Work is making me nuts

imschur · September 14, 2013

nah it's a math issue. We can see it in the software. It's been there through three machines with the earliest being built by me in 2000. It's not critical to anything and it's not noticeable unless you are looking for it. The other product the machines produce creates a trapezoid based in speeds and inertia at given diameters. 30 years and there has been no complaint and nobody noticed. I believe there is an underlying business related issue and the customer is looking for "something"

shibiwan · September 14, 2013

haha... owning/running a precision engineering/prototyping shop I can understand where you're coming from. :)

I've had good days and bad too... like in July when one of my machines went kaput and I had to fix it (took a week) and once that one was fixed, the other mill decided to quit.

-S

Edited September 14, 2013 by shibiwan

98Z5V · September 14, 2013

Sounds like you need some range time to unwind brother.

Nah - He needs some Tom-Time. I'll fix him. After 3 or 4 days, he won't even go back to CT. >:D

I can handle this one. <thumbsup>

unforgiven · September 14, 2013

Trying to tie together software with old mechanicals is a tough way to go.If the customer is looking for a "reason" sounds like they want out of a contract.Maybe looking at another vendor.Which isn't good,no one can afford to lose business.

imschur · September 14, 2013

Trying to tie together software with old mechanicals is a tough way to go.If the customer is looking for a "reason" sounds like they want out of a contract.Maybe looking at another vendor.Which isn't good,no one can afford to lose business.

ding ding ding we have a winner!

unforgiven · September 14, 2013

To bad that since you are the senior mechanic,you are to be made the fall guy.It is a fukedup situation all the way around.You need a hug ??

Microgunner · September 14, 2013

All things pass with time. Endurance is your best virtue.

That's what my fortune cookie said last week.

imschur · September 14, 2013

I think the thing that amazes me the most is disagreeing with me on something i designed and built with my own hands. Nobody has a clue how it works. If they tried to replicate them it would be comical from a programming stand point. My bitching aside there were other rejections caused by people we should never have hired in the first place. I repeatedly voiced my opinion publicly about one of these people. That was last winter.

unforgiven · September 14, 2013

The only good thing about banging you'r head aganist the wall is how good it feels when you stop.I can relate to you'r pain brother.Good luck.

sketch · September 21, 2013

Work on the weekend happens to shite on my doughters bday!!! House full of toilet flushers and the sewer pump shuts down! Septic pump out tomorrow after a well deserved range time in the am! Then I get to fix the shite pump lord help the gag reflex! I told the GF if I don't come out give me two flushes!!!!

unforgiven · September 22, 2013

:puke: Was working on the backhouse where I use to live.Told the renter not to use the toilet,he flushed it on me that bastard. :rant2:

imschur · September 25, 2013

now OSHA just showed up..

98Z5V · September 25, 2013

They're NO fun to deal with. :-[

They're as bas as the EPA - does OSHA have an armed contingent/force now? Wouldn't surprise me...

shepp · September 25, 2013

now OSHA just showed up..

F@ck them guys, we used to lock up our poop and walk off jobs when they showed up,

sketch · September 25, 2013

I've been lucky the last two times OSHA showed up it was a guy I went to school with we're on a first name basis. I've been lucky more than once to say the least ;)

unforgiven · September 25, 2013

now OSHA just showed up..

Someone called.Just sayin.

shepp · September 25, 2013

Most the time they showed on any job I was on it was because of an accident, or one of the generals laborers got wind of it and warned everyone. The generals got their nuts in such a ringer with their insurance co and the sight corp's insurance anymore tho I don't think it would be like when I was on install. Making poop so safe we won't be able to work anymore

sketch · September 27, 2013

Grunt who thinks he knows it all fell through the ceiling of an apartment as we were tearing off a flat roof to up date it with a pitched roof I told him 6/ times from Sunday don't fall thru the damn cealing like his counter part brother Inlaw did a few weeks prior... His roof lisence got revoked imeadetaly and a good dose of shame part two is replacing the damage all good lessons for a loyal grunt but he is becoming expendable as work slows what should I do?

unforgiven · September 28, 2013

You told him a few times and he didn't listen.Unsafe practices jepordize everyone.If it was between a safe worker and a knucklehead.You know what you need to do brother.

planeflyer21 · September 29, 2013

Agree with that Rene.

I had one bonehead kid working landscaping for me, busted ass but constantly put him/me/things in jeopardy.

He unhooked a chainsaw up a palmtree and it SMASHED onto a planted pot next to me and the homeowner.

You gotta do what you gotta do.

sketch · September 29, 2013

Roger this is tuff being the guy but I have to be the guy not his friend right even after his second kid is on the way ??? Or just ??

unforgiven · September 29, 2013

Thats the downside to running work.If this guy doesn't want to fly right its not fair to those that do.Work wise "everyone has a story".....I guess you could make him the "ground" guy,but if the others have more skills and are safe.And if you have to cut the crew,you'r back to what you have to do.