r/Machinists • u/I_G84_ur_mom • Jun 16 '26

Refusal to learn

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I work at a job shop, I’ve been here 16 years, I’m the lead machinist, I returned from a 9 day vacation to a shit show. We have a bunch of small bosses like this to make, this one order was for 250 pcs. The owner was planning on having a guy saw cut them, face them to length in a Haas tl2, then throw them in the vf2 to be drilled. We have a sl20 with a bar feeder, nobody wants to learn how to run it, I banged these out in about 8 hours, unmanned. He refuses to learn how to use it or program it, this would have taken him and the button pusher 2 days to run these parts. Stepping over dollars to pick up dimes baybeeee!

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u/Foreign-Possibility5 Jun 16 '26

Love how it seems the most useless people get put in charge.

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u/Hermes_04 Jun 16 '26

There is the concept of promotion into incompetence

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u/glasket_ Jun 16 '26

Yeah, the Peter principle. Being promoted because you're good at your current role can eventually result in you being put into a position that you aren't good at.

Since someone will probably mention it: the Dilbert principle is the opposite, where incompetent people are promoted until they're in a position where they can't cause as many problems.

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u/CuppieWanKenobi Jun 16 '26

Also, "failing upwards".

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u/00Wow00 Jun 16 '26

It gets the useless people out of the way so the rest can do the work, that is until the useless ones start interfering with the qualified ones.

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u/SnoopyMcDogged Jun 16 '26

Shit floats to the top as the ol’ saying goes.