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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #644 on: December 30, 2019, 11:20:48 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 30, 2019, 10:48:30 AM
Yup.  The Christmas-NYD shutdown is really common in High Tech.  Somewhat less common in other professional fields, and as we've noted before, it's completely missing in manufacturing.

I used to work on Christmas Day back when I was in semiconductor manufacturing. Wafer fabs run 3 shifts and don't ever shut down. That sucked and is one of the many reasons I left semiconductors.
Yeah, although we were "shut down", it was actually less than half the company that was off. Our manufacturing facilities overseas were still going strong. 

Was this you back in the day? "Time to make the semiconductors."



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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #645 on: December 30, 2019, 11:27:00 AM »
Ha!  Pretty much!

Luckily I wasn't a process engineer but rather a test engineer working on behalf of an equipment manufacturer (ion implanters), within our customer's fabs.  So I only had to work a couple of Christmases and only if things went wrong with our equipment, and after that I had enough seniority to avoid it.  But man those were some tough days, getting up at 7 AM to spend Christmas morning with the family, then heading into work by noon or so to spend 8 hours in a cleanroom, with little interaction with any other folks.  Not the way I like to spend Christmas at all.

This year, the very large computer manufacturing company that I work for that is headquartered in Austin (Round Rock actually), shut down for the week of Christmas, and technically we're working this week.  /But I had plenty of PTO so today I really only logged in to see if anything went crazy over last week, and I won't work again this week, although I'll probably log in again on Thursday or Friday, just to make sure next week isn't too horrible.

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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #646 on: December 30, 2019, 11:32:46 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on December 30, 2019, 10:45:03 AM
Yep. And they call it "Coke" when they order it.
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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #647 on: December 30, 2019, 11:49:14 AM »
Dr. Pepper is great and Texans are bad-ass.  The End.
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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #648 on: December 30, 2019, 11:51:33 AM »
And you don't ever order a Dr. Pepper by saying coke.  That's just silly.

But you do say, "Hey y'all I'm fixin' to go to the store and grab some cokes, anybody want one?"  And when the reply is, "Sure!" then the response is, "Ok, what kind do you want?  Coke?  Dr. Pepper?  Mountain Dew?"
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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #649 on: December 30, 2019, 11:52:15 AM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on December 30, 2019, 11:20:48 AM
Yeah, although we were "shut down", it was actually less than half the company that was off. Our manufacturing facilities overseas were still going strong.

Was this you back in the day? "Time to make the semiconductors."



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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #650 on: December 30, 2019, 11:56:55 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on December 30, 2019, 11:52:15 AM
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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #651 on: December 30, 2019, 11:57:40 AM »
Later in my career, I always worked these days because there was nobody else around.
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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #652 on: December 30, 2019, 11:58:38 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 30, 2019, 11:51:33 AM
And you don't ever order a Dr. Pepper by saying coke.  That's just silly.

But you do say, "Hey y'all I'm fixin' to go to the store and grab some cokes, anybody want one?"  And when the reply is, "Sure!" then the response is, "Ok, what kind do you want?  Coke?  Dr. Pepper?  Mountain Dew?"

This is true hereabouts.  "Coke" means soft drink.  Rum and coke could be rum and Canada Dry.  
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« Reply #653 on: December 30, 2019, 12:00:08 PM »
I'm in the office this morning because someone had a funeral to attend.  I was scheduled to have the day off.  Trying to burn vacation leave time.  Can only carry over 40 hours.

I'm leaving soon to go home to watch bowl games.
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« Reply #654 on: December 30, 2019, 12:00:37 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 30, 2019, 11:58:38 AM
This is true hereabouts.  "Coke" means soft drink.  Rum and coke could be rum and Canada Dry. 
the unwashed masses
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« Reply #655 on: December 30, 2019, 12:03:32 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on December 30, 2019, 12:00:37 PM
the unwashed masses

Sounds so much better than using dorky yankee words like "soda" or "pop" or the very worst "soda-pop."

Say that down here, and everyone knows they can start ignoring your yankee ass. :)
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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #656 on: December 30, 2019, 12:12:47 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 30, 2019, 11:58:38 AM
This is true hereabouts.  "Coke" means soft drink.  Rum and coke could be rum and Canada Dry. 
This is so foreign to me. I’ve always referred to it as “pop” and I realize that drives some people crazy. But to call it generically “Coke” would drive me crazy.
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Re: Bowling For Burgers
« Reply #657 on: December 30, 2019, 12:13:32 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on December 30, 2019, 12:00:37 PM
the unwashed masses
Coke seems popular hereabouts.  I have not been in a single restaurant that had Pepsi since we came here.  

When I was in seventh grade, we had a class trip to NYC and I was astonished to learn they had Coke up there.  Seriously.

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