Posted by Clint Dixon [108.162.216.33] on Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 16:51:43 :
In Reply to: And Clint aka Junior posted by Brent [108.162.216.62] on Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 12:58:38 :
I'm busted Brent. You got me figured out. ;^)
All great comments in the thread below. I particularly like this one, "Sometimes it takes a thick skin to successfully mine for jewels of wisdom." Jeremy, hope you don't mind if I use that one sometime. And Glen, I remember the look on your face when we introduced. It was priceless! I know what you mean about first impressions. Too bad first and second impressions cannot be just for practice. Third impressions are usually closer to the mark. Jerry, there were some of my posts I wish I had read the 11th time and then deleted.
And no, I am not sticking pins in the monitor. Maybe trying to stick pins in the mirror sometimes though. I wish all those guys I listed were still with us. With what I know now, the arguing might be a little more fun this time around. Maybe I could even let them know that none of it was meant to be personal and I hope they didn't take it that way.
Kevin, I think this forum is ending pretty well. People are having a pretty good discussion right up to the end. What you said about the lack of face-to-face emotion reminds me of what has happened at work.
As some of you know, I left my Design job of 15 years, almost a year ago, to go back to the machine shop. I went back at the same level as the shop foremen. The four of us answer directly to the Vice President. One in particular apparently thought I was steeling his job as he did a portion of the inspections before the Director of Quality Control position was created. After I started, he would continually walk away right in the middle of me trying to make a point or explaining something. Or, he would act as if I were invisible, change the subject and talk to someone else. Well, we had it out right in front of the Vice President, in his office, and I about broke the hinges off of two doors on the way out. Today, we respect each other and understand that our separate responsibilities serve the best interests of the company. What he does helps me and what I do helps him. We make each others jobs easier and we go out of the way to help each other. Then, there was the shop loud mouth, a very opinionated individual who does not take direction well. He does a very good job running the mills and knows it, but makes sure everyone else knows it as well. I was a tolerated newby until the first time I rejected his first piece. Then, all h*** broke loose. He and the entire shop found out quickly that I could yell just a loudly as him and that regardless of how much he yelled over his shoulder and gee and hawed around the place, I was not backing down and he wasn't getting away from me. Now that the ice was broken, we get along fine. There is a mutual respect and I have to say I have learned more about the operation of CNC machines from him than anyone else and I let him know that.
I am not proud that either of those instances had to happen in the presence of other workers, but comments from others since have made me feel better about it.
All the comments here have made me feel better too. Thanks!
Junior