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Started by The Good Reverend Roger, August 21, 2013, 05:12:59 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 04, 2013, 09:47:06 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 04, 2013, 08:24:35 PM
THE CONTINUATION OF THE BALL MILL SAGA:

Big meeting, Mike's suspension cancelled because vendors from all over the place are here.

We have now proven, with SCIENCE, that the problem HAS to be the ring gear.  This was after we replaced the $14,000 mill bearings (actually cost way more than $28K, but there's a lot involved).

So we have this big meeting 2 hours ago.  The ring gear IS the problem.  We have imported 2 crazy Germans who have shown WHY the ring gear is the PROBLEM, and the gearbox is a SYMPTOM.

Tracking so far?  Ring gear = root cause, gearbox = "victim" of ring gear.

Everyone in the room has had this bashed into their head with a combination of basic math, physics, and metallurgy.

Meeting is drawing to a close, nobody has shat the bed yet.

WAIT FOR IT...

As we are all standing up to leave, Mike says "I have one more thing I want to talk about..."

Oh, Mike, and you were doing SO well.

Mike:  "We haven't talked about the problem with the gearbox."

My boss turns purple.  I laugh so hard I fall off my chair.  The German guys start screaming abuse at him.  The gear consultant guys from Phoenix sit there staring like a dog came up to them and started singing fucking Clauda Rogers tunes.  The gearbox manufacturing rep looks like he's having a stroke.

Total chaos.  I leave.

10 minutes later, Mike's suspension is reinstated, Jim put Lilly in charge, she refused, they both drive off in different directions, vendors bailing out left and right.

I am the only manager left on the property.


WHAT HAPPENED?
\
:sadbanana:



:lulz:

These are the days it's all worth it.

DRINK IT UP.

:lulz:

I'M SO RONERY...
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 04, 2013, 08:24:35 PM
THE CONTINUATION OF THE BALL MILL SAGA:

Big meeting, Mike's suspension cancelled because vendors from all over the place are here.

We have now proven, with SCIENCE, that the problem HAS to be the ring gear.  This was after we replaced the $14,000 mill bearings (actually cost way more than $28K, but there's a lot involved).

So we have this big meeting 2 hours ago.  The ring gear IS the problem.  We have imported 2 crazy Germans who have shown WHY the ring gear is the PROBLEM, and the gearbox is a SYMPTOM.

Tracking so far?  Ring gear = root cause, gearbox = "victim" of ring gear.

Everyone in the room has had this bashed into their head with a combination of basic math, physics, and metallurgy.

Meeting is drawing to a close, nobody has shat the bed yet.

WAIT FOR IT...

As we are all standing up to leave, Mike says "I have one more thing I want to talk about..."

Oh, Mike, and you were doing SO well.

Mike:  "We haven't talked about the problem with the gearbox."

My boss turns purple.  I laugh so hard I fall off my chair.  The German guys start screaming abuse at him.  The gear consultant guys from Phoenix sit there staring like a dog came up to them and started singing fucking Clauda Rogers tunes.  The gearbox manufacturing rep looks like he's having a stroke.

Total chaos.  I leave.

10 minutes later, Mike's suspension is reinstated, Jim put Lilly in charge, she refused, they both drive off in different directions, vendors bailing out left and right.

I am the only manager left on the property.


WHAT HAPPENED?
\
:sadbanana:



:lulz:

:facepalm:

There are not enough palms nor enough faces in the UNIVERSE.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Facemeat on September 04, 2013, 10:51:51 PM
:facepalm:

There are not enough palms nor enough faces in the UNIVERSE.

I live in heaven.  What else could it possibly be? 
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 04, 2013, 10:52:38 PM
Quote from: Facemeat on September 04, 2013, 10:51:51 PM
:facepalm:

There are not enough palms nor enough faces in the UNIVERSE.

I live in heaven.  What else could it possibly be?

I'm just sitting here shaking my head. I have never.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Facemeat on September 04, 2013, 10:54:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 04, 2013, 10:52:38 PM
Quote from: Facemeat on September 04, 2013, 10:51:51 PM
:facepalm:

There are not enough palms nor enough faces in the UNIVERSE.

I live in heaven.  What else could it possibly be?

I'm just sitting here shaking my head. I have never.

I am clearly doing the work of angels.

:whack:

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

Seriously, these are the days that make my career choice worthwhile.

All the stress, all the chaos, all the boundless rage...

...And then you see a crystal clear moment of perfection.

Even if it's perfect stupidity.  It's still perfection.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Faust

If lilly wont touch it, I suspect I was right about it being the kiss of death for whomever has to fix this?
Sleepless nights at the chateau

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Faust on September 04, 2013, 11:35:33 PM
If lilly wont touch it, I suspect I was right about it being the kiss of death for whomever has to fix this?

Yep.

And that somebody isn't me.   8)

Mike may want to consider retirement options.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

tarod


The Good Reverend Roger

In other news, Filthy Assistant is once again one of my direct reports.

After he's spent the last 6 months furiously trying to throw my guys under the bus.

Today may have been perfect.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

tyrannosaurus vex

Evil and Unfeeling Arse-Flenser From The City of the Damned.

tyrannosaurus vex

Evil and Unfeeling Arse-Flenser From The City of the Damned.

The Good Reverend Roger

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: V3X on September 05, 2013, 03:46:04 AM
We really should find a way to merge our two companies.

Might be a plan.

Today, Tiny Killer Neckbeard and Filipe started building some software monster that they won't tell me about. 

"Go and do boss things, vato, we're doin' stuff."  <--- Felipe, providing a good example to the kid on how to behave in our department.

Meh.  I'll see it when it hatches, I guess.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 05, 2013, 03:48:47 AM
Quote from: V3X on September 05, 2013, 03:46:04 AM
We really should find a way to merge our two companies.

Might be a plan.

Today, Tiny Killer Neckbeard and Filipe started building some software monster that they won't tell me about. 

"Go and do boss things, vato, we're doin' stuff."  <--- Felipe, providing a good example to the kid on how to behave in our department.

Meh.  I'll see it when it hatches, I guess.

THIS IS GONNA BE GOOD.  :lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."