Hot one, was all day, Ramp up, fan on, work it through, Finally done, whew!
Category: work
“Shelter In Place”, Day 2
Wednesday, 03/18/2020: Just a couple days ago we heard the news that six of the counties in the San Francisco Bay Area, are directed by public order to "shelter in place" for the next three weeks. Put simply, that means stay home, take care of your family, do what work you can (if any) from …
Smack Down
Learning can be very challenging. VERY CHALLENGING. Sometimes you find yourself in the mud, the thick, and it sucks. You make repeated mistakes, same issues, and it's confounding, really...troubleshooting, reviewing your process, trying to understand why the errors are happening. It can feel like a smack down. A SMACK DOWN. It’s abrupt; it gives one …
First-World, Any-World: Trials and Joy
Often things don’t go as planned; and certainly, they don’t always go as we’d like. That’s a common theme in life. A few First-World samples below that teach Any-World lessons. 1/ Adapt and overcome obstacles at work (and anywhere); don’t get frazzled. Pause, take a deep breath, take the next step. 2/ If your path …
My Office Today & a Little Lemonade from Lemons
Saw it coming if I was paying attention. Very runny nose, increasingly frequent cough, growing crankiness (for him and me), and BOOM, my son got sick. Aren’t they always sick this time of year, little kids? Never mind. He’s gotta stay home sick, and today ok for me to work from home (Thankful!), so here …
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BATCHUSR
There are lots of benefits to an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in a manufacturing environment. One of the more fundamental ways I've experienced it being helpful to is with reporting. Massive amounts of data exist when a company runs their processes and related data through an ERP system. It follows then that business people …
SOX Wants: An Audit Sample
Funny what an audit inspires... “It begins, it begins, with a friendly request; let's see a sample of your documentation for your orders of work. Everybody does it, gotta do it too. Let's see the work order document itself. Let's see the Goods Issue documents. Let's see the Goods Receipt documents. In the system, it …