Originally Posted by JLarson

My setup is a bit different, but my wife (works for cyber security for JPMC) deals with that.

I'm in QA, so we have a climate controlled office located at the back of the shop which I share with the other inspectors. However because it's QA, and because other people who work here don't know their jobs, I get a steady of influx of people, like our buyers (who don't know how to write contracts or place orders), our engineers (who don't know basic GD&T, much less how to design a part we can actually make), our manufacturing staff (who are pissed when I reject their product which doesn't meet drawing requirements), our management (who are generally pretty good but need a lot of data - this is actually my job, and I'm glad for the chance to do it), and our shippers (who often ship product to the wrong location/in the wrong type of container/using the wrong shipping method).

This is one of the mornings where enough has gone south at the same time that I'm not really enjoying my day.

Originally Posted by Ghostvette

I'd love to work remotely, but since I build the silly thing, I'm stuck.

My break is going out to do installs. I get to go to new places, meet strange people (biomed folks are an odd bunch) and eat different food. I was in Spokane Monday & Tuesday, got there about noon on Monday and had time to explore a bit. I found a tobacco shop (!) and had a nice chat with the owner. I told him I was surprised to find a tobacco shop, considering the efforts Washington is going through to 'force' people to be healthy. He said "We are normal people on this side of the Cascades"....

I won't say my job is secure, but if I were to leave, they wouldn't have a clue about 99% of how to build this device. Oh there are drawings, work instructions and device history records, but the deep down 'ya gotta assemble it in this order' info isn't written down anywhere. The girl that I called 'the chief engineer' (had never assembled anything more complex than a wardrobe) decided she didn't want to incorporate the 'this is the exact order to assemble' in any of the documentation.

Originally Posted by F.I. Inc.

Yes, they are Tony approved! Frank, when I get around to it, I may put your pipes into production. We will call them, "The FP" option.
-Tony