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  • Re: Gear Grinding 8: I Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!

    Originally posted by Jimjamesak View Post
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    Easier to just bring everything into one place and sort there.
    Think of someone that is not involved in the shipping industry:
    Wait, you're going to fly this from MSP to Louisville, only to fly it back up north to Duluth? Duluth is 2-2.5 hours away, man, driving time!
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    • Re: Gear Grinding 8: I Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!

      Originally posted by Jimjamesak View Post
      Amazon is the worst packager for shipping period. Not enough padding, stuff placed against the side of the box, stuff placed sideways to arrows etc. My work as a damage clerk at UPS is like 85% Amazon.

      Target sucks too.
      We received about 30+ packages from Amazon during December and almost all of them (other than the padded mailers they love to use) were oversized by 2 or 3 times and contained no padding/dunnage unless there were multiple items inside, and even then it was hit or miss. Boxes were crushed and/or torn, seams ripped open... and most of that damage was probably from being at the bottom of the pile.

      I also purchased an iPad (as a gift) from Target. Its package was approx 10 x 8 x 2 and was shipped in a box that had to be 16" square and about 12" deep... with absolutely no inner packing. It looked lovely when it arrived.

      As someone who spent the last 25+ years as a shipping manager I was astounded by the lack of proper packaging (and moreso the carton size selection), but I understand that with the volumes they crank out corners must be cut. Their damage claims must be astronomical.
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        THey finnnnnallly took the pkg last night and delivered the other packages- well past 6. I feel bad for those guys.

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          More nonsensical behavior from package delivery people....and municipal snow plow operators....

          Today we had 12" of snow and winds up to 45 mph. We received notice that four packages were delivered sometime this afternoon. We go out to look for them, don't see any, except the corner of one box peeking out above the snow.

          Apparently, the package delivery people left the packages at the base of our mailbox post alongside the street, before the plows came by. We infer this from the way the packages were found: two completely buried between post and street in snowplow pile, two others strewn uproad and offroad as if they had been tossed in the air by a passing plow.

          The street now is in great shape at least....now I just need to move ~28 inch snowpile 3 feet wide out of the way before it freezes solid overnight. At least I won't be in any hurry, it's almost more amusing than annoying at this point.
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            I’m working on one of our other buildings on campus today and it’s an open office format.

            I would end up killing someone if I had to spend more than a week here.
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            • Re: Gear Grinding 8: I Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!

              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
              I’m working on one of our other buildings on campus today and it’s an open office format.

              I would end up killing someone if I had to spend more than a week here.
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              • Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                I’m working on one of our other buildings on campus today and it’s an open office format.

                I would end up killing someone if I had to spend more than a week here.
                See pictures of office in the 60s. Everyone but the bosses worked out in the open.

                Ask Kep what the floor of Grumman was like when his Dad worked there.
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                • Re: Gear Grinding 8: I Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!

                  Originally posted by joecct View Post
                  See pictures of office in the 60s. Everyone but the bosses worked out in the open.
                  If I am not mistaken, I think that is a function of construction techniques and materials available at the time. Even the offices of today start out like that (big open empty space interspersed with a few pillars as needed to hold up the building). then they now add the walls with aluminum framing and sheets of drywall. You just couldn't do that kind of work back then with wood framing and lath and plaster walls; between material and labor costs, too expensive. Much cheaper now with lower costs and standardized construction methods.
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                  "Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin

                  "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

                  "People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom

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                  • Re: Gear Grinding 8: I Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!

                    Originally posted by joecct View Post
                    See pictures of office in the 60s. Everyone but the bosses worked out in the open.

                    Ask Kep what the floor of Grumman was like when his Dad worked there.
                    Not just the production floor. In the early 70s my Dad worked in a drafting / lab space with the other Mech Es, EEs, and programmers. Guys had drafting tables and lab tables like cafeteria lunch tables: 80 (white, crew cut, white long sleeve shirted even in August) guys all the way from interns to seniors engineers working out in the open. They shared the hulking mainframes that were set up on the side of the room and if there was test equipment they shared it and rotated through with handwritten sign up sheets. They also had beer stocked in the break room fridge and nudie pictures in the staff bathroom, and this was a white collar, college educated workplace.

                    I agree that if I had to work in open space I would be at the gun show on Wednesday and on the news on Friday.
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                    • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      Not just the production floor. In the early 70s my Dad worked in a drafting / lab space with the other Mech Es, EEs, and programmers. Guys had drafting tables and lab tables like cafeteria lunch tables: 80 (white, crew cut, white long sleeve shirted even in August) guys all the way from interns to seniors engineers working out in the open. They shared the hulking mainframes that were set up on the side of the room and if there was test equipment they shared it and rotated through with handwritten sign up sheets. They also had beer stocked in the break room fridge and nudie pictures in the staff bathroom, and this was a white collar, college educated workplace.

                      I agree that if I had to work in open space I would be at the gun show on Wednesday and on the news on Friday.
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                      F8F Bearcat
                      F9F Pantherjet
                      F-14 Tomcat
                      A-6/EA-6 Intruder/Prowler

                      And the Lunar Lander.
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                      • Re: Gear Grinding 8: I Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!

                        Originally posted by joecct View Post
                        And they built
                        F4F Wildcat
                        F6F Hellcat
                        F8F Bearcat
                        F9F Pantherjet
                        F-14 Tomcat
                        A-6/EA-6 Intruder/Prowler

                        And the Lunar Lander.
                        My Dad's signature is on a panel on the lander.

                        20k+ Long Island employees. And Republic and Sperry were right next door.
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                          Wait, THE lander?
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                          BTHC 4                 WCHA FC:  1
                          Originally posted by SanTropez
                          May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                          Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                          I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                          Originally posted by Kepler
                          When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                          He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                          • Re: Gear Grinding 8: I Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!

                            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                            Wait, THE lander?
                            Yes, the lander. Arma, division of Amboch, division of Grumman subcontracted the work for the lander and also for a portion of the command module computer. The boys who shipped included a tiny panel with all their names etched on it.

                            So, you know, so much for exceeding father's contribution to science, technology, or the country...

                            But hey, I have my looks. Sure, I'll have another.

                            Last edited by Kepler; 01-07-2018, 04:49 PM.
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                              The Bundys walk because the gubmint flubbed their case. The federal prosecutor should be fired.

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                              • Re: Gear Grinding 8: I Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!

                                Broke my wrist on Dec. 29th. Scheduled Surgery for Monday. Was told today that I need to be paid in full to have the surgery

                                When the **** did that become a thing?
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