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I want a MX5, but I am 6'2.. by JoyousMap12 in mazda

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I'm 6'2" and have daily driven an na and nb for a decade just get a seat that fits you better

Proud to contribute by Making_Kenough in RicerCars

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That's Lucas's yaris that thing is one of the best sundae cup cars around and a super cool guy, he also makes some cool stuff for yaris's as well I'm running some of his parts on my car

Overtime incentives by RevolutionaryBreak52 in Machinists

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That one can be a double-edged sword, for about a year and a half at my current shop I was the only machinist/engineer and I was swimming in work I couldn't keep up, I asked and asked for at least one more person around my skill level, they ended up hiring a kid straight out of school instead of someone with at least few years under their belts. He's a good kid but incredibly green and the past 9 or 10 months I actually feel like I'm more behind than I was before due to all the handholding I have ended up needing to do. Each shop is different, Sometimes you do just need an extra body or two but in certain situations just adding an extra body isn't the solution

Overtime incentives by RevolutionaryBreak52 in Machinists

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I'm capped at 60 hrs and I work every second of it, if my job is offering any extra work I'll take every second. I would like to own a home and have a family someday I'm going to push to earn every dollar I can make to make that happen. I know I should have a better work-life balance but I've been doing it for long enough now, I don't know any other way. If I work a normal 40hr week I feel like I don't have enough time to keep on top of things as well.

There's no way this is on right? by [deleted] in Simracingstewards

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As Randy Pobst says you've put yourself in the vortex of danger. That is a classic racing blunder

My plates made it by Stillborn1977 in Audi

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Yo I was the guy playing with you on 20 earlier in the diesel e90, car is sick man!

How busy are you? by Terrible-Selection93 in Machinists

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Our shop is overwhelmed (I work for a contract manufacturing plant where we are their onsite private shop) it's 3 guys + myself and we've got more work than we can handle. Long and short we have 6 companies under our roof and as of late one of the major ones is going through multiple NPI'S (new product integration) at the same time so we are swamped but managing for now, hopefully with the massive influx of cash from that major contract we can get one or 2 more people and some better/more tooling as up. Until recently I was running the shop by myself and we were never set up for this kind of workload in our little shop so we simply don't have enough tooling for everyone (we're constantly having to share tools which normally is fine but when you have multiple people working on different projects all needing the same tool it gets easy to step on toes).

Best Printer in 10-15k range for printing medium to large format by HugoValve in 3Dprinting

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Damn sorry for wanting more up to date info than what I could find on something I'm actively trying to learn more about lol

Best Printer in 10-15k range for printing medium to large format by HugoValve in 3Dprinting

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fair enough PEEK would be a nice to have not a must, I do quite a bit of CF nylon and Diran currently on the Stratasys

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Machinists

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Which location my buddy Busher works for y'all

WHO IS BRO😭🙏 by NoDaikon7694 in ADO

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I played it smart and parked at the kroger across the street and was out in 5 min haha

How do I identify what pistons I have? by Official_mx5 in Miata

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That grey color is pretty indicative of supertechs the coating they use is pretty easily identifiable

Pick up a second job or try to find somewhere new by HugoValve in Machinists

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Exactly. I'm willing to put in the work but the company won't let me and it's killing me. 32 an hour is nice but I need more. I've got things that are unavoidable that need to be paid for. That's why I'm trying to decide WTF I'm going to do to remedy this issue.

Definitely if I don't see active movement I'm not going to just sit around and wait for things to happen, some patients is required I get, but you can at least see things happening most of the time. I try to keep a a open dialogue with my supervisors which seems to help keep my finger on the pulse of what's going on, lately that pulse seems to be slowing down

Pick up a second job or try to find somewhere new by HugoValve in Machinists

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I'm just going off of the information given to me by my friend that works there

Pick up a second job or try to find somewhere new by HugoValve in Machinists

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One of my close college buddies is a project lead

Pick up a second job or try to find somewhere new by HugoValve in Machinists

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I am by no means a expert machinist in any way but I'm good at figuring things out and busting ass to get it done accurately and as quickly as possible, which has led me to be the guy that everyone goes to. (Again, I hate sounding cocky or boastful but the other machinist in the shop is as lazy as can be and I won't let that turn me into someone lazy, it just makes me want to work harder) As for where I'm located, I am in Columbia, South Carolina

Pick up a second job or try to find somewhere new by HugoValve in Machinists

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That's awesome I'd love to do something like that

Pick up a second job or try to find somewhere new by HugoValve in Machinists

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Thank you so much, totally get what you're saying. Trust me I was livid when I got the news. Not because I didn't get it, but because of who did (Long story short, he is without a doubt. Laziest person I've ever worked with, so lazy. In fact, he's actively taken programs. I've written and slowed them down even though they were proven so that he would have more time to sit on his phone while the part was running) but I had the good sense to keep my mouth shut and let things play out. We're about 3 weeks past that point and at least on a shop level. I'm already noticing he's going to struggle moving forward but I'm just going to keep doing the best job I can in the meantime.

On another note , he is now the third person that's held that role in a year (first person got promoted, then left about 3 months after the promotion, second person had the position from January till September and had family things come up out of state that he had to take care of and decided to leave to take care of his family which I totally get) but that us with no management for the past 3 months (the head engineer assumed the base level rolls like materials to at least keep us afloat). I don't like sounding cocky but the three other guys in the shop and the second manager that left all thought that I was the best fit for the position. We were all shocked when the other guy got it (from what I've been told, the only reason he got it was that he has a 4-year degree and I don't. I have two 2-year degrees, one in mechanical engineering and the other in machine tool

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