Hats off to workers like you. The unsung heroes of modern society.
I had a stint in IT many years ago. I remember being at my first IT job, working as a help desk person. Months in and there was a lull in work for me. Things were all working just fine or better. It was at this point that I mentioned it to my boss (IT Manager of the whole multi location business). 'Man, there's nothing really to do. It kinda makes me feel guilty that I'm getting paid to basically sit around.' I'll never forget what he replied with after giving a bit of a laugh. He said, "We're here so when a 'fire' breaks out, we can quickly put it out and assess the cause. Then make a preventive plan for this issues like this." I laughed and smiled. As I then realized that I was in a lesser way, a electronic device 'firefighter.' We standby to quickly and effectively address network, computer and printer problems.
He gave an example he had read online a few years prior, of someone who was working for a $4-5 million dollar valued, up and coming corporation. (This I believe happen in 2012 or so.) While the execs were in a meeting, trying balance the books, I guess the founder realized that they were paying for a small team of four IT people and wondered why they had to have so many of them. He complained about how much they were paying to have them staffed and how expensive it was for the two senior IT people they had. I guess they were paying them each over $110,000 salaries. (Each of them specializing in key systems the corp. used daily.) He pointed out his observations, that he would often see and hear them sitting around in their office space, talking and joking with one another. He wanted to know why they kept them onboard if they hardly ever worked and why they 'deserved' to be paid so much. This went on for two days or so where the execs kept trying to find ways to cut costs and balance things out. And the 'IT cost' would keep coming up. They were planning to cut the team down to one or two people and maybe contract out one or two remote, to save money.
Well, on the third day of the execs going over the books and coming close to a final decision, there was a huge server crash that was caused by a hacker or hacker group who had gotten into the network system and into their email server. The IT team entered Red Alert mode and stayed there working until around 3 in the morning, 'putting out fires,' bring things back online safely, and without losing critical server data during it. Even though they had to pull nearly all of the servers to address the issues one by one offline. The company was losing tens of thousands of dollars every hour things were down. And so, come the next morning when the founder and execs came back into the office the next day and get the final report that about 90% of things were back to normal now, and the company had only lost an estimated $400,000 or so in work value while the IT infrastructure was down.
While the IT seniors reported on what had happen, how bad things had gotten and what course of actions the IT team had done to get things back to normal, all while only being about to get a few hours of sleep before the early morning meeting. The founder and execs realized how big of a bullet they had missed but having an in-house IT team and experts that could physically fix things.
Anyone who says being a 'stay at home' partner and are pretty good at it, isn't a job unto its self, hasn't seen someone do it right or are full of it.
Yes, I treat it like a full time job with explicit responsibilities and a rotating schedule to keep myself busy. (Which is a lot, tbh - daily life is already stressful enough ... my lease is up in a couple months and I am struggling to find affordable housing in a particularly bad housing market - it's very stressful.)
I'm not sure I have a single, all-time top dish, but here are some repeat favorites:
pizza (I like to stuff the crust with pepper jack cheese)
cheeseburgers & fries
nachos
Nambian Butternut Squash Soup (this is a favorite - if I make this, my partner will eat through the whole pot in a few days, lol; I add red lentils to give it more protein and make it more filling)
Souvlaki in a pita - basically Greek style grilled meat in a pita bread with french fries and tzatziki sauce, and fresh red onion and tomatoes - this dish is a total indulgence
Thai curries (mostly panang, red curry, and Masaman)
Seriously, I'm having a hard time stopping my mouth from salivating right now.
Nearly all of these seem like things I would want to make. Thank you very much for sharing! You've inspired me to take another serious attempt at cooking proper meals again.
ironically I put more effort into my cooking before I lost my job - I think it was a coping strategy, the worse my life got the more I relied on tasty meals to keep me wanting to be alive (and to stay busy cooking so I didn't have to think about anything else).
Cooking is great - besides saving money, I just can't get the quality I can make at home from a restaurant.
yes, this was originally more of a retirement plan that I would eventually quit my job once we had enough saved up and it wouldn't be too much of a financial burden for me to be unemployed (like, we were hoping there would be a point where we felt life would be overall be less stressful and better if I picked up the domestic labor full-time than if I worked a job full-time while still doing the domestic labor - I'm doing the cooking and laundry no matter what, so retirement is mostly a stress-reduction strategy).
But then I was unexpectedly pushed out of my job, so we found ourselves in this situation a bit too early. I'm constantly stressed about finances now and trying to find a path to get us into a financially viable situation (right now we are far from financially sustainable, the housing shortage and having to flee across state lines meant we were stuck in a massively over-priced housing situation).
Hopefully we find a path to cheaper housing and the stress settles down (and we don't have any major health emergencies or other sudden extreme expenses - e.g. we were in a bad car wreck and we had to replace our car, and let's just say the car insurance didn't suitably cover the cost of replacing it, etc. we can only take so many blows).
But yes, theoretically there is a way this could work out that would be like a dream scenario where I am just taking care of the domestic labor I was doing anyway when I was working full-time, and that life is just easier and happier for it.
haha, three cheers to that - financial independence is the dream.
I tend to be very frugal, but you can only save so much money by being cheap (and a lot of the strategies take up your time rather than your money, and you also only have so much time).
And thank you, that is very kind. I think we'll be OK - just in a stressful period with a lot of uncertainty, but objectively we are very privileged and I don't really feel I have room to complain.
I miss this - when my kids were at home I was always so motivated to do a good job, to find and make new things, to spend extra tine. Cooking was interesting.
Now itâs just me at home and itâs really not a motivation anymore
I am a janitor at McDonald's. Sometimes I find a whole-ass burger behind the fryers and it had to be there for at least a week, with how often we clean behind them, and they are perfectly fucking preserved other than the fact that they are rock hard.
IDK what they put in the food, but real food rots. I'm extremely wary of eating food that even microbes won't touch.
This has been so thoroughly debunked. Food doesn't decompose if it dries out before it has the chance to, and thinly-sliced meat patties easily lose water to evaporation.
If you want to see a McDonalds burger decompose, keep one in a fridge for a few weeks, which will keep it moist.
Watching my designs come to life from CAD. The tooling I work on has hundreds upon hundreds of parts. I have had bills of materials that are 60 pages long. We have our own CNC machines, and an enormous industrial 3D printer. So, I get to watch my parts grow, and be released from blocks of raw aluminum. Then, slowly over the course of a month, the parts gradually come together to something resembling a machine. When air and power get plugged in for the first time and it comes to life? Magic every time. Those first parts are like newborns to me. Even if they are scrap/ugly. When they finally get tuned in to produce good parts every time, I'm always giddy. I made this. This is my baby.
I think the craziest tool I have had to design was roughly 2.5 x 1.5 x 1 meter. It made one part at a time. It had 25 "edgefolding" units, 7 slides, retractable skin pins, a retractable skin clamp, suction cups, grippers, two-stage vacuum for the skin, and three forms of heat. Hot air, hot water, and a big IR shuttle that came in and heated both the upper and lower tool and had to retract and close in 2 seconds.
One of the things I do at my job is emptying the trash bins of the car park, people throw away all sorts of things, some of them are useful, some of them are disgusting, some of them are intriguing. Then there are the patterns and trends.
I'm talking about a pay car park, all interior inside a building. There's this spot where each week there was a gin bottle in the trash with three or four cans of tonic, but no plastic cups. Each week for maybe ten years then one day it changed to a bottle or two of Ballantine's for two or three years and just recently it changed again to a herbs liquor popular around here.
Other times, not often enough, there are rejected presents, like a pair of new shoes that some guy tossed in the trash. How do I know it was a rejected present? Because it included a birthday note that read something like:
I've never forgot your birthday, I hope you enjoy it my dear [Joe], even though you hurt me that much you might know why you did it.
Sincerly [Jane]
My friends tell me that I should write stories about the stuff I find but I'm really bad at that, it would be fun though.
All of the above actually. What I found interesting is that when I attended college, there was an aura of superiority surrounding the institution and all the people involved in it. Now I realize, it's all just being held together with glue by regular shmucks that are trying to figure out their own lives.
figuring out other people's mistakes when trying to replicate their results, closely followed by figuring out my mistakes when trying to replicate my own old results
How bafflingly incompetent my supervisors are. I am entirely convinced useless retards are promoted to management positions on purpose because if they did actual work theyâd just fuck everything up.
This is actually something that intrigues me quite a bit. If youâre good at one part of management you get promoted, until the point where youâre only okay. We are so obsessed with title and status that itâs better to be an average âExecutive Vice Managerâ than just âVice Managerâ or whatever, and we foolishly tied compensation purely to job title.
The process of in many cases slowly but methodically figuring out the solution for a problem.
I work in R&D for electronics. I have to do a lot of paperwork, but sometimes I get to dig deep into the technical stuff.
Recently we had an issue with one of our products. Line stop, management meeting, everybody loosing their mind. Got me some long days, but man, putting everything else aside and just running experiments to find the issue was a blast.
I work in materials testing so when a material doesnât perform as expected, I get to go into troubleshooting mode. If all my equipment and a self-critique of my test procedures checks out, then we start looking into the material itself. If itâs a raw material, was there a flaw or inclusion in the sample itself? Does that flaw permeate through the rest of the supplied material? Weâll work with the supplier to figure out the issue. If Iâm testing a fastener, are there clues in the way itâs manufactured that might indicate a problem? Was it heat treated properly?
Testing failures are disruptive and usually end up causing manufacturing delays and wrecking deadlines. It doesnât happen often but when it does all our brains kick into high gear.
Figuring out what people actually want, because they often try to ask for a solution based on their assumptions of what is possible or are not very good at articulating what they need. For example, they might ask for a convoluted process for getting a piece of data and a bunch of rules that just end up being 'compare to this other piece of data' after I ask a lot of questions and walk through the process. Generally this is because they are trying to align with some external reporting requirement and they are so focused on the end result or what they did before that they don't know how to talk about the thing itself.
The best part is that once they figure out how to focus on the right part it opens up a ton of possibilities and we can learn from what was done before to make it easier to collect and report!
For me, it is bringing together a technical design that fits the best case for the various stakeholders and the client. It turns out that is a complicated thing to do.
The stupidity of the general public. Most people couldn't be as stupid as some of the people I deal with if they tried.
Some examples;
No, you will not receive mail anymore if you haven't picked up your mail in almost 2 years, it doesn't matter if it's important, you've lost that privilege over a year ago. Get a PO box.
Yes, you are required to pick up all your mail, whether you want the junk mail or not. You cannot pick and choose what you pick up. Empty it all from your box or you won't get any.
Yes, you are required to use your apartment number on ALL your mail. Insufficient addresses don't get delivered, especially in an apartment complex. I don't give a shit if Amazon delivers without an apartment number, we're not Amazon. If you don't know where you live how can I?
You haven't received mail in 3 weeks because you've had your car in front of your box for 3 weeks, move your car if you want mail.
No, writing a note to your mailman saying not to deliver mail for "current resident" and saying "NO JUNK MAIL" doesn't work. You ARE the current resident, and again, you do not get to choose. You get all your mail or you get no mail. Pick one.
"I've lived here for 6 months and haven't gotten any mail." Well, is you name on your mailbox? "Well, no why should it be?"
Crawling around inside the guts of ancient ass buildings. I used to be obsessed with whatever was inside the walls when I was a kid. Daydreaming about climbing around. Now I get to see it. Also liminal spaces after working hours.
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Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 139d
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 139d
Hats off to workers like you. The unsung heroes of modern society.
I had a stint in IT many years ago. I remember being at my first IT job, working as a help desk person. Months in and there was a lull in work for me. Things were all working just fine or better. It was at this point that I mentioned it to my boss (IT Manager of the whole multi location business). 'Man, there's nothing really to do. It kinda makes me feel guilty that I'm getting paid to basically sit around.' I'll never forget what he replied with after giving a bit of a laugh. He said, "We're here so when a 'fire' breaks out, we can quickly put it out and assess the cause. Then make a preventive plan for this issues like this." I laughed and smiled. As I then realized that I was in a lesser way, a electronic device 'firefighter.' We standby to quickly and effectively address network, computer and printer problems.
He gave an example he had read online a few years prior, of someone who was working for a $4-5 million dollar valued, up and coming corporation. (This I believe happen in 2012 or so.) While the execs were in a meeting, trying balance the books, I guess the founder realized that they were paying for a small team of four IT people and wondered why they had to have so many of them. He complained about how much they were paying to have them staffed and how expensive it was for the two senior IT people they had. I guess they were paying them each over $110,000 salaries. (Each of them specializing in key systems the corp. used daily.) He pointed out his observations, that he would often see and hear them sitting around in their office space, talking and joking with one another. He wanted to know why they kept them onboard if they hardly ever worked and why they 'deserved' to be paid so much. This went on for two days or so where the execs kept trying to find ways to cut costs and balance things out. And the 'IT cost' would keep coming up. They were planning to cut the team down to one or two people and maybe contract out one or two remote, to save money.
Well, on the third day of the execs going over the books and coming close to a final decision, there was a huge server crash that was caused by a hacker or hacker group who had gotten into the network system and into their email server. The IT team entered Red Alert mode and stayed there working until around 3 in the morning, 'putting out fires,' bring things back online safely, and without losing critical server data during it. Even though they had to pull nearly all of the servers to address the issues one by one offline. The company was losing tens of thousands of dollars every hour things were down. And so, come the next morning when the founder and execs came back into the office the next day and get the final report that about 90% of things were back to normal now, and the company had only lost an estimated $400,000 or so in work value while the IT infrastructure was down.
While the IT seniors reported on what had happen, how bad things had gotten and what course of actions the IT team had done to get things back to normal, all while only being about to get a few hours of sleep before the early morning meeting. The founder and execs realized how big of a bullet they had missed but having an in-house IT team and experts that could physically fix things.
sexy_animal_fucker@kbin.melroy.org · 20 pts · 139d
Getting to be alone with the pets when the owner is out of the house (pet sitter)
Denjin@feddit.uk · 29 pts · 139d
Username disgustingly checks out.
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 139d
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 139d
This sounds like it could be fun and interesting, depending on the house owners.
Have there been any funny or interesting stories that came about from dog sitting at someone's house?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 139d
Figuring out which parts of the vendors' documentation is lies vs. what isn't
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 139d
I'm unemployed, so I stay home to run errands, manage finances, cook, clean and otherwise manage the house.
I would say cooking is the most intriguing part, as it can be quite complex, involves creativity and skill, and can be quite rewarding.
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 139d
Anyone who says being a 'stay at home' partner and are pretty good at it, isn't a job unto its self, hasn't seen someone do it right or are full of it.
What is your favorite dish/meal to make?
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 139d
Yes, I treat it like a full time job with explicit responsibilities and a rotating schedule to keep myself busy. (Which is a lot, tbh - daily life is already stressful enough ... my lease is up in a couple months and I am struggling to find affordable housing in a particularly bad housing market - it's very stressful.)
I'm not sure I have a single, all-time top dish, but here are some repeat favorites:
I could keep going, but I'm getting hungry and I should stop đ I love food, and I love cooking.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
Nice. I have those âsouvlaki in a pitaâ ingredients waiting in my fridge but have been putting that off all week
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
Oh my goodness! Can I come over for dinner!? :D
Seriously, I'm having a hard time stopping my mouth from salivating right now.
Nearly all of these seem like things I would want to make. Thank you very much for sharing! You've inspired me to take another serious attempt at cooking proper meals again.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 139d
ironically I put more effort into my cooking before I lost my job - I think it was a coping strategy, the worse my life got the more I relied on tasty meals to keep me wanting to be alive (and to stay busy cooking so I didn't have to think about anything else).
Cooking is great - besides saving money, I just can't get the quality I can make at home from a restaurant.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
Cooking is SO rewarding. I wish I were retired, or at least unemployed, so I could just cook for my loved ones.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 139d
yes, this was originally more of a retirement plan that I would eventually quit my job once we had enough saved up and it wouldn't be too much of a financial burden for me to be unemployed (like, we were hoping there would be a point where we felt life would be overall be less stressful and better if I picked up the domestic labor full-time than if I worked a job full-time while still doing the domestic labor - I'm doing the cooking and laundry no matter what, so retirement is mostly a stress-reduction strategy).
But then I was unexpectedly pushed out of my job, so we found ourselves in this situation a bit too early. I'm constantly stressed about finances now and trying to find a path to get us into a financially viable situation (right now we are far from financially sustainable, the housing shortage and having to flee across state lines meant we were stuck in a massively over-priced housing situation).
Hopefully we find a path to cheaper housing and the stress settles down (and we don't have any major health emergencies or other sudden extreme expenses - e.g. we were in a bad car wreck and we had to replace our car, and let's just say the car insurance didn't suitably cover the cost of replacing it, etc. we can only take so many blows).
But yes, theoretically there is a way this could work out that would be like a dream scenario where I am just taking care of the domestic labor I was doing anyway when I was working full-time, and that life is just easier and happier for it.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
I wish I were retired, then.
But more than that, I wish the best for you and your family.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 139d
haha, three cheers to that - financial independence is the dream.
I tend to be very frugal, but you can only save so much money by being cheap (and a lot of the strategies take up your time rather than your money, and you also only have so much time).
And thank you, that is very kind. I think we'll be OK - just in a stressful period with a lot of uncertainty, but objectively we are very privileged and I don't really feel I have room to complain.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
Your life could be better if selfish people weren't making it worse. You should never feel shame for calling that out.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
I miss this - when my kids were at home I was always so motivated to do a good job, to find and make new things, to spend extra tine. Cooking was interesting.
Now itâs just me at home and itâs really not a motivation anymore
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 138d
I am a janitor at McDonald's. Sometimes I find a whole-ass burger behind the fryers and it had to be there for at least a week, with how often we clean behind them, and they are perfectly fucking preserved other than the fact that they are rock hard.
IDK what they put in the food, but real food rots. I'm extremely wary of eating food that even microbes won't touch.
everett@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 138d
This has been so thoroughly debunked. Food doesn't decompose if it dries out before it has the chance to, and thinly-sliced meat patties easily lose water to evaporation.
If you want to see a McDonalds burger decompose, keep one in a fridge for a few weeks, which will keep it moist.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 139d
Watching my designs come to life from CAD. The tooling I work on has hundreds upon hundreds of parts. I have had bills of materials that are 60 pages long. We have our own CNC machines, and an enormous industrial 3D printer. So, I get to watch my parts grow, and be released from blocks of raw aluminum. Then, slowly over the course of a month, the parts gradually come together to something resembling a machine. When air and power get plugged in for the first time and it comes to life? Magic every time. Those first parts are like newborns to me. Even if they are scrap/ugly. When they finally get tuned in to produce good parts every time, I'm always giddy. I made this. This is my baby.
I think the craziest tool I have had to design was roughly 2.5 x 1.5 x 1 meter. It made one part at a time. It had 25 "edgefolding" units, 7 slides, retractable skin pins, a retractable skin clamp, suction cups, grippers, two-stage vacuum for the skin, and three forms of heat. Hot air, hot water, and a big IR shuttle that came in and heated both the upper and lower tool and had to retract and close in 2 seconds.
Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 139d
sorry can't tell you classified
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 139d
I can assure you. I have the clearance for these classified details. Here's the pass-phrase. Red frog, green log, brown bear, sit there.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
Would you kindly
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
How intriguing!
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 138d
One of the things I do at my job is emptying the trash bins of the car park, people throw away all sorts of things, some of them are useful, some of them are disgusting, some of them are intriguing. Then there are the patterns and trends.
I'm talking about a pay car park, all interior inside a building. There's this spot where each week there was a gin bottle in the trash with three or four cans of tonic, but no plastic cups. Each week for maybe ten years then one day it changed to a bottle or two of Ballantine's for two or three years and just recently it changed again to a herbs liquor popular around here.
Other times, not often enough, there are rejected presents, like a pair of new shoes that some guy tossed in the trash. How do I know it was a rejected present? Because it included a birthday note that read something like:
My friends tell me that I should write stories about the stuff I find but I'm really bad at that, it would be fun though.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
This post turned out okay. If you think it'll be fun, do it. Don't expect to become a literary marvel overnight, just write 'em for you.
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 138d
Just wait until someone tosses a set of baby shoes, then you're off to a great start!
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 138d
After writing that I went to empty the bins, in one of them there was a pregnancy test inconclusive result and vertigo medication
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 139d
The behind the scenes of a college campus.
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
Is this more indoors or outdoors? People facing or in the background?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
All of the above actually. What I found interesting is that when I attended college, there was an aura of superiority surrounding the institution and all the people involved in it. Now I realize, it's all just being held together with glue by regular shmucks that are trying to figure out their own lives.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 139d
The amount of R&D and the sheer amount of technology that has gone into drastically reducing truck exhaust pollution over the years is amazing.
BillMurray@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 138d
Did the R&D result in any significant reduction?
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 138d
Yes around 70% nox from euro 5 to 6. And I can't remember the percentage drop of particulate matter decrease but it was also a large drop.
toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 5 pts · 139d
You learn some interesting things sometimes when reviewing medical records
fullsquare@awful.systems · 4 pts · 139d
figuring out other people's mistakes when trying to replicate their results, closely followed by figuring out my mistakes when trying to replicate my own old results
Jaegeras@piefed.social · 4 pts · 138d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 139d
Ill tell ya when I get some.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 138d
FatVegan@leminal.space · 3 pts · 138d
Do you sing the secret agent song every time you go to work?
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 138d
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
How bafflingly incompetent my supervisors are. I am entirely convinced useless retards are promoted to management positions on purpose because if they did actual work theyâd just fuck everything up.
belazor@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 138d
This is actually something that intrigues me quite a bit. If youâre good at one part of management you get promoted, until the point where youâre only okay. We are so obsessed with title and status that itâs better to be an average âExecutive Vice Managerâ than just âVice Managerâ or whatever, and we foolishly tied compensation purely to job title.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 139d
I just fix problems.
Processing data broken? Iâll fix it.
VPN broken? Iâm on it.
New server needs installed? Yeah Iâll do that. (I love hosting Minecraft on a server that costs more than my car)
Old server needs removed? Cool free stuff.
Itâs always something different, and I get to explore new things and possibly get free stuff.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 139d
How much of the global telecommunications infrastructure is held together with cable ties.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 138d
That I get paid what I do for the job I do. It brings no real benefit to society but itâs a living.
Skv@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
That's the problem with overpopulation - everyone has to eat, but not everyone can cook.
pessimisticPigeon@feddit.org · 1 pts · 139d
The process of in many cases slowly but methodically figuring out the solution for a problem. I work in R&D for electronics. I have to do a lot of paperwork, but sometimes I get to dig deep into the technical stuff. Recently we had an issue with one of our products. Line stop, management meeting, everybody loosing their mind. Got me some long days, but man, putting everything else aside and just running experiments to find the issue was a blast.
Strider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
IT.
If you fix an issue that should've caused something not to work previously, but it did.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 139d
I work in materials testing so when a material doesnât perform as expected, I get to go into troubleshooting mode. If all my equipment and a self-critique of my test procedures checks out, then we start looking into the material itself. If itâs a raw material, was there a flaw or inclusion in the sample itself? Does that flaw permeate through the rest of the supplied material? Weâll work with the supplier to figure out the issue. If Iâm testing a fastener, are there clues in the way itâs manufactured that might indicate a problem? Was it heat treated properly?
Testing failures are disruptive and usually end up causing manufacturing delays and wrecking deadlines. It doesnât happen often but when it does all our brains kick into high gear.
Beth@piefed.social · 1 pts · 139d
Watching people make connections.
Skv@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
Never a dull nor exactly the same moment, all day erryday.
snooggums@piefed.world · 1 pts · 139d
Figuring out what people actually want, because they often try to ask for a solution based on their assumptions of what is possible or are not very good at articulating what they need. For example, they might ask for a convoluted process for getting a piece of data and a bunch of rules that just end up being 'compare to this other piece of data' after I ask a lot of questions and walk through the process. Generally this is because they are trying to align with some external reporting requirement and they are so focused on the end result or what they did before that they don't know how to talk about the thing itself.
The best part is that once they figure out how to focus on the right part it opens up a ton of possibilities and we can learn from what was done before to make it easier to collect and report!
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 138d
For me, it is bringing together a technical design that fits the best case for the various stakeholders and the client. It turns out that is a complicated thing to do.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
The stupidity of the general public. Most people couldn't be as stupid as some of the people I deal with if they tried.
Some examples;
No, you will not receive mail anymore if you haven't picked up your mail in almost 2 years, it doesn't matter if it's important, you've lost that privilege over a year ago. Get a PO box.
Yes, you are required to pick up all your mail, whether you want the junk mail or not. You cannot pick and choose what you pick up. Empty it all from your box or you won't get any.
Yes, you are required to use your apartment number on ALL your mail. Insufficient addresses don't get delivered, especially in an apartment complex. I don't give a shit if Amazon delivers without an apartment number, we're not Amazon. If you don't know where you live how can I?
You haven't received mail in 3 weeks because you've had your car in front of your box for 3 weeks, move your car if you want mail.
No, writing a note to your mailman saying not to deliver mail for "current resident" and saying "NO JUNK MAIL" doesn't work. You ARE the current resident, and again, you do not get to choose. You get all your mail or you get no mail. Pick one.
"I've lived here for 6 months and haven't gotten any mail." Well, is you name on your mailbox? "Well, no why should it be?"
Comments made by the utterly deranged
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 1 pts · 139d
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d
Audrey.
Don't tell her. I think she knows, but it's a bit awkward right now.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 139d
Crawling around inside the guts of ancient ass buildings. I used to be obsessed with whatever was inside the walls when I was a kid. Daydreaming about climbing around. Now I get to see it. Also liminal spaces after working hours.