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So, if any of you guys happen to be on Xing, it would be great if you could send me a contact request.
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So, if any of you guys happen to be on Xing, it would be great if you could send me a contact request.
There's no such thing as multitasking...
but there should be enough companies around to ask, at least in Zurich.
There's no such thing as multitasking... It's "rapid task switching", I thought my boss was going to die of apoplexy as he was griping at me to multitask a few years ago.
When I'm going to be yelled at anyway, I always try to make it worth my while.
Czech is a weird word. Czech is actually Tchèque in French, and it is pronounced the same way as in English. However, in English, the z is suddenly transformed into an h in order to form the ʃ (ch) sound. In French, the ch is there, and the t prevents from pronouncing like chèque, with a soft ch. The z is meaningless and should be replaced by h, no?
It seems that I'm rarely actually in touble here at work, but I can sure stir some up. Last two weeks have been some evidence of that...
Our work management processes have been heading downhill over the past few years. And I have some oddball qualifications that (every now and again) I have to serve as a QA inspector. As a worker, I "know" how something is supposed to be hooked up, work, etc. But in my capacity as a QA inspector I have to make sure all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed. 3 times in the past 3 weeks the work packages were flat out wrong and I wouldn't sign off (much to the chagrin of the managers). I can be as hard nosed as they can.
The best part is, they cannot "force" me to sign. It's illegal to interfere or coerce a QA rep in the performance of their duty (mandatory jail and fine). And in this environment, just about any bad press would cause some managers to be unemployed.
Freedom's big, yo.
I dig it. I know I am by no mean irreplacable. There's multitudes of way that I could lose my job. The problem is that I'm one of the few that can actually do what they say they can do. There's plenty (and I mean plenty) about nuclear power that I don't understand, the way some of this stuff works is a mystery to me. Designed in they 60's with equipment that should be listed as antique, it's a testament to the design that this stuff works at all. The problem is that all this analog equipment "works" in a nuclear environment, solid-state stuff, not so much. Zoomies make things act weird.
"Modern" instument mechanics can be trained in a matter of 12-18 months. That training would be totally lost in the nuclear industry. A transmitter is a transmitter is a transmitter, signal in-signal out, but some of this stuff I'd only seen in textbooks. When I moved from fossil power to nuclear, I was amazed that this stuff worked at all.
Think Orion MPCV (fossil) vs Gemini or Apollo (nuclear)
But it works, It's just a bit manpower intensive. Some of our managers can't seem to understand that you can't run a nuclear plant like a production factory.
Remember the scene in Apollo 13 where Ed Harris wanted to find the drawings, the torque value of some bolts and the name of the guy who torqued them? We have that level of accountability.
For once, English seems inconsistent.
Czech is a weird word. Czech is actually Tchèque in French, and it is pronounced the same way as in English. However, in English, the z is suddenly transformed into an h in order to form the ʃ (ch) sound. In French, the ch is there, and the t prevents from pronouncing like chèque, with a soft ch. The z is meaningless and should be replaced by h, no?
Seriously, consistent pronounciation rules are almost nonexistant in english when compared to other languages.