Re: THe NAC Lots-O-Post Thread
when you do, let us know what it is exactly you actually do so we can fight over who gets your job.
you really, really don't want it. I already described how the office runs. If you want to make money off this job, invest in Pfizer, the new guy is gonna need a lot of xanax to deal with this shit and their profits will skyrocket.
literally the only reason I am still sane (marginally) is because I've given up caring at all what happens here. Shit makes so little sense I would be a tightly coiled ball of rage and frustration otherwise. For instance: take new product A as an example. When I started here, I was given two different bills of material for assembling the PCBs, both wildly inaccurate and both contradicting the other and also internally contradictory. I was also given a schematic that agreed with neither of those spreadsheets on the values of the components to be installed. The guy that designed it lives in Russia, the company we bought the design from is in Estonia, they hate each other, neither one will provide solid info to us without trying to sabotage the other company/person. I didn't even have the software I needed to open the actual original design files, it costs several thousand dollars. My boss told me to pirate it, I refused since I want to be able to work in this industry after I leave this company, he yelled at me a lot. At the 11th hour he authorized me to buy it, but by the time I was done getting a quote and putting the offer together he had changed his mind again (and blamed me for it.) We ended up ordering the PCBs without verifying that they matched either the original design files or the new ones, then ordered all the parts to assemble them from the BOM that I ended up hashing together from the two contradicting ones, which I know is still inaccurate (but can't get the good info, because he's still telling me to pirate the design software and I still won't do that.) The boards arrived, we assembled them, during assembly I found another half dozen issues with the BOM that were basically showstoppers and made the boards worthless till I fixed them. Halfway through me fixing them, he decided, without discussing this with me AT ALL, to send all the boards we had assembled to Russia so the original designer can test his new firmware on them. They don't even work and never will till I get time working on them again. This, of course, is my fault, because I didn't foresee him grabbing them while I wasn't here (i.e. he shipped them out on a weekend) and shipping them to the other side of the planet.
TL;DR: everything is XXXXed, owner of company is mercurial, insane, changes plans on a whim at a moment's notice, we are months behind because he changes things so often we can't ever finish something before he changes his mind again, and you will need to either emotionally disconnect yourself completely from your work or consume multiple pounds of xanax per day to even function.
Oh, coworker's company credit card started getting declined a few days ago. He mentioned it to the accountant (who is on our side and has been trying to beat some sense into the boss, with little success) who simply burst out laughing. Apparently the company card account has been comically past the credit limit for months and the owner simply hasn't bothered to pay the bill yet. It's not a good sign when the accountant simply bursts out laughing because everything is so XXXXed.
