Monday, June 10, 2019

Yargh?

     I am especially not a morning person when 6:20 a.m. feels like getting on toward lunch time.  Also, this day has been seriously Monday so far, including witnessing a near-miss almost T-bone between a speeding fire truck and a distracted late-night driver, at a construction site in an intersection on my way in to work.

     At work, already one major and one minor piece of equipment have failed in mysterious ways; well, not so mysterious for the major item: "It was making a sound like a wired pulled too tight, so we shut it down and got the wires out from under it.  Then it didn't work when we turned it back on." Ya think?  And I can't even think about starting to try to fix until it -- and I -- get clear of the ongoing task, which will run for another thirty minutes at least.  Yes, I understand the old horse knew the way home and these new-fangled autymo-biles aren't even smart enough to get lost.  Isn't that a good reason to pay closer attention?

     It would seem not.

     One o'clock seems so very far away.

3 comments:

Larry said...

I love my operators. They always break things in the most interesting ways... :)

pigpen51 said...

Just confirmation that robots and AI will never replace the human element in the workforce.

Plus, always remember that there is no such thing as idiot proof. If a person can build something, than a person can screw it up.

Also, naps are our friend.

Stay safe, and watch for idiots on the road.

Windy Wilson said...

Even when the horse knows the way home, that isn't a reason to not pay attention. Not paying attention while the horse went home was how my great-grandfather died (yep, he died "falling off the wagon.")
There's no excuse for not paying attention.