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T3sl4co1l:

--- Quote from: EEEnthusiast on February 11, 2020, 11:13:25 am ---Well, I do not support any immoral behaviour or acts by men or women. I was just trying to put a scientific explanation to the behaviour. If the posts seem offensive or in bad light, just grab a beer and chill...

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Learn your history.  The same, ill-informed pseudo-scientific explanations have been used throughout history to justify raping, enslaving and killing entire classes of people, even for such wholly superficial attributes as skin color.

Churchill for example had some interesting things to say about your people (things that are unfit to quote here, I might add).  Would you be so careless as to prove him right?

Tim
tooki:

--- Quote from: Ranayna on February 11, 2020, 01:46:55 pm ---Trying to get this back on topic ;)

Recently a, in my opinion, very odd rule is being enforced in the office...

I should preface this with the information that I am in IT. Electronics is only a very (very) small niche of what we are doing. Mainly it is using Arduinos and similar to build cheap environment sensors and stuff like that. But also noteworthy is, that my company has also a large electronics department including pick and place machines and the whole shebang...

Anyway, the new rule is: If you are colorblind, you are not allowed to solder anymore. At all. As far as I know, this is a company-wide rule. This does not affect anyone in the IT department, but I have to wonder what blew up due to a soldering error  >:D

Are such colorblind rules still common? Are they even allowed anymore?

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I would think that the disability authorities would take a very negative view of such a rule. My hunch is that in most developed countries, that’d be illegal, since it’s a disability that can be overcome with reasonable effort (i.e. you can measure a resistor, or use SMD or those fancy Vishay ones with printed values, and tag cables; or you can have someone else do the color-sensitive part of the task). Barring soldering altogether seems kinda nutso to me.


--- Quote from: krish2487 on February 11, 2020, 02:05:28 pm ---
--- Quote ---Not so much these days, but it used to be annoying working next to someone colour blind. Every few minutes a resistor appeared under your nose with the words "what does that say?".  :)
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Resistors... Capacitors... pretty much anything that has color coded identification...

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Capacitors?!? Ummm, I don’t think they’ve made color-coded capacitors since something like the 1960s. Resistors and inductors are the only holdouts, and frankly I wish they’d quit it. As much as I enjoy the colorful bands from an aesthetic standpoint, they’re a PITA to use, especially on the dark body colors they use today, as Ranayna said.

Of course, one will encounter them in antiques, but that’s not what we are talking about in a production environment.
ajb:

--- Quote from: Ranayna on February 11, 2020, 01:46:55 pm ---Trying to get this back on topic ;)

Recently a, in my opinion, very odd rule is being enforced in the office...

I should preface this with the information that I am in IT. Electronics is only a very (very) small niche of what we are doing. Mainly it is using Arduinos and similar to build cheap environment sensors and stuff like that. But also noteworthy is, that my company has also a large electronics department including pick and place machines and the whole shebang...

Anyway, the new rule is: If you are colorblind, you are not allowed to solder anymore. At all. As far as I know, this is a company-wide rule. This does not affect anyone in the IT department, but I have to wonder what blew up due to a soldering error  >:D

Are such colorblind rules still common? Are they even allowed anymore?

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I could see this being the result of having a mixed leaded/lead free workload, if the company has decided to use color coding to identify tools and materials for one versus the other (if you're being really fastidious, you won't mix soldering tips between the two, for example).  That sounds like something that could be accommodated by a better choice of color or a different means of identification entirely, but  :-//. 
GreyWoolfe:
We also have the 90 day email rule.  My company deals with government entities here in the US, we don't provide goods/services to the regular populace.  There are all kinds of IP protections, HIPAA regulations, data storage rules, ad nauseum.  If there is any info in an email or an attachment I need, I save it either on my encrypted laptop hard drive or encrypted external drive.  We even use Aegis drives that require a password entered on the drive case keyboard to unlock and use. 
Sal Ammoniac:

--- Quote from: james_s on February 10, 2020, 01:54:48 am ---It's always some non-technical extrovert who decides the open plans are wonderful. They always buy into the BS buzzword "collaboration" too, I've come to hate that word.
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They may say it promotes collaboration, but the real reason, in almost all cases, is to save money. Open plan layouts are cheaper than cubicles, and cubicles are WAY cheaper than real offices.

I hate open plan offices to the extent that I've turned down jobs at places that had them. I find cubicles barely tolerable, but the trend is to make them smaller and smaller and make the height of the partition walls lower and lower. I worked at one place where the cubicles were not much bigger than a phone booth.
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