Throat Punch O’Clock
You know you want to do it. They totally deserve it.
Mine is the procurement department at my workplace. We have open purchase orders with our main raw material supplier. We give them the usage for the year and they deliver it on a semi-planned schedule. We also have closed purchase orders which are one and done. When our closed P.O.s don’t fill a truck they send along open P.O. material early. This has been our normal way of doing things for years. Procurement has now decided that they have been sending too much and we need to send some back. What they want us to send back we will be ordering again in 4 weeks. I’m sure they have their reasons but this makes us look like idiots.
Have I mentioned that this is the only supplier we have of this material? If they decide we are not worth the headache and drop us we are totally screwed. Management material I am apparently not.
So who are the dumbasses in your life?
Some fancy pantsy people cancelled their approvals meeting so now my big project can’t launch for a few more weeks. Rude.
They probably needed a meeting to discuss the approval meeting.
I figure that their inventory carrying costs are out of whack and that they are on calendar quarters with Q2 ending June 30. Once the Q2 reporting is in they will worry about the increase in transporting, handling, and labor costs that happen due to this stock return in Q3. Reindeer games . . . or management CYA.
Current management. We got new owners as of the spring and current management is trying to impress the new owners like they know what the fuck they’re doing.
Problem is they don’t. Weak kneed chickenshit incompetent motherfuckers don’t change over night.
Instead they’re making us minions lives miserable with stupid inspections and emphasis on chickenshit rules because that’s all they’re capable of.
Also they’re upset that some shifts are unable to produce and wonder why but that’s because they protected the lazy and the incompetents (who are their buddies.)
I’m also a (small) target because I’ve kept my mouth shut. Instead of being the helpful dumbshit I was in the past helping them keep their jobs with whatever ideas I have… I’ve been a silent asshole keeping his few remaining ideas to himself because all that previous work got me nowhere (just a temporary promotion that still stings 4 years later and the enmity of management who hates anyone showing off their talent.)
standard level of dumbassery here….it barely even annoys me
currently enjoying the usual misadventures with lean
where the powers that be take a few courses to get their belts….and somehow the main point they all take away from it…is that we need to only ever have as many parts as we need and we need to have them as close to when we need them as possible
not that you also need to redesign your production/supply lines to actually work that way too…or do proper quality control on your incoming parts before sending them off to production where it not working or being damaged pretty much stops the line as its probably the only one weve got…..
welp this is my third company in a row doing this lean shit wrong…. im a hardened veteran of this particular stupid
“On paper this works out just fine”. Says the people playing wordle in their offices.
pretty much…ive got my belts too…took the courses a few jobs ago
came to the conclusion that if you want it to work you need to design the whole factory around lean
somehow the office crowd came to the conclusion itll work out great if they implement the efficient minimal stock keeping and call it a day…..probably coz thats the part that looks sexy for the bottomline
you know……when it works
The truth behind LEAN (I’ve got a couple of belts too) is that management needs to be LEANED first otherwise there is no point to LEAN.
In my case, management getting LEANED means a lot of useless motherfuckers get laid off and the acceptance that management was the problem all along which is true, but unacceptable to management who think they’re fucking perfect.
So instead, we get the same old bullshit that you do. They attack us production apes and blame us for all their problems/stupid/incompetence.
I like the idea behind LEAN (being an engineer and all) but unless management accepts that they’re a majority of the problem any actual gains from LEAN won’t happen.
I had learned LEAN at Nortel from GE Motherfuckers who bought into Jack Welch Is Gawd (I used to believe that once to my everlasting shame.) Turned out they were just corp propaganda loudmouths not actual experts.
My mentor here was from the mother of LEAN, Toyota. He was a decent fellow who saved my dumb ass from a vengeful management.
The last lean I suffered was from the motherfuckers of McKinsey who just did a find/replace Toyota LEAN with McKinsey and their trademarked bullshit name.
This isn’t exactly dumbassery but:
BH is going to be gone for a solid week next month, and our dog-walker is going to be on vacation. Since we have rejoined the downtown vet practice, we decided to go all in and rejoin the high-end crate-free boarding kennel that’s part of that whole canine ecosphere down there. We, or our dogs, were patrons for something like 20 years.
Because New York is INSANE and everything is far more complicated and arduous than it needs to be, the high-end kennel won’t take Faithful Hound until he goes through an observation period. So, basically, it’s like trying to get your kid into an exclusive preschool. So that’s where he is today, in doggie day care and under the watchful eyes of the employees. BH and I have our fingers crossed. We haven’t gotten any word about any misbehaving so I hope things are going well. I mean, he’s a black Lab, and one of the friendliest creatures on this benighted island, so…
You know they’re making your dog go through that because last year some couple tried to pull a fast one with their kid who couldn’t get into day care. They figured if they just let its hair grow and taught it to eat from a bowl nobody would notice.
The only reason I don’t add this to the “Could New York Be Any More Ridiculous” column is because of their no-crate policy. So if one hound is not socialized they can’t really…they have an on-site vet and an infirmary, but they don’t make it a practice to crate the hounds, so that they can get maximum 24/7 playtime during their stay. One bad apple spoils the whole bunch.
Our previous dog absolutely loved it there. She used to go quite a bit because we both traveled so much, for work and pleasure, and she had so many buddies, because they have a thriving day-care, along with overnight accommodations. She was a little bit of a ringleader. I was told by more than one staff member that the exhausted hounds would settle down at night, they’d find their own spaces, but our dog (there are observation cameras of this common space) would lift her head up, make eye contact with another overnight guest, they’d start chasing each other around, which would set the whole pack off…No one got any sleep. Crazy, but in a straightforward way, not in a nonsensical human way.
It makes sense to me that they take time to observe each dog and it shows that they are a responsible reputable business… It could be so much worse like this Montreal dog daycare (trigger warning dog on dog violence).
I know. The other thing is I can’t remember if they separate the small dogs from the hounds, I don’t think they do, actually, so everyone has to be on their best behavior.
Faithful Hound is now back but I don’t know if he actually enjoyed the experience. He passed with flying colors, the staff fell in love with him, but apparently he didn’t quite understand what was going on and sat quietly and just watched. The poor guy. He was actually born in a shelter, so he might have been having flashbacks. But he used to adore the dog run, and this is the same thing, just indoors. And the staff is super-competent and the place offers all kinds of services. With the clientele that patronizes this place one false move and they’d all be sued into oblivion.
I’m going to violate the spirit of the exercise and note that I have not ever had the urge to violently assault anyone at my current job. I’m not sure if it’s just that everybody is super professional or that everybody is remote or both. I can honestly say that I’ve never been more than mildly annoyed. Well, except for one incident where the IT department bricked my phone on a Friday. But they are outsourced and not actual employees, and, let’s face it, “asshole” is listed as a required skill in 96.7% of IT want ads, so I’m dropping that as a outlier. My assertion stands.
This is the first job I’ve ever had that I can say that about, and I have had a LOT of fucking jobs. There are former co-workers I would cheerfully go back and murder if I thought I could get away with it.
I’m totally breaking the thread with some good cheer. It’s a beautiful sunny day over here. I’m currently sitting in a park with HZ3 enjoying samosas and an affogato al caffe. Thus managing to support three local small businesses (convenience store, ice cream shop, and a Café).
Affogato! I should do an FYCE about them, but they’re so simple I think it’d be kind of stupid. Maybe I will anyway. I have lots of slots to fill!
I don’t think anyone would complain. FYCE are a (free) labor of love as are all DS posts from the short to the seemingly interminable ones 😜.
Enjoy. I wish I wrote happy stuff most of the time.
Oh, I just remembered. Completely OT myself, a never-Trumper (but DeSantis supporter, so–) wrote a really funny comment, or maybe a post, I’m a very catholic small-c reader of online content, somewhere that posited that the classified documents charges won’t stick because so many Americans are hoarders themselves. So they form a natural voting base for the return of Two Scoops. And then I thought, “WE have carted boxes out of our offices that we never looked into again, although they’re not filled with classified national security-related files, which, why are they on paper anyway in the 2010s and the 2020s?”
…not the point & all…but one of the nifty things about hard copies of sensitive stuff is that for the really sensitive stuff the paper itself is so sensitive it shows if it’s been copied
…it’s all very clever & has to do with sensitivity to light so flash photography & photocopy/scan type stuff leaves evidence it happened
…it’s sort of why I have trouble discounting the possibility that he didn’t return them all because he literally doesn’t have some of them any more & the whole giant game of three card monte he played with the boxes was what he thought would let him keep that part lost in the shuffle
…which is almost entirely baseless conjecture…whereas the fact they only gave him paper copies of that stuff being for some pretty sound reasons that would make digital files a bad choice for the material outside some insanely well protected networks is actually verifiable…fwiw?