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Millstoning in Electronics?
tggzzz:
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--- Quote from: tooki on February 18, 2023, 06:17:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: PlainName on February 18, 2023, 02:38:12 pm ---
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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.
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A modern truism is that "all nouns can be verbed". It is Saturday, therefore I dislike that.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Gyro on February 18, 2023, 06:42:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: nigelwright7557 on February 18, 2023, 03:30:31 pm ---The answer to it is to refuse to do it. You are an engineer not a teacher.
If the "new" engineer wants to learn then go to Uni like the rest of us did.
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Oh come on, what fantasy world are you living in? University gives you the basics. You recruit graduates on the basis of potential and train them up to useful and productive engineers. Staff development is the price you pay for your company having a future.
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No no no.
You wait for your competition to train them, and then poach them.
Foolproof. Isn't it?
tooki:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 18, 2023, 08:27:54 pm ---A modern truism is that "all nouns can be verbed". It is Saturday, therefore I dislike that.
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Of course. I’m not even saying it’s wrong to do so. All I’m saying is that the claimed particular idiomatic usage (of the verb supposedly meaning to burden a good employee with a bad one) is very specific and unknown.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on February 18, 2023, 07:17:18 pm ---
--- 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
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Ooh, that's pointed to the point.
Just to make sure that doesn't get bigfoot22'ed, here's an archival copy...
--- Quote from: Faringdon on October 28, 2022, 01:43:33 pm ---Hi,
I recently finished an SMPS design and build project, so when that finished I put my CV on the web……the market seemed very very buoyant.
Loads of companies with SMPS projects and various Electronics projects were contacting me for interview availability. Then I interviewed at a place who said they wanted multiple SMPS’s designed.
It seemed great, and £55k salary.
At the interview, the boss told me (with a steely grin)…”if you take the job, then you should never leave”.
Anyway, they gave me the job and I started. For the first two days they had me sat in the office, and told me just to read my company employment manual. Then after two days, they gave me a computer, which had limited access to their projects. (I found some “test” schems, but no specs, and no BOMs, and the “test” schems had no component values or part numbers with them).
Anyway, there was still no talk of work that they needed me to do…just vague murmurings of vague jobs which might need doing at some point. I tried to get the spec off them for a current source which they had which needed production pot tweaking, but they woudln’t give me the spec for it. I also asked for a schem of an SMPS which they were currently doing EMC testing on, but the manager , grinning, shook his head, and said “you don’t want to see a schem”.
Anyway, after 7 working days of being sat in that office, and not being tasked with any work, I decided, that this was a job that involved just sitting around “just-in-case” any work might turn up. It seemed odd that they had said I should “never leave”, since would they want to pay me forever to do nothing?
Anyway….even though I started mid October, they had actually said they woudlnt pay me till end of November, but would backdate the pay to mid-october. I strongly doubted that they would pay me at all..specially since I wasn’t doing anything.
So after work on the 7th (non) working day, in the evening, I wrote them an email saying I woudlnt be coming back in, and asked them not to bother paying me, and apologised for any inconvenience.
I decided instead to put my CV back on the web, and see if I could get into one of the great many opportunites that had been around before I took the “do-nothing” job.
Anyway, this was a few days ago…and not only have all the opportunites that were previously around dryed up, but even worse, is that the “do-nothing” company are still trying to recruit for their role, and are telling employment agencies not to send my CV, since I “ just cleared off”.
This is meaning that these employment agencies are not keen to consider my CV for other electronics jobs…also, when I go for a job, they find out, and tell the employer not to employ me because I “just cleared off”, from the previous place.
Also, to make things worse, my previous job was at a start-up, and I wasn’t payed, so was out of the tax system for 6 months…and companies seem to find out about this , and it really puts them off me.
How do you get round this?
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tooki:
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--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on February 18, 2023, 07:17:18 pm ---
--- 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
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Ooh, that's pointed to the point.
Just to make sure that doesn't get bigfoot22'ed, here's an archival copy...
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Eh, it’s never been treez’ style to delete thing! They’ve always stood by their writings, loony as they may be…
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