I recently took and passed my first pipe test in February that consisted of a 12" butt, 12" branch, and 2" 6G for Pioneer Resources.  We have been hooking up a compressor station in North Texas region.  It has not been a good experience for me mainly because of the Pioneer Company man.  He is on of those arragant type that "knows everything" and looks down his nose at everyone on location.  Grant it I sure as hell don't know everything but this guy has expected us to hook this compressor up and won't show us any of the blueprints.  He just feeds us bits and pieces to go by and then gets mad when pieces that have been fabed up don't work or don't have weld-o-lets or thread-o-lets where they are needed or whatever the case might be.  Then when we do get the pieces in place he changes his mind and want's to add a valve here or a check there and acts like we screwed up.  All this guy can say is if my welders where here from South Texas they would already be done or they would know what to do.  Last week he brought in another company with 2 other welders to "help us out".  We nearly finished the compressor today and he informed our Supervisor we wouldn't be needed any more after today the other company could handle the rest of it.  The work was supposed to last 10 months.  So after you've heard my little rant here's my question.  We asked about getting copies of our test papers a couple of days ago and he informed us Pioneer doesn't give out copies.  Is this a common practice or is this guy just being a ****head?  On top of not getting our papers we didn't even get paid for taking the test.  Someone please enlighten me.  By the way the two welders from the other company he brought in where pretty good guys they have been in the bussiness for a long time.  I did learn some good things from them.  They were there doing a job just like us.