11 January 2006
n00bs
we have 2 new full time designers at work, and one new intern. because we lost some business recently, they're extra resources. and because i can always think up stuff for people to do, they were assigned to me.
the bad news is that they don't know the product, and don't know our systems, which are complicated as hell. so now i have to spend time training them: first you have to pull a part number in SAP, then it gets pushed to VPM. you have to take ownership in VPM, create and associate cad files, then print the drawing back to SAP. it takes a shittonne of clicks to do all this, and there's now a little parade of new designers coming past my desk.
the good news is: now that i have extra resources, i can clean up some little data messes we've left because we were charging fast and furious and ever forward.
other good news is: i was trusted with extra resources. i was assigned new people. i now have more people working (kind of) under me. i think this is part of the grooming thing. or i'm being tested... i need to ask for more money, and soon.
other buenos from work today: i went out to lunch with another design engineer (gets drunk and hits people S). he's worried about having lost that business where will he go now? what will he do now that there's no door module. so we talked about that a bit. and we talked about managing development programs and how in our position you have to have a pretty high tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity. hell, i'm making shit up 87% of the time. the rest of the time, i'm drinking coffee and socializing. :D
...so lunch gave me a chance to mentor a coworker recently promoted. and watch him be an ass while hitting on the bartender. heh.
all told, 'twas a good day.
the bad news is that they don't know the product, and don't know our systems, which are complicated as hell. so now i have to spend time training them: first you have to pull a part number in SAP, then it gets pushed to VPM. you have to take ownership in VPM, create and associate cad files, then print the drawing back to SAP. it takes a shittonne of clicks to do all this, and there's now a little parade of new designers coming past my desk.
the good news is: now that i have extra resources, i can clean up some little data messes we've left because we were charging fast and furious and ever forward.
other good news is: i was trusted with extra resources. i was assigned new people. i now have more people working (kind of) under me. i think this is part of the grooming thing. or i'm being tested... i need to ask for more money, and soon.
other buenos from work today: i went out to lunch with another design engineer (gets drunk and hits people S). he's worried about having lost that business where will he go now? what will he do now that there's no door module. so we talked about that a bit. and we talked about managing development programs and how in our position you have to have a pretty high tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity. hell, i'm making shit up 87% of the time. the rest of the time, i'm drinking coffee and socializing. :D
...so lunch gave me a chance to mentor a coworker recently promoted. and watch him be an ass while hitting on the bartender. heh.
all told, 'twas a good day.
