last day of work (updated coz i learnt step 1 of more efficiency before taking the rest of the day off coz fuckit)

"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe) 03/01/2019 at 09:10 • Filed to: None

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bye bessie you’ll be someone elses problem now

little annoyed i wont be there next week.. i love a good clusterfuck

and this one will be epic

after months of planning next week managements fancy new more efficient way of working goes in to effect

it involves placing nearly everyone on the floor on new jobs (mostly on jobs they either specifically asked not to be put on or ones they’ve never done before)

and it will be largely unsupervised as all the team leads got replaced.

cept their replacements just got pushed back by another month coz 2 days ago management learnt that all the newbies picked to lead need to be trained coz they know nothing

months of planning and all they achieved was a new roster (wich they are pushing through leadership be damned)

*sigh* so much fun ill be missing out on

*update* to increase efficiency and have more of the workday spent actually working management have decided that starting monday we will no longer be taking 15-30 minutes at shift start/end for a shift turnover (you know.. that thing aircraft techs do to make sure no stupid mistakes get made)

instead of taking the time to tell your replacement whats done/what needs doing and whats being wierd today every work station will have a log book wich you are to use to write down anything you think the next guy will need to know

this is going to be awesome!

(hell i cant even read half the guys handwriting)

WilliamsSW > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/28/2019 at 23:14

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Ah - I figured it out. The management there isn’t a bunch of idiots - they’re actually anarchists!

Or saboteurs.

Or, more likely, they’re idiot sabotaging anarchists.  

Spanfeller is a twat > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/28/2019 at 23:16

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Managment sounds inept. I can't quite understand if you became unemployed or not (from past posts I've sort of realized that they need you on a seasonal basis?) But still I hope you find a better place to work...

ttyymmnn > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/28/2019 at 23:22

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Without too many specifics, what sort of operation is this?

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 02/28/2019 at 23:26

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Mickey Mouse from what I can tell.

Chariotoflove > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/28/2019 at 23:39

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Starred for the Bright reference.

Onward and upward, my friend!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/28/2019 at 23:49

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You can only be raised to your level of incompetence, managements moto.

PS9 > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/01/2019 at 00:32

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That sounds like a bad idea. What if a r eally incompetent person got into a position of global power and authority? We'd all be fugged if that happened!

Svend > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/01/2019 at 01:07

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I hope you find something else very soon mate.

Management are inept in most places at the best of times. 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Spanfeller is a twat 03/01/2019 at 01:41

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Cheers mate

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ttyymmnn 03/01/2019 at 01:45

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Management’s interpretation of lean/6 sigma

It makes sense to them

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Svend 03/01/2019 at 01:46

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Cheers mate

Off to find greener pastures 

Svend > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/01/2019 at 04:41

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From the sounds of it, even astroturf would be better than that place. 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Svend 03/01/2019 at 04:49

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impressive innit?

ah well... ill see where we go come monday.. till then its the weekend and i dont feel like worrieing about it

also i took the rest of the day off coz i really cant be arsed to take my job seriously today

Svend > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/01/2019 at 05:40

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My place is just as bad or not worse in different ways.

Since the morale has plummeted, we’ve seen so many people leave.

Management say they can’t get new staff because we are over contracted, but also say in the next breathe, we are short on staff every single night.

The other week they said they are recruiting for two new chilled nightshift staff. We thought, yay, finally you dumb f**ks. Then we found out the recruitment was internal. Doh. All departments are losing staff, so we are short everywhere going to replace the staff by taking them from other departments that are ALREADY SHORT STAFFED!!!!!

Rant over, and breathe. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/01/2019 at 05:49

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did you get email/phone numbers of colleagues to keep in contact so you can hear how much of a clusterfuck it becomes?

shop-teacher > WilliamsSW 03/01/2019 at 06:25

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I dunno, Mickey is  very efficient at removing money from people’s wallets.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/01/2019 at 08:14

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ill be in touch with a couple that i actually like... and a lot of the others live local enough that i’ll probably bump in to someone sooner or later

WilliamsSW > shop-teacher 03/01/2019 at 09:32

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That seems to be what this management team is doing, too!

someassemblyrequired > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/01/2019 at 09:39

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I learned a long time ago that management often creates crises to justify their own jobs.  Sounds like the situation here.

Good luck with the search!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > someassemblyrequired 03/01/2019 at 09:42

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cheers mate we’ll see how we go :)

a lot of this situation is because management wont admit that maybe their idea is stupid and are going to keep pushing it through till they find a way to blame it all on the techs....

someassemblyrequired > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/01/2019 at 09:48

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You’ll be fine - good techs are like gold.

I always found a huge difference between people in management that had worked in front line jobs. Twenty-somethings with a fresh MBA don’t know $%$# about @#$$, they just think they do . Somebody that’s worked front-line customer service, or turned a wrench to get where they are is always the best manager.  

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > someassemblyrequired 03/01/2019 at 09:54

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funnilly enough about 80% of management was 20somes and the rest are nearing retirement and have grown roots at the their desks

i dont think any of them ever worked the floor (even the engineers havent..but at least they know what they’re doing... tho.. they do tend to get carried away with engineering for the sake of engineering... added complexity for the win woohoo!)

anyhoo.. cheers again

heres to brand new challenges :)

EngineerWithTools > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/01/2019 at 10:05

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This type of thing drives me bonkers.

Fundamentally l ean and 6 s igma are tools that help institutionalize (and add some - sometimes fake - math to) common sense and good intuition. Even though I role my eyes at consultants, summits and seminars, the ideas are sound.

BUT... too often executives use them as a way to implement their own agendas. They’re then shocked when things don’t work, and their stink of failure makes it harder for sincere workers and managers to truly go lean and implement a solid quality system .

Funny anecdote: After a lot of analysis, a place I used to work increased the shift overlap (fabrication and assembly work), and provided a script of things that should be discussed between the two shifts. The “lost” time at the overlap was more than made up by a reduction in mistakes, rework and rejects.

shop-teacher > WilliamsSW 03/01/2019 at 10:08

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*rimshot*

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > EngineerWithTools 03/01/2019 at 10:17

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yeah that overlap saved lots of time but management currently sees it as a bunch of paid techs standing around yapping when they should be working so it will be gone as of next week

welp.. not my problem anymore :)

Kiltedpadre > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/01/2019 at 10:40

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I worked somewhere that we were legally required to keep a log of everything that happened during the shift. It was nice to have but by no means actually enough to get a feel of everything that was going on. Especially since one guy’s idea of an entry was “performed all tasks and sampling as required by my position; answered calls that came in.”

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Kiltedpadre 03/01/2019 at 10:43

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yeah... i fully expect some of the guys to leave entries like worked for 8 hours no problems

regardless of wether they had problems or not at that

nerd_racing > Chariotoflove 03/01/2019 at 11:56

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I really enjoyed Bright. The Bastille song montage where will smith blew away the crooked cops was a little weird and somewhat funny, but I liked it.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/01/2019 at 12:06

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Putting it in writing is good.

Of course, now it will take 30 minutes to write it all down. (Hint hint.)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 03/01/2019 at 12:08

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hahaha most likely

but knowing the guys... half the writing will be stuff like worked 8 hours no problems good luck

at least one of them doesnt know the language well enough to leave notes people would understand

Chariotoflove > nerd_racing 03/01/2019 at 12:43

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I enjoyed it too.  I thought it left a bit on the table and could have been better plot-wise, but I liked the acting.

pip bip - choose Corrour > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 03/02/2019 at 05:17

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leave it in some inreadable scrawl