How am I supposed to work out of my bay if there is 1/3 of a car in it, along with boxes and random pieces of furniture, and there are two cars parked in front of it, blocking access?
This is bullE36 M3 man
How am I supposed to work out of my bay if there is 1/3 of a car in it, along with boxes and random pieces of furniture, and there are two cars parked in front of it, blocking access?
This is bullE36 M3 man
Not so much of a rant, more just curiosity at inefficiency.
I work in a 12/13 story building (the top floor is only half the building). It is an old building; I believe it was built in about 1929 to 8 stories and 4 more stories added in 1935. I know that elevator girls were used until the early 70's, so we'll assume that the elevators (or the programming for them) are about 40 years old.
I really want to see the algorithm for them. There are 2 side by side. There is a lighted panel that shows you what floor they are on. Lefty is on 1 and Righty is on 7. This is presumably the default position, though it doesn't matter which is which. I am on floor 5 and press down. You would assume that Righty (on 7) would come down and pick me up, and Lefty would go up to 7. Nope, Righty goes all the way down and Lefty comes to pick me up. To go down. Then when I was on my way back, the elevators were at 10 and 2. Curious about it, I wait for about 30 seconds. They aren't moving. So I'm assuming that nobody else has pushed a button. I push up. Righty (on 2) goes up to 7, and Lefty (on 10) comes down to pick me up at 1! It has to be the most inefficient algorithm for an elevator system.
And that is only one of the sets of elevators. The other one I do not use that often. It is haunted. I've used it maybe 20 times. And 2 times it has taken me straight to the 8th floor, regardless of what I push. Both times, nobody was there, and both times, it smelled strongly of cigar smoke. The freaky part? Those elevators on the 8th floor let out right in front of the founders office, who was known to smoke cigars regularly. That office has been preserved since 1972, used only for tours.
Everyone who works for the government should have to work in the real world first. How people can manage something without any grasp of reality is amazing. We are so caught up in meeting imaginary goals on paper that actually doing what we are here for is an afterthought and an incovenience. At least we are pissing away mountains of money so you can track us on your iPhone. Ofcourse we aren't putting much of that money into repairs or maintainance so you will just see a lot of dots clustered around our building with little out of service tags hanging on them.
Wally wrote: Everyone who works for the government should have to work in the real world first. How people can manage something without any grasp of reality is amazing. We are so caught up in meeting imaginary goals on paper that actually doing what we are here for is an afterthought and an incovenience. At least we are pissing away mountains of money so you can track us on your iPhone. Ofcourse we aren't putting much of that money into repairs or maintainance so you will just see a lot of dots clustered around our building with little out of service tags hanging on them.
And Mayor Bloomberg wants to spread the love!
wbjones wrote: besides , he didn't mention any names ... hard to believe that the idiot he's having problems with will be able to recognize himself from the description ... mainly because anyone that is that much of a douche would never recognize that he's the problem ... so I don't have any problem with Apexcarver letting out his frustrations
No names/information on purpose, I edited it anyway.
Human stupidity knows no bounds.
We all have bad days because of it.
I hate dealing with grown men who act like 16 year old girls having their monthlies. Not everything is gravy; when the garbage shows up it still has to get done so let's get it out of the way, clear the decks for action.
Having said that, it frustrates the hell out of me when I see the really ridiculous flat rate times the manufacturers give to perform a given repair. Yesterday's special was a door control module. The time? .3 (that's 3/10ths) of an hour, or 18 minutes. R&R of the door trim for access is .2 hour and is incorporated in the .3. This leaves .1 hour, or 6 minutes, to:
verify the complaint,
connect a scan tool,
record the fault codes,
go to the parts dept,
get the part,
install it,
reconnect the scan tool,
clear BCM fault codes,
verify operation,
turn the old part in (warranty),
complete the paperwork,
and then to make it even better if it comes back you are supposed to fix it for free.
The manufacturers wonder why there's a shortage of people willing to do the training etc to become a technician. Well, duh.
Curmudgeon wrote: I hate dealing with grown men who act like 16 year old girls having their monthlies. Not everything is gravy; when the garbage shows up it still has to get done so let's get it out of the way, clear the decks for action. Having said that, it frustrates the hell out of me when I see the really ridiculous flat rate times the manufacturers give to perform a given repair. Yesterday's special was a door control module. The time? .3 (that's 3/10ths) of an hour, or 18 minutes. R&R of the door trim for access is .2 hour and is incorporated in the .3. This leaves .1 hour, or 6 minutes, to: verify the complaint, connect a scan tool, record the fault codes, go to the parts dept, get the part, install it, reconnect the scan tool, clear BCM fault codes, verify operation, turn the old part in (warranty), complete the paperwork, and then to make it even better if it comes back you are supposed to fix it for free. The manufacturers wonder why there's a shortage of people willing to do the training etc to become a technician. Well, duh.
warranty frt's are insane.
We have a recall on NV rear door links. Both rear doors, both the part that goes in the door and the part that accepts it that is on the body. it pays .30
Warranty alignment so far is the only job I've seen that pleasantly surprised me. it pays .90, our customer pay time is only 1.20, so it's really not that bad. Especially considering I can almost always do an alignment on a nissan in 10-15 minutes total time.
Quit using your speaker phone to conduct every single phone call and check all of your voice mails! Aggggggggggg!
Dear HR departments:
I am an applicant, not a supplicant. Please have the common courtesy to return phone calls, respond to emails in a timely and professional manner (not days later and I quote "I think you sent me an email about..."). We've already established contact, I've already spoken with your engineers, I've got my foot in the door. Now let's all just act like professionals and get through this annoying process.
Thanks, Me
In reply to Curmudgeon:
Must be Chrysler with the stopwatch of death. They LOVE to stop the stopwatch for ANYTHING that keeps you away from fixing the problem area. 
The only awesome warranty labor rate I ever encountered is/was the "black smoke" TSB LOP on ALL Cummins equipped pickemups. To quote the guy giving a webinar once on the 6.7's, "If you are losing your ass, use that LOP to save it." It wasn't uncommon to spend 8-12hrs to fix one of those bastards when they first came out. They always needed DPF's, O2's, temp probes, cleaning of the EGR tube and mass air flow meter.
What chaps my ass is they (and it ain't just Chrysler, all of them do it) will shove a product out there and let the customers/techs finish development. By strangling the tech, they boost their bottom line.
I think it blows big time, particularly when some POS shows up, it takes two days of back and forth with STAR to fix the friggin' thing, it blocks a productive bay for those two days and the tech gets, whoopee, maybe .6 or .8. I want to see those sonsabitches in the offices up there in LaLaLand accept that kind of financial ass cutting day in and day out.
Imagine how quick that E36 M3 would change if the engineers had to work on crap they designed for a year.
Go to a new restaurant in town today. Sports bar kinda place. I initially like it. $4.00 pitcher of beer. Not a bad deal. We order food, appetizer and burger basket. That is where the problems start.
So, I'm a contract employee for a rather large company working for another rather large company.
A few months ago, our site got a new plant manager, who is set to retire soon and claims to want to make our plant the model of efficiency.
Now, the company's employees can do no wrong, and clearly any issues with production have to somehow be the contractor's fault, despite the fact that we have no bearing on the company's production at all, really.
For example, the PM was furious that he had to pay truck drivers extra to stay for overtime because they're sitting around and waiting for loads, so after going through all the other contractors and trying to assign blame, clearly it's the lazy truckers fault, right? So, he demands the company send more truck drivers, and refuses to let them stay and incur overtime.
Now we have twice as many truckers waiting for loads, and since they have to leave on time every night, the next day there's a backlog of loads from the night before that have to be taken first. So now the logs that we have to keep, are confusing and don't make sense...which is OUR fault.
mtn wrote: 1. Do not bring out my appetizer at the same time as my fricken meal.
Greek Islands Restaurant in the Chicago area rushes everything. My dad and I go and he won't give them his full order - he pieces it out because of this.
Order Saganaki cheese, eat it. Then order Greek salad, eat it. Then order entree. The waiters hate it.
Must be good food to deal with that crap.
Appleseed wrote: Imagine how quick that E36 M3 would change if the accountants had to work on crap they berkeleyed with for a year.
FTFY
Kenny_McCormic wrote:Appleseed wrote: Imagine how quick that E36 M3 would change if the accountants had to work on crap they berkeleyed with for a year.FTFY
As an engineer I support this correction.
It really is the damn bean counters. They won't let engineers work in teams anymore so you get this damn piece milled modularized crap that doesn't quite fit.
I'm coming down the hill, slowing from 40mph to make a 120 degree turn onto my street. You on the motorcycle decide it's the perfect time to pull a u turn from the one way west side of that street to go back east. Right in front of me.
Then you ride on the far left side of the street, turn on your right turn signal and creep along. Turn it back off for a few seconds then back on and whip to the right into your driveway. Again right in front of me.
I'd be willing to bet you have a "watch for motorcycles" sticker on your car, yes?
Flight Service wrote:Kenny_McCormic wrote:As an engineer I support this correction. It really is the damn bean counters. They won't let engineers work in teams anymore so you get this damn piece milled modularized crap that doesn't quite fit.Appleseed wrote: Imagine how quick that E36 M3 would change if the accountants had to work on crap they berkeleyed with for a year.FTFY
Thirded. We're allowed to work in teams, but are always being ridden hard by management to get things done faster and cheaper, and get in trouble for not making the arbitrary deadlines that they commited to in the contract with the customers- which are often so divorced from reality that it makes me wonder if they just don't bother drug testing the people who come up with them. And the 'goalpost'/,milestone deadlines take priority over everything, regardless of how badly it will berk up things down the line.
Perfect example: There was a milestone in the job that I've spent most of my time on over the last few years to have the first aircraft painted on a certain date. That date was approaching, and the aircraft is nowhere near ready to be painted- we have a significant portion of the skin on one side off waiting for a new major frame to show up and there are numerous other external parts that would need to be on before it is painted properly. Moving the aircraft to paint required stopping all mod/install work on it and putting the skins back together, and then moving it to the paint booth for 2 weeks for prep, painting, and curing- losing all told about 3 weeks worth of production time... AND it would have to be painted AGAIN because of all the unfinished mods that would be going on over the prematurely painted aircraft.
You'd THINK that the logical thing to do would be to go to the customer and point out that if we scramble to meet this arbitrary milestone photo op deadline of having it painted, they're not going to get their aircraft until a month later than if we don't worry about it and keep working on actually finishing it up. Nope, management insists that the milestone be met and wastes the month's time painting it, taking a few pictures to send to the customer, and then ripping it apart again so the rest of the work that needs to be done can resume.
PINCHED NERVE ARGH I WANTED TO DO STUFF
Wife and I are on vacation in Vegas, heading home tomorrow both of us have some form of food poisoning.
Plus we only have one toilet, this is the least fun game of musical chairs that has even been played.
They have a scale in the room I have lost almost 6 lbs in water and other fluids.
In reply to Ashyukun:
Just to clarify, I was speaking of the automotive industry.
Flight Service wrote: In reply to Ashyukun: Just to clarify, I was speaking of the automotive industry.
That's OK- it's much the same in aerospace, only our customers are paying exponentially more for the products (and tend to be governments or huge corporations)...
Ugh, thanks Mr. Project Manager for migrating the Sr. Infrastructure Manager of our customer to a solution that isn't functioning yet and that we're not ready to support yet.
Now I have to stop being an Engineer and go play Desktop support to apply the necessary Office hotfixes to get him up and running again instead of working on getting those same hotfixes ready to deploy to the rest of the field.
Oh and this manager? Yeah he hates my company and everytime, EVERY TIME, we use him as a guinea pig for some IT "improvement" he gets hosed in someway. Could you not pick on the Sr. Managers for experimental Office solutions until they are slightly less experimental?
Finally to those of you in IT and have customers interested in moving to Office 365? I have to say don't do it. There are better things to focus your attention on and Microsoft just released it, so you know what kind of trouble that entails from previous "first release" products from Microsoft.
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