Man, I'm livid right now. It was a complete shitshow at work today (but actually the whole week) and it'll probably be worse tomorrow.
Last week I was three weeks in working on the current project and on Thursday I was hit with the usual "oh hey Ruslan, drop this project and immediately start working on that one, it's way more urgent". I hate when shit like that happens but over the last few years this has became routine as I usually work fairly quick and if there's anything urgent there's a good chance it'll go to me, okay fine. The new thing is essentially to get the 3D models of parts up to standards as the models were originally done by an outsourced organization and obviously they screwed it up (this has already happened in 2014 with another outsourced organization but I guess our company never learns any lessons); there are a number of comments about stuff that needs to be fixed. By my estimation, the job would take a week to finish and then you've got to get like 20 signatures from all the departments for it to be official. The deadline is Monday. We're "strongly encouraged" to work overtime during working days and also show up on Saturday and Sunday. That's a problem for me because
a) the payment for this is semi-official. There are no official overtime hours after COVID, but we are promised (verbally, not in writing) that we'll be compensated as a bonus. Problem is, I've been shortchanged twice in these 8 years already. I think 4 years ago we had the same kind of vague promise and I had nothing better to do so I worked evenings and weekends for two weeks and got a formal letter of gratitude which also added 500 rubles ($7) to my salary that month.
This is still a thing I joke about with my friends. Now, during the COVID lockdown, we had two options, stay at home and do nothing and get our usual monthly salary, or work from home and get 30% more in bonuses (again, nothing in writing). Once again, I had nothing better to do so I worked from home for two weeks and got 2500 rubles ($35!) which was like a 1/5 from what I was promised. After these two instances I'm not working overtime unless the payment is official.
b) I spend 3 hours a day solely on my commute. Those are unpaid, obviously, so I would waste 3 hours of each Saturday and Sunday if I'll show up to work. So well, screw that.
Anyway, I took some shortcuts (approved it with my boss first) and fixed the absolutely essential stuff which would prevent the factory from making the actual parts. The project is done on Monday, I hand it off for the signing, however the quality control folks write me loads of pages with comments about the non-essential stuff (using - instead of —; using x (a letter) instead of × (a multiplication sign), and so on). At this point I'm nearly flipping out. I go to my boss. He says if it's in the standards, we've got to fix it. I warn him it'll take at least a day, most probably even two to fix all the little faults that weren't even mine to begin with. He gives me a green light. Okay. I finish it by Wednesday morning and the project is officially signed yesterday. I go home and grab a beer at the little shop near the train station.
This morning I'm given another project for the same helicopter, it's the whole fucking cargo floor assembly. The previous project was basically one frame (basically part of the fuselage carcass) and it would've taken me a week to do properly. This one with all the parts and minor assembly parts (including the frame I finished) would take me a fucking couple of months. It took me 2 hours to load it on my working PC which is not too shabby. The deadline? Tomorrow. This fucking Friday.
Obviously I raise some strong objections to this which are rebuked with "hey, just line up the crucial, critical stuff and skip the rest. We'll fix it in the next revision". Problem is, it's already revision E (fifth version basically, starting with A) and judging by how fucked up the whole assembly is (rivets are totally fucked up, the parts cut into each other, there are no fucking dimensions whatsoever, literally zero) I can venture a guess that "we'll fix it in the next revision" is a motto for this particular assembly. Another problem is, I hate doing a half-assed job, because it'll be my name on it and the factory will call me about that shit. Another problem is, even if I only do the crucial stuff and skip the rest, it would still take me at least a week or two. Combine this with the fact I'm not working overtime anymore, you get the result. I began to put some dimensions in but the scale of the project is just enormous. I gathered my things and walked out at 4 PM when my working day was over. I don't know what kind of half-assed shit we'll be sending out to the production facility tomorrow if at all, but it's honestly not my problem.
Our company was already a shitshow post-COVID (there's an emergency with the deadlines every week and we're almost always "strongly encouraged" to work overtime), but this takes it to a new fucking level. Come Saturday, I'm heading for a run in the morning, then I'm watching Tenet in the cinema, and then I'm updating my resume and searching for another job.
I couldn't find the work related gripes thread from the first search and that also pissed me off so I'll just post here.