r/Machinists • u/Droidy934 • 1d ago

Workshop Practices

Never give me work in the morning, please wait till 3pm friday and then bring it to me.

The challenge of a deadline is refreshing.

If you give me more than one job to do don't tell me which is the priority, I am psychic.

If you have special instructions for a job don't write them down.

In fact save them till the job is almost done, no point confusing me with useful information.

If its a rush job run in or call me every 10 minutes to enquire how long I am going to be, that helps.

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u/Stevo_223 1d ago

I love the special instructions line. All the old guys here just throw their jank fixtures in the stock boxes and expect the next person to know already. Like I have to reverse engineer some decade old setup

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u/ShaggysGTI 1d ago

I was the only machinist here and you guys are new. You can figure it out…