Good morning!!!!

[Bird]

RNG, I don't know how you remembered all those turns and instructions.:laughing: I've used the Google Maps App on my phone, but with my bad hearing, I don't get enough volume so I can't say I really like it. However, now on our 2017 Ford Escape, we have their over priced NAV system and I like that.

Ron, I don't guess I'd even heard of the WAZE APP.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

View from my exercise bike this morning
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Wow...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Been using waze for yrs. Google now owns it.

 

[PJSprog]

31°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 48° today.

Having a cruddy day at work so far today. I've had one guy trying to justify that we cannot seem to drill a round hole, but it's OK, even after the customer had just complained about the holes not being round (how on earth do you drill a triangular hole with a round drill bit in a drill press?!). Another guy is telling me that the parts our customer just rejected are fine. A machine operator is trying to convince me that our best welder should just "make do" with the cruddy parts he made for him. What the ...?!?!?! What are these people smoking today?!

Gaaaah!!! Need to make a fresh cup of hot green tea, close my office door, and listen to some nice, relaxing classical music.

 

[PJSprog]

That's a fantastic view, David. Thanks for sharing.

 

[PJSprog]

In all the whining, I forgot to mention that my oldest stepson passed his state exam yesterday, and is now an officially licensed Texas Peace Officer. Proud of him for setting a goal and meeting it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Congrats PJ

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, have you tried the WAZE APP. Has worked good for me from one end of the country to other.

I learned yesterday that Google Maps and Waze are now using the same underlying info.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, I don't know how you remembered all those turns and instructions.:laughing: I've used the Google Maps App on my phone, but with my bad hearing, I don't get enough volume so I can't say I really like it. However, now on our 2017 Ford Escape, we have their over priced NAV system and I like that.

Ron, I don't guess I'd even heard of the WAZE APP.

I keep the voice commands OFF on any of the mapping devices I use. Just don't like being told what to do!

Waze is a phone app that monitors vehicle position and speed and sends that back to a central server. The info is used to deduce traffic conditions, and is one of the main factors that let the app adjust routing to avoid congestion. Waze also lets you download maps beforehand so they're not downloading as needed from the internet. And I think Google Maps now lets you do this, too. This lets the app display a background map in areas where there is no cellular network reception. But there are also privacy concerns, as the tracking data can be repurposed for nefarious goals...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

31°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 48° today.

Having a cruddy day at work so far today. I've had one guy trying to justify that we cannot seem to drill a round hole, but it's OK, even after the customer had just complained about the holes not being round (how on earth do you drill a triangular hole with a round drill bit in a drill press?!). Another guy is telling me that the parts our customer just rejected are fine. A machine operator is trying to convince me that our best welder should just "make do" with the cruddy parts he made for him. What the ...?!?!?! What are these people smoking today?!

One of my many summer jobs while attending college was as an NDT tech/QC inspector. I was once sent to a steel mill where work was being done on a big electric furnace. The foreman on the job directed his crew to make welds that were not on the print, and asked me what I was going to do about it. I told him nothing, that my job was only to report the nonconformance. That was on graveyard shift, and the next morning I found myself accompanying the day shift inspector, a senior member of the company, to the Big Boss's office. He chewed us both out very good, and I was warned before going in to just keep my mouth shut. I did, and after the "meeting" was told that's the little game that was being played. Management couldn't control their own workers, and instead of taking the blame themselves, put it on us. Our company didn't care, as we didn't have any authority over their workers, and the constant stream of screwups resulted in many hours of engineering and inspection time to fix them. It also meant extra work for the union workers, so everybody except the bosses paying the bills was happy.

As far as the triangular holes, that can happen when a small pilot hole isn't made before going on to a larger bit. The rest of it is just bad attitude, something that seems in no short supply in this country. We're rapidly devolving to 2nd and even 3rd world standards with regard to service and product quality. :2cents: