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Operations personnel called the practice of forging readings shooting.  It was commonly known that if refinery conditions were stable, Operators would shoot readings so they wouldn’t have to make rounds through the plant as often as they were supposed to, or if they made their rounds, they could take short cuts, or hide out somewhere until sufficient time had elapsed to make it look good.  That was only one example of a common tradition among most hourly employees to either not perform their assigned duties while on company time, or do them with minimal effort, just enough to get by.  They learned their limitations in that regard, and became quite skilled over time.  The most egregious instance of this convention that James had personally experienced occurred during his first small engineering assignment immediately after his ten week orientation was over.  It involved a modification to a small hyrdo-blast facility, at which heat exchanger tube bundles were cleaned using high pressure water.  While making a site visit, he entered the facility unannounced, and came upon twelve hourly employees slacking off while they were supposed to be working.  Some were sleeping, some were reading newspapers, and some were simply sitting down on the job, but no work was going on.  James had obviously surprised them, and they immediately noticed his white hard had, which signified management.  Green hard hats were thrown on without delay, and the employees scattered like roaches running haphazardly across a sloppy kitchen counter when the lights went on.  Newspapers went flying, and bodies did as well when the group sprung into immediate action.  While he could have reported the hydro-blast incident to the foreman in charge, he elected not to, for he thought to do so would only create a combative relationship between him and the hourly employees, and instinct told him he would develop a reputation that would brand him as an enemy amongst thousands.  It was fascinating to James that employees would spend so much time and effort figuring out how to waste time, but it was another peculiarity of the industrial culture, and annoying as it was to an engineer, he was powerless to do anything about it.