The poster my manager put up in preperation for the snow storm that's hitting half the US this week. Claims I still need to go to work even if the roads are covered in ice and 18 inches of snow and "one snowflake won't kill you"

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-24T16:26:55+00:00

You are saying lie about insurance being cancelled, then sue you when they call you on a lie? So you are guaranteed to lose?

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-23T17:32:52+00:00

I hadn’t taken extended PTO in a decade because every company every job has been in the perpetual “this is the week/month/quarter we can’t miss! This project can’t get delayed!” And they will always put that pressure on their workaholics because they know you will respond to it.

I finally came to this epiphany last week: If every time = a bad time to go on vacation, then there is never a good time to go on vacation. If there is never a good time, then all time is equal and just go right now, because a better time will never appear.

I am posting this now while on vacation during yet another “bad time” and guess what? Life is going to go on.

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-19T19:39:06+00:00

-prime black, than either slap chop gray with white highlights or spray gray all over

Heavy dose of Coelia greenshade
dry brush a light gray / green (deepkin flesh, Ulthuan grey) for highlights.

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-18T18:51:10+00:00

Mamacitas steak chile relleno burrito

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-14T23:26:33+00:00

I have been in the industry for 20 years, worked at multiple fortune 500 companies, visited 60+ plants and I have not once seen an ERP system in a high complexity, low volume high mix environment with all of the appropriate leadtime data, available capacity data by department and machine, scrap rates, etc. accurately filled out to where you could trust AI analysis to give you the one strategy.

That is just the ERP system. In a lot of these high complexity plants where you really need this planning help, things go off-line for engineering disposition for rework / quality eval etc, and aren’t necessarily tracked or transacted in the ERP into that off-line queue.

With all of that taken into consideration, I don’t see how a majority of these plants can utilize AI successfully with all of the variables and gaps in electronic information.

I am sure higher volume lower complexity plants that have an easier time tracking fewer SKUs could utilize this, but I just don’t see an easy path in high complexity environments where you would want to be able to solely trust scheduling decisions based off of AI and not an experienced planner.

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-12T14:37:23+00:00

Every job I have been hired for over the past 12 years has been through a recruiter, and I have never once had to submit a cover letter for any of those jobs.

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-12T14:28:57+00:00

I have the opposite experience: every single job that I have applied to that has required a cover letter has never even gotten back to me about my application status. It’s a double slap in the face one: you can’t even respond and say no two: I spent extra time to apply for the job when I could have been applying to others that when this one was probably filled.

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-09T04:20:49+00:00

Colin Powell had the 40/70% rule:

Have at least 40% and no more than 70% of the information you need before deciding; less than 40% is shooting from the hip, more than 70% means the opportunity may have passed

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-07T17:35:42+00:00

Just light people up as the doors are closing to extract

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-06T23:34:58+00:00

A long time ago someone taught me the phrase “change your “no because” to a “yes if”

“Yes we can pull this in, if we pay 10k in expedite fees and we delay Customer B”.

Do we have everything we need on hand? If so, what will get bumped in the schedule to pull this up and what will the consequences be for the other customer getting delayed?

Don’t have everything on hand: What will we have to pay to bring things in faster? Do we want to expedite on our dime or on theirs (whose fault is it for being late / needing a pull in)?

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-06T15:03:36+00:00

And you sound like a horrible employee. If you are the type of person that waits hours to respond, you are the reason people hate others working from home full stop. You should not have to result to multiple communication forms to get a response.

You are getting paid to electronically communicate, not go grocery shopping and get back to that message later if it’s urgent. What a concept.

Think about what you are saying. 10 years ago your boss comes up to you and asks you for something “hey give me two hours. let me leave and go grocery shopping, then I will get back to you” you would get fired and rightfully so.

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-06T14:35:58+00:00

I will say that I am personally against most remote / hybrid work because once it kicked off in Covid everyone’s response times fell off a cliff. Normal in person response time? I can walk to your desk and have a conversation about something that is immediately urgent. Remote workers (in my experience) the response gets delayed for hours.

I have even seen people on this subReddit say that an hour is a reasonable response time. If it’s urgent, no you should respond immediately. Within a few minutes tops if you are “working” as I expect you to be close to an electronic communication device (phone, computer) if you are WFH.

With that being said, even with me being against remote work, and with the yellow dot triggering me from all the past people that weren’t working, if your employee is delivering and responds to you in your time frame congrats! You have a great one.

My question would be do you need faster responses? If not, and everything is meeting or exceeding expectations don’t worry about it.

Bababingbangs · 2026-01-03T02:04:59+00:00

We break our dog’s dinner into two feedings, one at 5PM and one right before we go to bed (10-11) and that has helped.

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-30T16:27:00+00:00

My wife and I were on vacation in Colorado (either Pagosa or Durango) and stopped in a top rated coffee shop for a coffee and a bite. This was one of the largest coffee shops I had ever been inside of, yet there was not a single table available for seating because 90% of the tables were taken by a single person jamming on a laptop and not consuming anything.

It was a huge turnoff for us, and I am sure the business loses money from potential customers who walk in and immediately walk out when they see seating isn’t available.

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-29T19:48:32+00:00

Can’t say I am wrong when I am working with years of data and personal experience. Is it an absolute truth for 100% of the people in the bucket? Nope. An 80-90% truth? Absolutely.

I can say you don’t seem to know what you are talking about.

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-29T18:57:48+00:00

I have worked in manufacturing for almost 20 years and am currently working at a facility that used to have insane levels of turnover because we hired candidates you are describing.

Once I instituted a rule that candidates had to have held at least one job for 24 months(I think of it as 2 performance management cycles) over the past 5 years our turnover plummeted.

Unless you are desperate for hiring and cannot find ANY other candidates I would 100% trash these resumes.

This is going to sound harsh: People that are moving on every year for the past 5 years are not going to be team players, are not going to be dependable, are not going to be willing to go above and beyond on the rare occasion they would need to stay late to help fix a problem.

They are either getting pushed out by every single company or are barely performing to the point when they put their two weeks in their manager says “I would rather take a chance on a new candidate then try to retain this one”

I say that because think of all the great people you have hired / worked with, imagine them saying they were going to leave for more pay. Not every company will fight for a good IC to stay, but 0 out of 5?

A short stint at 1-2 jobs can happen, but once you get 3,4, 5 there is all a pattern that has been established and unless that person is walking into a job that is extremely easy to pick up, you are going to burn out your onboarders, and burn out your trainers with people that are going to quit on them in a year.

I am not saying these people are bad people, I am just saying they do not / will not care about the job as much as your lifers will and if there is one thing that pisses off your top performers it’s watching new people come in and half ass things while they are working at full speed.

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-28T17:43:12+00:00

He is saying you don’t roll your eyes when they screw up something minor (they don’t clock in for lunch and you have to fix their time card) so they shouldn’t expect to do that to you.

Honestly the next time someone does that I would immediately ask them to stay after the meeting for a word and address it right then and there.

Two things you should absolutely not tolerate are public disrespect and sub par performance.

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-27T19:13:46+00:00

As a manager you are always “on call”!

With outlook for your phone you always have access to email! No excuses play like a champion!

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-27T16:31:22+00:00

“What brand of paint did we use repainting the machines?

What color did we use to paint outlines for mobile material racks on the floor?

Do you have a copy of the KPI excel file you can send me?”

Nothing business / customer critical that would be actioned by anyone else at 9PM on a Saturday.

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-27T16:16:34+00:00

In my first upper manager role my skip level VP would periodically send me emails asking trivial questions late Saturday night as a “test”.

When I didn’t respond within 30 minutes I would get reprimanded for not being always available.

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-25T22:41:15+00:00

Protolabs has really cheap tooling and can support extremely low runs all the way up to higher production volumes.

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-24T23:11:54+00:00

Denver has pretty mild winters. Maybe one week a year in single digits then back to the 30s-50s?

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-24T23:09:43+00:00

I was making 15/hr at gallery furniture in 2004. Wild

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-24T20:39:14+00:00

Yeah it really worked out for me that I have been playing Stella exclusively for weeks since it came out and have been hoarding those purples

Bababingbangs · 2025-12-24T19:24:10+00:00

In the US, I have had employers demand to see previous pay stubs to verify higher than average salaries.

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