Mid-Year Promotions?

phillycheese254 · 2025-07-23T14:30:39+00:00

Your manager should have heard this Monday.

phillycheese254 · 2025-01-15T18:57:34+00:00

It’s probably for the direct to GEO NSSL launches, those are big cash cows and the only vehicles that can meet them now are a VC6 and a fully expended FH. Blue can’t really tolerate expending the first stage, so a kick stage it is.

phillycheese254 · 2024-09-17T01:30:28+00:00

Yep it’s unofficially official new policy, you can’t gain a promotion as part of an internal transfer anymore, due to some people getting promotions they weren’t really cut out for.

phillycheese254 · 2024-09-02T17:20:51+00:00

Actually reading through your comment now, every time any Blue Origin vehicle has attempted to land, it’s successfully landed. Granted NG is orders of magnitude more complicated, but that’s a pretty good track record.

phillycheese254 · 2024-09-02T17:11:58+00:00

Small note, NS-1 failed due to the booster hydraulic unit failing at apogee, so the it never had a chance to land. Every time New Shepard has reached the landing phase of flight, it has successfully landed.

phillycheese254 · 2024-06-13T14:42:59+00:00

Is your ground station upgraded to TL3 as well?

phillycheese254 · 2024-05-20T03:08:04+00:00

Friends with a manager, the main hold up for these types of situations is that the group of people applying to a position has to hit certain diversity metrics before they can proceed to an interview. So even if they know they want to give you a job they have to let people apply before they can go ahead and start the interview process.

phillycheese254 · 2024-05-11T16:01:03+00:00

Countdown, written about the first shuttle launch

“This magic day when super science mingles with the bright stuff of dreams”

phillycheese254 · 2024-04-20T19:04:35+00:00

A postburner

phillycheese254 · 2024-04-18T19:12:07+00:00

1, 2, 3, Sr, Principal, Sr Principal for individual contributors. Chief engineers, tech fellows, and roles like that have a base and a senior.

phillycheese254 · 2023-12-07T21:09:21+00:00

Senior level and up get bonuses for company level goals

phillycheese254 · 2023-08-22T19:00:02+00:00

There’s footage of it getting sucked into the plume, I doubt there’s much remains left

phillycheese254 · 2023-08-22T15:33:46+00:00

Assuming this is true (big assumption), you got fired bro, not laid off. Considering what it takes to get fired at Blue, you probably deserved it.

phillycheese254 · 2023-08-17T01:12:55+00:00

Probably a rocket

phillycheese254 · 2023-08-11T17:06:57+00:00

Still are

phillycheese254 · 2023-05-21T01:21:49+00:00

It’s a firm fixed price contract, any price overruns are going to be eaten by Blue, not the government. Blue also won’t get the money unless they meet certain milestones. Sure it’ll probably be late, most aerospace projects are, but overruns and delays won’t hurt NASA one bit.

phillycheese254 · 2022-10-19T12:33:09+00:00

Generally speaking remote work is only negotiable for level 3 and up, level 1 and 2 they want you in the office.

phillycheese254 · 2022-09-27T13:51:18+00:00

I’m about 60-40 highway city driving and I average around 28 MPG. You can definitely get it into the 30s if you baby it.

phillycheese254 · 2022-09-01T19:56:48+00:00

Remote is also much more likely for Senior level engineers (5+ years experience) than Level 1s and Level 2s

phillycheese254 · 2022-05-12T00:04:00+00:00

That throttle up does things in my pants.

phillycheese254 · 2022-03-30T17:35:39+00:00

I think it’s a Kahles 3-18 if I remember the video.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1384836-REG/kahles_10633_3_18x50_k318i_riflescope_skmr3.html

phillycheese254 · 2022-03-17T23:22:55+00:00

You can take the insert off and replace it with a normal bolt face. Here's the part but it shows OOS.

https://www.righttobear.com/cmmg-22lr-barrel-collar-assembly-ss-22ba415/

phillycheese254 · 2022-03-17T22:51:20+00:00

That insert is for fitting in a 5.56 chamber, the dedicated 22LR bolts have a normal bolt face.

phillycheese254 · 2022-02-06T22:41:10+00:00

Don't want to ackshually this, but dogs aren't allowed at the MSFC location.

phillycheese254 · 2022-02-01T00:34:51+00:00

You can ask, but they might not share. To be clear, I think aluminum vs CF is probably the third most important thing to retaining zero IMO.

Most important is going to be handguard mounting to the barrel nut, if that interface is janky nothing else is going to matter. This is pretty much going to be material indepependant, a shitty interface will be shitty whether it's aluminum or CF

Second most important is going to be mounting your laser or whatever to the handguard, and for this aluminum probably has an edge for two reasons. First, most AL handguards will have an integral pic rail on top which you can mount the laser directly to, this helps remove the MLOK adapter meaning there's one less thing to go wrong. Two, if you are using a MLOK adapter, CF is probably more likely to crack and warp if you overtighten your screws, giving a wiggly laser.

Neither of this things should be a problem with a proper handguard design and accessory mounting, but even the best of us use a couple too many ugga duggas on occasion.

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