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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3767569 times)

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31755 on: January 17, 2014, 12:09:16 pm »

I'm going to exercise my right to end this conversation. Most parties have expressed interest in it being over. I'm going to lock the thread for a while, not because anyone made it happen but so everyone has a chance to move on. Thanks for a pretty decent debate folks.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31756 on: January 17, 2014, 08:38:04 pm »

Looking up hurricanes on Wikipedia is so boring. I just keep getting "The storm formed in the middle of nowhere in the ocean, moved around randomly on the water for a few days, then disappeared."
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31757 on: January 17, 2014, 09:06:58 pm »

DISPATCH
Y U TAKE AWAY 600+ MILE LOAD TO SALT LAKE CITY
Y U TELL ME TO DROP THE TRAILER IN LAS VEGAS FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO DELIVER
I DO THE HARD PART GETTING IT OUT OF LA AND THROUGH VEGAS, THEY GET THE EASY PART
RAAAAAAAGE
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31758 on: January 17, 2014, 09:10:42 pm »

Daddy's little boy needs an easy job that won't give him hemerhoids.
One that makes him feel manly without doing much, and which can be arranged on short notice.

That's my call on it.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31759 on: January 17, 2014, 09:17:00 pm »

Logistics is hairy shit.  Always something going wrong.  Always people trying to complicate things for more excuses to throw more charges into the process.  Always people angry because they're not getting their stuff when they thought they would.  Businesses don't like keeping extra inventory around to smooth over operations, because that unused material looks bad on their books.  So everything's always last minute and high pressure.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31760 on: January 17, 2014, 09:21:29 pm »

That would explain the "GET IT HERE NAO1!" Urgency, but not the "Ok, now unhitch the trailer so random other trucker can haul it to the destination, litterally at the doorstep of the destination"

It makes much more sense to have the shipment delivered, given they already paid somebody to haul it up long distance.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31761 on: January 17, 2014, 09:22:55 pm »

Businessmen don't deal in sense.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31762 on: January 17, 2014, 09:26:16 pm »

Businessmen don't deal in sense.
Quick, someone corner the market on sense before someone else gets the idea.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31763 on: January 17, 2014, 09:29:59 pm »

That would explain the "GET IT HERE NAO1!" Urgency, but not the "Ok, now unhitch the trailer so random other trucker can haul it to the destination, litterally at the doorstep of the destination"

It makes much more sense to have the shipment delivered, given they already paid somebody to haul it up long distance.
It's hardly the doorstep, there's still a good 400 miles or so between where I'm dropping and where its going. But there's a hell of a lot less traffic in those 400 miles than in the 200+ I'm covering, which you could cover in a single day if needed. And the worst part is the delivery is two whole days from now! I could drive a leisurely seven-eight hours a day and have time to spare!
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31764 on: January 17, 2014, 09:33:03 pm »

Ahhhhhhhh......


That explains *everything*.

They want to use the trailer as free temporary warehouse space.
(And don't want to pay you for extra drive time.)
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31765 on: January 17, 2014, 09:45:36 pm »

The temporary warehouse idea might have some merit, but not the extra drive time thing. We don't get paid by the hour, we get paid by the mile. Whether I break multiple laws by rushing the distance in a single day, or take my time and arrive at the exact scheduled arrival time, I get paid the exact same amount. Once I drop the trailer, I get paid for the miles I covered. Whoever picks it up to finish the job gets paid for the rest of the miles. Either way the company will pay X amount of dollars, just divied up between two drivers instead of one.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31766 on: January 17, 2014, 09:51:34 pm »

So, look at it this way: You're obviously the most efficient, well-rounded driver they have, so they're giving you the hard stuff to get it done properly.
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« Reply #31767 on: January 17, 2014, 10:00:07 pm »

So, look at it this way: You're obviously the most efficient, well-rounded driver they have, so they're giving you the hard stuff to get it done properly.
I wish :P
I've been in the biz for seven months and there are plenty of areas in which I'm lacking. This company has drivers with more than five MILLION safe miles and drivers who routinely get an monthly average MPG of 9+. Mine tends to be in the 7 range - still good for trucks, but not the best.

Well, whatever the reason behind the decision, all I can do is my best.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31768 on: January 17, 2014, 11:12:26 pm »

......

I think I am the only one in this department that knows how to write both Gcode for CNC robot mills, and general purpose programming code for ordinary computers.

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I have a co-worker that I swear is more anal retentive than sigmund frued himself.

Here's the scoop: despite being swamped with work that needs to get done, I get continual little requests to improve a script to generate setupsheets from our cad-cam package for our NC setups, so that it requires less and less manual inputs in various places.

The last thing he wanted me to fix was a silly cosmetic issue about the resulting sheets in the editor not being centered on the screen when he was editing them. I had to write a special FOR loop to iterate between the sheets, and tell CATIA to reframe the view explicitly, just to shut him up.

Today, I get to write a select case block to populate a bunch more text fields with information about the currently active programmer, their desk phone extension, and things of that nature.

Seriously. These are NOT hard things at all-- why am I the only one maintaining this script? I practically wrote the damned thing! Gah! (It came to me as a very skeletal POS from CoE.org that had some basic framework functionality. I have now iteratively juiced the thing so that it builds our titleblock and frame format texts, generates multiple display views of the NC setup, and fills out about 90% of the titleblock automagically. Apparently writting your name and telephone extension in the box is too troublesome to do. One of them dug up a VBA function to return the active username from windows, but is clueless about how to write a case decision block...)

I'm not paid to do software development, but here I am... building an in-house tool... and maintaining the in-house tool.  I've made a handful of others too, for doing engraving with CATIA because Dassault left out that functionality. (Does everything else though.) Generates wireframe company logo and user entered text as line and curve elements to drive a profile contouring op on.

I even made the vectorized template of the company logo... because we didn't have one.

Don't get me wrong-- the other guys do shitloads of work too.  But I seem to be the only one also doubling as an in-house tool writer.

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31769 on: January 17, 2014, 11:46:21 pm »

why am I the only one maintaining this script? I practically wrote the damned thing!
Answered your own question.
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