And, oh shucks, nobody missed me. (Well, hardly anyone.) This, in my kind of Engineering Department, counts as a success: if we do our jobs right, fixing most things before they break, we're nearly invisible.
On the other hand, nobody from Engineering has been to the North Campus for nearly ten weeks and I have no idea what I might find. It's on a pretty wet patch of land, in an area that's had even more rain than we received in Broad Ripple, so I may end up taking the old entrance, which travels over higher ground to reach the slightly elevated spot where the building stands.
I was pretty beat at the end of the day, but not in pain. Tired enough to be grumpy, which I'm going to have to get used to and compensate for.
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1 year ago
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Welcome back!
"if we do our jobs right, fixing most things before they break, we're nearly invisible"
Actual conversation with a former boss:
Boss: (complaining) You haven't been on a service call in six weeks! We pay you to fix stuff! Go fix things!
Me: I did scheduled preventive maintenance so well, nothing has broken. It costs you $200 each time I go out to fix broken stuff. You want me to ask a customer to break something?
Boss: Uh... Good point. Nevermind. Good job.
Congratulations on returning to work!
No one visited North Campus for 10 weeks? Wow! We have to visit our North Campus at least once a month to take hour-meter readings of the generator for state DNR air quality rules regarding diesel genny operation. Either myself or the Chief make a point to stop by at least once a week to give things a once-over, and listen for squeaky belts or bearings on the air handlers, etc...the stuff that's not new, as opposed to the shiny new transmitter, which doesn't need any maintenance right now other than cleaning the air filters every so often.
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