What's your current headache?

Dumbass contractor cut tiles in the bathroom next to my shop with both doors wide open. Whatever happened to common sense??? A 5 year-old would have thought to maybe close the farking door when making dust clouds! Now I have to individually clean Every. Single. Item. In. My. Shop.

On the bright side, it made me reconnect with Big Bertha and caress her once again. The biggest PCB I ever designed. They don't get much bigger!

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We had layoffs in 2023 and now are struggling to keep up with work. The rationale was to cut “low performers” but I always think that’s a shortsighted thing. We should invest in people development so that they become high performers instead…
Oh buddy. That hasn’t been a thing since jack welch had his say.
 
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Dumbass contractor cut tiles in the bathroom next to my shop with both doors wide open. Whatever happened to common sense??? A 5 year-old would have thought to maybe close the farking door when making dust clouds! Now I have to individually clean Every. Single. Item. In. My. Shop.

On the bright side, it made me reconnect with Big Bertha and caress her once again. The biggest PCB I ever designed. They don't get much bigger!

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I’ve had very bad luck with contractors using the appropriate protection for our stuff. It’s very annoying when they do that!
 
My work situation is relatively stable but I've been feeling burnt out for some time now. We are a small semi family business and I have been there a long time. I used to have a good relationship with my boss but over the past few years it has deteriorated. Our relationship has been reduced to three letters: CYA.

I would like to move on but it's not the time
 
Only time I’ve seen a guitar pedal pcb designer call for a 1550G
I happen to have a few of those 1550G... and DEFX's PLL...MFOS SubCommander...


Dumbass contractor cut tiles in the bathroom next to my shop with both doors wide open. Whatever happened to common sense??? A 5 year-old would have thought to maybe close the farking door when making dust clouds! Now I have to individually clean Every. Single. Item. In. My. Shop.

On the bright side, it made me reconnect with Big Bertha and caress her once again. The biggest PCB I ever designed. They don't get much bigger!

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Where did you say the Gerbers were posted?

Oh, and what is it and what does it do? "IMLAB Source Selector" — I need one.
 
Oh, and what is it and what does it do? "IMLAB Source Selector" — I need one.
It's a 40-channel wide audio source selector. It has three 40-channel sources and one 40-channel output (all balanced), going to a 39-speaker setup on 4 rings: 8x floor speakers + 4x 15" subs, 12x ear level, 12x height, and 3 ceiling-mounted "voice of God" speakers. IMlab stands for IMmersive. Audio research stuff mostly, but the room is also (under-) used for Atmos mixing. Lots of latching relays. Even the switching logic is done with relays, just for fun.
 
Lately, anything I try to do is subject to end abruptly in hurled tools and a Wilhelm Scream. I threw a Circulator across the room two days ago. I think it works better now.

It isn't the projects or encroaching focal dystonia that are the problem, it is injured cognitive function from enduring months on end of psychological warfare masqueraded as national politics. I don't even have a dog in the fight, I don't like any of "them" and never have.
 
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