Ah yes, dust and dirt, fuzz and fibers. My long forgotten nemesis.
I just LOVED replacing 12 feet tall by 3 feet across cotton vacuum
bags. Not to mention getting the hair singed off my head on the
right side when the duct caught fire. My advice is, if you open a
duct clean out cover and you hear an odd sucking sound followed
by what sounds like a model rocket thrust, RUN! It will hurt…
Heh, like I said, screens lighting up with hundreds of ships that just
appeared. Never underestimate The Empire. They haven’t seen what
is in stealth near Earth as yet. The Disruptors would not have
believed any warning, and many lives would be lost if they attacked,
on both sides. This way, every survivors will NOT try that again.
Becky, ponytail into a tight bun, those paper suits get hot.
Check those filters often too, they clog. Make sure you
secure the hood tightly as well, or your hair will need a
salon to get it clean HEH. Which is why I wore a buzz
cut in the summer.
I had a couple of years ago, after the Titan disaster back ’23.
Just followed some links and regretted it. The Titan was a
poorly thought out design, and with the data they showed the
ONLY thought I had was it was like a red-neck limo made
from 3 cars that used more duct tape than actual thinking.
Or like building Starship entirely from carbon fiber without
proper testing and having a crew fly it. They’ve had small tanks
that was carrying inert gas for the SAS fail, one failed so badly
that the booster was blown open. Yeah… CF has a place,
just not the main one.
Wait, she has a Masters degree in Process Engineering and you’re
having her change out filters and clean air ducts?
That’s a job for a high school grad with on the job training.
Unless you want to familiarize her on the equipment and system
from the ground up and evaluate her work ethic.
We had an employee who had a much higher opinion
of her abilities than the partners did. She was hired as
a bookkeeper, then taught to do taxes in her second year.
She didn’t want to do bookkeeping anymore (her primary job).
She said “Let Sam do it. He’s better at it.” Well, yeah, I am.
I was also a CPA with 30 years of experience in public
accounting and a tax manager (that’s one step down from
partner in that firm).
The partners knew I would do such work if assigned, but
that it was a waste of my skills and knowledge if there were
someone with a lower billing rate available. Willingness to
do what’s needed even if you’re overqualified is an important
attribute. So, yeah, I’m sure that’s a part of it. And the Karen
in my example? She was let go, since she was unwilling to
do the job she was hired to do as she thought after only two
years in the profession that it was now beneath her.
Someone who is good at their job, while they might make a slight fuss, will willingly do
The ‘scut work’, if only to familiarize themselves about the layout and operations of
the system, so they can most effectively send the right people to the right section
when maintenance or emergency situations come up.
Most grads know the book part, but I’ve seen all too often some
diploma-toting jerk not know the basics, which causes way more
problems than anything. Just because you graduated doesn’t
make you an expert, you need to learn the basics that no school
will cover. When I started as a mech, I had to learn the building
and the fire systems before I was giving the mech title. I had to
earn it, not having it handed to me. I had to take an actual test.
Absolutely Scars. I have thirty years in public accounting come
October, but before that I had eleven in private accounting, doing
everything from payroll to sales estimating, to inventory production
calculations and scheduling. Oh, yeah, also purchasing of the
materials for said inventory plus all of the packaging, shipping and
sales order processing (small firm – I was the whole front end).
I’ve been crunching numbers one way or another for 51 years now,
and there’s not substitute for raw experience.
This is the correct way.
I have 47 years of experience under my belt and a degree in Electrical Engineering.
The vast majority of those years were in the field, with a tool box,
getting my hands dirty (and sometimes shocked).
I am one of the few people in the filed who can take a customers specs, design, engineer,
build, test and commission a substation or any facility needed to power a city,
a community, or a factory.
You don’t learn that behind a desk.
“I have a Masters Degree!” and that’s why most are flipping burgers.!
at one job, every 90 days (grad cycle) we had 2 or 3 telling us how to
do the job better or by the book… “Well, we don’t do that here.!”
IF we did it like every one else, we would lose the advantage.!
yes , we had more maintenance. but greater sales outweighed the
higher maintenance. – an pay was up.
I started at that factory as a lineman, but I was fixing cars and trucks since I was 14.
my wife was pregnant with our first when I was accepted as a mech trainee. 2 years
later I was a full-fledged mech taking care of a department alone. I had a natural
talent for figuring out how something worked and why it wasn’t. It wasn’t an easy
or safe job, but I loved it 😀
Becky is different. Cleaning air ducts
sounds interesting.
Sitting and watching.
Take the hint and at least try to talk.
What do you think?
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/J5kVZEP3eJs
Exactly.
Ah yes, dust and dirt, fuzz and fibers. My long forgotten nemesis.
I just LOVED replacing 12 feet tall by 3 feet across cotton vacuum
bags. Not to mention getting the hair singed off my head on the
right side when the duct caught fire. My advice is, if you open a
duct clean out cover and you hear an odd sucking sound followed
by what sounds like a model rocket thrust, RUN! It will hurt…
Heh, like I said, screens lighting up with hundreds of ships that just
appeared. Never underestimate The Empire. They haven’t seen what
is in stealth near Earth as yet. The Disruptors would not have
believed any warning, and many lives would be lost if they attacked,
on both sides. This way, every survivors will NOT try that again.
Becky, ponytail into a tight bun, those paper suits get hot.
Check those filters often too, they clog. Make sure you
secure the hood tightly as well, or your hair will need a
salon to get it clean HEH. Which is why I wore a buzz
cut in the summer.
PC I thought it was Mythbusters that had covered
what we were talking about sudden decompression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc2rhqGlRdk
The diving bell incident you mentioned was the Byford Dolphin.
I warn you, don’t look: https://www.reddit.com/r/MorbidHistory/comments/mjl8dx/how_a_saturation_diver_looked_after_the_byford/
I had a couple of years ago, after the Titan disaster back ’23.
Just followed some links and regretted it. The Titan was a
poorly thought out design, and with the data they showed the
ONLY thought I had was it was like a red-neck limo made
from 3 cars that used more duct tape than actual thinking.
Or like building Starship entirely from carbon fiber without
proper testing and having a crew fly it. They’ve had small tanks
that was carrying inert gas for the SAS fail, one failed so badly
that the booster was blown open. Yeah… CF has a place,
just not the main one.
He’s not wrong! I had to laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wfBBGNuBr5A
Wait, she has a Masters degree in Process Engineering and you’re
having her change out filters and clean air ducts?
That’s a job for a high school grad with on the job training.
Unless you want to familiarize her on the equipment and system
from the ground up and evaluate her work ethic.
Among other things, that’s also happening.
We had an employee who had a much higher opinion
of her abilities than the partners did. She was hired as
a bookkeeper, then taught to do taxes in her second year.
She didn’t want to do bookkeeping anymore (her primary job).
She said “Let Sam do it. He’s better at it.” Well, yeah, I am.
I was also a CPA with 30 years of experience in public
accounting and a tax manager (that’s one step down from
partner in that firm).
The partners knew I would do such work if assigned, but
that it was a waste of my skills and knowledge if there were
someone with a lower billing rate available. Willingness to
do what’s needed even if you’re overqualified is an important
attribute. So, yeah, I’m sure that’s a part of it. And the Karen
in my example? She was let go, since she was unwilling to
do the job she was hired to do as she thought after only two
years in the profession that it was now beneath her.
Someone who is good at their job, while they might make a slight fuss, will willingly do
The ‘scut work’, if only to familiarize themselves about the layout and operations of
the system, so they can most effectively send the right people to the right section
when maintenance or emergency situations come up.
Most grads know the book part, but I’ve seen all too often some
diploma-toting jerk not know the basics, which causes way more
problems than anything. Just because you graduated doesn’t
make you an expert, you need to learn the basics that no school
will cover. When I started as a mech, I had to learn the building
and the fire systems before I was giving the mech title. I had to
earn it, not having it handed to me. I had to take an actual test.
Two actually, the fireman test was separate.
Absolutely Scars. I have thirty years in public accounting come
October, but before that I had eleven in private accounting, doing
everything from payroll to sales estimating, to inventory production
calculations and scheduling. Oh, yeah, also purchasing of the
materials for said inventory plus all of the packaging, shipping and
sales order processing (small firm – I was the whole front end).
I’ve been crunching numbers one way or another for 51 years now,
and there’s not substitute for raw experience.
This is the correct way.
I have 47 years of experience under my belt and a degree in Electrical Engineering.
The vast majority of those years were in the field, with a tool box,
getting my hands dirty (and sometimes shocked).
I am one of the few people in the filed who can take a customers specs, design, engineer,
build, test and commission a substation or any facility needed to power a city,
a community, or a factory.
You don’t learn that behind a desk.
“I have a Masters Degree!” and that’s why most are flipping burgers.!
at one job, every 90 days (grad cycle) we had 2 or 3 telling us how to
do the job better or by the book… “Well, we don’t do that here.!”
IF we did it like every one else, we would lose the advantage.!
yes , we had more maintenance. but greater sales outweighed the
higher maintenance. – an pay was up.
I started at that factory as a lineman, but I was fixing cars and trucks since I was 14.
my wife was pregnant with our first when I was accepted as a mech trainee. 2 years
later I was a full-fledged mech taking care of a department alone. I had a natural
talent for figuring out how something worked and why it wasn’t. It wasn’t an easy
or safe job, but I loved it 😀
OK! You do you… I’m just gonna gooooo… yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fjh5ro8XZnA