"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 02/24/2020 at 17:01 • Filed to: shitposting, worklopnik

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It appears we have ordered hundreds of dollars of something that we don’t need because I made a typo, and nobody else checks this stuff for consistency/sanity, ever. WHEEE.

Most likely returnable, but FFS.

CTSenVy > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/24/2020 at 17:20

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When I was in college I worked part time at a grocery store on the weekends and during the time off of school. When I was working during the week I usually had to order the Milk and OJ products from a local(ish) dairy. I marked down 8 cases of the gallon OJ but then decided it should actually be 10 so I crossed of the 8 and put  down the 10. Unfortunately for me after being sent through a fax machine the dairy saw it as 810 cases of gallon jugs of OJ. 4 gallons per a case.... I put them on sale as 2/3 rds off and got them all sold long before the expiration date but man the delivery guy and manager over that department freaked out.

Boxer_4 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/24/2020 at 17:24

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This was over 20 years ago now but it’s a relevant story;

A good friend of mine’s dad worked in maintenance at a printing operation. He was tasked with ordering some penetrating fluid to restock as they went through it quickly enough. F igured 25 cans  was a good number that should last the a while. He filled out the order form and faxed it in. A f ew weeks later, a large delivery arrived for him on the loading dock. He wasn’t expecting any packages that large. It turns out the penetrating fluid was sold by the case, not the can... there were 20 cans in a case...

That printing operation closed a few years later. He snagged ~10 of those cases at the end. My friend and I still use that penetrating oil - it’s some generic brand but works really well. With 9 cases still remaining I’m doubtful my friend will need to buy any penetrating oil for quite a while.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/24/2020 at 17:36

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I ordered one 75 foot roll of 1/2" wide green garden tie off string, and got.... 15 rolls. WTF am I gonna do with 1125 feet of that shit?

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/24/2020 at 17:40

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When I was a junior engineer we spent $30000 (1990s dollars) on a  stamping tool which made a part the mirror image of what we actually needed, because I made a minor drawing fuckup and nobody checked the drawing.

A few years later when I left, they gave me a gold plated sample of a part off that tool as a leaving present. I still have it.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/24/2020 at 17:42

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Better than hundreds of thousands of dollars of stuff.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 02/24/2020 at 17:52

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Yeah, it’s just not a good idea to have one person, one line of examination. I end up picking up errors *after* throwing a drawing to pdf just because I’ve got bad enough tunnel vision I needed to “see it with new eyes” and that was enough - sure the buck stops here, but multiple people supposedly held this buck...

AestheticsInMotion > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 02/24/2020 at 17:52

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Now that is hilarious. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 02/24/2020 at 17:53

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This is *merely* ordering excess threaded rod, and no custom cuts or anything . Whew.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/24/2020 at 17:55

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This was a transcription error for 90 feet total of threaded rod in 1' increments, becoming 90'x10'. We legitimately meant to order the 460' of 5/8", but the 3/8", 900'... not so much.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/25/2020 at 03:35

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And this is why peer review is a (supposedly) mandatory part of any engineering process: you can’t proofread your own work. Problem is a lot of the time the peer can’t  (be bothered to) either.