The Frustration of getting half-done work...
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Hi All, The project I am on at the moment to design a test rig for is awkward. People have done the Cool stuff and not not the boring engineering behind it. The issue is the product seems to work but I am not allowed to see the inner workings as 'I don't need to' despite the fact I was put in to design the test rig for production I. I started to lay one of the boards out as a question was met by a 'don't worry about that', shortly afterward the board were taken away from me and given to a new Grad in there department as he need experience laying out boards. A couple of Prototypes were taken away for EMC testing this week, last week a big mind meld happened lots of swearing at GIT. I get the feeling all is not well, my boss has the opinion if they don't ask for help don't help them. It's all getting horribly political... :rolleyes:
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Hi All, The project I am on at the moment to design a test rig for is awkward. People have done the Cool stuff and not not the boring engineering behind it. The issue is the product seems to work but I am not allowed to see the inner workings as 'I don't need to' despite the fact I was put in to design the test rig for production I. I started to lay one of the boards out as a question was met by a 'don't worry about that', shortly afterward the board were taken away from me and given to a new Grad in there department as he need experience laying out boards. A couple of Prototypes were taken away for EMC testing this week, last week a big mind meld happened lots of swearing at GIT. I get the feeling all is not well, my boss has the opinion if they don't ask for help don't help them. It's all getting horribly political... :rolleyes:
Odds are, the "grad" would like to stay in touch. Send an email with a casual "I heard ... and BTW .. and good luck!" If he wants, he'll respond and if you're still somehow attached to the project, you can direct it that way.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Odds are, the "grad" would like to stay in touch. Send an email with a casual "I heard ... and BTW .. and good luck!" If he wants, he'll respond and if you're still somehow attached to the project, you can direct it that way.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
Offer to help, 'R&D only, Stay in Production'! I'm getting a little frustrated about this.
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Hi All, The project I am on at the moment to design a test rig for is awkward. People have done the Cool stuff and not not the boring engineering behind it. The issue is the product seems to work but I am not allowed to see the inner workings as 'I don't need to' despite the fact I was put in to design the test rig for production I. I started to lay one of the boards out as a question was met by a 'don't worry about that', shortly afterward the board were taken away from me and given to a new Grad in there department as he need experience laying out boards. A couple of Prototypes were taken away for EMC testing this week, last week a big mind meld happened lots of swearing at GIT. I get the feeling all is not well, my boss has the opinion if they don't ask for help don't help them. It's all getting horribly political... :rolleyes:
Sounds like a goat:elephant: in progress :~... (we've had that sort of thing where I toil away the hours)
Software Zen:
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Sounds like a goat:elephant: in progress :~... (we've had that sort of thing where I toil away the hours)
Software Zen:
delete this;Talking to others today there seems to be a vendatta against R&D (I'm Production) why Oh why can't we all get along...
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Talking to others today there seems to be a vendatta against R&D (I'm Production) why Oh why can't we all get along...
At one time we had "castle walls" between software engineering, hardware engineering, and quality assurance. The relationships were deliberately adversarial. One advantage of the company going through bankruptcy and 65% attrition in the engineering workforce is that QA no longer exists and my boss is in charge of both the software and hardware development folks. We work together to get the job done, imagine that.
Software Zen:
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At one time we had "castle walls" between software engineering, hardware engineering, and quality assurance. The relationships were deliberately adversarial. One advantage of the company going through bankruptcy and 65% attrition in the engineering workforce is that QA no longer exists and my boss is in charge of both the software and hardware development folks. We work together to get the job done, imagine that.
Software Zen:
delete this;First place I've ever worked where Electronics is split. Everywhere else it's Electronics, Software, Software do all the non-embedded stuff, here R&D design something Production them have to work out how to build it. It will not end well.
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First place I've ever worked where Electronics is split. Everywhere else it's Electronics, Software, Software do all the non-embedded stuff, here R&D design something Production them have to work out how to build it. It will not end well.
glennPattonWork3 wrote:
It will not end well
I'm afraid it does sound like that. Good luck.
Software Zen:
delete this;