My double chuckle (Wednesday)

[Wanderer]

So, I'm at work, I test units for mass production in 1.5-2 years. (In short I see what you'll buy first. One unit makes me DROOL, but it'll cost $500 when it comes out)

So yesterday had one unit stop at 11:30 am (I work 2 pm-10:30 pm) and so they told me what happened. I then work the others and then an engineer comes to see the unit. I then ask one of the day shift techs to deal with the engineer due to his knowing more of who, what and when the incident occurred.

Well! Our engineer then jumped on me saying "This is NOT your tech, you get the ones on your shift!" I then explained why I asked him. the response "Oh I see, OK, I see, OK, I see" So that was our exchange.

Later my tech then says "Where did you put the test stuff?" I reply "You took it,  you had them last" then it was back and forth and he refused to believe me. So then he went to another area and found them...."I guess they somehow found their way to that area" was all he'd say.

In both of these incidents, an apology is called for (Obviously) but get one? No, I didn't. Now what do I think?

#1 Job is SUPER easy
#2 I don't worry about my paycheck
#3 I have VERY nice benefits
#4 I have a great shift hours and get 40 hours a week.
#5 I kind of like my tech, he can get grumpy (Like me) but I am getting a thicker skin
#6 (Most important) I don't let little things bother me, my future is looking good. Why cry over this?
#7 Smile, the weekend is coming!

 

[rvpopeye]

Well , that sounds like quite the job!
Have fun....
I'm going to go look at my atlas now !

 

[BradKW]

I musta missed what type of equipment it is you're testing?

 

[Txjaybird]

So, I'm at work, I test units for mass production in 1.5-2 years. (In short I see what you'll buy first. One unit makes me DROOL, but it'll cost $500 when it comes out)

So yesterday had one unit stop at 11:30 am (I work 2 pm-10:30 pm) and so they told me what happened. I then work the others and then an engineer comes to see the unit. I then ask one of the day shift techs to deal with the engineer due to his knowing more of who, what and when the incident occurred.

Well! Our engineer then jumped on me saying "This is NOT your tech, you get the ones on your shift!" I then explained why I asked him. the response "Oh I see, OK, I see, OK, I see" So that was our exchange.

Later my tech then says "Where did you put the test stuff?" I reply "You took it,  you had them last" then it was back and forth and he refused to believe me. So then he went to another area and found them...."I guess they somehow found their way to that area" was all he'd say.

In both of these incidents, an apology is called for (Obviously) but get one? No, I didn't. Now what do I think?

#1 Job is SUPER easy
#2 I don't worry about my paycheck
#3 I have VERY nice benefits
#4 I have a great shift hours and get 40 hours a week.
#5 I kind of like my tech, he can get grumpy (Like me) but I am getting a thicker skin
#6 (Most important) I don't let little things bother me, my future is looking good. Why cry over this?
#7 Smile, the weekend is coming!

Howdy.........Queenie and I would like to know a unit of what?   If you need to work that job does't sound too bad......there are always  problems and glitches at any type of job...sounds like you're good at rolling with the flow....      ....you could try having a conversation with your self out loud at times as i do often like......"why thank you i'll be sure and come back again" or  " that's o.k. I don't mind standing in line to order while you chat with your co-workers....or...."I know you can't help being a horse's butt so i accept your apology"  of course i can't be fired or reprimanded... i usauly get my point across.  
 HANG IN THERE IT"S ALMOST FRIDAY"             and past 5o'clock lottsa places   TJB & the Queen

 

[nobodyG17]

Sounds like an interesting job.

 

[SoulRaven]

Wanderer,

I think you answered all of your own questions...

Some of my best friends can also be grumps occasionally. Still others seem to think that apologizing is somehow beneath them, and still others will fight to the death to prove they are ALWAYS right, even though it is obvious they are wrong.

It's just life, and we all have to live the good and the bad. If the good outweighs the bad,, then we should consider ourselves fortunate.

I usually try to kill them with kindness, and this usually diffuses a situation before it becomes a situation. If all else fails, we can agree to disagree.

A good friend once taught me that if your expectations are low enough, you will never be disappointed.

 

[highdesertranger]

sounds like a night shift vs. day shift thing. in my younger days I worked at a computer printer factory. can you believe printers built in the USA. well I started out in assembly during the day. one day they asked me if I would be willing to work a night shift as a test tech, they would train me. I would get 2 pay raises 1 for being a tech the other for working nights. I said sure. well when I got down the line to the tech area for my training(this was during the day shift) it was a cluster f*ck. it was a big log jam, they had like 20 techs, the testing took about 4 hrs on the day shift and the had a log jam(back up) of printers. they were not making their production quotas. this is why they were adding a night shift.
well after my training I went to the night shift there where 6 of us in testing. the building was empty except for our crew and a supervisor. well it didn't take us long to realize we could run several machines at once. I could run up to 10 printers at a time and cut the time to test down to a couple hours. it too us a couple of months to move the log jam down the line to QC. we overwhelmed QC they would come in in the morning with printers backed up the line as far as they could see.
well guess what again they came to me and asked if I wanted to move to QC I said sure, another raise. again it took about a month and we caught up. the night shift was turning out hundreds of printers a shift.
so the night shift with a skeleton crew of testers and QC people could do the more work then of hundreds of people during the day. this brought out the worst of the day crew they tried all kinds of office politics to discredit us. tried to make our job harder every way they could. this sounds like what's happening to you. sorry it took a long story to get there.
end of the story, they called a company meeting one day and told us they were moving production to Asia. highdesertranger

 

[SoulRaven]

Kudo's to you HDR!

It is amazing the difference that a single individual can make when they put their efforts into it.

 

[Wanderer]

I musta missed what type of equipment it is you're testing?

Printers...HP Printers.

Just like HDR 10 at a time...One (The one I'm drooling about) is going to be a "Travel" printer. Small compact and full color capable...But battery operated.'


That's why $500

 

[Reducto]

I used to test software. My first job was wonderful - great people all working together to build something that hadn't existed before. Anyone could bring in an idea and be listened to.

That job went away, so I started working on a very old (20+ year old software) product. I'd find bugs, the lead engineer would close them, saying they were going to leave them in and try to get the client to pay to fix them after the release. Once my manager handed me something a client paid for and asked me how long it would take to test. I told her 15 minutes. She told me to spend the whole day on it. It's like 5 lines of code I said, no way it will take me that long. The contract called for up to 2 days of engineering and 1 day of testing, so that's what we were going to do. It probably took the engineer 5 minutes to write. I spent the day surfing the web. The client was a government agency, so that was tax payer money.

I left that for another startup, hoping it would be like the first. It was nearing the end, though - everyone was burned out because they'd been told the company would sell within a year and they'd get their payday, but it was over 2 years in. The whole culture was blame based. My manager would tell me to do something one way, then someone would yell at him because they didn't like it that way, so he would tell them I went rogue and then he'd yell at me for following instructions. Other testing tasks were completely ignored because if it went bad someone else would get blamed for it.

Occasionally I consider going back into that world because the money is good but I'm a little wary.