More stupid work stories

[fbhjr]

I think the stock manger where I work is a total incompetent. He’s the one
who once told me “don’t put that part in stock, it will get lost.” He is,
of course, the person in charge of stock.
He is also saw happy. We stock several different heights of panels. If
he’s out of stock of one, he likes to cut down others to make the part he
needs, rather than properly plan what he needs to come in right.
So now, we’re out of long ones, and an order has come in that needs them.
He wants to weld short ones back together. Leaving aside the difficulty of
welding thin aluminum extrusions back together, he sends an email to me
today saying:
“Can you make a drawing that shows that you have to add 24” to a 42” to get
66”?”
“Why do you need a drawing?” I asked.
“Because no one can figure out what lengths to cut without one,” he said.
“But, you already said the lengths in your email,” I said.
“We don’t know if those are the real numbers,” he said.
“You’ve got a 42” part. You want it to be 66”. So, you add 24”,” I said.
“See, that’s why we need a drawing, to tell us that,” he said.
“But, all that was in the email you sent,” I say. “You must already know
it.”
“Not without a drawing,” he said.

So, I spent half an hour making a drawing showing that 24+42=66.
I still think that was a waste of my time.
(Yesterday I had to tell him you couldn’t add two 24” parts together and
get a 66” part. But, that’s another story.)

Then, I got an email from on of the women in purchasing. She used to work
in accounting, but decided it was better to work in purchasing. She seems
nice enough, but wears something I’m highly allergic to, so her presence
makes my physically ill. And, I think she looks like Jar-Jar Binks. But,
I digress….
She sent me an email saying “Do the counter weights from company A work
with the product from company B?”
I wrote back saying “No. Company A and company B use totally different
weights. You can’t mix or swap them.”
She wrote back “So, if I need weights for product from company B, which
company do I buy it from?”
Yeah…
So, I had to send an email saying “Buy company A parts from company A. Buy
company B parts from company B.”

The response?
“I wish it wasn’t so hard to figure this out!”

Comments

[saeble.livejournal.com]

Euthanasia is high on my list of desired legislative change.

"Oh I'm sorry Mary-Joe, you didn't make the IQ test cut off point, please form an orderly line with the other retards over there, don't fret, you'll be lawn fertiliser before you know it."

Hmm

[gilden.livejournal.com]

Let's leave the youth-in-Asia out of this. They have enough problems with the Chinese harvesting their organs.

Re: Hmm

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

You're confusing it with Youth-In-Asia, the boy band...

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

The meek shall inherit the Earth...Sounds like it's already happened...So now it's the Meek's even meeker offspring have inherited and taken over the Earth...

We're doomed...DOOOOOMED :D

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

I have, on quite rare occasions, encountered very intelligent people working in purchasing departments. But, this is a rare occurrence - I think that this profession tends to attract people who love to spend time in malls. Or perhaps think that a career in purchasing includes going to malls. I am sure that malls figure into it some way or another..

I found it really odd that, as a contractor, I had to negotiate the price and shipping details for a part one time for a client company, and then give the information to the purchasing agent. She said, "all I do is buy stuff, I don't ask about prices !"