Juvenile things that make you snigger (Vol. 3)
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kowalski655 said:
Jimmy Saville fixed it for me to do that as a kid, for free. I had to be blindfolded though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lj8Qtkred8
Anyone else love taking the opportunity to be juvenile with completely plausible deniabilty when at work? 
in our old asset management system it auto-generated names for any new pieces of testing equipment - eg. LT2345
In our new system we can free-name any new stuff we get in.....
So far this year we've had a hot water circulation bath named WET1 (officially WaterBath - Enzymes Testing No.1) and now a temperature probe called HOT1 (officially Heat Observation Tool No.1)
in our old asset management system it auto-generated names for any new pieces of testing equipment - eg. LT2345
In our new system we can free-name any new stuff we get in.....
So far this year we've had a hot water circulation bath named WET1 (officially WaterBath - Enzymes Testing No.1) and now a temperature probe called HOT1 (officially Heat Observation Tool No.1)
ChemicalChaos said:
Anyone else love taking the opportunity to be juvenile with completely plausible deniabilty when at work?
in our old asset management system it auto-generated names for any new pieces of testing equipment - eg. LT2345
In our new system we can free-name any new stuff we get in.....
So far this year we've had a hot water circulation bath named WET1 (officially WaterBath - Enzymes Testing No.1) and now a temperature probe called HOT1 (officially Heat Observation Tool No.1)
We very rarely even need plausible deniability - we work in IT so everyone expects us to have the mental age of a 4 years old. in our old asset management system it auto-generated names for any new pieces of testing equipment - eg. LT2345
In our new system we can free-name any new stuff we get in.....
So far this year we've had a hot water circulation bath named WET1 (officially WaterBath - Enzymes Testing No.1) and now a temperature probe called HOT1 (officially Heat Observation Tool No.1)
For instance a few years ago we were doing our Basics of Manufacturing course with APICS in order that our very serious Pre Sales folk (including your intrepid reporter) could talk the same language as our customers. It was all very grown up until the second day of the course, when we discovered that "pegging" is an actual technique in manufacturing involving matching production with demand.
None of us were any the wiser until our instructor suggested we didn't Google "pegging". Which of course, we all did.
Not much got done for the next half hour as we were too busy running all the other terms we'd heard through the Urban Dictionary.
Turns out "benchmarking" and "bottle necking" didn't mean exactly what they described on the course either.....
ChemicalChaos said:
Anyone else love taking the opportunity to be juvenile with completely plausible deniabilty when at work?
in our old asset management system it auto-generated names for any new pieces of testing equipment - eg. LT2345
In our new system we can free-name any new stuff we get in.....
So far this year we've had a hot water circulation bath named WET1 (officially WaterBath - Enzymes Testing No.1) and now a temperature probe called HOT1 (officially Heat Observation Tool No.1)
How long before you need a Calibrated Unitary Network Tool ?in our old asset management system it auto-generated names for any new pieces of testing equipment - eg. LT2345
In our new system we can free-name any new stuff we get in.....
So far this year we've had a hot water circulation bath named WET1 (officially WaterBath - Enzymes Testing No.1) and now a temperature probe called HOT1 (officially Heat Observation Tool No.1)
Well if we're doing work/IT related tales...
Many moons ago in the infancy of the internet a 'major UK honey manufacturer' was one of our clients for their core IT systems, and we were making early forays into web presences for our customers. I was doing a stand-up presentation with my [early and bulky] laptop connected to a projector to pitch our case to the board and decision makers. Towards the end there were a few objections - the internet will never take off, it's just a gimmick, it's not for for real business etc. So being a smartass I knew that they were using honey from Brazil in some of the recipes and so guessed some of the businesses out there might be on-line. So I innocently typed-in 'Brazilian honeys' in the search (pre-dated Google, so Yahoo maybe? Might even have been with Compuserve as it was that long ago!).
Anyway, the big screen was indeed filled with thumbnails of Brazilian honeys...but not all of the sort produced by bees. Despite the apparent shock in the room and elderly board members, I'm sure some of them found it amusing and no doubt tell the tale from the other side. ...and we did get the web business, eventually.
Many moons ago in the infancy of the internet a 'major UK honey manufacturer' was one of our clients for their core IT systems, and we were making early forays into web presences for our customers. I was doing a stand-up presentation with my [early and bulky] laptop connected to a projector to pitch our case to the board and decision makers. Towards the end there were a few objections - the internet will never take off, it's just a gimmick, it's not for for real business etc. So being a smartass I knew that they were using honey from Brazil in some of the recipes and so guessed some of the businesses out there might be on-line. So I innocently typed-in 'Brazilian honeys' in the search (pre-dated Google, so Yahoo maybe? Might even have been with Compuserve as it was that long ago!).
Anyway, the big screen was indeed filled with thumbnails of Brazilian honeys...but not all of the sort produced by bees. Despite the apparent shock in the room and elderly board members, I'm sure some of them found it amusing and no doubt tell the tale from the other side. ...and we did get the web business, eventually.
Speed 3 said:
ChemicalChaos said:
Anyone else love taking the opportunity to be juvenile with completely plausible deniabilty when at work?
in our old asset management system it auto-generated names for any new pieces of testing equipment - eg. LT2345
In our new system we can free-name any new stuff we get in.....
So far this year we've had a hot water circulation bath named WET1 (officially WaterBath - Enzymes Testing No.1) and now a temperature probe called HOT1 (officially Heat Observation Tool No.1)
How long before you need a Calibrated Unitary Network Tool ?in our old asset management system it auto-generated names for any new pieces of testing equipment - eg. LT2345
In our new system we can free-name any new stuff we get in.....
So far this year we've had a hot water circulation bath named WET1 (officially WaterBath - Enzymes Testing No.1) and now a temperature probe called HOT1 (officially Heat Observation Tool No.1)
Sodomy non sapiens is pig Latin for Buggered if I know.
(C) Sir Terry Pratchett
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