It's funny hearing these Cnc programmers talking about how operators are paid way to much now because they just hit a button...maybe they should take pay cuts also because they don't actually write programs anymore with all the software they use..overpaid do nothings.
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Hooksett has been making the same parts for 50 years and still can’t get it right the programmers as you call them are just glorified setup guys no real experience and little to no knowledge it is a sad state of affairs when an operator just keeps loading part and setting them aside so they can get them dispoed do they stop and fix the problem no they just keep making part after part
Major layoff coming soon
Alrighty then.
What a joke if the programmers were worth their weight we wouldn’t be making the same part bad for more than 20 years and having to spend hours hand benching to get them thru shipping and you guys call your selfs programmers most can’t even read what the software has programmed
A programmer wouldn't generally start his first assignment at GE. GE can afford to pay for quality and experience. So you would generally need to go cut your teeth programming at a few other places first. You can't just start at the top. Good luck though.
The best machinists at my site become highly paid CNC programmers. What's your excuse?
This is General Electric and you shouldn't have to hire contractors to come in and do what your employees should know how to do... But than again we hire people for critical roles who worked at bycicle shops 😅
I agree with that. There are valuable skills at several roles. I think the dead weight is mostly at the top and in corporate social engineering programs. Many of the shop floor employees are integral and critical to long term success. I appreciate the guys who are doing their best to work through all the crazy changes that come our way. Good job guys! You know who you are.
Or when the contractors know more about programming than the actual PE’s. Don’t be so pretentious @1cxy. It takes both the engineers and the operators to keep us both making money.
Those that actually do good programming and try to fix problems are indeed more of what we need. However, the ones that respond by saying “it shouldn’t be doing that, I don’t know why it’s doing that” then take years to even attempt to fix the problem instead of basically putting a recut in a program (something us hourly’s are only paid what we are paid to do ;) then yes the criticism is warranted.
CNC programmers are actually underpaid at 100k. They can make twice that on the open market because it is a rare skill so they can charge for it. Bad programmers are all over the place. If it was easy, you'd be doing it. It takes about 10k hours (literally) to get proficient with the software by the way so you better start practicing right away ;)
Between that and copy-pasting programs or the band-aid approach to fixing years long repeat issues I wholeheartedly agree. Also coaches making 75k to do what? Do time cards and look at parts and clipboards?