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This Monday, it finally clicked with me that our plant manager is a completely clueless idiot. We won an order for a very large project where we are supplying ~600 valves. Over the past two weeks, I've spent about 50 hours coming up with a plan that will let us consume $165K of excess inventory in support of this project. $47K of the material is fully reserved (money set aside to scrap) and the cost for new standard parts would be $107K, so the net margin hit on the project is only $10.5K on a $10,000K order, and the benefit to the business is saving $107K by using materials we've paid for.
The Plant Manager kept wanting to go over the numbers, how they were pulled, what story they were telling. I had to explain it to him in at least 4 different ways, and could CLEARLY see he didn't understand what was going on. He finally approved just because I showed enough confidence that this was the right plan. It is, but I could have just as easily been a con man and gotten his approval, because all you need to win his support is to be confident.
The new Engineering Manager will start on the 17th. He's an H1B Visa that I endorsed, because he was by far the best person that applied for the role. Which means I get to move back to my former role and finally do work that I want to do instead of being in meetings for 25-30 hours a week. I will continue to report to the engineering exec, and the rest of the site team will report to the new manager.
Life is going good. Wife got the carotid artery cleaning she needed, after the stent in her heart in Feb, and is feeling tons better. Dad had a minor fall last Friday, but it woke him up to the realization that he needs to be asking for help more, which is good because I can't keep an eye on him 24/7. His wife, unfortunately, has no short term memory left. She really needs to be in a home, but my Dad isn't ready, and I just don't have the energy to argue with him on it for a 5th time.
My mom is coming to visit Friday evening and staying through till the 4th, so I took the 3rd and 5th off. Gives us more time to spend together and a day to recharge after being around family 24/7 for several days.
Having lost Trille and Amber over the past 8 months has been difficult, but at the same time, feeding the dogs went from a 20 minute exercise to 2 minutes of work. Rose and Kasper are happy as always, although we do feel like Rose has been missing Amber. She got really snuggly with Amber when we had her, and has transferred that snugglyness to her humans.
Overall attitude - Tentatively positive. I always feel like things start to go well just to build me up before the next shoe drops.
The Plant Manager kept wanting to go over the numbers, how they were pulled, what story they were telling. I had to explain it to him in at least 4 different ways, and could CLEARLY see he didn't understand what was going on. He finally approved just because I showed enough confidence that this was the right plan. It is, but I could have just as easily been a con man and gotten his approval, because all you need to win his support is to be confident.
The new Engineering Manager will start on the 17th. He's an H1B Visa that I endorsed, because he was by far the best person that applied for the role. Which means I get to move back to my former role and finally do work that I want to do instead of being in meetings for 25-30 hours a week. I will continue to report to the engineering exec, and the rest of the site team will report to the new manager.
Life is going good. Wife got the carotid artery cleaning she needed, after the stent in her heart in Feb, and is feeling tons better. Dad had a minor fall last Friday, but it woke him up to the realization that he needs to be asking for help more, which is good because I can't keep an eye on him 24/7. His wife, unfortunately, has no short term memory left. She really needs to be in a home, but my Dad isn't ready, and I just don't have the energy to argue with him on it for a 5th time.
My mom is coming to visit Friday evening and staying through till the 4th, so I took the 3rd and 5th off. Gives us more time to spend together and a day to recharge after being around family 24/7 for several days.
Having lost Trille and Amber over the past 8 months has been difficult, but at the same time, feeding the dogs went from a 20 minute exercise to 2 minutes of work. Rose and Kasper are happy as always, although we do feel like Rose has been missing Amber. She got really snuggly with Amber when we had her, and has transferred that snugglyness to her humans.
Overall attitude - Tentatively positive. I always feel like things start to go well just to build me up before the next shoe drops.
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Grumble grumble grumble
I work as inventory analyst at the internal supply chain of a regional health system
We've got an "all hands" meeting today that is scheduled to last three hours, what the hell
We also just received an email about "structural transformation" from the organization president
Last year "we" had a $239 million operating loss
Hiring freeze, some positions being eliminated, restructuring coming
Cool times
That whole organizational/tech stack categorization rabbit hole that @schuss warned me about? It gave me pause to ask my team lead if it's something I should be pursuing.
He gave me the go-ahead, agreeing that said structure is very much something we need on some level. It's exactly the kind of thing I should work on between other efforts.
Thinking on things more, I think GitLab should be organized to reflect the tech stack instead of the delivered services.. but there's still the question of organizing/categorizing the tech stack, and getting ownership identifiers out of there.
The thought is/was we could move there for a couple of years and I could take some classes that would make me easier to hire on the NZ green list. So he interviewed and they offered him a job in KY. The VERY SAME DAY he was offered this job, he got an email from an NZ job he applied for, wanting to talk about the job. So he did that last night and they talked for almost an hour. There are some major things he doesnt have the experience with to necessarily get the job, but the recruiter told him they may be willing to relax their standards a little since they haven’t been able to find someone so far. I’m not hopeful that he’ll actually be offered the job, but the possibility is still there until we hear otherwise.
The start date for his KY job is 7/24. I’m really hoping this NZ job is resolved one way or the other before he starts there, because if not we’d feel bad about bailing on a job basically immediately for another one. I know we shouldn’t feel bad about hurting a corporation’s feelings but we do. I don’t want to have to bail on my new job (if I get it, it’s not definite yet) either. This also throws a wrench in getting housing in KY as we’re coming from 1,000 miles away and short term leases are hard to come by. Just kind of a crappy situation. At least we have a couple of weeks to think about it.
Second hand infuriated for you.
I had a boss who would fuck off on vacation seemingly every other week, but at least when he fucked off he fucked off and I didn't have to worry about him "checking in" from the pub on the island or whatever.
Live footage:
Don't feel bad. Your company didn't when they moved the job to KY.
Oh, I knew the job was leaving when I took it, but I thought (or hoped) I’d be long gone to NZ by the time things started leaving. Here we are a year later and things will start moving in a couple of months. They would have found me a place in the old organization but I thought it would be fitting to move to KY with it since we go there for vacation every year. I just wish this NZ job had contacted us a week or two sooner. Failing that I hope they tell us yes or no sooner rather than later, I wouldn’t feel so bad about bailing on a job offer if it happens before the start date.
... and my director replied to the team saying something like -- Hey, that is a good plan, but hold back some things you can do so that the scope is smaller.. that way, next time they come asking us to improve security, we can implement those. Exact wording being that if we're offering a buffet, they'll keep coming back for refills. and to put some stuff in our back pocket for later.
... I hate this mentality, because the majority are small effects that do not really impact things if we properly communicate. But hey, it puts into perspective the idea that we're just trying to do "something..."
Maybe I feel weird because there were no specifics on what we should or should not propose.
But then again, if that's the work ethic he wants shrug-emoji
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Sheldon Cooper popped into my head first, but I think Dwight Schrute is more likely to have a password reset question that's just a randomly chosen question with the answer being some random phrase in Klingon or some bs.
My anaconda don't
My anaconda don't
My anaconda don't want none unless you got that vee em, hun
i wanna hurl
Updates about current state/projects for each branch/team
Some dumbass taking about verbal judo and sucking off cops for almost an hour under the guise of conversation conflict and actual conflict mitigation, truly bizarre, completely off topic from everything
Very high level preview of our new inventory system/ERP
Apparently the mass email about the big losses, staffing cuts and reassignments was "pure coincidence"
How do you feel about just banging on these drums all day?
Half way through they had to take a break to meet the therapy horse.
Sadly, I could not pet the therapy horse via Zoom, but hopefully they're working on that.
I could definitely get behind that
I've built my personal and professional brand in these last several years, and my job is both integral to the company and irreplaceable, so I'm not in any danger of having my job radically changed anytime soon, but it still blows. The people steered my professional development for over a decade, who kept me out of the cubicle-farm corporate or hand-to-mouth freelancer hellscapes, are no longer a part of my life.
don't wanna
But I'm not sure if those are on the green list or not
Also, ADHD drugs seem to be going well?
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Everyone's apparently into cybering these days.
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This is a real :bro: moment
Ticket: Need Vector Control to remove animal caught in electrical transformer outside
Now if NZ still needs teachers in 15-20 years, we'll see...
Yup, every now and then a raccoon, opossum etc finds out about electricity the hard way.
Those are all on the green list, but I'd have to retake a ton of college classes (and take multiple years to complete), and just don't think I could do a job that could kill people if I made a mistake. And I really have no desire at all to be a teacher. In April a job category called Sterile Processing Technician was added to the green list, and that doesn't require nearly as much education - not even an associate's degree. I found an online course I could take that takes a year to complete and figure I could take that, then get some work experience in that field and hopefully be able to get a job in NZ using that qualification.
Me:Sup?
Her: How you doing? I just drove from Arizona and got to shower, unpack, and change for work just 45 minutes ago!
Me: *screaming in dystopian capitalism horror and leaves $5 tip*
What’s that?
Tomorrow!!!
Anything that touches education is needed.
The teachers unions have had multiple strike days lately, though it looks to be clearing?
But the cost of living down here is ridiculous. Like, Seattle and San Francisco ridiculous. Same with housing.
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