The Red Brick Times

Everything in Google and Blogger seems to be coming through in German on my computer. I am running Sandboxie and cannot find code in the configuration file that defaults to German. Is this an attempt by the owners to globalize? Fortunately, the home screens have language selection options to reset. It doesn't stay put, however. Whenever one logs out of Sandboxie, all the changes are tossed, and restarting returns to German. Even when I manually enter the text URL (www.google.com) the www.google.de site shows up. For those monolingual among us, it is an impediment to productivity. Fie!

I have an interview in Lorain today at Emerson Power Products (formerly Lorain Products). They want an entry level design engineer, but will only hire on a temporary contract basis, and have no control over bringing contract hires on board as permanent employees. Once a year they get a budget from corporate HQ telling them how many "heads" they can add, or must let go. In addition, I have gotten a sense from Consumer's Energy in Michigan that they would like to have me join them. I am suppose to sit down with the Lab Manager this week and discuss my desired career path should I stay with Consumer's. We will see. I have not been contacted again by Agronomix in Oberlin after two interviews. They may not know what they want to do to grow their business.
Posted 8:23 AM by Andy (3) comments

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Es konnte ihnen nur geschehen.

# posted by  whatley : July 15, 2008 8:10 AM
 
Wie schade!

# posted by  Andy : July 18, 2008 10:59 PM
 
The Emerson job would be in a cubicle specifying telecommunications power system rebuilds. One selects products from the catalogs that fit the customer specifications, lays out the site dimensions and placement, orders the stuff and tracks the job through to completion. Over and over and over again. They mentioned four times in the hour-long interview that they were extremely "date-driven", meaning inflexible deadlines and excessive work loads. The emphasis is entirely on production throughput. Kind of like building vehicles, but without actual pieces to play with. There is no equipment construction being done in the US. All Emerson/Lorain Products stuff is made in Mexico or overseas. And I talked to a buddy from California who has been contracting with telecomm and cell-phone site builders for years. He said that the "Lorain Products" brand of power supplies is not the first choice for many site developers, there being other brands less expensive with more desirable features. Paul Stocker (Lorain Proucts' founder) is spinning in his grave.

Jackson, Mi. still looks good from here.

# posted by  Andy : July 18, 2008 11:10 PM
 
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