Posts by The Oncoming Scorn 2886 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Feb 2018
This is why whenever I get takeout food, delivered with plastic utensils in a sealed plastic bag, I keep some in my desk for when there are food "events". I had to give a set to our new security guard the other weeks*, when he couldn't find any utensils for his lunch.
*We must have had canteen staff at one point, but now its just a use a hot water outlet for your tea\washing up\ microwave\fridge for your own food area & a couple of vending machines.
There was also a planet entirely given over to biro life-forms.
And it was to this planet that unattended biros would make their way. Slipping quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely biroid lifestyle.
Responding to highly biroid-orientated stimuli, in fact, leading the Biro equivalent of the good life and as theories go, this was all very fine and pleasant, until Veet Voojagig suddenly claimed to have found this planet and to have worked there for a while, driving a limousine for a family of cheap green retractables.
First time driving a Grand Caravan in Canada (Holiday Hire Car). Apply the foot operated handbrake on arrival at our hotel.
Had to get the valet to show me where the hand operated release was tucked away on the trim in the same colour as the rest of the interior plastics the following day.
I have no desire to see Raggot the rocket gerbil shot through the air by a pocket of exploding intestinal gas to break the felching partners nose.
http://www.scaine.net/site/2005/03/armageddon/
Ohhh! Hang on!
Now Ernie dragged him from his van and beneath the blazing sun,
They stood there face to face, and Ted went for his bun.
But Ernie was too quick, things didn't go the way Ted planned,
And a strawberry-flavoured yogurt sent it spinning from his hand.
Now Susie ran between them and tried to keep them apart,
And Ernie, he pushed her aside and a rock cake caught him underneath his heart.
And he looked up in pained surprise and the concrete hardened crust,
Of a stale pork pie caught him in the eye and Ernie bit the dust.
A certain Educational PC supplier in Didcot's service center*, gave you a three sided workbench for one PC to be worked on, while another waited parts & the final space for imaging or other QC checks.
By selecting machines off the ever growing wall of machines awaiting attention say a dead PSU\dead motherboard etc, you could skip the initial AV scan, book the parts & have three machines done by lunchtime.
You could repeat for the afternoon, making six ready to go.
So far so good, but those extra machines now were processed & booked out on the following days worksheets
Each tech for reasons was only allowed to produce three machines a day & there was hell to pay if you exceeded that, the poor female tech I was using her ID for to order parts & she almost received a chewing out (Damn - No Paris) before the reason was pointed out.
*My contract dates got screwed, as I started later than envisaged they thought I was done on X date & I informed them my contract had another two weeks to run, so I got kicked over to the service center for the remainder as they were "running behind". Obviously someone in the higher scheme of things never looked into why they were always running behind.
When I was doing my HNC many many years ago, one of the lecturers outlined how when he was a lad in a factory, that if you produced the required number of units per week, you were paid the base rate.
If you produced x more you were paid a bonus & you were known as an "A bonus man", produce 2x more you were an "B bonus man" & the next logically was "C bonus man".
Of course while the workers were happy with the extra cash & striving to keep & maintain that pay rate, the company had doubled its output & its wages outgoings was cheaper than doubling up the workforce.
The other tale he told was at one place bonus's were paid out according to a calculated graph, one year they did a really big push to clear the factory just before Christmas, so much so that they exceeded the graphs calculations of bonus rate increase, one of the engineers studied the curve & worked out the required bonus, which was a LOT & stunned the management somewhat.
Especially when it was revealed that the calculated bonus rate graph, had basically been plucked out of the air simply by just drawing a curve on graph paper.
Not strictly that guy it was 3am when I wrote the post & things were a little ahem hazy.
Debris/Damage is the usual term, though I had seen detection in something & mentioned in a few other fields like food* & my waters (or beer) may have muddied things.
*FOD is a rather vital thing that we had a vendor impliment in the early 000's, when dredged up sand brought into the Kent Pharma I worked at as landfill on a project was found to have a rather large metal FOD in the form of a unexploded WW2 bomb.
Since a pitot tube traditionally looks like this on most aircraft I have seen, any crap inside of it, if internally pressurised to blow it out would likely cause a compressed blockage at the tubes entry, much like a three tanker lorries pileup in the Dartford Tunnel.
https://www.tech-faq.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Pitot-Tube.jpeg
* Not actually going, but the quote was too good to pass up.
I started my work career on DC3's & other aircraft (Aircraft stores). Over the years moved into electronics & IT.
I'm now in aircraft engine rebuilding facility combining most of my entire work history experience, FOD* is a BIG BIG thing for the smallest of items (Even graphite from a pencil on the shop floor is a NO NO). I've seen the production areas halt looking for a dropped washer, the level of QC is way different from when "Garth" was rebuilding engines in 1979.
That's even before the various robots for blade sorting, engine inspection & engine testing in specialised test cells come into the areas of my responsibilty (Dodgy sensors on the engine or is it the test cell infrastructure).
**Foreign Object Detection.
I also have bought my last vehicle TTBOMK, while it has some chippery in it & a few other nice fripperies.
Body is sound, I put a remanufactured engine her & most parts are commonplace across a range of similar vehicles that share a mostly common BOM.
On-star is out as it had the old CDMA hardware that wasn't upgraded to the 3G network that's being phased out in favor of presumably 4G.
Ex Brother-in-law did a stint in Kwik-Fit, he was asked to pour Slick 50 into a cars engine while he worked & the obnoxious gent insisted that he watch, which he was allowed to do from the observation window.
BIL made a BIG show of unscrewing the cap "piercing the seal" & pouring it in & then discarding the "empty" container. Customer satisfied drove away, while BIL fished out the pristine & full bottle from the trash for his own vehicle.
more likely have the server siezed by law enforcement in a dawn raid on the data centre. And even in the best of times hardware can fail suddenly and unexpectedly.
Usually while the authorities are flashing their badges & warrants at reception.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/11/uber_leak/
I've seen fights break out with meat cleavers between two workers of different ethnic groups in a slaughterhouse, they were surprisingly only suspended & lost Christmas\New Year statutory holiday pay & reinstated & the moment they encountered each other at the turnstiles to clock in on their return to work, they started again (HR had wisely decided to put them back on the same shift - Without knives fortunately this time).
Another time we had a Canadian Govt Food Inspector, who would step onto the grated mezzanine floor\deck before descending to the main production floor, he was required to wash his hands & he would shake dry them, droplets of water would drip onto this poor female foreign worker below, usually running down her neck.
She reached her tether, complained & the government worker was taken aside to be told, please stop doing that..
Unfortunately for someone else as he stepped onto the elevated section of floor, before he even got his hands wet, a droplet of water from the roof, hit her square on the neck, she swiveled on the spot with the meat cutting tool she had in her hand & attempted (Fairly successfully) to disembowel his foot.
Actually I experienced a very unique mental health\de-stress event yesterday that is apparently done two or three times a year at my current location of employment.
A local charity brings puppies on-site for those that want to interact with & pet them (With a view to prospective adoptions). Learning who the dog lovers were broke down barriers & caused interactions with people whose paths rarely cross.
Some years back, at a certain pharma in Kent, we had a "company" decide or was offered to tender & was determined to prove they could undercut the rate the current MSP's were being paid by one third to half, this was of concern to most of us due to working as part of the clients internal team with little or no interaction with our "management" as contractors (The MSP had one permy on site). More importantly were we going to be shown the door\suffer a rate cut.
It was obvious the way this prospective company's mindset was going:
New cheaper bodies, that we can switch, rotate & deploy them at will to other clients* as needed or not even have them on-site at all until required.
After about a week or two on site, in which time they learned that the requirement of full background checks, multiple various regulatory courses, individual site H&S & it's build process's courses before they even got to the site knowledge part** & realised that they couldn't just pull "Tom, Dick or Harry" from one client halfway around the M25 to go sort out "Izzy's latest issue in building 225" without all those pre-requisites in place & decided with a vast amount of egg on their formerly overconfident & glowing faces with brick-able smiles that they couldn't compete at all & if anything having to bring on a whole new team would actually them cost more than their projected profit was going to be.
*Funnily enough, this is the mindset of my current employer, that I can potentially just drop my "Onsite required presence for an outage" to go & do something 2 hours away for a different client, granted the idea is that it's for sporadic events, but goalposts do change.
**We had a new guy brought in & he spent three weeks on this before being pulled by the existing MSP for some reason (He wasn't happy at time he spent being wasted).
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