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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  846 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 1, 2021

I had a job where the sales VP got Metrokane to pitch him on a bunch of shelving for the warehouse and it came in at like $450k. I said it looked like a lot of money so I spent a day reconfiguring everything and came up with the exact same amount of shelving from the exact same company for $200k. I then spent four days putting it up, rather than our company paying Metrokane $50k to install.

The sales VP responded by having my 6'x6' cubicle broken into three 6'x2' carels.

Same marketing guy had bought the machine shop without acknowledging that the company didn't do any machining so when I put on safety glasses and made chips nobody was willing to question who I was making them for.

So I ran a CAT5 cable back to the machine shop, moved my computer in there and made shavings for eight weeks.

God I hated that job.