/diy/ - Do It Yourself

G damn what the fuck is wrong with blue collar workers, desu
I love my job, and I love my coworkers, but holy fuck idfk what they’d do without me. I went to school for CS, I am a nerd, soft hands little bitch, despite spending every waking moment in my dad’s ““““ shop”””” from the time I could hold tools.
I worked in my industry, CS sucked, I clocked that 10 years ago. Now I do CNC shit and fabrication.
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve had to explain a machine to my coworkers. A machine I was never trained on, I was never exposed to, I was just expected to know. I read the manuals and was able to pick up and slowly understand.

Today I had to run a job on a laser cutter, a machine I never used. I was getting inconsistent cuts, I figured something was wrong. The gantry was completely loose, I tightened the screws. The laser alignment was completely fucked, I realigned the mirrors. Yet I was still getting issues.
I disassembled the cutter head and a silicon o-ring was missing from a focal lens the cutter head. What the fuck? The dudes running the machine before me would just crack the wattage to compensate for the loose and rattling lens. DO NORMAL PEOPLE NOT THINK AT ALL WHAT THE FUCK?
I am lazy to no end, I want my work to be easy, if a machine is making it hard the machine is wrong. Do most people not follow this?