BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! armc4 long time no seeeen how r u doing !!..
Well, throwing things and biting people at work.
10 years of the factory being on the verge of closing, so prior to my joining, pretty much everyone who had any skill or sense GTFO. Then a fortune 500 company bought the place and started trying to push volume... but the management in place is a bunch of incompetent, ball-licking yes-men who seem to think they can sweep any problem under a rug when we have tens of thousands of box orders coming in and they think a laser running 8 parts an hour is going to be their ace in the hole to both cut small parts AND keep up with a lack of hard tooling for the auto presses (because... you know... why the **** would we want dies ready to put in the machine when we are getting ready to try and push 300 premium boxes a day out the door?).
Basically... a lot of people who are paid a lot more than me need to be racing a fucking tow truck out of the place, but the coastal company that bought us is more concerned about whether or not someone is offended by how we are talking to each other. I mean, it's cool... I'll work 70 hours a week and get double time on Sundays until I can find a place paying me better to be a labor drone, or that actually employs my skill set. I'm done watching them promote mistakes out of the department to then go **** us in the ass with a bigger dildo from another department.
I swear to God... I am going to start lying my ass off on applications. I see the applications posted for positions in this place, and I see the people they hire into them. I will not be giving them notice when I find a new job. Idiots want to flip around job orders all the time and expect a 3-day long production pipeline to snap-to in 8 hours. I'm sure they can figure out how to fill a position that operates/programs two completely different machines while performing associated labor and troubleshooting on them the moment they realize their operator isn't present. Should be rather simple.
A certain large company will be late with their delivery on a retail product line. The plant manager will be informed why via a hand-written letter. Not typed on a computer. That means as much as the monthly news letters and other meaningless garbage spouted from fingertips the world over.
TLDR: REEEEE
I spent a little while after my shift ended to browse applications online and apply. I ended up letting that one slip by that I'd mentioned back when. Kicking myself for that, now. But - eh, there are others that have international travel in the mix... actually... there's one that is advertising for jobs in Antarctica... which... not sure I want to go through the alien initiation ceremony necessary to visit the gaping hole in the planet... but I'm being silly... sort of... the **** is going on in antarctica all of the sudden that has a job surge? ramp-up for the space force and the star-gate?
.... I am not sure if I want to be ironically right about that, or not, to be perfectly honest.
Depending on how all of that goes, I may be able to get set up the way I want to in order to start a small business and take the world by storm. If not... I need to get a steel beam or something for the basement, downstairs... the block foundation is starting to separate at one corner because of traffic on the alley road just beside it. It's an old duplex home we are renting, and it's a bad sign when I can see daylight through the foundation wall. I probably need to drive down into the bedrock to prop up the floor frame so that the damn thing doesn't fall in on me and kill me while I'm making shit in the basement.
I'll have to be sure that nothing I build down there is too big to take outside. That - or I'll have to ask my friend's grandfather about the lot next door. I could maybe put a shed on that ... would have to check the zoning... the city likes to get all prissy about the kinds of buildings that go up around town, but has no problems letting the gangs run wild over by the school, of all places.
I'm hoping to have a scanning electron microscope built and set up by Christmas, and then have a working prototype of my ubermensch project working by your birthday, next year. Mainly a proof-of-concept for a single element. Multi-element and in-stream compound production will be another set of trials. I'll also have to look at a trace-element refinement process ... but the more complicated all of it gets, the more I would benefit from being able to bring specialists into the fold - chemists, programmers, and a couple physicists. The work load grows exponentially very quickly as the feature set and desired capabilities expand, as do the number of nuances of the design and the gaps in my own knowledge... which can only be filled so quickly working on my own.
The main obstacle at the moment is that I agreed to be a nice person and help some people out... and... much as I suspected, it's not really helping as much as I hoped it would, and I hold a couple debts I am trying to pay off... suffice to say I pay more for other people than I pay for myself, currently. Like... more than double my own living expenses. Which - I'm not really angry at them - I just could have been in a much better place, already (and actually be in a much better financial position to assist them as I want to be able to do), if I'd not agreed to it.
Maybe... it may have played a bigger role in things than I realize. But I wasn't doing it as an investment expecting a return. It's just that now other responsibilities I knew would be coming up, I am late on and out of position to address. Oh well. It's only money. A temporary necessity.
