OT/ Pet peaves

[Tony]

I hate it when People are always touching my

Screen/Monitor, I need a windsheild wiper

Washer installed...of course you know out in

the shop I can't say anything or Everything

Will be Blued up one day

[Nominal]

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of course you know out in

the shop I can't say anything or Everything

Will be Blued up one day

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When you get to be my age and have the years in this business that I do, you figure out how to destroy your enemies ( either real or perceived )before they can harm you. But of course rule #1 is cover your a$$ at all times. One method to solve your fingerprint dilemma is to find the most expensive screen cleaner on the planet, and keep asking to be resupplied every few weeks. When they ask whats going on, tell them you can't keep your screen clean cause everybody is putting their fingers on it.

[Toolfab]

LOL Thank gosh I am not the only one. Or how 'bout when someone switches witch side of your keyboard your mouse is in. Or even worse when someone adjusts your chair height...

 

I hate that! LOL

[chris m]

What are you saying? You don't like it when people put a big greasy print on the monitor saying "the place I have the problem is right HERE (jab with the finger).." ?

 

I can't stand it when my operators come in and ask a question about something when the answer is right in their paperwork, which they don't bring with them:

 

Them: "Which vise is supposed to be on my machine for that new job I'm working on?"

 

Me: "What job is that?"

 

Them: "That new one"

 

Me: "What's the part number?"

 

Them: (blank stare)

 

Me: "Who's the customer?"

 

Them: (blank stare)

 

We then proceed to the bench where they left their paperwork, to which I point and say

 

Me: "What does that say?"

 

Them: "Kurt D688, center of table"

 

Me: (making the "Duh!?!" gesture) "So what's the question?"

 

Them: "I didn't see that"

 

 

EVERY f-ing job with some of these people, it makes me crazy

[bryan314]

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I hate it when People are always touching my Screen/Monitor,

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Doh, I do that ( I try not to. Honest ) It drives my coworkers crazy. "I see Bryan's been at my desk again."

 

Adjusting my chair height. I work 2nd so my desk is community property on 1st. My chair is always messed with or missing. I think its pay back for the finger prints.

 

How about leaving partialy filed pop cans, coffee mugs at your desk. Mmmmmmmmmm mold and ants are your friend.

 

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Me: "What job is that?"

Them: "That new one"

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I get similar converstions but the operatiors usually bring in the paper work so I look it up on there.

 

I've had this one since a child. Mispelling my name. It's Bryan. B-R-Y-A-N not Brian, brain, brion, ... First times free. Second time I hunt you down.

 

[added by bryan 4/17/03]

I can't believe I forgot this one. It turns my stomach. The inability of people to flush and wash their hands. C'mon people our mommies taught us this when we where 2.

 

 

Bryan

 

[ 04-17-2003, 11:05 AM: Message edited by: bryan314 ]

[bryan314]

WhooHoo my hundredth post.

 

Bryan

[mold100]

I have some work pet peeves but this more than any I really could hurt someone for scraping their silverware on their teeth, I have relatives that I make eat with plastic forks when I have them over for dinner.

 

I also hate when people look in the machine and at the controller when I know they dont have a clue about whats going on.They think you put the part in press a button and magic happens,I was the programmer & operator and would still get asked who programmed this or who made that?DUH.

The worse part is they were serious.

[jeff]

My biggest pet peeve is stupidity!

In a very close 2nd is people who drive 3 mph in the fast lane and will not get over!

AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

I need to break something!

[Trevor Bailey]

This is for the guys who run jobs over and over and over...... You tell the operator to save all offsets/changes back to computer after dialing in everything. The operator says, "Yeah, its done." I take this for face value of course. The next time rolls around for the job and HUH, WHAT DO YOU KNOW. THE @$#%^^%%@ &*()&*)(*)*&&!! OFFSETS AND CHANGES WERE NOT SAVED BACK TO THE COMPUTER!!!!!!!!! Then I end up going and redoing everything myself.

 

Here is another good one. How about during setups, your operator forgets to offset half the edgefinder and runs the job and then blames the program for being wrong. I really love that one.

 

Man, I could go on and on with this topic.

[chris m]

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OFFSETS AND CHANGES WERE NOT SAVED BACK TO THE COMPUTER!!!!!!!!! Then I end up going and redoing everything myself.

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Oh man, do I ever feel your pain on that one. Nothing like working the bugs out of a job and then finding out the operator didn't save the program back and the next time you have to remember what you did the last time and fix it again...and again...and again.

 

I also love the job that has run for 2 years and made 1000s of parts and the operator comes in and says "I'm getting chatter on the bore and no matter what I do it won't quit" to which I say "How the hell did we make 2,000 of these before with all the same tools, same program, same machine?" and all I get is "(shrug) I dunno"

 

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I also hate when people look in the machine and at the controller when I know they dont have a clue about whats going on

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That is a GREAT one! We have that a lot! The managers will stare in through the window and scowl, then look at the control, then look back into the machine, repeat, and walk away; what are they looking at?!?!?

 

I always get a kick out of it when someone from the front office gives a tour of the shop and stops in front of one of the machines and points inside and starts explaining something; I always wonder what they are saying. I imagine it goes like this:

 

"This is where we make some parts,...I think..."

 

I also really like it when the operator tells me what the machine is doing, like it figured out how to make the part by itself and just does it:

 

"What its doing now is roughing the top surface and the big pocket in the middle; then its going to finish the pocket floor and that boss on top..."

 

No sh*t, buddy; who do you think TOLD THE MACHINE WHAT TO DO?

 

Damn, this is a good topic

 

C

 

[ 04-17-2003, 12:28 PM: Message edited by: chris m ]

[Keith Graydon]

+1 on the screen thing

 

Engineers who have no knowledge of machining practices and conversely; Toolmakers who think that they're Mechanical engineers.

 

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always get a kick out of it when someone from the front office gives a tour of the shop

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VP's (we got 14, count 'em 14) BS'ing clients when they get the walk-thru of the shop. It makes you wonder how much BSing goes on in the world

 

 

-Keith

 

[ 04-17-2003, 12:32 PM: Message edited by: Keith L. Graydon ]

[G Caputo]

I especially like it when someone from the front comes out and tells you how to set up a part and cut it, when they have never made a part in there life. Or the salesman promising the customer the job in an unreasonable amount of time and then asking every 5 minutes..."How much longer?" There is an endless list to this topic....

[jeff]

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Or the salesman promising the customer the job in an unreasonable amount of time and then asking every 5 minutes..."How much longer?"

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I HATE THAT!!!!

[Kevin Herzog - Steeplechase Tool]

ONE OF MY PET PEEVES-

 

WHEN I MAKE A PROGRAM AND SUPPLY PAPERWORK, SOMEHOW FROM THE CAD/CAM ROOM TO THE MACHINING AREA- THE PAPERWORK GETS LOST!?!

 

ALSO, PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT SOMEONE USING CAPS... GET A LIFE PEOPLE!

[Scott Bond]

At my present shop the mouth breathers are blaring the same

(seven)Spanish opera songs that seam to have only three

words each. They really don't have words they just hold

the letter AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, or EEEEEEEEEEEEE,

as loud as they can for as long as they can day in and

day out .It echo's thru the shop on a dozen different junky

Radio's.

[chris m]

+1 on that, Scott

 

Not my present shop, but 2 shops ago we had dueling Latino radio stations all the time

 

AAAAAAAAAaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Brendan P]

Speaking of junkie radios....

I cant stand going out to the shop to help someone out and their music is blaring at 60,000

decibels!

I mean,what is wrong with these people?

Don't get me wrong,I love music (the good stuff)but for chr*$t sakes how the hell can they even think!

Then there is the newspapers in the bathroom....

Please..... Don't get me going!!

[cherokeechief79]

prussion blue!

the kind that stays wet!

[Jeremiah]

+1 finger prints on the screen.

 

My pet peave is that management says they are trying to save money. Planning quotes a part on their best guess of how to make it. They recieve a p.o. Their inital plan was to run the part on a fixture on a HMC. The job goes to engineering for the fixture design. The engineer comes and asks me how the fixture should be designed. For the first time, I see the part and holy crap, it can be done in a vice in 2 setups. The order is only for 10 parts and we'll probably never make it again. The engineer says, well I already have it (fixture) modeled. Now we are really saving money eh ? We are working with planning to get more programming input up front. After all we do decide how to make the parts.

 

Thanks for listening

Jeremiah

[chris m]

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We are working with planning to get more programming input up front

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Best of luck

 

C

[ScottyB]

Remember, we're a wood shop.

 

People, please get it through your head...It takes at least an hour to program, setup and run a part. So please don't bring a part that can be run in 3 minutes with a bandsaw and sander, unless you want to wait until it fits into the schedule.

Or even better, when that RUSH part is sitting on the loading dock for the next 3 days because it really wasn't that much of a rush afterall.

 

I'm going home now...40 minutes late...I hate that too.

 

ScottyB.

 

[ 04-17-2003, 05:41 PM: Message edited by: ScottyB ]

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

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I cant stand going out to the shop to help someone out and their music is blaring at 60,000 decibels!

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Hey, c'mon now, some of us need to drown out the voices.

[Steel Surgeon]

What about Smokers??? I never have and never will.

[TeccBoxx]

Well I am not out in the work field however the thing that pisses me off the most is when someone doesn't calculate the speeds and feeds before running a part and all of a sudden you hear that nasty noise. The next thing you see is the person putting the broken clogged up end mill back in the tool bin. I guess it is part of working in a college machine shop.

[skeetboy25]

amen, tazzer, amen