Digital Masta wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:40 am
My only connection to the pharmecutical industry is through your posts and it seems that there are a lot of jackasses in this industry.
The only way you dive from COVID when you're 55 is if you have shit health. Damn, we black men just be going down so early, we gotta have better health.
Damn, Morbius really must be trash because whenever San says a movie is okay that means it is really bad. He is the most forgiving movie reviewer on the interwebs.
I think it is like this everywhere, in almost every industry, that's white collar. I think it's why I could read a Dilbert comic strip and recognize people and chuckle...but my dad (military to trucker), mom (military to RN), and brother (IT to car sales to car finance) never really understood it. In pharma -- there is such an emphasis on degrees and educations and they tend to overlook experience. So you have a TON of people who have 100% book knowledge...with 0% practical knowledge...but feel that because they have ____ degree or ____ master's or ____ title or [worst of all] ____ PhD...they should be worshipped.
The weirdest part about all of it is that each department is incredibly specialized. We have a basic knowledge of what the other does...but no understanding or experience. And because of that -- EVERYONE typically thinks "I could do your role better than you." While yes, some things are obvious...others not so much. Also...EVERYONE is a keyboard warrior in the industry. And each department attracts the same personality traits/sets.
As a contractor -- who went from site to site -- I always used to say -- Each site is the same, just different. Chemistry/Micro lab attracts the pretty girls, the gay guys, the anime weeaboos, and the bookworms, -- who will talk to you for 3 hours about the benefits and drawbacks about polymerase chain reactions as an indication method or why
G Stearo is superior to
C Sporogenes as an indicator species. I generally stop them mid-sentence and say "that doesn't mean anything to me". The labs ALWAYS think they are the smartest people on site, if not on the planet. Automation groups attract the laziest and least patient people who think everyone around them are idiots because we don't understand the basic ladder logic of the DCS and SCADA systems...when it is RIGHT THERE in front of you, as a visual language [that we don't read]. Quality groups attract people who are Type-A and ALLLLLL about the fine details and
literal interpretations/translations and are generally workaholics. Engineering groups attract the tinker-ers...but they are all very laid back and low stress - they love to fix problems, but not so much document HOW they fixed it. Validation is the group that is the liaison between Quality and Engineering. Validation [my group] attracts people of the two extremes; either extreme "letter of the law" followers....or people who weigh the risk/reward and adjust accordingly (though sometimes not appropriately). But we all love paperwork and documenting EVERYTHING (which is a FDA requirement, so that's nice). Production attracts people who only care about the numbers (profit and output -- FUCK quality. I gave you 3,000 units -- so what if you had to throw away 2,700 of them...I did my part). Maintenance usually attracts people who are bitter/jaded that they didn't get the same opportunities as some of the people in the white collar roles. As such, they all seem to think -- I know better than any of you....then break bolts, pinch gaskets, cross thread/strip the equipment, etc.
Now -- if you combine that mindset with my personality. I am an outlier. I just DGAF. So...I will tell people, I'll play chicken with you allllll damn day...and I'll win. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. You honestly can't win at this because you cannot care less than me. My position/dept has the authority to shut down the site. So....it isn't a bluff when I sent the email that "We're shutting down the site because the Micro group can't get their shit together..."
What really annoyed me about all of this is that the supervisor (not even manager) puffed out his chest like that (IN FRONT OF EVERY ONE) -- then IMMEDIATELY...like immediately, immediately...turned bitch.
He just lost all credibility. Which means that when I go to work today -- AAAALLLLLL of the people on that email chain (and it was A LOT) are gonna come find me to shit-talk him and pat me on the back -- when I honestly just don't give 2 shits. I just want them to do their gottdamn job so I can go home on time; to my family. Oh yes...and obviously, pay me!!
About San's Movie Reviews. You just have to understand San has the superpower to suspend disbelief like no other...Imagine if San had a movie review youtube channel...each movie would just receive a 10/10.