I've destroyed $5,000 in company property this week.

[krispos42]

How'd you guys do?

[fizzgig]

1. still unemployed

what on earth did you do?

[krispos42]

2. Oh, this and that

"this" was trying to drive a custom machine tool through a steel clamp, and "that" was accidently starting a mill in the middle of the program, instead of the beginning.

In both cases it turns out that custom finishing tools do not work really well when large chunks of steel are in the way. They tend to change shape in a sudden and unfixable manner.

<sigh>

I got written up.

[littlebit]

3. What did you do?

[krispos42]

5. See #2...

And this was all by Wednesday. Gawd, there's still tomorrow to go through... :-/

[littlebit]

6. Look at the bright side

you still have your job. I was fired once for smashing the front end of a $80,000 truck. That light pole just jumped out in front of me lol.

[krispos42]

8. Those damn light poles!

Always jumping out from nowhere! :-)

[Ptah]

4. I crashed a $250 end mill into a $650 vise.

I hate Gibbs :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

Clearance plane!!!

Rotate part.

damn

[krispos42]

7. On Monday...

I forgot to load one side of a pallet for the horizontal mill. The Komet custom tool that has inserts for a 24mm bore, facing the bore, and putting a chamfer on the inside, I instead tried to ram through one of the little (but surprisingly solid) hydraulic clamps on the pallet.

On Wednesday, I drove a Komet OD chamfer tool down on a work piece on the vertical mill... without letting the plunge mill shave off a half-inch or so from the end of the work piece.

$250 for an endmill? Musta been a fairly large one!

[Ptah]

9. The end mill was a one inch dia, three flute indexible.

Less than a second, rapid into the vise.

Wham!

Like a car wreck.


:cry:

[krispos42]

18. I did that last month...

with a six-insert Komet tool, but I was really fast on the E-stop. I tried to do with the Komet tool what is normally done with a much-shorter 3/8" endmill. 1,000 inches per minute straight down. Amazing what the sight of sparks can do to your reaction times... :scared:

The tool survived, but the vice moved, requiring about five hours for my boss to re-calibrate.

[Crabby Appleton]

10. Wrote a check for $1,050,000 at work

unfortunatly not for me.

[Orsino]

11. I may have saved a high-six-figures account....

...by realizing that Texas and Oklahoma really shouldn't be forty milliseconds apart. It wouldn't have been a big deal but for the customer opening his first site in Canada and seeing 150 msecs to Oklahoma. My coworkers were still blowing him off when the account team came to me.

Turns out there's fiber in our network that takes a scenic tour of the southeast, and after a few days of prodding, I've gotten my customer moved to a direct Ft. Worth - Oklahoma City path, and I'm betting that we'll get him 15 msecs instead. I've saved us the revenue for his existing dozens of sites, plus the new capacity he'll buy in Canada.

[End Of The Road]

12. I got fired after only two weeks

It was a mutual hate-fest from day two. Just wish that I had walked out before they fired me. They had some very unethical, if not downright illegal, business practices.

[TZ]

13. Man $5,000 dollars ain't nothin here

We got equipment that go from 10,000-50,000 apiece. The real expensive one, the 50,000 one, I scheduled to train on. Its such a complex piece of scientific equipment that I do fear breaking it when I am learning on it...:scared:

[krispos42]

19. It was on Haas machining centers...

One's about $140,000 each (we have two of those), one's about $200,000. About half of the tools used for any one part number are custom tools, so there are tens of thousands of dollars worth of tools in each machine at any one time.

The hydroformers are even worse. A single tool weighs 1,000 pounds, takes 100 hours to machine from two solid slabs of steel, and costs about $40,000 all told to make!

[EstimatedProphet]

14. That's a pretty good record, if it's all in Post-It notes

If however, it was the petty cash drawer than any idiot could do that in seconds.

[krispos42]

16. This is custom-made tools...

Komet has to make more for us. Ouch.

We're using the last spare in both cases now. :-(

[mainegreen]

15. I accidently wiped every date field in the database.

Whoops.

Fortunately my applications keep meticulous historical data. It was a snap to fix.

[bertha katzenengel]

17. being laid off, can't do anything but badmouth the firm --

but i won't do that. i wish they'd handled the layoffs a little less rudely.

if i could destroy anything there, it'd just be the gossip mill. i hate gossip.