• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world
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    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 they’d just fuck everything up.

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        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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    1 month ago

    How much of the global telecommunications infrastructure is held together with cable ties.

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    I work for a thankless and ungrateful store who successfully met its sales criteria and became the most successful store in the state. However, that doesn’t reflect in how the store is operated and associate morale is constantly shit on. I’m one of the more decent workers, however, my management works me to death and stupidly wonders why my performance fluctuates from time to time.

    And this is all to make sure, stupid dumbfucks with wallets (yes I’m talking about moronic fucking customers, fuck all of you) shit is on the shelf so more dumbfuck moronic customers can ask even more dumbfuck questions that don’t relate to anything and shoving their phones in my face.