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shawn
01-14-2004, 06:54 PM
I haven't posted something in this forum for a long time but it's been a great week for me so I guess I'll let everyone in on it.
The day before yesterday my friend Shanda who got me my job on a CNC drilling machine they are training me on was walking past the cafeteria. She overheard the plant manager say to my boss that I was an excellent worker and they couldn't afford to let me go. Well she told me this and not an hour later the boss and manager call me into the office for my first review. Well I end up getting verygood to excellent in all catagories and they give me a $.40 /hr raise and I've been there only 2 months now and I really don't think the jobs that hard but they still think I do a kick ass job. Well yesterday before lunch the coowner Geegee comes up to me and she remembers me working at the shop back in the 80's but they can't find the paperwork on the amount of time I worked for them. Well I can't remember myself but tell her I'll hit the unemployment office and find out. She says thanks and that I should try to get her the times as soon as possible because she want's to add those months/years to what I've worked since being rehired to be put toward the companies profit sharing program. I was in shock. I've never had people I've worked for treat me this good just so I won't go someplace else because around here they usually say "You're lucky to have a job", but this company is being so decent to me it's scary. You ever have one of those weeks where things just fall into place with no effort, it feels so goooood. <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>

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Isildur
01-14-2004, 07:14 PM
Way to go! <img src=smilies/thumb.gif><img src=smilies/thumb.gif><img src=smilies/thumb.gif>

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puduhead
01-14-2004, 07:47 PM
That's really great news Shawn. Glad to hear it! <img src=smilies/thumb.gif>

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JCJones86
01-14-2004, 08:56 PM
That's great to hear, shawn. <img src=smilies/thumb.gif> Glad things are going well for you.

And yeah, I like the feeling when an employer appreciates your work. I've been working with my current employer for nearly two months, and my boss has already suggested transferring me to another location when I leave for college. He's said "great work" many times, and believe it or not it makes the job worthwhile. A paycheck is only part of the reward deserved by a hard laborer, in my opinion.

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shawn
01-14-2004, 10:27 PM
> He's said "great work" many times, and believe it
> or not it makes the job worthwhile.

I definitely like it when I here I'm doing great work, makes is actually nice going to work, but the extra cash is great to since it shows they really mean it and aren't just saying it to manipulate me. This is actually the first time I've enjoyed working in any way for almost 3 years and I really think I needed this. <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>

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shawn
01-16-2004, 05:49 PM
I learned to run the router part of my machine for the first time today to cut out the circuit boards right before we ship them. I did a ton of boards and not a single mistake the whole day and good thing because 1 order I did was 33 circuit boards which I completed in 1/2 an hour and each one of them is worth more than what I make in a month, so if I had messed them all up that would have been equal to almost 3 years at my present pay rate. <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>

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Isildur
01-16-2004, 07:38 PM
> so if I had messed them all up that would have been
> equal to almost 3 years at my present pay rate.
>

Yeah, I remember that "If I make a bad mistake, I am soooo dead!" feeling from when I started operating a several-hundred-thousand-dollar scanning electron microscope for demonstrations, at the science museum that I mentioned earlier. I soon became comfortable using it, though.

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shawn
01-17-2004, 12:15 AM
> Yeah, I remember that "If I make a bad mistake, I am soooo
> dead!" feeling from when I started operating a
> several-hundred-thousand-dollar scanning electron microscope
> for demonstrations, at the science museum that I mentioned
> earlier. I soon became comfortable using it, though.

You ran one of those? They are so cool, we had one when I worked at Polyclad 3 years ago in the R&D dept. The thing was just a 3ft cube, I couldn't believe it was that small, but it could still be used to view the structure of the prepreg crystals*insultor* that made up the circuit boards and they could view the molecules up to I believe 350,000x magnification. <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>

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Isildur
01-17-2004, 04:58 AM
> You ran one of those? They are so cool, we had one when I
> worked at Polyclad 3 years ago in the R&D dept. The thing
> was just a 3ft cube, I couldn't believe it was that small,
> but it could still be used to view the structure of the
> prepreg crystals*insultor* that made up the circuit boards
> and they could view the molecules up to I believe 350,000x
> magnification.
>

Unfortunately I couldn't use the full magnification (I think it was about 300,000x or so) because the chamber wasn't isolated enough from building vibrations (I wouldn't be surprised if newer models are better-able to compensate for such disturbances), so beyond something like 30,000x the picture just became vague blurs.

In this one too, the actual vacuum chamber itself was pretty small, a cubic foot or so, if even that much. What took up a lot more room were the machinery stored below the chamber, the table-sized control console, and the large cooling unit. (The cooling unit unfortunately broke down a few times. Not my fault, I swear. =P)

It was fun using it to show people things like fleas magnified on the screens to the size of house cats. =) As I recall, the images elicited lot's of "Ew, yuck!"s (usually from adults) and "Cool!"s (usually from kids). =D

I worked there for several summers. One time when I came back for a new summer, I looked at a familiar mount, a tarantula, only to be startled when its legs started moving slightly. It took me a moment to realize that the only reason the long-dead creature was moving was because its electron-dissipating gold coating had largely worn off over the past year in certain spots, so its legs were getting charged up and repelling each other. But before I realized that, it was a real "WHAT THE FUCK???" moment. <img src=smilies/laff.gif>

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