Long rant coming!
My plant is shared by multiple groups, with me currently being assigned to the Space & Sea one. Most days, I run the x ray machine Space purchased for their department/items because I still am the only person on site qualified for radiographic inspections. (That is, a different mess) I typically do not mind, because it keeps me busy and I love working on our projects because space is great and so is making sure people can breathe in space. The machine they purchased, they chose because it only needed to check our small OD tube welds and maybe some small eb welds on some ports. Also fine. Except now other areas now know of the machine and are requesting I run their parts. Problems are two-fold. One: their items are larger units, mostly because they are from the AMS (air management systems) group, who do projects for big ass airplanes and shit. It'll be like heat exchangers with cores bigger than me, which my little machine really does not have the kv to complete. I do try and explain this to them, but they just want to "save money and time by staying in house". Except, it doesn't do either if I cannot actually do it and instead you tell me to try anyway and I waste everyone's time. I have also tried to get this across to the bigger boss in Space, since he is the one who approves anything outside Space to come in/be assigned to me and others. He does not mind me wasting their time, because he gets crazy good charge rates for trying to work items for other areas. Which brings me to my second issue. Two: Bigger boss is awful about selecting the appropriate KPIs and how he gains his data. One thing he primarily uses to rate our performance is our "efficiency numbers". Which he literally just checks how many hours we work are charged to space programs vs anything else. Which means each time he approves one of these AMS jobs to be run by me, he makes great money but because I then have to charge outside of Space, my numbers tank. So, it means I am now wasting time attempting impossible items and my numbers show I am shit. I have tried to speak with him about this mess, arguing that maybe there could be a different way to eval my charges. Since, he assigns these projects to me it is not like I can just not do them. Plus, returning to the whole only one certified in the building bit...means anything big boss approves to be radiographed, means it's in my queue and no one else's and I legitimately have no choice but to run it eventually. It is just a mess and I absolutely loathe it. Especially because the AMS people are getting quite awful in their messages (luckily it's all by email because third shift means they won't ever be there when I am) because they feel my area is not completing things in a timely manner, or they're pissed when I have to give receipts that prove how I cannot process their request. It is just getting really tiring.
Not to mention how I am supposed to be working on training someone on both x ray and another area I am certified to run, but that has gone on a bit of a hiatus because the internal certification requires x number of hours working space specific items. Which means while I do (or just attempt enough to prove it's impossible) the non-space work, I cannot have him earn his trainee hours. What a freaking mess/pain.
Despite it all, still the best job I have ever had and I still enjoy it most of the time.
Just had that rant building up because of two AMS items that have been sitting over in my queue on and off for WEEKS.
Aside from work, stuff is good.
Had a few more rehearsals for the chorus. Not sure if I will go for a solo.
Got 100% on Dogs Organized Neatly! Will need a new puzzle game soon.
Got stuck on a BG3 mission (do these foundry workers really have a death wish or what?!) so I purchased newest like a dragon.
BEEN OBSESSED WITH NEW LIKE A DRAGON
Shits just ridiculous and I love turn based games.
This fucking game...
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Love DnD but love it best when the Sat and Sun groups aren't aligned to be the same weekend!
Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett
Wizard: Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Biography of a Genius - Marc J Seifer
Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
