How do you deal with frustration?

[PEU]

Situation:

You spend a good couple of hours on a piece, lets say you face, drill, bore, knurl, flip side, more drilling, facing, boring, threading and a lot of measuring in between and when you are almost finished you do something wrong (or stupid) and a major SNAFU happens.

What do you do?

You go Zen and start over?
You say a lot of improper words?
You leave the part to be done another day?

It just happened to me, so, you know my answer: I log to CPF and RANT


Pablo
PS: I was doing an E-series tailcap... I think not all is lost, but Im not in the mood to check now...

 

[Hodsta]

I'm not familar with "lathe rage" but in less interesting cases of frustration I go for option 2, and repeat until I feel better or someone in the meeting looks at me funny! :thumbsup:

 

[gadget_lover]

I'm sorry to hear that Pablo. It really, really sucks.

I usually do the wrong thing. I try to fix the error, even though it takes twice as long as starting over. I've gone so far as to modify the mating parts so that they will fit together again.

Oh. And I swear.



Daniel

 

[sawlight]

I spent 40 some hours making a brake die for a press.
One bad cut and all was lost!!!
I left work at 11:30am, been there since 5, and clipped the rear fender of a car in the parking lot
On the way to the police station to file a report, a lady pulled right out in front of me!!! I T-boned her!
I got there and they all were waiting for me thinking I had run off!!
I was shaking so bad I couldn't even write. The first lady I hit had to fill out the paperwork for me. She also had to drive me home, as I wasnt!
As we were leaving the second lady I'd hit pulled right out in front of us!! We nearly missed having another wreck!!!
I sat at home and drank the rest of the day!!!

I feel youre frustration, but it could have been worse

 

[HoopleHead]

i go for the Zen approach. empty your mind, and just focus on whats in front of you.

stress and frustration are natural tendencies and cant be avoided really, but they can be managed. if you cant do anything about a problem, why be frustrated? you cant do anything about it! so focus on the solution or workaround. if you can do something about a problem, why be frustrated? do something about it!

 

[Illum]

drive to the nearest squash court and pound away....then carry on a cold shower and go to sleep or take a nap if your schedules tight...usually the day after you'll be more productive than the day before. With emotions in your head working on just about anything [including tying shoelaces] will drive you stark raving mad with just a "little" mistake....

 

[Mirage_Man]

I usually say a few choice words to myself then turn the lights off and walk away. When I have forgiven myself for making the stupid mistake I can come back and start over or if possible fix the screw-up.

 

[VanIsleDSM]

I suppose it depends what mood I'm in, and what time of day it is..

(A) You go Zen and start over?
(B) You say a lot of improper words?
(C) You leave the part to be done another day?

I'd say B fading into A is quite a common combination of events... often after a beer or something to eat, or a little localized cultural relaxation.

C can happen too, if it's late in the day, or I'm just not up to trying it over.. I may start or go onto a another project if I still feel like working, but just not on whatever I screwed up... leave it when I have the patients to come back to that specific job.

To be honest, I've got a few projects that have been around for months, hit a certain roadblock or something that really turned me off of carrying on.. but I know one day I'll feel the urge to take it back up and finish it off, I do this often.. I'm like a junkie, if there's no new project to work on I've always got something I can pick back up again from before.. I need to have that backup plan or I might not be able to sleep at night, like a mickey stashed in the toilet tank for a rainy day. :laughing:

 

[Torque1st]

Say a few choice words, then grab a new piece of stock and start again. Making mistakes is a learning process. A real machinist seldom makes mistakes and is paid accordingly.

 

[LukeA]

2,3,1

 

[Oddjob]

Sorry to hear about your misfortune. I would do 2, 3 then 1.
I try to focus on the positives i.e. you can improve something the next time around or what ever you just messed up can be used elsewhere. Ranting always helps.

 

[wquiles]

It just happened to me while doing a custom part for a forum member. It was not completely done by the time I had the "brain fart", but I had about 2 hours worth of work into it. I simply had to start all over :shakehead

 

[Black Rose]

B, C, and then A if it's really pooched.

 

[will]

I sometimes turn off all the machines, lights, and chill out for awhile. Sometimes an idea will come to me , all the wood mini-mags were due to a mini head that I tried to make horizontal grooves on. I messed it up and threw it away, I have a lot of wood around and I figured why not cover it with wood.

Sometimes you just have to throw the part out and start over..

 

[Changchung]

I will do, Option 2, Option 2, Option 2, Option 2, option 2, Option 2, Option 2, Option 2, Option 3, And the next day Option 1... :mecry:Take easy, that happens...

 

[precisionworks]

I do more than half my work in one-off parts. Not terribly close tolerance, usually +/- .002. Even with a big allowance like that, it's easy enough to scrap a part, often on the last op before it's done. When custom parts are quoted, the cost is always doubled, as I plan on making one scrap part & one good part. If I don't mess up, the profit is double. If Murphy comes to visit, the job still pays shop rate.