I got temporarily demoted at work. :-( Well, technically temporarily promoted.
So I'm the only surface mount solderer at my job. And we recently got in something like 4 or 5 thousand boards that have an incorrect transistor on them. That transistor needs to be removed and replaced with the correct transistor. Since I am the surface mount solderer, I do that modification. So, for the foreseeable future, my job is to mod boards.
My job is also to write SOPs for the same company but under a different boss. The two bosses share me. Well, my SOP boss has asked my assembly boss if he can keep me for "until further notice." And since it's the slow season for assembly and since my SOP boss outranks my assembly boss, my assembly boss said yes. So I got sent upstairs to work on SOPs until someone says otherwise
This is a promotion of sorts, moving from assembly to admin is a good thing and just what every good little assembler should aim for. But it's just temporary and BUT MY BOARDS THOUGH. PAWS OFF MY BOARDS! AND PAWS OFF MY WICK AND TWEEZERS AND FLUX AND SOLDER, WHILE YOU'RE AT IT.
So I trained another guy on the surface mounting awhile back (not really lol, I'm not qualified to train anyone. I showed him how I do it, gave him a couple of basic tips, and set him loose.) And so my assembly boss is all "Other Guy can do the surface mounts til Liela gets back." (;; but the paws off thing though!) And CCL is the one who gets the boards when I'm finished with the mods. She's the through-hole solderer. And she's completely shameless. She bellows out in front of god and everyone "WELL HE BETTER START NOW JUST TO KEEP UP! LIELA GAVE ME ENOUGH FOR THREE DAYS' WORK BUT HE TAKES THREE TIMES AS LONG ON EVERY BOARD AS SHE DOES!" Oh lard CCL, the man may be slower at surface mounting than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter, but he's still got feelings. D: And I'm sure he's super excited to do it after THAT loud and rowdy vote of confidence.
And the SOP boss might not get to keep me long anyways because the engineers want me to surface mount a bunch of boards that they just got in (production halts until those are done because the upstairs assembly needs them to move forward) and since the engineers outrank the SOP boss, yep. I give it two days, tops, til I'm pulled off SOPs and put in engineering for a few days. BUT MY BOARDS THOUGH GUYS, MY BOARDS! But that's a good thing, I love hanging out in the engineering office. So calm and quiet! I'd give up my transistor mods if I got to live in the engineering office. :D If I could just surface mount in there for the rest of forever, that'd be great!