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Jun. 15th, 2012 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretThe big news at work is that our drawing log has hit 10,000 parts assigned. When I got there nearly 5 years ago it was ~2000. (Yeesh. 5 years. I remember being a kid just out of college looking at all the job postings and wondering how you got to be the engineer with 5 years of job experience in the field when all the jobs required 5 years of job experience in the field. Apparently this is how.)
The three of us engineers were competing to be the one to draw part number 10000. I lost. One of the engineers tried staking a preemptive claim by writing in "This part number reserved", but we called BS on that. The winner highlighted the entry in green and wrote "Nice try, guys" in the log notes. The whole affair reminded me of undergrad pranks, which makes sense. The three of us are the only people here with small elite tech school backgrounds, and there are times when working here with them reminds me of the working groups at school an awful lot, though there are just as many times where this place is the fucking real world and people and machines all suck.
The other big news at work is that I might be going on a business trip to China in two months. It's unclear what the plans are, so I'm trying not to get too excited, but it could be very cool.
The three of us engineers were competing to be the one to draw part number 10000. I lost. One of the engineers tried staking a preemptive claim by writing in "This part number reserved", but we called BS on that. The winner highlighted the entry in green and wrote "Nice try, guys" in the log notes. The whole affair reminded me of undergrad pranks, which makes sense. The three of us are the only people here with small elite tech school backgrounds, and there are times when working here with them reminds me of the working groups at school an awful lot, though there are just as many times where this place is the fucking real world and people and machines all suck.
The other big news at work is that I might be going on a business trip to China in two months. It's unclear what the plans are, so I'm trying not to get too excited, but it could be very cool.