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So... I got promoted. Can has office now!

I already know all about him and Tool Tart, and him and the Chinese Food lady, and the meter-maid.

...just like he knows about me and the UPS man (what can I say? Big package delivered to my door!), the Harbor Freight Dood and the meter-maid.

*shrug* It works for us. Hard part is getting other people to understand that and not get all ZOMG TEE HEE HEE over it or all WTF WRATH OF JUDGMENT on us.
 
TheWifeOfBrian said:
*shrug* It works for us. Hard part is getting other people to understand that and not get all ZOMG TEE HEE HEE over it or all WTF WRATH OF JUDGMENT on us.
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To be honest thats the part we love best..watching them go into fits of indignation or better yet, watching their jaws drop with nothing to say
 
Wait for the day when an unhappy co-worker calls YOU into YOUR office...

And it's definitely going to happen.

And did you ever utter those amazing words (paraphrased)

"I don't see why he has that job. I'm smarter than he is"

Because soon, they will be saying that about you.
 
Garrovick said:
Wait for the day when an unhappy co-worker calls YOU into YOUR office...

And it's definitely going to happen.

And did you ever utter those amazing words (paraphrased)

"I don't see why he has that job. I'm smarter than he is"

Because soon, they will be saying that about you.
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Actually that's how I got this job. The purchasing person was bleeding us dry on basic machine-shop supplies, he had kickbacks with several suppliers... Locked us in at very very very high prices.

What happened was I broke an endmill on a project and the owner was like all "ZOMG DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THOSE COST" and I said "I can get a pack of five for $20 from SupplyMart in fact since it was my mistake I'll pay out of pocket" and the owner was like "ORLY, because we pay $220 for just one" and I was like "ZOMG BRING ME THE INTERNET I WILL SHOW YOU HOW IT'S DONE."

Of course there was less silly and more serious but yeah that's the basic jist of what happened. :p
 
Plecostomus said:
Garrovick said:
Wait for the day when an unhappy co-worker calls YOU into YOUR office...

And it's definitely going to happen.

And did you ever utter those amazing words (paraphrased)

"I don't see why he has that job. I'm smarter than he is"

Because soon, they will be saying that about you.
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Actually that's how I got this job. The purchasing person was bleeding us dry on basic machine-shop supplies, he had kickbacks with several suppliers... Locked us in at very very very high prices.

What happened was I broke an endmill on a project and the owner was like all "ZOMG DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THOSE COST" and I said "I can get a pack of five for $20 from SupplyMart in fact since it was my mistake I'll pay out of pocket" and the owner was like "ORLY, because we pay $220 for just one" and I was like "ZOMG BRING ME THE INTERNET I WILL SHOW YOU HOW IT'S DONE."

Of course there was less silly and more serious but yeah that's the basic jist of what happened. :p
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Really, that is one of those "Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows." The ex-manager that fucked you all on the cost to line his pockets, or the owner of the business that didn't know enough about the supply side of his company to say "Hmmm, I think this might be a little to much, let's shop this price."

To be fair though, it's a common affliction it seems. I don't know what it is, but a the further someone gets from the production level, the less in touch they are with the actual costs of doing business.
 
I think a good part of it is you can't become friends with your staff, because some people use that to take advantage.

From what I saw of the situation, the purchasing dood really didn't know machine-shop operations to begin with, because he was buying the wrong sorts of drill-bits and the wrong grades of carbide for the lathes. He was covering his lack of knowing with fishing stories and trips to the pub with the owner and stuff like that. Even if he wasn't getting a kick-back there is no reason whatsoever to pay $220 for a stock-size endmill for rough-cutting. That right there should have tripped some alarm bells as the owner really is a tradesman at heart, he runs machines with the rest of us.

Once I made it clear to the owner that I could find better quality cutting tools for a lower price it snowballed, I ended up organizing the purchase of a 140 ton press-brake and two additional CNC mills on the cheap, and I totally reorg'd the way we keep track of all our bits and inserts.

Think "passcard vending machine." :) You swipe your card, input your job code and select a bit, and the vending machine sends me a notice when we start using "too many" on a given job or run low.

This isn't what I envisioned doing, I'm more of a button-pushing moron by trade, but apparently I have a knack for this sort of thing. *shurg*
 
Plecostomus said:
I think a good part of it is you can't become friends with your staff, because some people use that to take advantage.
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That has to be the #1 shitty truism of leadership / management. Familiarity does indeed breed contempt. Doesnt mean you cant be friendly with your staff, but rare is the leader / manager and subordinate/ employee friendship that works out well in the end.
 
FrontLine said:
Plecostomus said:
I think a good part of it is you can't become friends with your staff, because some people use that to take advantage.
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That has to be the #1 shitty truism of leadership / management. Familiarity does indeed breed contempt. Doesnt mean you cant be friendly with your staff, but rare is the leader / manager and subordinate/ employee friendship that works out well in the end.
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I don't go to work to be social. I have 16 hours out of a 24 hour day to do that kind of thing.

That said I am nice/polite/helpful to my co-workers but the PRIMARY reason I'm there is to practice my trade in exchange for money... and lately my job has become sit in front of the internet and buy quantities of stuff. :p
 
How does one pronounce "ZOMG?"

I'm thinking "Zomigod," but I've never actually said it out loud.
 
Y'know, I don't even pronounce ZOMG. BUt when I say it in my head, it's not zomigod or whatever. It's ZOMG ;)

Bad things happen when someone works his or her way tp the top by being best friends with the boss. Had that in the shop I used to work in, there was this girl who was really nuts. She'd sit in the office and color in drawings. Oh, and eat, ofcourse. Glad I'm not working there anymore >_<
 
BorgMan said:
Y'know, I don't even pronounce ZOMG. BUt when I say it in my head, it's not zomigod or whatever. It's ZOMG ;)

Bad things happen when someone works his or her way tp the top by being best friends with the boss. Had that in the shop I used to work in, there was this girl who was really nuts. She'd sit in the office and color in drawings. Oh, and eat, ofcourse. Glad I'm not working there anymore >_<
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Yeah because you know them girls who eat food are CRAZY MAN!!! :eek:
 
I always read it in my head as ZO-M-G. Perhaps it's because my daughter's name is Zoey. About a billion different affectionate variations of Zoey fly through my head on any given day.
 
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