first I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this.
i don't like to get long winded but I'm at my wits end. recently i got a job in a job shop as a machinist. I interviewed for a engineering position but the company at that time needed more machinist, though the interview went really well for the eingeering spot I agreed to a spot as a machinist and was told what i would be doing as far as setting up and running mills. me personally I am a lathe guy I have a ton of experience with y axis live tool sub spindle lathes programming and setting up (witch the job I applied for was a process engineer for the lathe department) I also explained to them there might be a learning curve as I used a probe on the mills I've ran set up and programmed this place used edge finders and very outdated (no offense) practices at least in my eyes.
I even walked around with the GM around the 5 axis machines and broke down how I would set up program and run a aerospace part and he was excited for me to start.
so I've been here for a couple months now first week was very basic I set up and ran a 5 axis mill and a 3 axis mill my supervisor was very impressed and even told me how good I was doing and everything else
however the last few weeks I've been in a de-bur room deburring parts that from my knowledge are already way past due and on a good day take about 3 hours a part to deburr.
I've offered input to my supervisor to reduce the deburr time since a lot of it was pretty basic like running a chamfer mill outside of the pockets to break very sharp edges but instead of positive feed back I got " that's not your job to worry about what we do we've done it this way for years" so I asked why I was back there doing deburr work when I was hired to run a machine and was told it was because I was the new guy witch I understood so I did the work.
once the order was done I went back to a machine. I cam in early one morning and was told to run a weird part and told my supervisor that I wasn't too comfortable with it and was told to ask a co worker how to do it and follow the set up notes. so I did exactly that and had a part move in the fixture so I stopped and found something else to do till the other operator who usually ran those parts came in so I could ask. I started up the machine I usually ran and did my normal thing checked the coolant warmed up the spindle and my supervisor comes over red faced mad and tells me (not ask)why did you scrap those parts there's 4 of them there when i tell you to do something you f&^%ing do it!" so I told him that I ran one and it moved I do not know were 4 came from so the normal operator said "oh must of been night shift I didn't know anyone was running it or id left a note its not your fault that's just how he is " (the supervisor). so then he comes and grabs me and ask me to set up a very old machine I told him I didn't know the control panel (97 Fadel) and asked for help. he told me what to do to the T then when I came back from break I noticed he was messing with it and threw a part on my table and said " you forgot to move your edge finder I thought I told you to pay attention!!".
I didn't say anything I walked back to my machine did my task then the next morning
I had parts to deburr and bend back into tolerance.
yes I said that correctly bend parts back into tolerance witch no one had any clue how to do so I messed with it and messed with it and didn't get a lot done and I walk to my supervisor and told him this and his response was " its ok we will get them tomorrow I know they aren't easy" to only come in the very next day to be told I'm not trying hard enough and to pull my head out of somewhere. now I do NOT want you to think this is a bash post cause it isn't and yes I have looked for work else where but it seems like a lot of these job shops in my area have the same problems as this. I do not mind the work but as the title says in this situation what would you do with that going on?
OTOH three weeks in the de-burr room working with specific parts might give you a better visceral "
FEEL" and idea how to program sim-5 axis chamfering for the specific part families in question.
Sort of "Wax on, wax off" Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita RIP) Karate Kid , kind of thing / scenario*.
There's a LOT of things you can't FEEL in CAD. and CAD-driven - CAM
Maybe various family members of the company owner also work in the de-burring room ;-)
And yes parts doooo get bent back into tolerance. Stress relief and how to take such distortions out programmatically also requires a practical
feel for what's going on - where are the stresses, and where are they being released + physical strain to attempt to correct (if appropriate) . The materials and parts need to be understood in an intrinsic and intuitive way also, not just fighting with inspection issues.
It could be your bosses and supervisors may have "grander" plans for you if you can get an actual close up real-handle on stuff (without making any assumptions) ?
^^^ I admit that's a bit of a rationalization but certainly not unheard of.
Seems like paying attention is super important !
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** Without "Being there" it's a bit of a one sided story. Not like two of your co-workers can chime in on this thread or the GM or your supervisor or anyone else that may have worked there for 20 years ++
