Programmer job description

pjarmon · Jul 25, 2014

We just got a form from our H.R. lady that ask us to write our job description. As we sit in the programming office discussing the many things we do. There have been many colorful and insightful anecdotes. I just wanted to see what you guys would use to describe what you do.

len_1962 · Jul 25, 2014

pjarmon said:
We just got a form from our H.R. lady that ask us to write our job description. As we sit in the programming office discussing the many things we do. There have been many colorful and insightful anecdotes. I just wanted to see what you guys would use to describe what you do.

imagination, magician, god

D Dubeau · Jul 25, 2014

len_1962 said:
imagination, magician, god

That made me laugh. Many of us around here have felt more like a magician than a machinist sometimes. Most of us have a magic wand in our boxes for those special occasions too (wood dowel painted black, with white tips). I've seen them mounted in mag base hovering over a job, chucked up in a mill, and just plain old waving furiously at a job lol. Whoever is working on the impossible job at the time earns the nickname Merlin.....

Edit: avoid the use of "fast paced environment", nothing screams sweat shop like the overuse of that term.

PBMW · Jul 25, 2014

Idon't have a magic wand, but I Do have a Septor of Compliance....

kid5084 · Jul 28, 2014

"Makes the CNC walk, talk, sing, and dance!"

WallyBert · Jul 28, 2014

One year my boss asked what I wanted for Christmas.
My reply: A crystal ball...majic wand...and rose colored glasses...

rainman · Jul 31, 2014

I"d say my main task is to take a part designed by someone who knows nothing about how to make a part. Said part cannot be held easily, is overtoleranced, and is essentially a pipe dream, and somehow figure out a way to make it. Oh, and by the way, we need to start running it right away.

m98custom1212 · Jul 31, 2014

rainman said:
I"d say my main task is to take a part designed by someone who knows nothing about how to make a part. Said part cannot be held easily, is overtoleranced, and is essentially a pipe dream, and somehow figure out a way to make it. Oh, and by the way, we need to start running it right away.

Seems that up pretty well.

should have added don't want to pay either.

M.B. Naegle · Jul 31, 2014

Machining for our shop.... I might equate it to someone who bought a farm with toxic soil, an abandoned burned out tractor, and a silo that leaks so bad that the grain is stored anywhere and everywhere so long as it's off the books. Now the soil is fertile and growing, the tractor's smoking but putting around, and the silo still leaks but we know how much and when. But all in all, our magic bean stalk operation is starting to make money.

So my job description? Psychotic yet successful metal farmer?

Joec@westminster · Aug 1, 2014

The Make it go away specialist.

Mtndew · Aug 1, 2014

rainman said:
I"d say my main task is to take a part designed by someone who knows nothing about how to make a part. Said part cannot be held easily, is overtoleranced, and is essentially a pipe dream, and somehow figure out a way to make it. Oh, and by the way, we need to start running it right away.

...Bingo!!!

Diezel · Aug 1, 2014

rainman said:
I"d say my main task is to take a part designed by someone who knows nothing about how to make a part. Said part cannot be held easily, is overtoleranced, and is essentially a pipe dream, and somehow figure out a way to make it. Oh, and by the way, we need to start running it right away.

Couldn't have said it any better

Pintail · Aug 4, 2014

WallyBert said:
One year my boss asked what I wanted for Christmas.
My reply: A crystal ball...majic wand...and rose colored glasses...

And make sure the magic wand will enable the mind reading function

t00lt3ch · Aug 5, 2014

rainman said:
I"d say my main task is to take a part designed by someone who knows nothing about how to make a part. Said part cannot be held easily, is overtoleranced, and is essentially a pipe dream, and somehow figure out a way to make it. Oh, and by the way, we need to start running it right away.

You read my mind... I'm doing that right now. And I cannot redesign the block because the holes are already drilled and tapped!

litlerob1 · Aug 7, 2014

I am getting the feeling all you guys think machinists should be laying flower petals in your walk way. That is why I do my own programming. ;/(just me)

Robert

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