Random Rants 94 I rant at the thread title and shake my fist menacingly.

[Voidwalkin]

There's a new Poise pads add I saw with the words "Laugh confidently".

What indignities life throws at us.

 

[Ordnael]

Saturday with friends someone mentioned the reborn dolls craze and I was like WTH!?, people go to pediatry wards asking for treatment for dolls! And now I read a few paragraphs of an article on the reborn dolls on a online newspaper I like to consult and now I feel sick

 

[Voidwalkin]

The quality control woman at work is behaving like a boss without any authority.

Worse still, she does not understand our product, nor the stresses of production. Even rudimentary details elude her grasp. It's actually quite shocking.

She will stand and watch you work for an hour, everyday, and in 3 months, has found 1 defective product, out of the tens of thousands(probably closer to 6 figures, maybe over) of products processed.

I'm unsure how management is allowing that. That is approximately four hundred and fifty labor hours to catch one defective product. The estimated value of said product is 125$.

Cost to company reputation negligible, quality is already way up(coinciding with the beginning of my stay, imagine)

Labor hour cost estimated to be approaching 10000$, to pay her to stand there(she revealed her wage and I did the math)

Really quite obscene. May consider new employment elsewhere.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Labor hour cost estimated to be approaching 10000$

She is making $10,000 per hour?

 

[Voidwalkin]

She is making $10,000 per hour?

Oh absolutely not, lol

It's the approximate sum of what she's made watching people(but not actually checking product, the role of QC there) over three months. 450 hours x her wage nears 10k, yeah.

I only get watched for an hour per day. Some coworkers have it worse. About 9 total hours per day watching various people work. Driving people nuts.

Eventually, she will be terminated, if she keeps that up. Already been told by senior people not to, can't help herself.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[danjuno]

I've reached the point where I feel like I'm not cut out for using Linux (at least for anything more strenuous than running Firefox or LibreOffice).

 

[Ordnael]

Tried Mint to keep an old laptop alive for a while...it somehow worked, having a fanatical brother for Linux helped in those times, he was kinda of my helpdesk
Eventually that laptop died out and on my criteria for the next purchase was SSD memory and of course good old, still new at the time, Windows 11
It just works for the little stuff I ask out of that computer with no fuss, and not having to call on my helpdesk every time something was not working or asking for command prompts to make it work is also a plus for me
My take is that Linux is for people that enjoy taking that extra mile to make a computer do something. Windows is for people with less time, less patient and, according to my brother, the lazy. Well that's me

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

I can never spell colloseum right. Colliseum. Whatever; I see red squiggly lines typing this.

 

[Birdjaguar]

In Rome they spell it Colosseum.

 

[Arakhor]

And Colosseo, of course, but that's due to how the -um and -us of Classical Latin changed into the -o of modern Italian.

(See also the Circus Maximus, known in Italian as the Circo Massimo.)

 

[soundjata]

It is burning hot here and now.
Canicule, you know. It is painful.
Still no aircon. But it's getting harder to resist

While humans are dying with their tongue outside, do you know what animal is striving?
Ants are. They like it hot! Oh lord Hymenoptera

The hotter the summer the more queens hatching, says some BBC article...
But I can confirm that because, every night before sunset, I have to fight (with vinegar lol) for every square inch of fissure in the walls, to prevent waves of flying ants entering my house, which they seem to consider like a reproduction haven

My brain overheating makes me cynical.
When we are extinct, ants will reign on earth

 

[Voidwalkin]

Hot here too. Had a couple 95 degree days. My AC couldn't keep up, still not back down to my preferred 64 degrees.

 

[Voidwalkin]

I can never spell colloseum right. Colliseum. Whatever; I see red squiggly lines typing this.

I think for me, and some other people, restaurant is that word.

Occasionally, bureaucrat will get me too, though less often.

 

[Voidwalkin]

A brief question of fairness

I am occasionally asked to work with another team member.

This team member is unable to physically handle the job. She is more experienced, but produces a lesser product at lesser volume and with greater errors. She speaks little English.

Consequently, she is frequently given easier jobs. Less weight, less responsibility, as well as moved to altogether different areas of the department with less difficulty. On most workdays, I am soloing a job so fast paced and physical that the 2nd shift crew, which contains two people, is similarly beneath my volume and quality.

I have worked at this place for all of 4 months. Should I just go ahead and press for a raise?

 

[Birdjaguar]

A brief question of fairness

I am occasionally asked to work with another team member.

This team member is unable to physically handle the job. She is more experienced, but produces a lesser product at lesser volume and with greater errors. She speaks little English.

Consequently, she is frequently given easier jobs. Less weight, less responsibility, as well as moved to altogether different areas of the department with less difficulty. On most workdays, I am soloing a job so fast paced and physical that the 2nd shift crew, which contains two people, is similarly beneath my volume and quality.

I have worked at this place for all of 4 months. Should I just go ahead and press for a raise?

First, help her get better and faster with improved language skills. Document that effort. Compile your history of work around both quality and quantity for at least 3 months preferably 6 or more months. Then, make sure you understand your company's raise policy. If giving individual raises for performance is part of it, take your records and her improved performance to your boss and ask about getting a raise. Ask for it based on your record and your ability to make her a better employee.

 

[Gori the Grey]

You absolutely deserve a raise. When you ask for it, don't reference the inability of the other team member. If it's true that you do twice what a two-person second shift does, you can mention that, again without badmouthing the individuals involved--just putting purely in terms of productivity.

Don't be in "rant" mode when you ask for the raise, in other words. Just make the case on the basis of your value to the company.