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Genesplicer posted:Because school districts here are desperate to stay open, we are holding in-person classes, regardless. My 5th period class normally has 30 students. Today, 14 showed up. Luckily it was a continuation of yesterday's assignment, so no real harm done. Lol
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Escape From Noise posted:I wish I got just phone calls. Here in Osaka I get people ringing my intercom to my apartment. I guess next time I should threaten to kill them or something? I've been telling them I don't feel well and hanging up on them like an idiot! I was in a car wreck on January 26th and on January 27th I got 7 phone calls from lawyers, someone came to my house first thing in the morning offering 'accident remediation services' and on January 28th I had letters from 6 different lawyers. It took me until February to get my own copy of the police report.
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Apr 7, 2022 09:08
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Charity Porno posted:The aquarium thing was really a work of art, he didn't skimp even once on the routine of pretending to look for a place to put it before dropping it, with a deadpan expression One of the most amazing sounds I've ever heard came in my walmart truck unloading days: an entire pallet of fluorescent tube lights falling off a dock and absolutely atomizing. In more modern work stuff, I'm one of 4 in a department that is supposed to have 6, the only guy left who's been here longer than 18 months is desperately interviewing for anything else, and my partner is about to turn in his notice tomorrow. I guess it will just be me and the new guy as we embrace the amazing business opportunities that we have that currently have me working 12 to 14 hours a day 6 days a week. gently caress manufacturing. I'm so sick of this poo poo.
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May 13, 2022 09:22
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I've got a machine operator who was on the verge of getting fired for attendance when he loudly proclaimed he didn't need us any more and quit for a 'much better job' down the road at my brother's steel mill. He lasted 6 months before it got really hot, trying coming back and HR inexplicably reoffered him and he has already called in on his second day.
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Jul 9, 2022 00:07
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Jul 15, 2022 16:39
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Silly Newbie posted:Baby's right, Domus. I have an intern whose job is to image laptops based on a prewritten process and ship stuff places, and I pay them $18/hr. We're paying $19 for a person to sit in a chair and put a cork in a passing bottle 18 times a minute, in an air-conditioned environment. And this is in a low cost of living area, too lmao. poo poo I wish I was 18 again.
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Jul 15, 2022 17:19
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Tarkus posted:Sounds like hell to me. I'm not saying it's great, I'm adding evidence on how badly Domus is getting hosed @$16.
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Jul 15, 2022 19:15
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Barudak posted:Powerful same. Ironically I have an office, but am judged poorly for being in it.
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Aug 5, 2022 06:30
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It was before my time here, but I heard last week that a few years back a guy who was really unhappy stuck it out until the year end bonuses were paid and immediately resigned. HR spent 7 weeks trying to claw back that bonus. E: unrelated, I dropped my wife's laptop off at the repair place yesterday (kids poured water on it). The lady I was behind in line had a pretty nice looking Elitebook. When she came to the counter she explained to the tech, 'This is my work laptop but my sons broke it. It isn't covered because I had it at home so I need it fixed ASAP' Tech takes down her information, starts a ticket, then takes the laptop from the lady. The tech picks up the laptop, flips it over, runs her fingers along the spine and then says, 'Wait, is this THAT laptop?' Lady sighs, 'Yes, they did it again.' I never found out what it was but I've been tickled ever since. tactlessbastard fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Aug 9, 2022 |
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Aug 9, 2022 10:28
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I wish my job skills were transferable to WFH 
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Aug 18, 2022 09:37
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We had a little safety oopsie last week and as one of the many consequences I’ve been tasked with bringing everyone in the plant one by one into my office, have them read a one page document, answer any questions, and collect a signature. Oh my god we’ve got some sloooooooooooow readers here
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Aug 19, 2022 03:58
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TotalLossBrain posted:My work had the town PD over yesterday for training. Apparently to know the layout in case there's ever an 'incident'? Surely they can figure out where to loiter outside on their phones with a simple drive by.
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Aug 27, 2022 17:30
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We’re constantly in the doghouse because we aren’t meeting pre Covid benchmarks. Unrelated, the CEO just sent out an annual earnings email congratulating everyone for absolutely smashing the profits record for the second year in a row.
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Sep 1, 2022 16:50
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Lazyfire posted:Holy gently caress, a 2.5% mortgage. My wife and I considered buying the house we're trying to purchase outright because we were offered a 6%. Apparently buying a house straight cash is considered super sketchy. I've got a 2.4 and I'll be damned if the bank doesn't send me at least one thing a week begging me to refinance to unlock my home's potential* *at 4%
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Sep 21, 2022 18:26
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Monkey Fracas posted:why is the DM worried about price guns lol Because the bastards are expensive and have long lead times.
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Sep 21, 2022 18:55
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Babe Magnet posted:when I did tier 1.5 tech support for a hospital on the other side of the country a few years back, one of our older gentlemen got in poo poo because he saw the hospital portal running some kind of ad/awareness campaign thing with an image of a gay couple and he sent the hospital an angry email from his work email lol Yesterday HR announced they were going to recognize Hispanic Month for the first time by, and I poo poo you not, organizing a taco Tuesday and giving everyone a bottle of tequila
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Sep 22, 2022 17:57
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Fried catfish is dope as gently caress and you can call me cletus if you want to but I'm not giving it up
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Sep 23, 2022 18:23
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Cyrano4747 posted:That reversal is now also reversing due to climate change. Lots of previously unattractive neighborhoods inland and uphill in Miami are getting the gently caress gentrified out of them by rich people who see the writing on the wall. If they really saw the writing on the wall they'd leave Florida
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Sep 23, 2022 19:24
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:So an employee stole thousands of dollars of raw materials and product during his time and even on his way out the door. Did the bosses ever implement tighter/any inventory control in the 6 months since that time? Nope! Well, you know what to do then
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Sep 24, 2022 19:13
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tactlessbastard posted:Yesterday HR announced they were going to recognize Hispanic Month for the first time by, and I poo poo you not, organizing a taco Tuesday and giving everyone a bottle of tequila They downgraded it to churros and a bottle of tequila 
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Sep 28, 2022 21:13
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Almost every job posting in my field now has some variation of 'strong Lean background’ in it and I’m just wondering where they found all these goldfish who don’t remember what happened over the last two years when you’re running lean and you have supply chain disruption. Oh well I’m sure it will never happen again.
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Oct 12, 2022 17:24
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Lazyfire posted:Yesterday I went to visit an up and coming vendor and one of the people from my company kept using the word "disruptive" like it was a thing. Holding a 3D printed core: "This is so disruptive" Smelling Sulfer Dioxide from broken down casting material "you can recycle this, that's very disruptive" looking at a big Xray machine and talking about the next generation of analysis for them "It's going to be very disruptive when it happens." I'm all for new technology being leveraged to everyone's benefit, but none of it is "disruptive" so much as it is current technology being applied exactly as it is meant to be. It's just that this vendor had their place burn down at the right time and invested in a bunch of new equipment while rebuilding. Even our Fellow who organized the tour told him to stop using "disruptive" because we want stable for the rate of production we need. I wonder how it turned out at my last job when going into the last half of 2019 they were going to 'put all their logistics on the blockchain' per the son of the owner
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Oct 27, 2022 18:50
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Escape From Noise posted:Explaining acceptable losses can be so difficult sometimes. So many people assume 500 liters of wort means 500 liters of finished beer. Oh my God we got an email from finance a few weeks ago wanting to know how on earth we managed to lose almost 100 gallons!!! of $80 per 750ml whiskey. We ran it for a week straight producing thousands and thousands of cases and using up 10s of thousands of gallons of whiskey. 
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Oct 31, 2022 18:28
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tactlessbastard posted:Oh my God we got an email from finance a few weeks ago wanting to know how on earth we managed to lose almost 100 gallons!!! of $80 per 750ml whiskey. And the filler will be celebrating its 50th birthday this year
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Oct 31, 2022 18:29
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Sapozhnik posted:Humor me as a guy who knows nothing about brewing, where do all these losses come from in the bottling and canning process anyway? Glass bottles break. Sometimes it's bad glass from the glass supplier and they shatter in the capper. . Sometimes your packaging equipment gets out of time and it eats a bottle. Sometimes the robots do stupid poo poo like running into each other, making a whole pallet fall over. Sometimes you're using a 50 year old vacuum filler that leaks like a seive because you cant afford the downtime to rebuild it. And because there are forklifts on the premises, sometimes your poor bottles that survived all the above perils get run through. Not to mention every time you change products, you have to wash your filler, and then get the wash material out of it by flushing it with product that goes straight down the drain. Also I won't stop drinking it.
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champagne posting posted:I saw a hilarious robot signal malfunction once: Picture in your minds eye a robot taking six packs of yogurt cups and place them on a pallet. When the pallet is full it signals "I'm full, wait until a new pallet is in place" but instead when full it signaled "I'm a brand new pallet stack from the bottom please!" and the robot complied. Cue 1 ton ABB robot arm smashing through a pallet of 'gurt. It made a wonderful, hilarious mess. Two weeks ago the palletizer was drat sure it had a pallet with 1 tier of liquor on it so when it indexed into the position to catch tier 2, it annihilated the three tiers that were on the pallet. And I think it was in this thread where I previously described an IT update that physically crashed a crane that was carrying a whole pallet of gin.
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Nov 1, 2022 17:53
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Speaking of scan guns, we're rolling out new ones and my people haaaate the new ones I don't blame them. The most used operation takes 6 button presses where it used to take two. Great job, UI team
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Nov 4, 2022 10:51
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Salami Surgeon posted:Chit chat with a coworker Heh. In college I was in a full 15 passenger van with the ecology/evolution professor driving us to a swamp to count critters. On the way he asked us if we had gotten our flu shots and to rile him up I said 'no man, I'm not trying to catch autism' and I could see his knuckles whitening and his forehead vein pulse as he prepared to respond to that lol
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We had one a while back that was anonymous but wanted your age and date of hire.
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They released the comments from the employee survey to management. 246 extra typed in comments (everything else on the survey was scale of 1-10) 244 comments about the excessive overtime 2 comments complaining about favoritism You’ll never guess what we’ve decided to focus on going forward.
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If you aren't currently working in manufacturing, for the love of god, don't start
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Bearing in mind that I signed on for what was supposed to be a MTWR 4x10 job, We've been working two Fridays out of three for 2 years now, and since October have gone to every Friday plus at least two Saturdays, all 12s Yesterday they decided we're going to need to come in this Saturday and Sunday, too. I volunteered for Sunday because I already have plans Saturday. My boss decided that to cover Saturday, he'd call my partner in off his vacation, instead of doing it his own goddamn self.
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tactlessbastard posted:Bearing in mind that I signed on for what was supposed to be a MTWR 4x10 job, Dumb poo poo your partner does: answers a phone call from the boss when you're on PTO
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My company has sacrificed work on Projects A and B to support Project C and now that Project C is done they are horrified to see A & B are behind.
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Nov 30, 2022 20:25
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I dunno maybe relax whatever is making line guys think it's worth stealing caps vs reporting they don't don't have caps In other news we're under a huge safety push where they keep saying they'd rather shut the whole floor down to mop up a splll than take any chances That's nice and all but 100% of the OKRs are still based on OEE sooo
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Dec 5, 2022 08:40
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Escape From Noise posted:Sir, this is a modern brewery. We measure volume in beer barrels. One of which is equal to 31 US gallons or 36 imperial gallons in the UK. It's very simple... Oh ho we manufacture for the global market so everything is done in mL but because of the government we also have to report everything in gallons for tax purposes. Regular imperial gallons? Oh no, my friend, you're going to report that rum in wine gallons.
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MrQwerty posted:I listened to Welcome to Sky Valley, Blood Mountain, Sound & Fury, Variations on a Theme and Crack the Skye plus a smattering of HoF on killer noise canceling headphones I made the circuitboard for while cutting boards out of panels for 8 hours and got paid a lot of money to do it last night. Ever since the start of Covid, my company is making just stunning, record breaking amounts of money doing what we've always done, and they're taking all this money and spending it on expanding into niche luxury crap instead of oh I dunno securing our own supply lines so we can keep doing the thing we do that makes all the money in the first place
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TaurusTorus posted:
Fuckin' first shift is the same in every industry 
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Escape From Noise posted:I may have convinced my boss that it'd be way more cost effective to just mix vodka and water in kegs and carb them then try making and fermenting a whole batch of hard seltzer. That's what everyone else is already doing
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