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[nick86]

I'm working for the Army tracking training for units deploying overseas.

cool, you reserve? or Gov contract? Last I knew, was no active posts in Wi.

 

[HaleYes]

I work in the Environmental Lab for an OEM Lighting manufacturer. I mainly do vibration, corrosion, and water spray testing along with a few other odds and ends. All new product has to go through our lab before it goes into production. If there are any changes with lamp components during it's production, it also has to be re-certified through the lab. Our biggest customer is Toyota. We have 5 plants total, of the 5 there is only 1 Environmental Lab.

www.nal.com for those interested.


Hey Jim! Who do you get paycheck from?:shhh:

 

[nick86]

I work in the Environmental Lab for an OEM Lighting manufacturer. I mainly do vibration, corrosion, and water spray testing along with a few other odds and ends. All new product has to go through our lab before it goes into production. If there are any changes with lamp componets during it's production, it also has to be recertified through the lab. Our biggest customer is Toyota. We have 5 plants total, of the 5 there is only 1 Environmental Lab.

www.nal.com for those interested.


Hey Jim! Who do you get paycheck from?:shhh:

dang, that sounds like a really boring job, so ya just sit around and watch current draw of a bulb under simulated weather conditions?

 

[HaleYes]

dang, that sounds like a really boring job, so ya just sit around and watch current draw of a bulb under simulated weather conditions?

:laugh: No, not at all....
It's not bad. I like the job, I hate the hours.
I get to play with big vibrators.

 

[ILLXJ]

I work in the Environmental Lab for an OEM Lighting manufacturer. I mainly do vibration, corrosion, and water spray testing along with a few other odds and ends. All new product has to go through our lab before it goes into production. If there are any changes with lamp componets during it's production, it also has to be recertified through the lab. Our biggest customer is Toyota. We have 5 plants total, of the 5 there is only 1 Environmental Lab.

www.nal.com for those interested.


Hey Jim! Who do you get paycheck from?:shhh:

Same place you do. But I get to do hot/cold, dust & chemical testing. What is nice about the job is: you get a list of test to be done & you make your own schedule. JIM.

Mike , you really need to use spell check.

 

[XJ&CHZ4ME]

I keep reading that a few of you have to travel alot for your work. This may have been asked before, but I'm, nor is anyone gonna sift thru 500 plus pages of threads. So the ? is what do you do for a living? I'll start off. I've been a mechanic for the past 20 plus years. Chime in, when ya get a chance.

I am first a farmer, and secondly I work for the US Dept of Ag. Ironically, I do not receive any "free Gov money" !! Maybe I should work on that I'll never get rich doing either job, but they both have great benefits.......

 

[kunaji]

cool, you reserve? or Gov contract? Last I knew, was no active posts in Wi.

I'm a mob'ed reservist. While not an active post, Ft. McCoy has plenty of AC Soldiers to support the mission of training reserve troops for deployment.

 

[RedHeep]

Active duty USMC, 11 years, SSgt

Tiltrotor mechanic, right now I'm the Quality Assurance Chief

Too much paperwork, not enough wrenching. Of course, when I was younger, I had too much wrenching and not enough paperwork.

 

[IllianaXJ]

College student at the moment... part time delivery boy at Advance Auto for extra $$.

 

[87manche]

New HP Pavilion.
The jury is still out on the Windows Vista, I was not able to get XP.
The jury has returned on Office 2007, It sux, well it does right now, I will have to get used to it.
I know Excel looks way different.
I still am a windows 3.1 kind of guy....

I hate all this new stuff, just leave things alone!

P.S. It has a real backspace key, no \\\\\ with this one!

Shoulda called me D bag, I woulda built you one with XP on it.

 

[Roxtar]

Metal Bitch

 

[RedHeep]

Shoulda called me D bag, I woulda built you one with XP on it.

Dude, you can't put it down like HP :twak:

 

[BOB]

I work for an Insurance Company
We insure people's horses and cattle and Farm property.
I am the Claims guy. I write the checks.

I do travel, not a lot, but I am going to Tampa FL next week.

BOB

 

[Ramsey]

College student at the moment... part time delivery boy at Advance Auto for extra $$.

me too, sucks dont it?

 

[87manche]

Dude, you can't put it down like HP :twak:

whatever.

The hard drive in that HP unit is going to die in 18 months, make sure you do backups regularly Sean, they use Samsung drives that bring the suxors.

 

[goodburbon]

whatever.

The hard drive in that HP unit is going to die in 18 months, make sure you do backups regularly Sean, they use Samsung drives that bring the suxors.

Dunno, I have had one for 2 years. Mobo died, but both hard drives are fine. 250gb x2 baby!

Actually the mobo died under warranty, so I sent it back to them. But I know that the first thing those a-holes do is reformat and fresh install when they get a machine in. So I pulled the HD. They replaced the motherboard, the missing hard drive and sent it back to me. I got it, opened it up to put the drive back in and was like......woah, free drive.

 

[87manche]

Dunno, I have had one for 2 years. Mobo died, but both hard drives are fine. 250gb x2 baby!

Actually the mobo died under warranty, so I sent it back to them. But I know that the first thing those a-holes do is reformat and fresh install when they get a machine in. So I pulled the HD. They replaced the motherboard, the missing hard drive and sent it back to me. I got it, opened it up to put the drive back in and was like......woah, free drive.

morons, if it came in without a drive I certainly wouldn't have given you one.

what brand drives in yours?
most all of the new ones are coming with samsung spinpoint drives.
Not only are they slow, but they tend to die a horrible death with media failure right after the warranty period.
I've dealt with 3 HPs this month that were brought in because they were slow, all were about 15 months old, and they all had bad sectors on the drives. From the serial numbers I could tell that they were all Hecho en Mexico.

 

[RedHeep]

morons, if it came in without a drive I certainly wouldn't have given you one.

what brand drives in yours?
most all of the new ones are coming with samsung spinpoint drives.
Not only are they slow, but they tend to die a horrible death with media failure right after the warranty period.
I've dealt with 3 HPs this month that were brought in because they were slow, all were about 15 months old, and they all had bad sectors on the drives. From the serial numbers I could tell that they were all Hecho en Mexico.

My western digital drives just keep chugging away . . .

 

[goodburbon]

what brand drives in yours?

Don't know, I'll check when I get home. Some stuff I can't afford to lose in there either. The really important stuff is duplicated on 3-4 drives though.:yelclap:

 

[ChiXJeff]

My western digital drives just keep chugging away . . .

WDs aren't anything to write home about either.

I don't trust hard drives, not even in RAID sets. That's what offline media (and multiple copies) are for.