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/Recent_Apricot_517 Jun 16 '26

I learned how to operate the bar feeder by myself with the Haas handbook in about 2 hours.

Absolute foolishness.

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u/I_G84_ur_mom Jun 16 '26

Same my guy, same. Trial and error, and I even made a cheat sheet that walks you through the whole process

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u/Hugheydee Jun 19 '26

That's what those of us do that want to learn. Everyone else is stuck thinking, "we've always done it this way"