to bother you during that journey and just read one of your “Wet Papers”, I guess “white” is a thug of the past! But congrats on that lollapalooza PHD, I never got that far in education, but was ordained as a bonafide member in the “Dead Authors Club” chaired by Charles Bukowski. No honorary sheepskin for this honor, just my initials carved into the bar stool at a dive in Boston. See, life after Alyeska I had to whore my experiences out to the lowest bidder, so it meant traveling far from my growing kids - it sucked. Too bad it didn’t work out staying in Alaska. Anyhow, according to Kate it was your decision to send me back to “Pipeline Basic Training” after over 11-years of honorary and distinguished service with awards to boot I boast! I mean, I mean…can we compare “performance appraisals” from the 80s, just so I can see how I stack up to you and that Phineas J. Whoopee cushion PHD? See, how in hell did I advance from a Technician I to a Technician Level VI in less then a year and voted in as a “Lead Instrumentation Technician” and a “Lead SCADA/Measurement Technician” along with the responsibility for training a crew of 4-dedicated pump station technicians for that “Owner Company Custody Transfer” obligation when I was not even qualified! As when I received your invitation in 91 to join the new hires, that was testament somebody in the organization questioned my credentials - after all those years. Starting all over again! Now Kate said that was your call, yet it still bugs me because that would be the catalyst my demise of my career with Uncle Al. I know this was a long time ago, but this is for a book I am writing for a Boy Scout “Merit Badge". Was this “call” something to do with your PHD “thesis” like in a “Henry Murray” human experiment wherein I was the guinea pig - oink me oink me squeal like a pig? Henry who? The guy that gave us Ted Kaczynski! Anyhow, how come you made that call, for me to attend “Basic Training” again, as that was not fair by any stretch of the imagination for any reason. Especially when you forgot to tell me the class was cancelled, according to Kate so misinformed! Seems everybody ducking and pointing fingers, corporate schmoosing. Too bad Mike Jenne wasn’t still around when you made that decision to see to it I could get another “Technician Diploma”. I think he maybe would have sent you to the back of the Bozo Bus. I know working on a PHD is time consuming and takes priority, so I accept…no I don’t. When I went to the “Basic Training” back in 1979 at Pump Station#5, I was the “Top Achiever” and finished a few days early and was asked by the instructors to help those struggling to get all the tasks completed on time. Now Chris Alexander was my partner, and he didn’t have to renew his “Basic Training” credentials some years after the fact, so what gives? OK, he was the son of Two-Chairs. But what was really demeaning not to me, when I arrived at Anchorage to attend that “Basic Training” you supposedly scheduled in 1991, it was rather embarrassing because the instructor would not allow the class to continue on with my presence. I felt left-out! OK, Kate said the class was cancelled, that was a half-wracked truth as it was but for the fact the instructor refused to continue the class with me sitting in the audience, not as an auditor but as a “student”, that we got to play hooky. So I stayed around the campus feeling like a new hire with a future and learned how to change the “shit bags”, as that was my first job after attending that “Basic Training” and then back on shift - changing a freak’n shit-bag, wow a promotion. Let me ask, how many “shit-bags” did you get to change during your career with Alyeska? Better yet, how many other SCADA Technicians have had such an opportunity? It looks great on a resume. See, I was no longer a SCADA guy when that class was scheduled, thanks! I was a walking Eunuch - “man without a country job”. So I was a little confused, especially when it was “bring daddy to school” gig, so you can entertain the other kids what you do on that “Pipeline”: I change the shit-bags! Anyway, for some reason the Alyeska President went involved in why I was sent to detention, not because of any complaints from me, so something went haywire when I was sent to that detention detail…So I’s a little mixed up, was it he or she that made this decision, because this was the end of my career, so just trying to find out who fucked me over and maybe have some light shed on the reason, as I never thought that doing the best job possible that “shit-bag” politics would get in the way of righteousness. Hey, did you learn how to change a “shit-bag” when you were working on that PHD? Hope all is well, wow a PHD. Sorry I have to leave this writing, as Charles is at the bar, and that bar is a much higher goal-post then any fucking bar that PHD could ever beckon the foolishness to send me back to “basic training” and break a good…please fill in the blanks!