"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
12/14/2018 at 00:56 • Filed to: None
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"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
12/14/2018 at 00:56 • Filed to: None | 0
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W hen I got home, I needed to move my car for street sweeping and the battery was dead. After a couple hours charging, it wouldn’t start so I adjusted the cables and poof, started within a half hour. I guess I had poor contact with the posts since I did it in the dark.
While I was waiting, exhausted-Nick spent some time wrapping up cables on the Exocet. Found a connector that I should have stripped out, but not a huge deal. I’ll hide it away for now.
Earlier in the day, a public relations “not quite worst but also really bad” thing happened. It’s not fully cleaned up yet but an important partner is pissed with us for a mistake a journalist made with information from our CEO. Doh. I really care about the quality of my team’s work but the amazing PR
guy who works
for me learned a bit about “
slowing down in order to speed up” in our business
. We work in an industry where people will pick apart every detail.
I still can’t quite get over the fact that the company gave me an IOU instead of a raise (delayed raise to next August + $50k+ bonus next August to cover missed wages between now and then ). I love what I do and I love my team, but it’s time to start looking for something new. The Benjamin Franklin quote keeps coming to mind:
“Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend, and thou will lose him. “
The analogy isn’t quite perfect, but close enough.
farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> Nick Has an Exocet
12/14/2018 at 02:11 |
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sounds rough
since not getting sacked ive been on bessie the wondercow ancient spotwelding robot duty
now... i normally enjoy working on her.... but shes a right moody bitch this week... springing leaks, welding out of alignment, a hydraulic something or another hissing something fierce (im not allowed to touch that bit... not my field) and today when i thought i had her all fixed up (minus the hissy draulics) the lights telling me whats doing what stopped working...
still welds just fine.... just running without instuments...its.... not great
anyhoo... dis why i love bessie :p