ironchop
06-12-2015, 12:00 PM
So since Ive been on 70+hour weeks for three weeks now, I have had no time to do anything to my trikes.
TRistans needs jetted....no big deal, its very close anyway
My trike has no rearend at all on it, forks half off, parts that still haven't arrived, tools got borrowed and not returned, son is busy getting laid and not helping at all, have NOTHING packed or even herded into the loading dock, all gas cans empty, son spent his trip money (probably on chicks), half my wiring harness is missing and the rest isn`t connected anywhere, battery box not installed or wired. I could go on and on and on.
So now I have to run by the bank by 5 so need to leave work at four. SO in walks owner and tells us there`s and emergency job that takes a lathe op and then a mill op and that he wants it tomorrow morning so we would have to work late to get it done. He doesn`t tell anyone else. Just myself and my buddy. Why? because we are always the two that come thru I guess. He says either stay late tonight or work tomorrow. I can`t work tomorrow. I have to spend ALL WEEKEND in the shop in order to get all this back together and running good by NEXT SUNDAY when we leave. Now in the machining and fabricating world "emergency job" really means "I fancy myself and my job more important than even Jesus" "I, like many ebay users and most Millenials, EXPECT immediate and instant service such as I receive at the drive thru window of Wendy`s, my pharmacy, and the liquor store where my laziness is rewarded by having someone bring my booze to me so that I`m not inconvenienced by having to exit my car and actually LOOK for the product myself".....I`m not surprised how we are a nation of fat asses considering how very little a lot of people are willing to do to help themselves.
Its always the same crybaby story about how if he can`t get a four hour turn around time, his business will absolutely fold up after five hours and that they are "losing a half million dollars every hour" which is another common lie told by customers. When I started machining in 1989, you had a 4-6 week lead time. Same as ordering something through the mail..."allow 4-6 weeks for delivery"you were lucky if you got the parts machined by six weeks. Nowadays, people cry, snivel, manipulate, and lie until they are catered to. Today, I have to find a way to cut these "emergency" throttle plates for Quick Fuel because drag race mechanics with terrible time-management skills deserve 24 hr turnaround, got an emergency water treatment facility part, a metric crap ton of chicken hooks for Perdue needed "right now" and lord knows what else. Fridays are usually very bad days here because there is ALWAYS one or two "special little snowflakes" whom think that since they got participation trophies in elementary school, they deserve the same considerations one would give an ambulance on a two-lane highway where everyone gets over and lets them to the front of the line. The REALY messed up part is meeting the deadline only to visit the plant a few MONTHS later and see your "hot job" laying and gathering dust on a desk somewhere because they LIED about needing it so soon just so we would drop everyone else`s work and finish them so they would have an INVENTORY OF SPARES!!!!
Most big plants couldn`t effectively manage a taco Bell. Operating and Investment capital insures a steady stream of revenue so that these plants don`t have to be efficient or hire proficient employess or even train the ones who are not. They don`t care if cheap unskilled and incompetent labor is the reason all their equipment is torn up. Who needs to hire more qualified people when you can just spend EVEN MORE money having the local shop drop its entire customer list to fix what your "everybody is special and talented" Human Resource managers are responsible for by hiring every snowflake that can fill out an application both illegibly and incompletely. Don't know Engrish? That's OK, we will read it to you because your are special and deserve everyone`s support and consideration despite your open refusal to LEARN ANYTHING yourself to accommodate the needs of your employer....because Utopian Ideology.
this is common practice among customers these days.....claim it`s an emergency so you can get your stuff moved to the front nd get it back faster even though you don`t actually need it, you`re just a liar.....like the cat who had me machine and weld a set of crazy wheels for his zero turn mower. He claimed he was "going to lose a bunch of contracts if I can`t get them today" (it was Friday @ noon) so we talked him into getting them Saturday morning as we were piled up with "hot" jobs. I came in on a Saturday while my wife was decorating for my son`s bday party to get this jackwad his stupid lawn mower wheels so he could "continue to feed my family" (at the expense of mine apparently)....got done with them at 11am from 5am.....all four sets.
He never came back to pick them up.....for 8 months.....despite the fact that he was obviously "losing contracts" and "can`t feed my family"
We called numerous times with no answer until we threatened to throw his parts out for scrap if he didn't come back and pay us and pick them up. He finally showed up and was miffed we bothered him like that. In his Reality, as in the case of so many others, nothing and nobody takes precedent over yet another Johnny-come-lately "landscaping" ("yard mowing and weedeating") company and it`s meth addicted or undocumented employees.
Now, my wife insisists I need to mow the yard this weekend and next so it doesn't get all grown up while we are away.....it takes two and a half hours to mow my big ass yard.....there goes five hours of trike working time I can`t get back. That's ok whatever I can do so that my sweet baby can sit inside in the AC and read the latest passive-aggressive ramblings of preteen and post teen females in ALL social media, reading creative and outright stupid memes on Facebook, or lookup ten ways to recycle a tampon applicator on Pinterest.
between these two separate entitities, I`m gonna end up blowing up and actin a fool and someone`s getting hurt feelings and it wont be me.
Perhaps I should lock myself in the garage, not show up for work, burn one, and STFU until I get it all done....MARATHON STYLE!
rant over.
Im gonna be there sometime that week even if the only ride I finished was an inner tube to got floating with.
TRistans needs jetted....no big deal, its very close anyway
My trike has no rearend at all on it, forks half off, parts that still haven't arrived, tools got borrowed and not returned, son is busy getting laid and not helping at all, have NOTHING packed or even herded into the loading dock, all gas cans empty, son spent his trip money (probably on chicks), half my wiring harness is missing and the rest isn`t connected anywhere, battery box not installed or wired. I could go on and on and on.
So now I have to run by the bank by 5 so need to leave work at four. SO in walks owner and tells us there`s and emergency job that takes a lathe op and then a mill op and that he wants it tomorrow morning so we would have to work late to get it done. He doesn`t tell anyone else. Just myself and my buddy. Why? because we are always the two that come thru I guess. He says either stay late tonight or work tomorrow. I can`t work tomorrow. I have to spend ALL WEEKEND in the shop in order to get all this back together and running good by NEXT SUNDAY when we leave. Now in the machining and fabricating world "emergency job" really means "I fancy myself and my job more important than even Jesus" "I, like many ebay users and most Millenials, EXPECT immediate and instant service such as I receive at the drive thru window of Wendy`s, my pharmacy, and the liquor store where my laziness is rewarded by having someone bring my booze to me so that I`m not inconvenienced by having to exit my car and actually LOOK for the product myself".....I`m not surprised how we are a nation of fat asses considering how very little a lot of people are willing to do to help themselves.
Its always the same crybaby story about how if he can`t get a four hour turn around time, his business will absolutely fold up after five hours and that they are "losing a half million dollars every hour" which is another common lie told by customers. When I started machining in 1989, you had a 4-6 week lead time. Same as ordering something through the mail..."allow 4-6 weeks for delivery"you were lucky if you got the parts machined by six weeks. Nowadays, people cry, snivel, manipulate, and lie until they are catered to. Today, I have to find a way to cut these "emergency" throttle plates for Quick Fuel because drag race mechanics with terrible time-management skills deserve 24 hr turnaround, got an emergency water treatment facility part, a metric crap ton of chicken hooks for Perdue needed "right now" and lord knows what else. Fridays are usually very bad days here because there is ALWAYS one or two "special little snowflakes" whom think that since they got participation trophies in elementary school, they deserve the same considerations one would give an ambulance on a two-lane highway where everyone gets over and lets them to the front of the line. The REALY messed up part is meeting the deadline only to visit the plant a few MONTHS later and see your "hot job" laying and gathering dust on a desk somewhere because they LIED about needing it so soon just so we would drop everyone else`s work and finish them so they would have an INVENTORY OF SPARES!!!!
Most big plants couldn`t effectively manage a taco Bell. Operating and Investment capital insures a steady stream of revenue so that these plants don`t have to be efficient or hire proficient employess or even train the ones who are not. They don`t care if cheap unskilled and incompetent labor is the reason all their equipment is torn up. Who needs to hire more qualified people when you can just spend EVEN MORE money having the local shop drop its entire customer list to fix what your "everybody is special and talented" Human Resource managers are responsible for by hiring every snowflake that can fill out an application both illegibly and incompletely. Don't know Engrish? That's OK, we will read it to you because your are special and deserve everyone`s support and consideration despite your open refusal to LEARN ANYTHING yourself to accommodate the needs of your employer....because Utopian Ideology.
this is common practice among customers these days.....claim it`s an emergency so you can get your stuff moved to the front nd get it back faster even though you don`t actually need it, you`re just a liar.....like the cat who had me machine and weld a set of crazy wheels for his zero turn mower. He claimed he was "going to lose a bunch of contracts if I can`t get them today" (it was Friday @ noon) so we talked him into getting them Saturday morning as we were piled up with "hot" jobs. I came in on a Saturday while my wife was decorating for my son`s bday party to get this jackwad his stupid lawn mower wheels so he could "continue to feed my family" (at the expense of mine apparently)....got done with them at 11am from 5am.....all four sets.
He never came back to pick them up.....for 8 months.....despite the fact that he was obviously "losing contracts" and "can`t feed my family"
We called numerous times with no answer until we threatened to throw his parts out for scrap if he didn't come back and pay us and pick them up. He finally showed up and was miffed we bothered him like that. In his Reality, as in the case of so many others, nothing and nobody takes precedent over yet another Johnny-come-lately "landscaping" ("yard mowing and weedeating") company and it`s meth addicted or undocumented employees.
Now, my wife insisists I need to mow the yard this weekend and next so it doesn't get all grown up while we are away.....it takes two and a half hours to mow my big ass yard.....there goes five hours of trike working time I can`t get back. That's ok whatever I can do so that my sweet baby can sit inside in the AC and read the latest passive-aggressive ramblings of preteen and post teen females in ALL social media, reading creative and outright stupid memes on Facebook, or lookup ten ways to recycle a tampon applicator on Pinterest.
between these two separate entitities, I`m gonna end up blowing up and actin a fool and someone`s getting hurt feelings and it wont be me.
Perhaps I should lock myself in the garage, not show up for work, burn one, and STFU until I get it all done....MARATHON STYLE!
rant over.
Im gonna be there sometime that week even if the only ride I finished was an inner tube to got floating with.