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Gyro:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on September 05, 2023, 09:32:13 am ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on September 05, 2023, 09:00:08 am ---I know someone on here has pinned down T/F's real world identity, and mentioned they do actually have a job in engineering, well, maybe something like 30 jobs in the last two decades

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I don't know his real identity, don't want to, and IIRC he himself stated such a large number of employers.

When I started, it was acceptable to leave a job in <1month or >2years. Anything in between raised questions, with 6months requiring a satisfactory explanation. I appreciate jobs have changed over the decades, but that's still a useful rule of thumb.

There are different "rules" for contractors, of course.

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No, I have no intention of sharing his identity, although for longer term members who remember the SMPS course, abortive SMPS UK government petition etc would be able to work it out. I didn't go out of my way to find him, it was more idle curiosity and a quick search.

His linkedin profile indicates around 42 companies up to June, with durations between a 1 month and just over 2 years. He's clearly a contractor, maybe a couple of the early ones were salaried. There are some respectable names in the 20xx's, Alstom (ship drives, >2 years) and ABB (high power motor drives), Alcatel Lucent (6mo), Panasonic (11mo) Eaton (5mo). The much talked about Dyson in previous years was only a 3 month stint. More surprising, from the flurry of scary EV charger questions a year or so back was that he was doing a stint at one of the more respected names in EV chargers at the time, although it doesn't look like they let him loose on the current product line developments, likewise a well known solar power storage company (I won't name the more recent companies).  Of course there is a very large smattering of LED lighting companies in there, probably some of them bottom feeders / importers.

Maybe his grudge has come from the lighting importers, some of them are almost certainly small fry (I didn't look them all up) but he certainly can't claim to have never worked for respectable and professional companies, even if only on a hired hand basis. In doing so, he's either lying here or lying on his profile. Maybe he should have learned more from these opportunities.

All in all, it's difficult to pin down the background for his behavior, whether it's down to some treatment by one or two companies (there are bound to be a few in a total of ~42), the way he (fails to) fit in (all the 'they're hiding stuff from me'), never being offered a salaried position or just trolling. He certainly can't claim lack of experience as an excuse for some of the totally foolish questions he asks (unless he suffers from total lack of retention or never actually got his hands dirty), or indeed his favorite troll diatribes.

MK14:

--- Quote from: Gyro on September 06, 2023, 07:03:52 pm ---troll diatribes.

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He really seems to be taking the Mickey, against the forum and its moderators, now.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/renewable-energy/earthed-enclosures-and-offlien-smps-pcbs/msg5047738/?topicseen#msg5047738

Which seems to be identical (or remarkably similar), to previous thread 'question(s)'.

He is even repeating "Would you agree?", and "Do you agree", perhaps because it has been recently highlighted as a quirk of his, in another thread?

Gyro:
And another one, this is way beyond a joke now!

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/renewable-energy/creepage-and-clearance-in-offline-smps/

KE5FX:
What annoys me is that if I ignore a user, I still see topics started by that user.  That shouldn't happen IMHO.

jonpaul:
MK14:  taking the Mickey?

A UK idiom or expression?

In US EN, "slip a mickey" means adding a sleeping powder to someones drink....

j

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