This got me fired on my birthday once. Worked at a high end bird food manufacturer, we got in 2000lb boxes of peanuts. They had to be sprayed with an antioxidant that stopped some growth that kills exotic birds. I religiously put it in every 2000lb crate (takes a long time, has to be dumped into a little leg up into a mixer) Me and this punk were the ones who were responsible for this. His speed was a lot faster than mine, never really had time to figure out why. We had a QA checklist that had that on it. This is where I screwed up, and why I never sign others QA stuff now. Whoever was at the book when a batch went through signed it When random lab sampling came back on a batch I signed QA on, guess what wasnt in it, yep, the antioxidant. As I was being walked out how realized how that prick was so much faster than me.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 10:26 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember working as a bagger/stock boy at a grocery store. Other guys > were content to goof off in a storage room and let me do all the work. > I was never angry at them, just confused because I couldn't understand > their attitude towards work. Now I get angry when I have to pick up > after other people. The difference isn't in the young whippersnappers, > it's that I've grown up to be an a-hole. > > In my opinion, the top traits that will make a person successful are these: > > 1. The willingness to look at your own work and say, "I can do this > better next time." > > 2. Willingness to look at an unfamiliar problem and say "I've got the > ball, I will figure out how to solve this." > > They both boil down to attitude. I don't know how such attitudes are > learned, but schools need to figure out how to teach it. Kids will do > the bare minimum at every other subject if they don't somehow get the > attitude right. When the bare minimum is good enough at school then > that's what they'll do the rest of their life. > > Just one a-hole's opinion. > > -Adam > > > On 12/14/2020 11:02 AM, Nate Burke wrote: > > I'm getting tired of what is either bad data, or people just not > > caring about their jobs. To quote Moss 'I've sent an email, it's > > fine...' Not bothering to go beyond their first google result and > > calling it good. Why can't people take pride in their jobs anymore? > > > > Dunn and Bradstreet has the contact for our company listed as someone > > who has never worked here, and they want to charge us to update their > > info. Circular file cabinet for anything from them. > > > > Paypal just called looking for someone who has never worked here. > > > > A police department in Massachusetts (we are in Illinois) Left us a > > voicemail asking us to remove our vehicle from their street. He left > > me the VIN and Registration number of the vehicle, but did not leave > > an area code with his callback number, he Blocked his CID. I had to > > get the RPID info from our phone provider to track down his department > > to tell them that we're not who he's looking for. Why did he not > > actually start with the vehicle registration info instead of googling > > for the name that was on the side of the van and calling the first > > result? i fell like the police would have access to that data. > > > > The FBI emailed me a Subpoena for ip address records for IP addresses > > that was not ours, but another company with a similar sounding name. > > > > Not to mention companies applying payments to wrong circuits, so 1 > > circuit has a 5 month credit on it, and they shut a 2nd circuit off > > for non-payment with no letters or calls. > > > > I was talking to someone in the airline industry, they said the > > biggest problem they have with new employees is perfection. The new > > employee will say 'it's fine, it works 95% of the time' to which they > > have to be reminded that someone will die if that 5% comes up. > > > > And don't get be started on how Bloated all software is now. > > > > I guess I'm just getting too old and curmudgeonly and these young > > whippersnappers just don't understand what doing a good job is. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
-- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
