Work ExperienceWe've got a work experience kid in for a couple of weeks and he'll do anything you tell him to... He's was in the server room most of yesterday monitoring the network activity lights - he almost missed his lunch till we took pity on him.
We are bastards.
How bad was your first experience of work?
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chthonic, Thu 10 May 2007, 9:45)
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InductionThis story takes place in about 1989, when I worked at a Naval Subcontractor noted for developing magnetometers.
We had a work-experience student who was told to build an interface circuit for a 1-Henry Inductor. He spent a day and a half arsing round in the lab looking for a 1-Henry Inductor, but could only find a 1-nanohenry one in the component tray.
For a good reason.
We only had one 1-Henry inductor, and it weighed close to three tons, which was why it was kept outside in it's own special shed, in plain view, at the end of the carpark, with a sign on it saying "1-Henry Inductor".
We all knew this, of course, but we were running a betting pool on how long before he worked it out - which took two days.
What was really depressing was that he tried stringing all the small inductors he could find together to make a 1-henry one.
You want length? A bigger version can be at www.stevedix.de/blog/562
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Stevedix http://www.stevedix.de/blog, Thu 10 May 2007, 13:31,
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