Stupid Stuff? Stupid People!

[gh1950]

I tasked a 2nd class nuke machinist mate with obtaining a shopvac to suck up rust and dirt with. He came back with a vacuum in hand and asked me "is this the right vacuum?" I thought he was screwing with me until I realized he was serious and then I asked him "did it suck?" He replied "yes" so I replied "then get your butt to work".

More than one electrical helper has run back the the trailer to get a metric Crescent wrench.

 

[SAR 6114]

More than one electrical helper has run back the the trailer to get a metric Crescent wrench.

A calibrated lefthand metric crescent wrench and a brass magnet.

 

[palmettomoon]

Years ago someone was pumping out that brass washed steel cased .223 rem. I had a lot of fun salting the range with that stuff and picking it up with a magnet, to the dismay of my nephews (both super bright) . They looked at me like they would the sun rising in the West.

 

[testdepth]

6/16->6-6=0/16-6=1->0/1->0.1=half inch so easy a cave man could do it

That's Common Core math.

Everyone else is
6/16 reduces to 3/8 where I went to school many moons ago.

 

[testdepth]

We used to send guys to get a Machinists punch and they all came back with sore chests or arms.

Then there was the classic mail buoy watch. When newbie submariners are sent to the Control Room wearing a foul weather suit, crash helmet, goggles, foul weather gloves, foul weather boots, a kapok life jacket, radio and the boat hook. They are told to ask for permission to lay to the bridge to retrieve the mail buoy. Mostly done while the submarine is deep. Good times had by all!

 

[offbeat404]

THREE
A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy'
(keep shuddering!!)

(I told you they were old!)

i respect this here logic

 

[cskiles]

Installed a DDC control system in chicken hatchery in Alabama about 10 years ago, the guy that ran the hatchery told me it was the first time he had ever used a computer of any kind (The guy was probably late 60s or early 70s). I went over the system before I left and gave him my number in case he had any questions. About thirty minutes after I left I got a call from him, he exclaimed "the pointer thingy wan't go on top of the hatcher air handler picture". I told him to move the cursor to the top of the unit and he insisted that it wouldn't "go on top of the air handler picture". I told him to slide the mouse to the right....he told me that it was all the way at the edge of the desk and he didn't have any more room to move it!!!!

True story!!

 

[Radar363]

More than one electrical helper has run back the the trailer to get a metric Crescent wrench.

I worked with my Dad the Summer after I turned 15, as an HVAC helper...
I spent my lunch break looking for a 'conduit straightener' once....

 

[palmettomoon]

About '96 or '97 I had a customer site in Louisville, KY and a user called complaining the software I rep'd must have had a worm virus because her files were wrecked or missing large chunks of data. USA Today (McPaper) had recently covered worms in a news story, so, go figure.

I get nowhere with her by phone so I drive all the way down from Cinn to see WTH is going on. I get to her cube and her tower is absolutely covered in scores of frig magnets. Duh.

 

[fast306stang]

About '96 or '97 I had a customer site in Louisville, KY and a user called complaining the software I rep'd must have had a worm virus because her files were wrecked or missing large chunks of data. USA Today (McPaper) had recently covered worms in a news story, so, go figure.

I get nowhere with her by phone so I drive all the way down from Cinn to see WTH is going on. I get to her cube and her tower is absolutely covered in scores of frig magnets. Duh.

Lmao! Damn!!!