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If you're ever confused about a fancy MBA or executive business term just remember middle managers and executives are chosen for being basically 10 year olds. Are we there yet? I want ice cream. You're not the boss of me. Are we there yet?
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MrQwerty posted:I was working on vial filling machines with a fast rotating staff at a plant that specifically sought out poo poo other plants wouldn't touch to undercut, it was 24/7, and the work environment had been toxic for decades. Oh, dang, yeah. I already worked in a chemistry place that was undercutting everyone and was toxic. But, like, actually toxic. As in, i accidentally got dosed with tear gas there. We had the active ingredient in tear gas in chemical standard form and after a coworker broke the bottle, i was the lucky bunny to find out. Worked with the dioxin chemical putin tried to kill victor yushchenko with, worked with every pesticide known to man… That job sucked.
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Oct 5, 2022 23:29
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rotinaj posted:Oh, dang, yeah. I already worked in a chemistry place that was undercutting everyone and was toxic. But, like, actually toxic. As in, i accidentally got dosed with tear gas there. We had the active ingredient in tear gas in chemical standard form and after a coworker broke the bottle, i was the lucky bunny to find out. Worked with the dioxin chemical putin tried to kill victor yushchenko with, worked with every pesticide known to man… I worked with botulinum, hardcore cat5 chemo drugs and controlled substances long enough while maintaining a gowning bonus and cert that I just stopped thinking about exposure; but I know I totally hosed up a few times doffing a respirator hood and gown when my bunny was covered in spicy dust after unloading a lyo. Never got concentrated botox on my suit outside the bootcover, though!
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Oct 5, 2022 23:50
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I worked in radiopharmaceutical manufacturing for awhile and that was spicy enough for me. Stuff with a short half-life that needed to be shipped to Australia or wherever would come out SCREAMING HOT.
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Oct 5, 2022 23:54
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RocketMermaid posted:gently caress, I am so glad we only have to deal with our own kegs here and not any from a keg company. The dirties I'd get from the keg company at the last place I worked were universally horrifying, especially anything from Three Floyds. There was one time they'd obviously put a clean keg collar over an old one that was rotting away and had cemented itself to the surface. The worst was the one where old beer had somehow solidified into a semi-gelatinous mass that even concentrated caustic and a chisel couldn't budge. Here, the worst we have to deal with is the bartenders forgetting a keg for weeks and a bit of mold developing on the fitting. Yeah. You're right. It wasn't that bad. I remember getting a lot of eggs. Those were annoying because after drying out in the heat of the summer or whatever the whites were like glue. Also oil was a pain. Here it's mostly mold. Edit: Even before we were dealing with a keg rental service, we would get our own kegs back from our distributors covered in weird stuff. I dunno. Maybe people in Seattle are just fuckin' animals. Escape From Noise fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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Oct 6, 2022 00:20
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Escape From Noise posted:Yeah. You're right. It wasn't that bad. I remember getting a lot of eggs. Those were annoying because after drying out in the heat of the summer or whatever the whites were like glue. Also oil was a pain. Here it's mostly mold. This was in Chicago, but I'm sure it's just as bad here.
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Oct 6, 2022 00:55
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Escape From Noise posted:Yeah. You're right. It wasn't that bad. I remember getting a lot of eggs. Those were annoying because after drying out in the heat of the summer or whatever the whites were like glue. Also oil was a pain. Here it's mostly mold. You're reminding me that my neighbor left an empty* keg of Yuengling in his back yard, Four years ago. I'm thinking of cashing it in for the deposit. *they're never empty
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Oct 6, 2022 01:37
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PainterofCrap posted:You're reminding me that my neighbor left an empty* keg of Yuengling in his back yard, Four years ago. Just hose off the outside. If the inside's really nasty it's not going to be a big deal since most places have some kind of keg washer and it takes no more time than a dirty keg that's not scummy. Cleaning off the outside can be wild. Some come back covered in dirt and pine needles. It's crazy.
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Oct 6, 2022 05:28
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i worked in a medical plastics packaging factory with gowning and poo poo, like i'd say it was semi-aseptic if that is a thing. long gowns, hair nets and hand washing, sticky thing on floor in air lock before production floor. my really light grey shoes slowly took a brown hue in the clean room though? dunno what that is about
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20 Blunts posted:my really light grey shoes slowly took a brown hue in the clean room though? dunno what that is about The radiopharm lab I used to work at used some sort of bromine solution to sterilize the floor of the clean room, so it might be that.
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Oct 6, 2022 05:56
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YeahTubaMike posted:I feel like every couple of weeks I learn a new corporate slang term. A couple of weeks ago, it was "popcorn". More recently, it was "dog food". I wonder what will come next. toast n snackbars
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Oct 6, 2022 06:11
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Beggin' strips is when the company gets bought and they make you beg for your job before stripping the assets.
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MrQwerty posted:General Bullshit › Dumb poo poo your work does - doffing a respirator hood and gown when my bunny was covered in spicy dust after unloading a lyo Mods, will this fit?
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Oct 6, 2022 06:33
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These stories about chemical job fuckery of y'all are scary.  the only job I ever had that required some applied chemistry, was in the lab of a lemonade factory. The scariest compound I used was artificial sweeteners. I got a lot of free samples of various fizzy drinks though.
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Sywert of Thieves posted:These stories about chemical job fuckery of y'all are scary. Super-concentrated drink mixes can be dangerous in their own way, with decent amounts of acids. Weak, sure, but concentrated.
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Oct 6, 2022 10:46
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Sywert of Thieves posted:These stories about chemical job fuckery of y'all are scary. Scariest moment in a lab will always be when a phd student decided to clean his glassware covered in milk powders with compressed air outside a fume hood. He was one stray spark or open flame from being blown into itty bitty pieces
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Atopian posted:Super-concentrated drink mixes can be dangerous in their own way, with decent amounts of acids. Weak, sure, but concentrated. I did try the raw syrup concentrate once, just to see what it tasted like. I think I got about a year's worth of sugar intake in about 10 seconds. It was indescribably sweet.
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Oct 6, 2022 11:46
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I sold too much and now Im not supposed to do anything for the next three months. They have agreed I can host football watching parties during office hours
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Oct 6, 2022 11:52
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Barudak posted:I sold too much and now Im not supposed to do anything for the next three months. What's the limit to you selling stuff?
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champagne posting posted:What's the limit to you selling stuff? Too efficient for this years targets and stock availability
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Barudak posted:I sold too much and now Im not supposed to do anything for the next three months. Okay but if the parties are too popular you can‘t host more! YeahTubaMike posted:I feel like every couple of weeks I learn a new corporate slang term. A couple of weeks ago, it was "popcorn". More recently, it was "dog food". I wonder what will come next. In German, in certain corporations, there‘s „Aufgleisen“, literally “rerail” and means getting someone up to speed on a topic. Neco fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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Oct 6, 2022 12:05
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Barudak posted:Too efficient for this years targets and stock availability Start selling something else. Stuff off of Amazon and just drop ship it. Alternatively, kick back, annoy your coworkers, read a book at your desk. Alternatively / alternatively: Sell even more things and when the fact the rest of the company can't keep up just keep selling in response.
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Oct 6, 2022 12:19
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Neco posted:Okay but if the parties are too popular you can‘t host more! I said that once and my boomer model manager could not understand that I was trying to get the meeting back on agenda. He also nit-picks notes for grammar. I hate him so much.
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Oct 6, 2022 12:22
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Nothing like watching a lovely former boss's company start circling the drain due to completely foreseeable circumstances. Lol.
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Oct 6, 2022 12:28
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Lol, a customer is tryung to oversign us, the design responsible party, on a part repair approval. The disposition of the repair literally says STOP, DO NOT PROCEED. SUBMIT FOR REAPPROVAL.
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Oct 6, 2022 14:40
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I had some broken and worn parts that were taken off customer equipment. I've been resetting them to get them in a state to test how broken and worn they are. My boss decided to use them in another test that depends on them being not broken or worn.
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Oct 6, 2022 16:09
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Salami Surgeon posted:I had some broken and worn parts that were taken off customer equipment. I've been resetting them to get them in a state to test how broken and worn they are. My boss decided to use them in another test that depends on them being not broken or worn. Metrology schmetrology
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Salami Surgeon posted:I had some broken and worn parts that were taken off customer equipment. I've been resetting them to get them in a state to test how broken and worn they are. My boss decided to use them in another test that depends on them being not broken or worn. I just want to die reading this.
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Oct 6, 2022 16:50
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Salami Surgeon posted:I had some broken and worn parts that were taken off customer equipment. I've been resetting them to get them in a state to test how broken and worn they are. My boss decided to use them in another test that depends on them being not broken or worn. That stuff is going back to a customer site.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Lol, a customer is tryung to oversign us, the design responsible party, on a part repair approval. The customer has been cowed. I win again.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Lol, a customer is tryung to oversign us, the design responsible party, on a part repair approval. Salami Surgeon posted:I had some broken and worn parts that were taken off customer equipment. I've been resetting them to get them in a state to test how broken and worn they are. My boss decided to use them in another test that depends on them being not broken or worn. A few jobs back we had a customer attempt a repair on a tube with a heat shield, really just a sheet of steel that is cut and formed to match each individual tube and then welded together. So when the customer found out the tube had a crack in it they looked at the maintenance manual that said "replace, send to manufacturer for repair" and they didn't have any of the tubes on hand for the repair. It was decided that because this was an oil tube in the compressor section it couldn't get that hot so they would just weld repair the tube after they cut the heat shield off. As a matter of fact, who needs a heat shield? We have some fireproof material we'll just wrap around the tube! So that tube burst just about as soon as they got off the ground, engine lost oil pressure because it was the main scupper tube and was suddenly wide open and leaking oil into the engine. The fault reason was pretty clear, but the FAA requires a full analysis and our company requires a review of installation, repair and replacement processes. I ended up designing and running six months of tests and found that we really should have a requirement to torque the bolts to a PSI and then bring them to full torque in turn rather than go full torque when the bolts were first inserted. It is the standard process for like every part on every system, but this part didn't have that so we spent six months proving that provided better overall attachment for a pipe that had never been a problem until someone tried to repair it with a torch and a welder.
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Lazyfire posted:A few jobs back we had a customer attempt a repair on a tube with a heat shield, really just a sheet of steel that is cut and formed to match each individual tube and then welded together. So when the customer found out the tube had a crack in it they looked at the maintenance manual that said "replace, send to manufacturer for repair" and they didn't have any of the tubes on hand for the repair. It was decided that because this was an oil tube in the compressor section it couldn't get that hot so they would just weld repair the tube after they cut the heat shield off. As a matter of fact, who needs a heat shield? We have some fireproof material we'll just wrap around the tube! The engines are never the problem, it's always the people, lol. I had a mechanic scrap an integrally bladed rotor and a variable vane when they didn't flip the vane around to the correct position prior to installation of a split case. They finished the engine core, did a free rotation check and it didn't move, then many heads were scratched and I declared that our mistake proofing worked as designed. Samuel L. Hacksaw fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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Barudak posted:I sold too much and now Im not supposed to do anything for the next three months. *ring, ring, ring* "Hi! Barudak? Have you been working much lately?" "Lol, no." "Oh, good. We really appreciate what you're not doing. Your numbers look like poo poo. Down 12% y-o-y, keep it down!" "Should I be working on trainin-" "Nope." "Review my numb-" "Absolutely not! If I see you logging in during work hours, that'll be a write-up." "So, in summar-" "Stop. STOP! No summaries, no reviews, no training iterations, and especially no coming into the office, unless you are really bored and/or out of coffee creamer and toilet paper."
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You should spend a day shadowing every person in the office. Don't ask to do it, just follow them around. Occasionally make audio notes.
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goatface posted:You should spend a day shadowing every person in the office. Don't ask to do it, just follow them around. Occasionally make audio notes. Stand next to the front entrance with a clipboard.
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Outrail posted:Stand next to the front entrance with a clipboard. get that clipboard and just go exploring, if anyone tries to stop you just ask for their name and role in the org and spend a really long time writing it down before sending them on their way
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blatman posted:get that clipboard and just go exploring, if anyone tries to stop you just ask for their name and role in the org and spend a really long time writing it down before sending them on their way Ask them "And what exactly do you do? How do you add value to the company?"
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blatman posted:get that clipboard and just go exploring, if anyone tries to stop you just ask for their name and role in the org and spend a really long time writing it down before sending them on their way Get management in on the joke. "Hey, uh, the salesperson must have flipped their lid. Just follows us around with a clipboard all day long, doodling something they've captioned 'dick-butt'." *icy glare* "O-oh-kay. Yeah, that's fine. Totally fine. Nevermind. loving sales, am I right?!"
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