"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Not really related, just a 'working with your hands' story. I work second shift for a global corporation, doing QC in a machine shop. They have a bunch of machine shops all over the world. The corporate bureaucrats have been getting more and more power. It's getting out of hand. They told us we couldn't bring knives in, for instance. So silly. In a company with 30+ machinists, there're probably 40 pocket knives at any given time. Most of us have had a pocket knife for most of our lives. They have 20+ cnc mills, 8 or so cnc lathes, a couple manual mills and a couple manual lathes. Some manual mill guy in some crappy country did something stupid so they said, "No manual mills!" The manual lathe guy retired and they hadn't replaced him. So after a few weeks of the poor manual mill guy using a CNC mill, which he hated, they let him go back to his mill but built a cage around the mill. Utterly stupid. He thought it was funny. I always asked him if he'd killed anybody today but the cage saved them apparently. When someone would talk to him, if I was walking by, I'd say, "Visiting hours are over!" The other night I made a sign and put it up on his cage OPUS MANUUM ARTIFICIS North American Manual Mill Worker In His Natural Habitat Watch for him making chips Listen for thim cussing his machine DO NOT FEED
The folks on the floor think it's hilarious, it's still there. I expect to be called in to the Safety Supervisors office by Monday. It's gonna be hard to pretend contrition while I'm laughing.
You should have noted that he’s a member of an endangered species, Veeshir. That would drive the bean counters nuts.
Whole lotta brass in that toaster. Today it’s plastic. Such a pity we don’t have pretty things like that anymore. Although I’m not ecstatic about the wiring.
The GM thought it was funny so he took a picture of it and sent it to the N.A VP in charge of lots of stuff. I'm not sure if I'm happy about that. The more it gets traded around a corporation the more likely someone, somewhere is gonna be OUTRAGED!!!!!!.
Not really related, just a 'working with your hands' story.
ReplyDeleteI work second shift for a global corporation, doing QC in a machine shop. They have a bunch of machine shops all over the world.
The corporate bureaucrats have been getting more and more power. It's getting out of hand. They told us we couldn't bring knives in, for instance. So silly. In a company with 30+ machinists, there're probably 40 pocket knives at any given time. Most of us have had a pocket knife for most of our lives.
They have 20+ cnc mills, 8 or so cnc lathes, a couple manual mills and a couple manual lathes.
Some manual mill guy in some crappy country did something stupid so they said, "No manual mills!" The manual lathe guy retired and they hadn't replaced him.
So after a few weeks of the poor manual mill guy using a CNC mill, which he hated, they let him go back to his mill but built a cage around the mill. Utterly stupid.
He thought it was funny. I always asked him if he'd killed anybody today but the cage saved them apparently. When someone would talk to him, if I was walking by, I'd say, "Visiting hours are over!"
The other night I made a sign and put it up on his cage
OPUS MANUUM ARTIFICIS
North American Manual Mill Worker
In His Natural Habitat
Watch for him making chips
Listen for thim cussing his machine
DO NOT FEED
The folks on the floor think it's hilarious, it's still there.
I expect to be called in to the Safety Supervisors office by Monday.
It's gonna be hard to pretend contrition while I'm laughing.
"Comrade Veeshir, how dare you treat out our cowardly defense of irrationality with such flippancy!"
ReplyDeleteYou should have noted that he’s a member of an endangered species, Veeshir. That would drive the bean counters nuts.
ReplyDeleteWhole lotta brass in that toaster. Today it’s plastic. Such a pity we don’t have pretty things like that anymore. Although I’m not ecstatic about the wiring.
JeffS, yeah, that woulda been good.
ReplyDeleteThe GM thought it was funny so he took a picture of it and sent it to the N.A VP in charge of lots of stuff.
I'm not sure if I'm happy about that. The more it gets traded around a corporation the more likely someone, somewhere is gonna be OUTRAGED!!!!!!.