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CMM programmer demoted to CMM inspector

Hi Everyone,

I was hired as a CMM programmer in January and last week my manager that hired me left for another company. The new manager that they hired is always listening to whatever the supervisor that runs the quality department tells him. So if there is a hot part that he wants to be inspected, my new manager will pull me off a programming job and I will have to run the CMM. My manager also told the quality supervisor to use me if he needs help and now he is taking advantage of the opportunity. The quality supervisor is also having me check part marking and certs. I tried to bring up the situation to my manager and he just tell me that the quality supervisor needs extra help. My old manager always has me focus on programming and I have never had to run the CMM. Have anyone here ever been in a situation like this? I am worried that my programming skill will go down over time if I don't practice enough. I just started this job and I can't just leave for another company after one month because it will look bad on my resume. I know that there is a lot of shops looking for CMM programmers here in Canada.
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  • If you were hired for a specific position and are constantly being reassigned to another, that is not a bad thing to have on a resume. When asked in an interview why you are wanting to leave your current job, you just tell them that. You were hired for 1 job and got reassigned to another when new management took over. Nobody would fault you.

    I did go through something similar. I had a new operations manager that felt quality was a useless department. I was constantly reassigned to running presses, driving a forklift, loading trucks, or other production support jobs. I didn't touch a CMM for about 2 months. Where I am now, I do many different things but they are all quality related. I'm a quality tech for a small company so I don't just program, I also do inspections, cert verifications, incoming inspections, first article paperwork, and such. I was made aware of that coming in. They primarily needed someone to program and run their 2 machines but, there was other quality related things I would help out with as well.
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  • If you were hired for a specific position and are constantly being reassigned to another, that is not a bad thing to have on a resume. When asked in an interview why you are wanting to leave your current job, you just tell them that. You were hired for 1 job and got reassigned to another when new management took over. Nobody would fault you.

    I did go through something similar. I had a new operations manager that felt quality was a useless department. I was constantly reassigned to running presses, driving a forklift, loading trucks, or other production support jobs. I didn't touch a CMM for about 2 months. Where I am now, I do many different things but they are all quality related. I'm a quality tech for a small company so I don't just program, I also do inspections, cert verifications, incoming inspections, first article paperwork, and such. I was made aware of that coming in. They primarily needed someone to program and run their 2 machines but, there was other quality related things I would help out with as well.
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