Have you
ever seen somebody doing something so ridiculously stupid that actually gave
you one of those WTF moments? like one time at Mills Park here in Carson City I
was watching a group of kids on skateboards doing all of these fancy Schmancy
tricks at the skateboard track, but this one kid was standing on top of this stone pic nic
table and his plan- (I’m guessing) was to jump from one table to another on his
skateboard, and they were at least 20 feet apart. I had one of those WTF
moments, and I remember thinking, WHAT IN THE HELL IS HE THINKING?? well long
story short he missed- (By a country mile) but he did land on the grass so I
suspect the only thing that he hurt was his pride.
I see people do bizarre things all the time, and most times
I’m left with the thought, “I wonder if this person’s brain is functioning
properly?” A few days ago I had such an occasion,
one of the machines on our line at work was all out of whack, the molds weren’t
dropping onto the line properly. And when they would drop, sometimes the tray wouldn’t load the sand mold onto the
table, and when the next mold came along it would run into the first one and we
would end up with a big pile of compressed sand on the loading table with a
bunch of mangled cores to clean out. A
big mess to say the least, needless to say as the shift went on the problem
only got worse so they finally called maintenance over to get one of their guys to check out one
of the power panels on the machine to
see if one of the censor’s were screwed up.
He didn't say "Hey y'all watch this" did he?
ReplyDeleteHe should have.
How do you get a maintenance position without a basic understanding of electricity?
The last time I worked a job on any sort of line was at a Procter and Gamble plant that made peanut butter. Institutional-sized cans of the stuff. There was a press-type thingy that came down with six plastic lids to be pressed onto six corresponding cans, at which point the press thingy would reverse and rise to collect six more lids for the next case of cans to come along. Except one time the press came down and kept descending until all six cans went SPLOOP! Don't recall if there was an automatic shut off or somebody hit a switch but I do know the power was shut down until somebody got the lid press thingy to reverse and rise and then the power got cut off again so we worker bees could clean peanut butter off the conveyor and out of the gears and off the floor and ... (Ever want to shut down an assembly line, six institutional-sized cans of peanut butter ought to do the trick.)
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