Story of an Engineer part-3

Heartily honoured in bringing u all to the part 3 of story in a new environment , which i my self experiencing it newly..

Blog post, had this idea for a quite long time. just implementing it.. hope it doesn't make much difference , afterall its just me writting.
prithvi here..<3..

small recap over the previous posts ,

Part-1

• Graduation time and joining on campus selection in to sakthi auto components.
• Completing those arrears and getting first class grade.  

Part-2

• life of a machine operator and all those hardships.
• Reduced strength from 24 to 15 engineers.
• One my friends situation and his anger.   

back to story mode....

The green lights blinking on top of the cnc machine as the indication of machine running as per the given feed without any trouble , and without any prior warnings it would suddenly turned to red indication also , its normally considered as a malfunctioning in G codes, M codes or the carbide tool that is machining the component is struck with the part while drilling , or any number of reason can be quoted for this issue and the machine could stop abruptly . I was in the morning shift and this thing happened to my machine and couldn't even open the doors it got totally jammed with the lights blinking red..!! searched for the line inspector , maintenance in-charge sir's , or any other higher official to solve this as this is something major.. seeing me roam here and there finding someone who can solve it , one machine operator on my opposite line quietly came to my machine and saw the warnings shown in the display.. he took a waste cloth and cleaned his grease hand , typed something on the display , the doors opened and the red blinking stopped ,followed he went inside the machine and saw the turret head , removed the tool clamp also the tool.. came out gave me that to hold, again did something on the screen , pallet rotated to front , with all the coolant oil spilling on it , gave a command to off the coolant flow . it took few minutes so i asked what happened without having any single idea of whats happening and wondering at all his activities he is doing , he said he was re programming the last operation and correcting it.. Re programming ah..!! i exclaimed him..! he just completed before i come to my consciousness. he kept the pieces in my machining fixture and started the remaining facing operation using a certain cutter tool , the process started perfectly. he wasn't a line inspector nor a maintenance engineer.. he was just a Diploma graduate who did in some college and joined 6 months ago working as a machine operator , gave a big hand shake to him as he left to his machine..also im back to my machine and starring at the display like never before and counting buttons . wondering what , why and how , from then on i started calling him for everything. he was the one who thought me that CNC machine runs on Fanuc language and those basics of G code and M code as something to learn with working , things got practiced now as changing the pieces , air cleaning it , checking dimensions , passing on to next operation , then taking a piece again , machining it , red light again , calling someone for it , solving it , taking a piece again machining it. and started loving it also.. the coolant oil spilling aswell the grease spill on our dresses creates a mess and its not to easy to wash it and wear everyday..honestly i like that smell , its a different aroma that created when the hot metal part is being cooled by that coolant of T20 grade , that creates a warm heat and smell when getting machined..woww , machines are awesome , I bought few black shirts and black pants for handling this oil spill , started wearing it regularly on all shifts. line mates started calling me (thotti jeyaa) coz its one of simbu movie , he will be in black and black for the full movie, this new name was far better than my college mates calling me inside the plant..
coming back to the continuation from part-2 , later that night after one of my friend got humiliated and retaliated to the security guard ,  he got back his salary somehow managed to leave out of company by noon , and went direct to a net center near by and used facebook as a mode of communication and posted in one of the important higher officials page of sakthi group , regarding the standard and quality of the company with all his best way of communication and wanted someone to take measure on the things thats happening. even attached some pics of common area and its pathetic conditions were people kept using the same again and again.. This post went viral , and took two days for identifying who posted this and by the name of my college and the profile name they somehow tracked him , when he was called we all joined and went to the enquiry.. ready to even loose job for this issue , as the same practice in college days we were questioned as who did this , why and whats the reason all such stuffs , no answer from us . i thought this may even turn to a police case but it dint , just coz of a phone call .. it was the one calling from Bangalore who took us via campus here , and said those officials to wait for his return , we were allowed to leave now . came back to rooms. my friend dint want to take this anymore and on peer frustation he left to his home ,
the next day we weren't allowed to go to our bay or to machines , just go to conference hall and wait , for the whole day , two days passed just like this.. we dint have any clue why we are standing , but just standing just because it was comfortable in that conference room with ac on..
he came the third day , greeted us with a good smile . we remembered his as he was our interviewer ,
hello and asked about the things happened for us , now its our turn to say the remaining incidents happening around the company , and finally we wrote all the errors that need to be changed to him and slowly he still kept us waiting in the hall..
for the coming week we were allowed to do auditing in the entire company and find faults , if any manager stops us from doing it , we can use his name and keep doing our task..
This was the time we brought 10+ complaints each and every day ,
then three new managers came to meet us , all from the quality assurance department .
auditing department , design department , quality inspection , documentation and approval departments .. we were let to choose the interested field now.. almost all 15 liked to choose design , coz it had chairs to sit , those with the basic knowledge of autocad was selected in to design so 5 were into design including me .. the remaining were split to the various other options..The shift timings got changed to all of us, from 8am to 5pm called gendral shift is were all the company permanent staffs work. we are on their timings now .
people did started seeing us differently - and the dress i was wearing black and black was default mode of protest , now i am the one who posted in facebook and i am protesting against company for the peoples eyes.. very much needed responsibility that i took , planned to change things myself , just by using very simple ideas . like atm card transfer for salary , fingerprint recognition for office entry , que system for canteen food , tea drum and water change mechanism and chairs for the machine shop area .. and yet few requirements that i humbly raised to the Hr officials , and kept wearing the same dress , some actions did take place and some didn't work as expected . and dint concentrate much on these things but it got implemented sooner.. thanks to the Hr and our manager for giving us a change to do something...
Things were not like before , no more a machine operator or quality inspector. but the experience that these two departments gave us was the life time gift.. now even more responsible and active for the upcoming technical venture..

-------End of  Part 3------

Thanks guys , i took it very long... couldnt cut short it as the incidents were such ..
if you read it fully please let me know..:)
and comments are most welcomed all..
thanks for your time..
love u all..<3