There’s always a Leonard to mess things up. They can’t seem to help themselves and have to ruin a good thing. It’s ironic he shared the name of Lennie from Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” who got himself into repeated trouble with women due to his carelessness and low IQ. Glad you got the assembly line gig. Hearing about the lathe makes it sound like it was ancient technology that no one really understood but tried to use by intuition. I hope you can share more stories of the new place.
The lathe wasn't too bad, I enjoyed using it for the most part, when it actually worked that is. The guys on my crew didn't seem to know what they were doing, when Dan was in charge we'd do maybe 300-400 parts on a good night. After he left I asked the older machinists what the best way to run the lathe was, really picked their brains and after a while I was churning out over 700 parts a night, they even gave me a pay raise, not to brag of course.
Right, the lathe seemed actually pretty comfy. I remember those types of repetitive tasks and how you can become really good at minimizing drag/inefficencies. One time, I was helping organize some volunteers for a mailing campaign and applied my austist level of attention to each movement. From the positioning of the envelopes to the scanning of the addresses, I found new small tweaks to maximize. This is why businesses depend on skilled workers despite all the money they shovel into marketing and managers. The boots on the ground have insight that nobody else has.
There’s always a Leonard to mess things up. They can’t seem to help themselves and have to ruin a good thing. It’s ironic he shared the name of Lennie from Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” who got himself into repeated trouble with women due to his carelessness and low IQ. Glad you got the assembly line gig. Hearing about the lathe makes it sound like it was ancient technology that no one really understood but tried to use by intuition. I hope you can share more stories of the new place.
The lathe wasn't too bad, I enjoyed using it for the most part, when it actually worked that is. The guys on my crew didn't seem to know what they were doing, when Dan was in charge we'd do maybe 300-400 parts on a good night. After he left I asked the older machinists what the best way to run the lathe was, really picked their brains and after a while I was churning out over 700 parts a night, they even gave me a pay raise, not to brag of course.
Right, the lathe seemed actually pretty comfy. I remember those types of repetitive tasks and how you can become really good at minimizing drag/inefficencies. One time, I was helping organize some volunteers for a mailing campaign and applied my austist level of attention to each movement. From the positioning of the envelopes to the scanning of the addresses, I found new small tweaks to maximize. This is why businesses depend on skilled workers despite all the money they shovel into marketing and managers. The boots on the ground have insight that nobody else has.