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Wow, 16 days off. Get back to normal life yesterday. Things are still FUBAR at Beaufort. Worse, it's inventory. Customers are calling me because no one will answer the phone at the office.
I woke up to an email chain today from CS. Customer is looking for parts for a 1999 motor car and gives us part numbers. First problems are the customer calls it a motor trolley and doesn't provide a model or serial number. Because the motor car was built in Canada, their part numbering sequence in 1999 was different than what is used now. One part number was recognizable, to me, as a Deutz number and wouldn't be much use. The other number, though, I punched into my document search and instantly came up with the manual. Apparently, I am the only one that knows how to do this. I give this info to CS along with the fact that this is a Canadian number and they'll need to check with Toronto for price and availability. Not a minute later, I get an email that that part is not listed in M3, our worse than useless inventory control program. Before I can respond with a profanity laced email telling them that I already told them what they needed to do and checking M3 wasn't it, Harold responds with a profanity laced email that I had already done the bulk of their jobs for them and to call Canada. ![]() BTW, if something isn't listed in M3, we've never stocked it. Therefore, the drones are supposed to go through Purchasing and check with France on price and availability. Not whine to the service staff that it isn't in M3. M3 replaced MAI, which had it's own problems. The bulk of the time, we used MAI just to locate what bin a part was in. Where I worked in my previous life, all parts were stocked in numerical order which made life so much easier. Tried to have this done here, but was told it wouldn't work. ![]()
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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#767 |
Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: De Soto, MO
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Priceless!
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Mooresville NC
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rethinking that retirement opt-out?
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#769 |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Elburn, IL
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Nah. I'm having fun. Besides, the worst that can happen is they fire me.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Eons ago, way back in 2017 and before, inventory was done the first week of the new year. There were maybe 12 of us counting, with Harold and I also helping out if mixed parts were found in a bin. We'd stay late, maybe to 6:30, 7:00. We'd get pizzas for lunch and maybe bring in dinner. Most of the time, we'd have this wrapped up by noon the second day.
2022. There are now upwards of fifty people doing counts. Counting started Monday morning. It is now Friday. They are not expected to be finished until next Monday at the earliest. ![]() I couldn't do anything this week because of inventory. Doesn't look like I'll get much done next week, either. So, I'll just sit on my butt at home and earn my higher rate of pay. ![]() In my previous life, we found it more efficient to tell people that would more than likely screw off during inventory to stay home. They wouldn't get paid but the absence would not count against them. Binks was much larger than GNA, yet we'd knock out inventory a lot faster without the dead wood around, usually in two to three days. Lunch would be brought in and if it was decided we needed to stay late, we got OT. The last few years at Binks, I was an auditor instead of doing counts. A lot cleaner work.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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#771 |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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Arrrgh.
I've been dealing with the dumbest fcukwit in CS since 7:30 this morning. What's worse is that AT&T is down locally, so I can't call him and tell him what a fcukwit he is. I'd have to use email and that leaves a record of me telling him what a fcukwit he is. ![]() And Beaufort still expects me to do half his job for him. .
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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#772 |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Elburn, IL
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And I let everyone in management know that I have no cell service and they still send me emails to give someone a call.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: De Soto, MO
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Hopefully. Dr. Tom's prescription: Watch lots of old-school westerns and war movies where manly men do the right thing. For an occasional diversion, you may also watch Petticoat Junction, Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman or other eye-candy shows.
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I don't control the remote at my place because I have little interest in TV. So I wouldn't get to see the old eye candy shows anyway. I do watch a lot of European crime dramas and Russian Sci-Fi on Netflix. There's some eye candy.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Here`s something I`m willing to bet none of you have ever seen ![]() Oh I forgot to mention as I don`t know how known the movie series is around the world but the movie is what kickstarted (pun intended) the Iron Sky Trilogy. If that says nothing then boy do I have a treat for you...
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#776 |
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So much for Denver and killer breakfast burritos next week. Beaufort struck again. Back in Jersey instead.
It’s looking like the nitwits in Production ‘forgot’ to put the bushings in the booms on the replacement loader out here. Effing wonderful. That’s going to be fun job. We had a ‘Teams’ meeting yesterday with Harold, Jean-Luc, myself, the new guy, and the production manager. PM is doing the CYA dance along with telling us about all the procedures we’ll need to do to get the parts shipped to us because we’ll need to pull the parts from a job in work. Jean-Luc, in a heavy French accent, said, and I quote, “Fuck you and your process. Pull those goddam parts and get them shipped to Matt. Today. If those bushings are missing, you are done here.” ![]() Wonder what we will find next week?
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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#777 |
Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: De Soto, MO
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Nice drama!
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#778 |
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It's Friday and my forehead is red from this weeks' faceplams.
The drones in production admitted they didn't install the bushings in the booms. I don't have a reason why. Ever the eternal optimist, Harold, said that the pins should come out easy without the bushings in place. Asshole. The parts that were requested to ship by AM Wednesday are supposed to ship today. Everyone involved in Beaufort knew which parts we needed but no one would act without a formal request from me. Even after I did the unnecessary for the unqualified, I was asked if I was sure about what was needed. I'm highly doubting that anyone is going to be held accountable for this latest cluster but my guys and myself are going to be the ones responsible to getting it fixed. BTW, I was reading through this poorly written account to find out when things started to go south. August 2017. Many promises made, every promise broken. O
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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This would make a great mini series because I can see there is no end to all this. lol
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: De Soto, MO
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Quote of the week.
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2021 Lifan Xpect--sold 2022 Lifan KPX 1972 Honda CT90--The Carrot 1969 Honda CT90--The Tomahto Cheesy is the WDK (workplace drama king). Now retired. Nope, back in the saddle. Climate: The Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A24fWmNA6lM How our government really works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjadCd0VRBw Question all authority.....think for yourself |
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