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Things that make you want to drink! If you don't already.

CigarStone

CigarStone

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The vent thread!

When I was in the Air Force, I witnessed numerous things that opened the eyes of a backwoods Pa. boy. This one still annoys me to this day.

Every shop had a tool room for maintenance related work, some were very sophisticated. I did design, calibration, and maintenance of Air Intercept Missiles, and our tool room was pretty impressive.

Once per year, the shops on base, which were part of the XXX Tactical Fighter Wing, would gather up the unused things from their tool rooms, load them into a truck, which would load them into a cargo plane, which would then fly out over the ocean and dump them.

Why?

Because if we turned the equipment back in, or we still had it at inventory time, our budget would be cut for the next year.😡
 
Along similar lines...

I used to work in a large Wall Street law firm, doing securities class action litigation (defense). Our clients were the largest companies in the US, the cases were front page WSJ stuff. The plaintiffs' bar would file lawsuits, we would defend them.

As a young lawyer one day I got assigned to a new case, went to see the partner in charge. I told him, "I can get this case dismissed easily, they haven't even pled the standards properly."

The partner said, "Mark, Mark, Mark... no, no no. Here's how it works. We'll take a year or so to go through the motions, do document discovery, have a few court appearances [etc]. Then we'll enter into a settlement that will require the usual mass notice mailings, court approval, and so forth. We'll bill the client a lot of money, and they'll pay it... because if we don't, and they don't, the budget for their legal department will be cut next year. And the inhouse lawyers don't want that, and neither do we. And anyway the plaintiffs' lawyer won't be able to get his percentage of the settlement for his fees if he doesn't do some work. This is all understood by everyone. OK?"

I got lots more like that. Which is largely why I left that life years ago...
 
There's a policy at work when we do parts returns some parts are designated as scrap. Nothing wrong with the part. Gm just decides its cheaper for us to throw the part away than to send it back to them.
 
Didn’t a multi-trillion dollar fighter jet get built, yet, it never can fly or be used because it’s too expensive to produce, and the tech wasn’t 100 percent working?
 
CMontoya79 said:
Didn’t a multi-trillion dollar fighter jet get built, yet, it never can fly or be used because it’s too expensive to produce, and the tech wasn’t 100 percent working?
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That's fairly common that there are billions spent on most new concept programs before they ever reach production. And some planes went into production despite massive problems in order to meet certain political pressures and ended up costing trillions by the time they were perfected. Not to mention a host of lives. If I remember correctly, the V-22 Osprey was one.
 
Things that make me want to drink.....

The way people drive now-a-days!! WTF man!? It keeps getting worse! Age/Gender/Race, it doesn't matter; drivers are sh*t around here. I leave work in a great mood and end up wanting to push someone off the road and into a ditch on the way home just so I can get out and ask them "why???" why do they drive so bad? Who taught these idiots to drive? My mom taught me how to drive near, around, and going into Chicago...I would rather drive downtown Chicago then in these parts! BUT the only time I loved the roads around here, was when the country shut down last spring; the driving idiots stayed home and I loved it!!
 
modo22 said:
Things that make me want to drink.....

The way people drive now-a-days!! WTF man!? It keeps getting worse! Age/Gender/Race, it doesn't matter; drivers are sh*t around here. I leave work in a great mood and end up wanting to push someone off the road and into a ditch on the way home just so I can get out and ask them "why???" why do they drive so bad? Who taught these idiots to drive? My mom taught me how to drive near, around, and going into Chicago...I would rather drive downtown Chicago then in these parts! BUT the only time I loved the roads around here, was when the country shut down last spring; the driving idiots stayed home and I loved it!!
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I don't understand why turn signals are apparently such an inconvenience for so many people! Can't imagine living somewhere with traffic. 😡
 
modo22 said:
Things that make me want to drink.....

The way people drive now-a-days!! WTF man!? It keeps getting worse! Age/Gender/Race, it doesn't matter; drivers are sh*t around here. I leave work in a great mood and end up wanting to push someone off the road and into a ditch on the way home just so I can get out and ask them "why???" why do they drive so bad? Who taught these idiots to drive? My mom taught me how to drive near, around, and going into Chicago...I would rather drive downtown Chicago then in these parts! BUT the only time I loved the roads around here, was when the country shut down last spring; the driving idiots stayed home and I loved it!!
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Most DMVs will give someone a license without properly testing them.
 
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