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[ronott1]

Just watched the Evening News. Apparently there's the Godzilla of El Ninos happening, which means mega floods after droughts. This winter scheduled to be the wettest one in a long time.

I know that out here in NM we've had the wettest July in a bit. Nice for the yard, though. I wonder if that means we'll get lots of snow or lots of rain this winter..... Either way, flood insurance is paid up.

The weather experts do not know what some hot spots in the northern pacific will do. Southern CA will likely get a lot of water but places further north may not.

 

[Latestarter]

I did sixty hour weeks once.....

made it through a month before I started getting psychotic... ten hour days six days a week... Tooling Contract for the 777.... When I started it was four tens... Awesome three day weekens Id do it in a nanosecond... then they added day five.... then day six... OT is over rated too. Pops you into a much higher tax bracket.

Have you tried doing the same roast in the crock pot? OMG...

deb

I'm not much of a crock pot person... actually I much prefer my meat cooked on a grill. In the case of a roast, rotisserie'd

Just didn't have the inclination to do a rotis roast at that time of night as it tends to take twice as long... I like to cook low (temp) and slow on the rotis. Almost liker a (meat) smoker...

Why'd you un-retire? Today I'm commuting down to Portland to work, then back up here for class, then tomorrow I work 8 hours at my regular job then walk over to my other department and work another 8 hours. I need to retire.

Yup, the work psychosis is fun, isn't it? My work gives me comp time, not overtime, which is nice from a tax standpoint and an extra vacation standpoint, in theory. But if I'm needed to work all the extra time, when do I get to take it off?

I'm seriously getting burned out at my present employ... I'm the lead QC in a manufacturing plant and they expect me to meet quotas of acceptable parts when the parts presented to me are crap. It seems like nothing is being done at the start of the process to fix the defects in the parts and they won't stop production to get it figured out, so the crap parts are piling up as we can't repair them as fast as they are producing them. When it takes my repair folks twice as long as expected to get the parts presentable, they get upset with me... like it's my fault?!?!

I've been working 55-60 hour weeks for months, and there's no end in sight

They apply pressure to work faster... faster... FASTER! and want zero errors. and when folks need some personal time, they throw the guilt trip at you. The entire culture of this place is hosed. They encourage efficiency by saying things like "nobody goes home until the order is filled".

Think that encourages me to stay and work harder? I was there 11.5 hours today and finished the final part to fill an order that was supposed to ship at 4pm, at 7pm... The truck was parked waiting for hours for us to get the final pallet loaded so he could be loaded and hit the road. We have zero security stock and are fighting to keep our heads above water to ship when expected. And the present production schedule is going to guarantee we'll be working full days Saturdays for the foreseeable future, just to (try to) keep afloat. The list of problems/issues at this place is a long one and just keeps growing... If management doesn't get this fixed, I don't see this company being around next year.

I give myself about 4-6 more months... long enough to get the credit card to zero, and I'm done. I just can't work under the present conditions/restrictions/expectations/demands. Might just use all my PTO over the Xmas holiday period and not return. I say retire again as I retired from the US Navy (way back in 2000). I'm ready for my time to belong solely to me... I can survive off my retirement pay, simply because I don't have a lot of debt, but it would be no frills. I'm not old enough yet to apply for my social security benefits. OK, maybe more than anyone needed or wanted to know... thanks for the vent time/space.

 

[Cynthia12]

Just watched the Evening News. Apparently there's the Godzilla of El Ninos happening, which means mega floods after droughts. This winter scheduled to be the wettest one in a long time.

I know that out here in NM we've had the wettest July in a bit. Nice for the yard, though. I wonder if that means we'll get lots of snow or lots of rain this winter..... Either way, flood insurance is paid up.

Interesting that you posted this, just watching the news..we had a mud slide in a couple of towns away..they are evacuating people now!

Heard the thunder outside, but not much rain here. Guess it poured there.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Thats crazy.... I worked in QC for a very short time as a warm body to fill in for someone on vacation....even the go-no-go gauges had to be inspected occasionally. it was Aerospace... aircraft hing manufacturer...

Injection molding is a whole other story... Cell phone industry. Tool safe mods are hard to do.... then if they run the injection mold machines too fast you get wonky crystallization.... or ripples or dents... (too hot or thick in one area)

We used to design our molds so that they had an end of life about the time the design would change. 200K parts and time for a new design. So we used soft tooling. there is no fixing soft tooling for plastics. unless you just want to add material to the part.

Bout the time I got a good handle on the design aspect I got laid off. Now I am certain the industry has changed...

deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Just watched the Evening News. Apparently there's the Godzilla of El Ninos happening, which means mega floods after droughts. This winter scheduled to be the wettest one in a long time.

I know that out here in NM we've had the wettest July in a bit. Nice for the yard, though. I wonder if that means we'll get lots of snow or lots of rain this winter..... Either way, flood insurance is paid up.

I do hope you only mean out west. Last years winter was "wet" enough for me.

I'm not much of a crock pot person... actually I much prefer my meat cooked on a grill. In the case of a roast, rotisserie'd

Just didn't have the inclination to do a rotis roast at that time of night as it tends to take twice as long... I like to cook low (temp) and slow on the rotis. Almost liker a (meat) smoker...

I'm seriously getting burned out at my present employ... I'm the lead QC in a manufacturing plant and they expect me to meet quotas of acceptable parts when the parts presented to me are crap. It seems like nothing is being done at the start of the process to fix the defects in the parts and they won't stop production to get it figured out, so the crap parts are piling up as we can't repair them as fast as they are producing them. When it takes my repair folks twice as long as expected to get the parts presentable, they get upset with me... like it's my fault?!?!

I've been working 55-60 hour weeks for months, and there's no end in sight

They apply pressure to work faster... faster... FASTER! and want zero errors. and when folks need some personal time, they throw the guilt trip at you. The entire culture of this place is hosed. They encourage efficiency by saying things like "nobody goes home until the order is filled".

Think that encourages me to stay and work harder? I was there 11.5 hours today and finished the final part to fill an order that was supposed to ship at 4pm, at 7pm... The truck was parked waiting for hours for us to get the final pallet loaded so he could be loaded and hit the road. We have zero security stock and are fighting to keep our heads above water to ship when expected. And the present production schedule is going to guarantee we'll be working full days Saturdays for the foreseeable future, just to (try to) keep afloat. The list of problems/issues at this place is a long one and just keeps growing... If management doesn't get this fixed, I don't see this company being around next year.

I give myself about 4-6 more months... long enough to get the credit card to zero, and I'm done. I just can't work under the present conditions/restrictions/expectations/demands. Might just use all my PTO over the Xmas holiday period and not return. I say retire again as I retired from the US Navy (way back in 2000). I'm ready for my time to belong solely to me... I can survive off my retirement pay, simply because I don't have a lot of debt, but it would be no frills. I'm not old enough yet to apply for my social security benefits. OK, maybe more than anyone needed or wanted to know... thanks for the vent time/space.

Thank you for sharing your frustrations with work. I am really frustrated with my job but I at least know it's ending within the next 2 months. It's an enjoyable job, but corporate makes it miserable. I came into it early this year and worked hard to fix it for about 4 months. The morale improved significantly, our numbers were looking great, and then corporate came in and demanded that we do things differently, less efficiently and added additional steps to our process that were buggy (still are) or access-restricted. Try doing your job when you have to get up halfway through a process, find someone who has the restricted access program, have them run your numbers through it and then go back to your job. Then corporate wants to know why your numbers don't look good, and then demands that we improve them to an unobtainable number. I went off on one of them on Wednesday, which I'm surprised I can get away with, and they actually agreed with me that the whole thing was stupid, but the numbers were coming from above. Ok, so let's revolt instead of just taking it?

 

[perchie.girl]

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I hate it when the bean counters get involved.... or "efficiency experts" who have never worked in that particular field EVER....

deb

 

[Peep_Show]

I do hope you only mean out west. Last years winter was "wet" enough for me.

If I recall the diagram (and do not quote me here), the swath of affected area is involving the whole lower half of the United States, but particularly So-Cal will get the brunt of it because they're right at the marine influence.

 

[dsqard]

SCG looking at the charts you should have "normal" amounts of precipitation for fall-winter but warmer temperatures. How much warmer the article didn't say. Hopefully your suet feeder won't disappear again.

 

[duluthralphie]

Hi.

Just subscribing, read the last few pages.

Sounds interesting. I will try to not bother too many of you too often..

Besides I am hiding from a chickadee so need to be quiet..

 

[ronott1]

Hi.

Just subscribing, read the last few pages.

Sounds interesting. I will try to not bother too many of you too often..

Besides I am hiding from a chickadee so need to be quiet..

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