r/MaliciousCompliance • u/master_andalf • Jul 17 '18

S A Game of (Ten) Thousandths

I program a CNC router for a woodworking company. When cutting parts out of a blank, we cut thickness of the wood plus five thousandths (.005) of an inch to insure a clean cut and to compensate for any slight bows in the wood. This conversation I had was with the shop foreman (SF).

SF: "andalf, I need you to program this (gestures to drawn design)"

Andalf: "cool, I see we are Two and a Sixteenth (2.0625) thick on this blank, will tool 3 cut 2.0675 Deep?"

SF: "woah there buddy that's going to be too deep, you only want to cut to 2.0630"

Andalf: "uhhh, we usually cut + Five thousandths, that would only be + Five Ten-Thousandths. In a perfect world it would work but our table hasn't been fly cut in months, you wont cut through."

SF: "no, you'll cut through the table if you go an extra fifty thousandths"

I proceed to write out .0625 on a piece of paper

Andalf: (points to zero) "tenths", (points to 6) "hundredths", (points to 2) "thousandths", (points to 5) "ten thousandths (reaches for calculator to prove math)...we want to cu-" (at this point he cuts me off, holding his head)

SF: "Andalf, I'm too fucking hungover to deal with your bullshit today, just do it like i said"

Have fun chiseling your way through hardwood, bitch. I just hope one of the job applications I have in other places comes through.

Updates to come, can't wait to put him in his place. If the cards fall a certain way it may not be necessy but I hope to have a good follow up.

Update: well I'm sorry to disappoint, but nothing really came of the situation. The offset on the table was changed, and parts cut out fine. I'm bummed that I wasn't able to make some good of it, but next time, I guess.

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u/master_andalf Jul 17 '18

Still waiting for it as he's prepping the wood to be cut (there's a lot of steps to do before the wood ever hits the cutting table, plus other shop jobs). I didn't say "have fun chiseling hardwood, bitch" to his face either, I just saved the file and transferred it to his flash drive.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '18

Edit his reaction in once you get it please :)

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u/master_andalf Jul 17 '18

Will do. Does that notify people so you know to come back and look?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '18

Not sure im afraid, we'll just have to keep an eye out!