🚿 From the life of a pumper - 5 situations you will only experience when working at a pumping station

🚿 Pumpman's job - 5 situations you will only experience when working at a pumping station

Working at a sewage pumping station isn't just rubber boots, hoses and smells that squeeze tears from your eyes. It's a whole other world: full of absurdities, surprises and micro-dramas. Here's 5 situations, which every real pompa player knows firsthand. 🧤

1. 🧦 Lost sock - the reason for the million-dollar failure

A big industrial pump, a million zlotys worth, thousands of liters of throughput per minute... and suddenly STOP. All because of a single, innocent-looking sock that, like a snake, entwined the impeller. The crew struggled for several hours, dismantling half the installation to get to the cause. The cost of the repair and downtime? More than 70,000 zlotys. The pumpers laugh that "if there had been more steam, they could have shut down the entire district." 😅

2. 🐭 Night calls with pipes

Night, silence, emptiness - and only bubbling in the dark corridors of the pipes. The operator hears a soft meowing, echoing through the sewers like in a horror movie. After several hours of searching, it turns out that a small kitten is stuck in the sewer system. Pulled out, soaked and frightened, he was quickly adopted by the pumping station crew. He was given the name Pumpi And had its own booth at the main operator's office. 🐱

3. 🧽 Great battle against the fat monster

The Fatberg looked innocent - a white, slightly slippery mound in the main channel. The first shot of the pressure hose bounced like rubber. Shovels, jackhammers and days of strenuous demolition didn't yield much more. In the end, the team had to pull out pieces of the fatberg by hand like a big, stinky puzzle. The fatberg in London measured 250 meters - in our country, too, they could grow faster than yeast dough in the heat. 🤯

4. 🚿 "Surprise" from the sewage system

A new employee, full of enthusiasm and pride, approaches the manhole with great confidence. A jerk, a hiss... and suddenly - a fountain of sewage straight into his face. The suit didn't help - sewage rushed in everywhere. At the sewage treatment plant, no one forgot this baptism of fire - from then on, the novice was called "Baptized in Sewage". It was long laughed that no argument made him tougher than that surprise. 😆

5. 🛠️ Pride at the pump

In the noise of the pumping station it's hard to hear one's own thoughts, but for the pumpman it's a tune of order. Daily inspection of equipment, repairs, adjustments - everything must work like a Swiss watch. When an entire neighborhood in the Netherlands was saved from flooding, the local authorities rewarded the team with an official award. The pompiers then stood on the stage in clean uniforms - proud, although usually their greatest success was the silence and absence of disaster. Because the best compliment for a pumper is: "No one noticed that something could have gone wrong." 🚀