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Paul in OKC

Paul in OKC

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Well, started off the day letting a guy go. Only been here since last Thursday, but knew it wasn't going to work by the middle of Friday. In short sports terms, my first stringer is on the injured reserve, other first stringer moved out of state, back up gave notice last Thursday, be here til Christmas, no one left in the bull pen, so I am back out on the floor trying to keep things running. AAAAGGGGHHHHHH. Oh well, any machinist out there want to relocate?
 
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MACHINIST.. well,,,, I can spell it.. :biggrin:
Heard all the jobs are in KS, TX, OK, and DC the other day on the news. Guess it is time to load up the jeep and get the heck out of CA.
 
Paul in OKC said:
Well, started off the day letting a guy go. Only been here since last Thursday, but knew it wasn't going to work by the middle of Friday. In short sports terms, my first stringer is on the injured reserve, other first stringer moved out of state, back up gave notice last Thursday, be here til Christmas, no one left in the bull pen, so I am back out on the floor trying to keep things running. AAAAGGGGHHHHHH. Oh well, any machinist out there want to relocate?
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Hmm, well Paul if you teach me I may come. OKC isn't so bad. Better than sitting around not know if and where my company is going to move me.
 
Can a CNC guy help out?

Paul,

I'm new to this forum ... However I've been here in oklahoma for several years. Here's the good part. Recently my brother in law moved here from Michigan. ( His shop was starting to slow down and the writing was on the wall ) He's been doing handyman stuff since moving here. I know that he worked in a machine shop and made bolts, and stuff. Any chance this position has health insurance as an option? If you are interested I'll vouch that he has integrity and is a hard worker. You can email me if you are interested I imagine he could start imediately.
Oh yeah, if I stop beating Les_smith in golf he'll vouch for me!!!!!!

Jeff in MWC
jeffandbrenda@cox.net
 
I'll be in the same boat in February when one of my guys goes into the Air Force. Half the battle is finding someone with a work ethic and has attention to detail. Getting up to speed on machining is an expensive learning curve, but most people that turned out to be good employees are ones that I taught from the ground up. They don't come in with preconcieved notions or want to rethink everything you've done. They just do it the way you tell them.
 
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They don't come in with preconcieved notions or want to rethink everything you've done. They just do it the way you tell them.
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That's as true here as it is in Information Technology. When I was a hiring manager in IT, the first thing I looked or was people with an interest in the tech, and with a fire in their belly. I didn't give a twisted dowel rod about their experience.
 
Paul,

Too bad I just retired. Can run, program, M00 - had to get cup of coffee, and repair, CNC mills and lathes. Specialty is Haas, Mori, Mazak, and Tongil. Would not want to move, but wanted to let you know we are out there. Keep looking and you will find a good one!!!!!
 
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They don't come in with preconcieved notions or want to rethink everything you've done. They just do it the way you tell them.
pipecrafter said:
That's as true here as it is in Information Technology. When I was a hiring manager in IT, the first thing I looked or was people with an interest in the tech, and with a fire in their belly. I didn't give a twisted dowel rod about their experience.
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Many people are not aware of this but through the mid 90's there were far less college graduates in Japan than would be believed. Many companies did their job search for third year students and pre-graduates. Seems they wanted the university systems to teach the basics but the companies wanted to finish the new workers "education" with the companies methods, visions and directives.

Having said that, a few of us in ministry over here are finding that non-seminary and non-bible college trained leaders (US term is lay leaders) become the best leaders and teachers and are generally more effective in church expansion.
 
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btboone said:
but most people that turned out to be good employees are ones that I taught from the ground up. They don't come in with preconcieved notions or want to rethink everything you've done. They just do it the way you tell them.
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I agree totaly there. That's the way I came up. Worked in a shop part time while going to vo-tech for auto mechanics, didn't like that very well, so asked the boss what I could take to help me in the shop because I was enjoying it, he said nothing, they would teach me in house. The rest is history. I have been pretty fortunate to work with guys still willing to teach me things.
 
Jeez Paul, I started out at a place called Barksdale valve, we did so many petro chemical valves it was nuts, I wound up turning 8 in. gate valves from billet 316 stainless, on a 36 in turret lathe for a Nuke plant, nearly made me take up drinking.
 
bitshird said:
Jeez Paul, I started out at a place called Barksdale valve, we did so many petro chemical valves it was nuts, I wound up turning 8 in. gate valves from billet 316 stainless, on a 36 in turret lathe for a Nuke plant, nearly made me take up drinking.
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Nothing that big. I worked at a place and ran a 32" chuck machine for a while. It was fun, but......
 
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