The New "What did you do with your Z today" (with off topic replies) XXX

FPenvy · 10-11-2018, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JLarson

Morning all! Worked from home yesterday. I forgot just how much I can accomplish without the distractions and constant interruptions of the office.

FP, I completely sympathized with you over your own work situation. Even in a relatively small office, I'm interrupted every few minutes.

it sucks. the only light i can see is that there's a chance i may be able to begin working from home if some changes go through.

they have begun to "modernize" our office with doing less cubes, open cubes, open collab spaces, quiet zones, aka snowflake office type set up.

but this brings new classifications of workers. anchors, flex, full remote

i believe my group is pushing for flex/remote.

bunk · 10-11-2018, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by onzedge

Travel from North Carolina should be fun for me later today.

Be safe up there!

bunk · 10-11-2018, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by FPenvy

they have begun to "modernize" our office with doing less cubes, open cubes, open collab spaces, quiet zones, aka snowflake office type set up.

I havent been in corp for over 10 years. Never had the privilege to work in a snow flake office. You mean to say it doesnt work? Gee, who wouldve seen that coming? lol
Hire me as an IT consultant, Ill have you guys working remote by tomorrow!

FPenvy · 10-11-2018, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by bunk

I havent been in corp for over 10 years. Never had the privilege to work in a snow flake office. You mean to say it doesnt work? Gee, who wouldve seen that coming? lol
Hire me as an IT consultant, Ill have you guys working remote by tomorrow!

our IT department probably has plenty of fun things to deal with if you want some work lol

think we have a hacking attempt daily. Russians just got close few years ago the Chinese were hanging out in a nearby hotel trying to hack in from there.

Leingod · 10-11-2018, 08:54 AM

Wish I had that kind of fun in IT. It's why I made the move over to telecommunications.

JARblue · 10-11-2018, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Leingod

No luck with the Tender?

No dice with the tender. Put it on a real charger as well and got nothing.

JARblue · 10-11-2018, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by onzedge

Travel from North Carolina should be fun for me later today.

Leingod · 10-11-2018, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by JARblue

No dice with the tender. Put it on a real charger as well and got nothing.

Damn. Was worth a shot at least.

JLarson · 10-11-2018, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by FPenvy

it sucks. the only light i can see is that there's a chance i may be able to begin working from home if some changes go through.

they have begun to "modernize" our office with doing less cubes, open cubes, open collab spaces, quiet zones, aka snowflake office type set up.

but this brings new classifications of workers. anchors, flex, full remote

i believe my group is pushing for flex/remote.

My setup is a bit different, but my wife (works for cyber security for JPMC) deals with that.

I'm in QA, so we have a climate controlled office located at the back of the shop which I share with the other inspectors. However because it's QA, and because other people who work here don't know their jobs, I get a steady of influx of people, like our buyers (who don't know how to write contracts or place orders), our engineers (who don't know basic GD&T, much less how to design a part we can actually make), our manufacturing staff (who are pissed when I reject their product which doesn't meet drawing requirements), our management (who are generally pretty good but need a lot of data - this is actually my job, and I'm glad for the chance to do it), and our shippers (who often ship product to the wrong location/in the wrong type of container/using the wrong shipping method).

This is one of the mornings where enough has gone south at the same time that I'm not really enjoying my day.

Spooler · 10-11-2018, 10:03 AM

Never been on the east side of a hurricane. I am always on the west side. The wind was warm. Not cool at all like on the west side. Strange.

Ghostvette · 10-11-2018, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by FPenvy

it sucks. the only light i can see is that there's a chance i may be able to begin working from home if some changes go through.

they have begun to "modernize" our office with doing less cubes, open cubes, open collab spaces, quiet zones, aka snowflake office type set up.

but this brings new classifications of workers. anchors, flex, full remote

i believe my group is pushing for flex/remote.

I'd love to work remotely, but since I build the silly thing, I'm stuck.

My break is going out to do installs. I get to go to new places, meet strange people (biomed folks are an odd bunch) and eat different food. I was in Spokane Monday & Tuesday, got there about noon on Monday and had time to explore a bit. I found a tobacco shop (!) and had a nice chat with the owner. I told him I was surprised to find a tobacco shop, considering the efforts Washington is going through to 'force' people to be healthy. He said "We are normal people on this side of the Cascades"....

I won't say my job is secure, but if I were to leave, they wouldn't have a clue about 99% of how to build this device. Oh there are drawings, work instructions and device history records, but the deep down 'ya gotta assemble it in this order' info isn't written down anywhere. The girl that I called 'the chief engineer' (had never assembled anything more complex than a wardrobe) decided she didn't want to incorporate the 'this is the exact order to assemble' in any of the documentation.

onzedge · 10-11-2018, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by JARblue

onzedge · 10-11-2018, 10:31 AM

Back on October 17, 2007, I was travelling from ATL to SMF on the last flight of the day. While waiting for the plane to board (please note that I was not flying Delta much back then, so I had no status) I struck up a conversation with a woman (Katherine) who was also waiting for the flight. I do not do this as a rule.

We talked for a while and found that we were both headed home to Sacramento. She suggested that we have lunch at some time in the near future and I agreed. Anyway, we boarded the plane. I was in the exit row and she was near the rear. I promptly fell asleep for a while and when I woke up decided to head back to see her.

Amazingly, she had one of the very few open seats right next to her so I sat with her for most of the rest of the flight. We had a nice conversation and found that we each had similar upbringings and lived in some of the same places. It turns out that each of our fathers were retired US Navy Captains.

To cut to the chase, we began seeing each other seriously and married exactly a year later on October 17, 2008. We felt the date was meaningful because it was fate that brought us together in Atlanta.

Now we are approaching our 10-year anniversary next month. We are celebrating by taking a Delta flight back to Atlanta on the same day we met (October 17) and then staying at the Marriott Marquis for a few nights.

FPenvy · 10-11-2018, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by JLarson

My setup is a bit different, but my wife (works for cyber security for JPMC) deals with that.

I'm in QA, so we have a climate controlled office located at the back of the shop which I share with the other inspectors. However because it's QA, and because other people who work here don't know their jobs, I get a steady of influx of people, like our buyers (who don't know how to write contracts or place orders), our engineers (who don't know basic GD&T, much less how to design a part we can actually make), our manufacturing staff (who are pissed when I reject their product which doesn't meet drawing requirements), our management (who are generally pretty good but need a lot of data - this is actually my job, and I'm glad for the chance to do it), and our shippers (who often ship product to the wrong location/in the wrong type of container/using the wrong shipping method).

This is one of the mornings where enough has gone south at the same time that I'm not really enjoying my day.

still not bad. i typically have to work with our QA people when we need to evaluate and new/existing supplier that will be providing any quality/safety type of work/products.

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Originally Posted by Ghostvette

I'd love to work remotely, but since I build the silly thing, I'm stuck.

My break is going out to do installs. I get to go to new places, meet strange people (biomed folks are an odd bunch) and eat different food. I was in Spokane Monday & Tuesday, got there about noon on Monday and had time to explore a bit. I found a tobacco shop (!) and had a nice chat with the owner. I told him I was surprised to find a tobacco shop, considering the efforts Washington is going through to 'force' people to be healthy. He said "We are normal people on this side of the Cascades"....

I won't say my job is secure, but if I were to leave, they wouldn't have a clue about 99% of how to build this device. Oh there are drawings, work instructions and device history records, but the deep down 'ya gotta assemble it in this order' info isn't written down anywhere. The girl that I called 'the chief engineer' (had never assembled anything more complex than a wardrobe) decided she didn't want to incorporate the 'this is the exact order to assemble' in any of the documentation.

haha yea at the moment i feel that if they would ax me and the 2 other people in my group the entire major corporation would be in a bit of trouble. it's insane to me that all the higher people have little to no idea on how anything actually works lol

bunk · 10-11-2018, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by FPenvy

our IT department probably has plenty of fun things to deal with if you want some work lol

think we have a hacking attempt daily. Russians just got close few years ago the Chinese were hanging out in a nearby hotel trying to hack in from there.

If they want to unload some of their workload let me know!
I had a DDOS attack on one of my clients a few years ago. That sucked because as an independent, I dont have anyone to bounce ideas off of. If your Internet Connection is disrupted, is your office SOL?

10-11-2018, 08:54 AM	#2975 (permalink)
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10-11-2018, 10:31 AM	#2983 (permalink)
onzedge A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Battle Lake MN Age: 64 Posts: 183,964 Drives: 370Z 240Z Rep Power: 2684737	Back on October 17, 2007, I was travelling from ATL to SMF on the last flight of the day. While waiting for the plane to board (please note that I was not flying Delta much back then, so I had no status) I struck up a conversation with a woman (Katherine) who was also waiting for the flight. I do not do this as a rule. We talked for a while and found that we were both headed home to Sacramento. She suggested that we have lunch at some time in the near future and I agreed. Anyway, we boarded the plane. I was in the exit row and she was near the rear. I promptly fell asleep for a while and when I woke up decided to head back to see her. Amazingly, she had one of the very few open seats right next to her so I sat with her for most of the rest of the flight. We had a nice conversation and found that we each had similar upbringings and lived in some of the same places. It turns out that each of our fathers were retired US Navy Captains. To cut to the chase, we began seeing each other seriously and married exactly a year later on October 17, 2008. We felt the date was meaningful because it was fate that brought us together in Atlanta. Now we are approaching our 10-year anniversary next month. We are celebrating by taking a Delta flight back to Atlanta on the same day we met (October 17) and then staying at the Marriott Marquis for a few nights. eastwest2300, jwick, Rusty and 5 others like this. __________________ Koni\|Swift\|Michelin\|Motordyne\|Berk\|RJM Performance\|Gates\|SPL\|Motul\|Technafit\|Ate Super Blue\|Hawk Tommy Kaira\|Momo\|Optima\|Hella\|Hotchkis\|Red Line\|ZSpeed\|Stillen\|B&M\|H&R

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