My day. (recycled bitching from IM conversation)

[ristin]

Here's me ranting and bitching (quite rightly) about my day to darth_phylos because i spent all day saving my machine (and a year's worth of work) because someone (damnit but i can't prove who) did something stupid without telling the competent people...and i spent all day cleaning up their mess.

Darth Phylos: Yay!!! Weekend!
Ristin Raccoon: yup
Ristin Raccoon: finally
Darth Phylos: Woo hoo!!!
Darth Phylos: How was your day?
Ristin Raccoon: *groan*
Ristin Raccoon: gunna LJ rant about it
Ristin Raccoon: stressful morning
Ristin Raccoon: end of day (once problems solved) was fun
Darth Phylos: That good huh?
Ristin Raccoon: y'know that machine of mine?
Ristin Raccoon: that i've been working on all year?
Darth Phylos: I have heard of it
Ristin Raccoon: someone fucked it up badly with a simple error
Darth Phylos: Bugger
Ristin Raccoon: basically there is a water flush system
Ristin Raccoon: which has an entry point for water after each pump for the reactand feeds.
Ristin Raccoon: with the feeds OFF you can flush the lines wth water.
Ristin Raccoon: then from the 2 pumps 2 long pipes carry the feeds to seperate spots and some controlled mixing apparatus
Ristin Raccoon: ...
Ristin Raccoon: but just before these 2 water feed points, there are valves, to stop backflow
Ristin Raccoon: because the water pipe splits to the 2 valves
Ristin Raccoon: and if a FUCKTARD opens those valves when the feed pumps are active
Ristin Raccoon: then you get the 2 feeds shooting back up the water supply line
Darth Phylos: Fuck
Ristin Raccoon: and both feeds in each supposedly-isolated feed line
Ristin Raccoon: so
Ristin Raccoon: guess what
Ristin Raccoon: have 2 lovely feed liquids
Ristin Raccoon: that
Ristin Raccoon: on contact
Ristin Raccoon: reacts
Ristin Raccoon: making solid
Ristin Raccoon: fuck
Darth Phylos: So that moron you work with fucked up again...
Ristin Raccoon: yup
Ristin Raccoon: but no proof it was him
Darth Phylos: He should soooooo get the shaft
Ristin Raccoon: that little fucker opened those valves (god knows why) and the boss of bosses used it and POW!
Ristin Raccoon: blockages everywhere. With the controlled mixing it is dilute, and forms a slurry. with direct mixing and no water dilution it sets solid and blocks...you need to dig the shit out of the pipes.
Ristin Raccoon: 2 valves burst due to pressure buildup
Darth Phylos: Holy crap!
Ristin Raccoon: luckily nothing irreplaceable was damaged
Darth Phylos: Not good while the head honcho is there...
Ristin Raccoon: yup
Ristin Raccoon: apparently he went in after hours
Ristin Raccoon: to do the run
Darth Phylos: Okay
Ristin Raccoon: not long after getting bac from a week in japan
Ristin Raccoon: i was supposed to come in and run my baby...
Ristin Raccoon: ....instead a WHOLE DAY fixing it
Darth Phylos: Did you get to do at least one real run?
Ristin Raccoon: (man, but i so rocked at it)
Ristin Raccoon: no
Ristin Raccoon: monday
Darth Phylos: :-(
Darth Phylos: Okay
Ristin Raccoon: after more repairs and replacements
Ristin Raccoon: mind if i use this as a LJ post 'cos otherwise i gotta re-bitch there.
Ristin Raccoon: ?
Darth Phylos: Nah - that's cool
Ristin Raccoon: thanks

Comments

[ephant.livejournal.com]

man that sucks *hugs*

evil machine of deaaatthh!

[ristin.livejournal.com]

Y'know what, the machine was working fine. Yup, it's "the help" that sucks. He's a far bigger danger than the machine was at it's worst...and that includes the "shooting metal bolts at your face at bullet like velocities" moments!

[ephant.livejournal.com]

Lets just hope that the machine shoots metal bolts at his face *evil*

[ristin.livejournal.com]

I hope so too, but after i am safely away and blameless.

Actually that problem got solved...
...only after the third time it happened.

[pixelpi.livejournal.com]

Ristin, I seriously hope you don't work at a nuclear reactor plant.

It might turn me to prayer again after reading that.

[ristin.livejournal.com]

Nope, not a power plant. ^_^

[subrosa-florens.livejournal.com]

Where do they get people like that idiot from? And why do they keep him around? What bred that monstrosity!

[ristin.livejournal.com]

Near as i can tell...
Since he is a black south african, he has high-level issues about being told what to do or being in a subordinate role (i.e. due to white dominance during the colonial times and apartheid) so now anytime he is asked to do something it makes him 'rebel' in small stupid ways like saying he has to do something else first and doing a (too obvious) go slow routine.
I can see him getting his jollies anytime he is able to give me a hard time, 'cos of course i am white...

...i'm just sick of that guy, I will stick-it-to-him with the boss, finger him for the error even with the too-scarce proof and recommend he be taken off the project.
I've been too tolerant, plus he's gone too far now.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

In the case of this co-worker, it's due to governmental employment - almost impossible to get fired, it would seem. Every time he updates, I find myself both commending him for his restraint in not reducing the headcount by one in a fairly direct manner, and marvelling at just how stupendously incompetent someone can be, yet remain solidly employed for years. *sigh*

[shadowbitten.livejournal.com]

Just be royal ironplated steel cased bitch to him.
If he drags his feet, tell him to get a move on TODAY! If he is fiddling with things he shouldn't, tell him to stop.
If he is doing the routine of" I told you to this.. Yeah, but I have to go to the loo/take a breather/do something else." Then be a bitch and tell him that yours take precedence since he is part and parcel of making this machine run efficiently.

Racial issues he can bloody well stuff so far up his rear end, that he will have to snuff them out by sneezing.

And before you leave the job, give the Big Boss Man a total review of his job performance, oral and/or written.
Of course if there is ANYTHING good about the person in question, be sure to bring it up, but in the middle of the conversation/paper.

Anything he does should be jotted down. Take notes on his job performance or just doodle on the paper. But do something to give that SOB grief!

*grumble*
Ignorance I can handle by education, but willfull incompetence/stupidity I can not tolerate.

People and the color of their skin. *rolls eyes*
We are ALL Homo Sapiens sapiens!

Bah humbug.