What happened at work today?

[Trbo323]

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Propane boils off at -44F. It's not comfortable when that boiling happens on your skin. Today I found out that it's even less comfortable when that boiling happens inside your belly button because you managed to spray your whole stomach with liquid propane.

The more you know

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[Buff_phroggie]

Not today, but 4-5 months ago I discovered it "tickels" when a wire wheel on a die grinder rips open your shirt and gives your forearm a little kiss.

We all have those days

[Tarsun2]

its best to UNPLUG a power cord before you cut the end off...

[nerdcore]

Customer has a unit that shuts off within 30 sec of turning it on. Asked for a pic of the toggle switch/circuit breaker. It's a 3A switch. It's supposed to be a 15A switch.

These units are built by one person, inspected by another person, and tested by a third person, before being shipped out. Now I get to deal with how this happened.

[nak81783]

Not today, but recently:

Safety: You can’t open an oven preheated to 325F to put a part in to cure.

Also Safety: I brought in homemade Christmas cookies!

[Trbo323]

Not today, but recently:

Safety: You can't open an oven preheated to 325F to put a part in to cure.

Also Safety: I brought in homemade Christmas cookies!

I'm really confused why you can't put something in a 325F oven.

I baked a pizza at 425 last week, so I need safety training to do that?

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[OpusX]

Customer States: "I asked an LLM to write me some SQL and then ran it now stuff doesn't work."

//the sql in question//
-- WARNING: This action is irreversible.
-- All data will be lost forever...
-- Proceed with caution!

DROP DATABASE my_database;

-- The shadows whisper...
-- You've unleashed chaos upon your data.

[Grendel]

lol

[flyweightnate]

"What does this tool do?"

It tells you when something is about to break by making the sound of something breaking audible.

"This asset broke last week. We fixed it already. Let's put the tool on it and see what it sounds like."
...
"It just doesn't sound broken... I'm not sure this tool works."

Fortunately, yesterday I was talking to people who understood the logic of it all and why it's hard to distinguish between a false negative (missed positive) and a true negative. About half of them can't distinguish.

[OpusX]

What you have is a "true false positive". The event happened, but no one believes it.

[flyweightnate]

You'd be a lot of fun in an RCA meeting

[OpusX]

When I'm invited to them I usually am

[nak81783]

I'm really confused why you can't put something in a 325F oven.

I baked a pizza at 425 last week, so I need safety training to do that?

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Oh no, not training, equipment or a robot to do it for you.

[Trbo323]

Oh no, not training, equipment or a robot to do it for you.

An AI robot! Just what we need!

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[Grendel]

Always discharge capacitors yourself; never trust anyone else to do it, or even to know how. I used to work as a field engineer in the foundry industry, providing service and troubleshooting for inductive power supplies used in melting and heat treating metal. I do not know how many times I had maintenance operations at foundries tell me they had power supplies ready for me, only to find out they were not. Thankfully, I was anal about discharging and bonding the neg. and pos. buses before I climbed into the cabinets to begin troubleshooting.

[flyweightnate]

Melt shop guys are craaaazy...

[Cdn_Cuda]

I only read two words….

[scottieb]

On a job site I was inspecting, I found a $10 bill on the ground. w00t! w00t!

[nerdcore]

I'm glad someone had something positive to share!

[bored383]

I returned to the office after being WFH for the past 2 months

[Kit352]

Well the company I work for that has been around for nearly 100 years announced layoffs that will effectively shutter the company at the end of the month. Got to go find a new gravy train now.

[Trbo323]

Well the company I work for that has been around for nearly 100 years announced layoffs that will effectively shutter the company at the end of the month. Got to go find a new gravy train now.

Sheesh, what happened? Just the death by 1000 cuts or something more dramatic?

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[Pumps4ever]

Many companies will not make it through the chaos our country is going through right now.

[Kit352]

Tariffs. Can't have an international manufacturing company if every supply coming in is tariffed and every finished good going out is tariffed. Killed the company in less than 6 months but we saw the effects within a few days of the tariffs starting.