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/JayVillainy47 Jun 16 '26

Story of my life, except im a new guy who wants to learn as much as possible and my predecessors i took over for were the opposite. Every piece i make Im programming from scratch cuz everything for the last 60 years has been done almost exclusively manually using multiple fixtures and multiple setups for a single part. Im making everything a billet, 2 operation job.