I have been debating what to do about the transmission fluid. Drain & fill? flush? Did a bunch of reading and landed in a pan drain.


Ordered the hose, pitcher funnel and 4 quarts of Amsoil Signature Series Fuel-Efficient Synthetic Automatic Transmission Fluid

https://www.amsoil.com/p/signature-s.../#pills-home_0

I'll drive it like this for a few weeks and do it again weeks apart two more times.

 

What is this????

 

Must be the sprinklers on the pool. No way that's rain in AZ.

 

lluvia

 

Thought I posted this yesterday.

Skidplate wandered in.

 

bout fuckin time

 

Budwiser is advertising it's "patriotic cans" To me that indicates the beer sucks.

 

Swapped out two pans worth (9 quarts) going to do it at least twice more, have enough Amsoil for 3, hoping it's clean after 18 quarts.

Shifting is much improved already.

I finally got the Tundra mount, it's different than the cooler so I had to get creative.

 

Awesome, man...

 

Trans cooler working & I like the iat being slightly above ambient!

In the office IN PANTS! (usually wear shorts) new CIO and IT director are in town from Atlanta to lay out the new direction. Hate the shit.

 

Trans cooler working & I like the iat being slightly above ambient!

In the office IN PANTS! (usually wear shorts) new CIO and IT director are in town from Atlanta to lay out the new direction. Hate this shit.

 

you should route some additional lines through your underwear.

 

Mandé?

 

Senor?
Michelada?

 

No drinking for me.


Sooo the pointy haired bosses want to move to a SCRUM paradigm. My question (that they had no answer for) was how do you make a 2 week plan for events that cannot be planned?

We are help desk, 70% of our work is break fix. We never know what will break tomorrow. The rest is password resets, network outages and other things that are unknown.

We do some system builds that are planned but that is less than 10% of our work.

God I love new executives that think all the answers are in some Six Sigma/Scrum/Agile/ whatever playbook.

That's great for site roll outs/software creation/planable situations, does not work for unknown life.

 

Those scrumbags.

Agile/scrum doesn't work for everything. Delivery teams, sure. Production support, no chance in hell. You'll spend more time doing admin work than the work itself.

​​​​​​Signed,
A CSPO & CSM

 

However, if you'd need to please them, just put a recurring story on the board assigned to everyone on the team and call it "break fix" or "bau support".

 

Here's the best part. It starts Monday. A holiday. Another thing we could not get them to see (that it's Tuesday)

I'll do what I have to and ask my team to do the same. I am sure it will be clear in a few months that it's impossible to plan break fix.

 

Yeah, we went through something similar at my company 7 years ago. We're still agile, but not every org within the company is scrum. Some are kanban. Others do what I mentioned above. I understand why the enterprise wanted to do it though - we now use an enterprise backlog to push larger pieces of work down to the teams that are impacted, and it allows us to easily track everything and report out.

I know that doesn't sit well with many people (including me at first), but it actually gives the c-suite the information they need to make our lives easier/remove roadblocks/have trade-off discussions.

​​​​​ It's still pretty dumb for production support though.

 

I advocate full documentation on all our tickets and I pass that reporting to my director.

He understands the whole two-week project scrums will not work for the bulk of our work.

Oddly they are moving to Dell Image assist which is great but takes away literally the only part of our job that is predictable. (building, imaging, and shipping systems)

 

Maybe they are suggesting a bit more system sabotage to up the reliance on support?


Company I work for is big into Six Sigma...seems to have calmed down but they pushed hard for a decade.
I got my yellow...I despised it although I do see the cost savings I also quickly realized it's not applicable to
all scenarios. The management that was so into it must be super fun in bed, was always my thought. Step
1. Kiss. Step 2 lick toes Step 3 repeat step 2. Does that feel good, if yes. If no...outcome- find new lover.
Bleh, I hated that shit.

Now, LEAN...I loved that shit. While they were explaining putting the peanut butter next to the butter knife
drawer in front of the toaster...I was like...holy crap, I already do that shit!

 

The plot thickens (thins)?

Everything is supposed to run through Teams, there are repositories for every department, IT is EMPTY, the WIKI is also EMPTY.

 

Time to brush up the resume?

 

LEAN is easy and absolutely should be done. It's all basic logic about where to put things in an order that makes sense.

Six Sigma is a wet dream that not many companies ever achieve aside from those manufacturing tens of thousands of some widget day after day with full automation. We employed a couple six sigma black belts that didn't do shit because the majority of our production is manual with unskilled labor that had high turnover. Scrap/failure rates didn't change because of that.

They tried to push the whole Agile/Scrum thing on the hardware engineering team and it was laughed off stage.

 

I have been here 20 years. Not going anywhere voluntarily. They are welcome to fire me, I welcome the severance.

I could retire today, I wish my Wife were ready to sell the house & 90% of it's contents & move back to Mexico. I keep suggesting it. She loves her job.

There are lots of places we can and should become more efficient. SCRUM is not the way. I have been here for more new CIOs than I can remember. They all came in all shiny & new with the "answers" and were all sent packing when they failed.

I submit the fact they expect to implement this Monday and there is nothing documented today shows how this will go.

Seems they forgot to implement a scrum on implementing scrum.

 

But if it's a wiki in Teams, then that means you can go in and write your own destiny, right?

 

Nope, not touching that shit.

Got this yesterday, it's bright but not too bright, the light goes everywhere & it has removable battery packs & is connected to the headband by velcro so it can be cleaned.

Looking forward to using it on the next trans fluid R&R.

 

holy shit that looks in tents. I want one!

I agree on Seal Team Six Sigma...was good for Ford didn't really apply to us.

 

The little one takes AAAs I got it in case both the 3k packs are dead.

 

a man prepared for war...I dig it.

 

AAAs are easily acquirable everywhere. Figured it could not hurt to have it for 9.99.


Also, pools all cleaned up.

 

I'm so annoyed...we have a leak...
thinking main drain.
Also, retrofit led lights are fucking expensive for a 1.5" fiberstar light.
no wonder it's never worked and no wonder her ex husband didn't fix it.

 

Our light leaks no matter what I have done. Pool guy that came for a pump motor said the whole thing has to be R&R'd 500 bucks. Uh no.

 

I'm into it $340 for retrofit but it should be 1 and done and the led light is a treo by sr smith and should be replaceable for $75 or so, going forward.
Fiber replace would be like $1500 if you can find someone that even has it...pool company themselves quoted me $800 for what I bought that I'll
install myself...200 labor and 600 for what I got.

 

I use the neighbor's pool. They don't know... but I find it's the option with the least upkeep. You jabronis should look into it.

 

I would but both of the next door neighbors sunbathe topless and I don't want to make them feel uncomfortable. @cu2wagon

 

I love working from home! I am more productive PLUS I get a ton done around the house.

Right now, I'm resetting 20 Win10 machines that are going back to the county funders and r&ring my transmission fluid!




This is the third drain, I have enough Amsoil for a 4th & 5th but it's clean enough, Ill save the next two for 30k from now.

 

Working from home is great. We're going hybrid later this year but my team is iffy on returning back to the office at all - which I'm cool with.

 

I am happy to WFH 100%.

In the office today, leaving at 2.

 

We're back to 100% capacity in the office, with the option of 1 WFH day/week.
With 3 kids at home, WFH can be a challenge at times. Easier when they have school, for sure.