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pcprogrammer:

--- Quote from: dmills on February 18, 2023, 06:39:13 pm ---Now we did have 'That Guy' who got passed around the engineering shop like a hot potato as EVERYONE found him to be a hard of thinking, impossible to work with, oxygen thief, but as I say a risk you take (And everyone screws up hiring sometimes), he was gone after 6 months.

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And his name was "Faringdon"

Oh no for him it was only a week before he left  :-DD  See
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 18, 2023, 06:17:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: PlainName on February 18, 2023, 02:38:12 pm ---
--- Quote ---Millstoning
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You like that word. Enough to use it twelve times in a single post, anyway. But AFAIK it's not a common usage (and I would be mega-surprised if it were particularly relevant to SMPS), so I wonder if you've got a bet somewhere that you can get some obscure term to propagate around t'web.

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Yep. I can’t even find reference to this usage. Not in a dictionary, not on web searches… if it is an existing usage, it’s an extremely obscure one.

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I observed that "millstoning" is odd usage, but the noun "millstone" is part of an idiom in the UK and US. Prefixing a search with "define" seems to work, e.g.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define+millstone gives
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/millstone
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/millstone


--- Quote ---Not that it matters since the post itself is nonsense anyway.

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Colour me surprised.
tooki:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 18, 2023, 07:24:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 18, 2023, 06:17:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: PlainName on February 18, 2023, 02:38:12 pm ---
--- Quote ---Millstoning
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You like that word. Enough to use it twelve times in a single post, anyway. But AFAIK it's not a common usage (and I would be mega-surprised if it were particularly relevant to SMPS), so I wonder if you've got a bet somewhere that you can get some obscure term to propagate around t'web.

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Yep. I can’t even find reference to this usage. Not in a dictionary, not on web searches… if it is an existing usage, it’s an extremely obscure one.

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I observed that "millstoning" is odd usage, but the noun "millstone" is part of an idiom in the UK and US. Prefixing a search with "define" seems to work, e.g.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define+millstone gives
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/millstone
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/millstone

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I know. To call a burdensome thing a millstone is a known usage. But the verb “millstoning” I can’t find any reference to.
tooki:

--- Quote from: Faringdon on February 18, 2023, 06:19:22 pm ---
--- Quote ---Not that it matters since the post itself is nonsense anyway.
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Thanks,
I have seen a senior SMPS designer get millstoned......then because he wasnt able to concentrate on his work....a power supply went into testing, and 4 million pounds worth of radio test data had to be scrapped as the SMPS went unstable.
Millstoning, i assure you, is very real.

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I don’t doubt that it has occurred that an engineer has been saddled with a useless underling.

But I do doubt that it’s done deliberately for the reasons you claim, and that it’s got anything specifically to do with the SMPS industry.
newbrain:
I have nothing to contribute to the thread, I'm here just for getting the free "thanks"!
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