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[Nightbird]

I'm not sure if this belongs here or if I can even word it so it makes sense but here goes.

I've been looking for a certain type of thread and I know there are a lot of great Library and archive stickies but to be honest I just can't figure out how to use them properly. And as part of that, if there is a thread I want to find and I know it's in a certain forum how do I search only that forum?

 

[entitled]

Go to the 'search' function at the top of the page, right hand side. From there you should be able to enter keywords to search for and an author's name (if you know who wrote whatever you're looking for). Under those little spaces are boxes and pulldowns to choose which forum, how many posts, how far back in time to search, etc.

Happy hunting!

 

[Nightbird]

Thanks Entitled...

Now I feel dumb.

 

[babydoll2u]

Thanks Entitled...

Now I feel dumb.

naw don't feel dumb... I didn't know that either

 

[entitled]

The only reason i know that is because i'm one of those that does the 'what does THAT button do?' thing. It's blown more than one computer.

 

[babydoll2u]

The only reason i know that is because i'm one of those that does the 'what does THAT button do?' thing. It's blown more than one computer.

LOL

 

[Bobmi357]

The only reason i know that is because i'm one of those that does the 'what does THAT button do?' thing. It's blown more than one computer.

Heh... I know that feeling all too well. For about 12 years I worked at an office with a water fountain that featured a HUGE RED BUTTON on an assembly directly behind the fountain.

Well I watched that button daily. I pondered that button. I mean, this was a very high tech engineering firm and there I was, an engineer, and I couldn't figure out what THE BIG RED BUTTON did!

So one day I decided I'm going to press the BIG RED BUTTON (after more than 5 years of working there). It took about 3 seconds to discover the BIG RED BUTTON was a pressure test switch on the water feed line and I'm soaked to the bone from the top of my head to my squishy shoes. To top it off, I had to return to work in the micro lab, a climate controlled room kept at a cool 58 degrees all day. As to the huge water stain on the carpet in the hallway in front of the fountain? I pled ignorance.

The lesson of this sad tale? Beware the BIG RED BUTTON, especially on office water fountains.

 

[entitled]

The lesson of this sad tale? Beware the BIG RED BUTTON, especially on office water fountains.

Is that something like avoiding the red button in the Men in Black car?

That actually sounds like something i've done. Er... would do. *cough* Yeah. That's it.

 

[cricketbug]

The only reason i know that is because i'm one of those that does the 'what does THAT button do?' thing. It's blown more than one computer.

*nods lots* she's telling the truth

 

[Nightbird]

I think in one form or another the BIG RED BUTTON attracts us all.

I too am one of those push it and lets see what it does types. Like the light switch you can just never figure out what it goes too.

LOL

 

[entitled]

*nods lots* she's telling the truth

Just be glad they weren't yours.

 

[entitled]

I too am one of those push it and lets see what it does types. Like the light switch you can just never figure out what it goes too.

i do!! Usually ends up in disaster, but i always find out what the light switch goes to.

Like the time i showed up early to help finish setting up for a friend's wedding. Her mom asked me to turn the lights on and pointed in a general direction. No problem with the direction, but around the corner there were two banks of switches. None of them were labeled. Nobody around to ask. me being me, i turn all of them on.

i walk back around the corner about the same time a big group of guests arrive, just in time to see all the decorations that had been attached to the ceiling fans - streamers, balloons, light baskets hanging from strings with potpourri in them, all sorts of stuff - start flying everywhere.

Oops.

 

[fgarvb1]

I had this boss one time, an electrical engineer no less, head of the electrical dept., one day he was over at the sub-station that supplies power to the whole plant.

He was wondering what this unlabeled button did.

So he pushed it.

It is now labeled something like "Warning! Air Breaker that shuts down Sub-Station".


It was estimated that pushing the little button cost about $80.000 US, this was in 1976 dollars.

 

[Bobmi357]

The best goof pulled on the job was done accidently by a coworked of mine.

His department and mine shared a lab for a number of years and at one point they were experiementing to see if they could repair a tow cable connector for a towed sonar array. The connector was friggin huge with literally hundreds of conductors, so if a repair was possible, it was far better to repair the connector than to replace the million dollar plus cable.

After repairing the broken wiring they sealed the connector with a new type of glue and proceeded to install the connector into a special oven we had for the purposes of curing the glue. The oven was a low temperature oven and not sealed to the outside, so moisture could get into the oven even while on. To prevent moisture from getting into the sealed area, they coated the entire connector with a compound we called Monkey Shit. Monkey Shit was brown, smelled really foul and was great for absorbing moisture.

So, friday afternoon, on goes the oven and the unit will cure all weekend long. What we didn't know and didn't find out til the next Monday was that Monkey Shit evaporates at a modest temperature and its stench was sucked up into the ventilation system for the entire building.

Come monday morn and I walk in, I noticed immediately the strong stench of monkey shit in the building. Some 800 people walked around all that day wondering what that foul smell was, while we in the Transducer Lab pretended we hadn't a clue to the smell.

 

[cricketbug]

Just be glad they weren't yours.

There is that!

 

[babydoll2u]

Heh... I know that feeling all too well. For about 12 years I worked at an office with a water fountain that featured a HUGE RED BUTTON on an assembly directly behind the fountain.

Well I watched that button daily. I pondered that button. I mean, this was a very high tech engineering firm and there I was, an engineer, and I couldn't figure out what THE BIG RED BUTTON did!

So one day I decided I'm going to press the BIG RED BUTTON (after more than 5 years of working there). It took about 3 seconds to discover the BIG RED BUTTON was a pressure test switch on the water feed line and I'm soaked to the bone from the top of my head to my squishy shoes. To top it off, I had to return to work in the micro lab, a climate controlled room kept at a cool 58 degrees all day. As to the huge water stain on the carpet in the hallway in front of the fountain? I pled ignorance.

The lesson of this sad tale? Beware the BIG RED BUTTON, especially on office water fountains.

It took you more than 5 years to push that big RED button?
My GAWD you have patience.... I truly don't think I would have lasted more than a few weeks, lol.

 

[babydoll2u]

The best goof pulled on the job was done accidently by a coworked of mine.

His department and mine shared a lab for a number of years and at one point they were experiementing to see if they could repair a tow cable connector for a towed sonar array. The connector was friggin huge with literally hundreds of conductors, so if a repair was possible, it was far better to repair the connector than to replace the million dollar plus cable.

After repairing the broken wiring they sealed the connector with a new type of glue and proceeded to install the connector into a special oven we had for the purposes of curing the glue. The oven was a low temperature oven and not sealed to the outside, so moisture could get into the oven even while on. To prevent moisture from getting into the sealed area, they coated the entire connector with a compound we called Monkey Shit. Monkey Shit was brown, smelled really foul and was great for absorbing moisture.

So, friday afternoon, on goes the oven and the unit will cure all weekend long. What we didn't know and didn't find out til the next Monday was that Monkey Shit evaporates at a modest temperature and its stench was sucked up into the ventilation system for the entire building.

Come monday morn and I walk in, I noticed immediately the strong stench of monkey shit in the building. Some 800 people walked around all that day wondering what that foul smell was, while we in the Transducer Lab pretended we hadn't a clue to the smell.

You're bad.................................. just sayin'

 

[babydoll2u]

I had this boss one time, an electrical engineer no less, head of the electrical dept., one day he was over at the sub-station that supplies power to the whole plant.

He was wondering what this unlabeled button did.

So he pushed it.

It is now labeled something like "Warning! Air Breaker that shuts down Sub-Station".


It was estimated that pushing the little button cost about $80.000 US, this was in 1976 dollars.

LMAO.... well NOW I don't feel so bad for pushing unlabeled buttons

 

[Cathleen]

Well, this is one time I should have pushed the button - or clicked on the thread.

I had read NB's question and the response and figured that was that - the end of the thread. I noticed a few additional posts but figured it was the same answer......

I missed all these funny stories cuz I didn't press 'the red button'.

Thanks for the laughs folks

 

[entitled]

Thanks for the laughs folks

Come on, now... We told you OURS...

 

[Cathleen]

Come on, now... We told you OURS...

Cute entitled cute..... I have absolutely, never ever, always, should and shouldn't
pushed the red button !!

Happy Birthday to you......

 

[Bobmi357]

The dumbest mistake I ever saw came from one of my bosses in the first six months of working at this company.

As a new engineer, they had given me the task of designing a text fixture that would be capable of testing a video amplifier card which was used in the sonar display.

Test philosphy dictates that the test fixture should be designed to emulate what the board is supposed to plug into. And thats exactly what I designed for.

Once the fixture was built, I then had to write up the test procedure which could be handed off to the techs. That usually meant that I had to test the first couple of boards by hand.

So I plugged the first card into the fixture and powered it up. Immediately one of the integrated circuits on the board popped and started smoking. OOPS! BIG OOPS! These cards cost 60 grand each! Now I knew the fixture was built right, I had gone over it with a fine tooth comb while the tech was assembling it. Just to be certain however I double checked all the wiring and compared it to the schematic of the board to make sure the fixture was right. It was. Next I turned to the board in question and started examining the board carefully. There were hundreds of components on it. So I sat down next to the fixture started to trace out the wiring to the burnt component.

Right about that time my boss comes in, with the boss from the display group to look at the fixture. I tell them I smoked a board and not to plug anything into the fixture til I figure out why it smoked. My boss, who was a decent manager and only a so so engineer, ignores me and pops another board into the fixture and powers it up. POP SNAP FIZZLE!
And another sixty thousand dollar board goes into the burnt pile.

He did this to three other boards before I could squeeze past him and pull the power plug on fixture. In the meantime the manage of the Display group is sputtering. FIVE boards for a grand total of $300,000.00 bucks lying on the lab bench, scortch marks and the smell of burnt silicon in the air.

It was about an hour later that I discovered that the silk screening for the board had been incorrect. Silk Screening is the white lettering you often see on circuit cards. Its there to assist the people that assemble the cards. In this particular case, the IC was in a round can case instead of the usual dual inline case, and the identifier for pin 1 was offset by one position.

The drafting department had made a mistake in the layout of the silk screening, the assembler had followed the directions on the board and had incorrectly installed the integrated circuit on all 25 boards. All had to be repaired, and the ICs replaced on the five that got smoked (at the more modest cost of $4500.00 per ic).

Meanwhile my boss and the boss of the display group had to deal with the fallout. I was sweating bricks as a new employee and I couldn't believe the actions of my boss. I told him not to plug anything in til I had figured out what had gone wrong!

Heh, I reckon I should mention, this is YOUR tax dollars hard at work. The company I worked for made sonar systems, bomb racks and mine sweepers, principly for the US Navy, and occasionally for NATO countries.

 

[Nightbird]

Bob Mi.. I had forgotten how sexy you were..

Boys and girls did you know Bob Mi actually used to work on Nuclear Subs?

*sigh* BobMi I want to have your children.

 

[Bobmi357]

Bob Mi.. I had forgotten how sexy you were..

Boys and girls did you know Bob Mi actually used to work on Nuclear Subs?

*sigh* BobMi I want to have your children.

My gosh! All I can say is I hope the pic in your av isn't representitive of your gender.

I used to tell people I worked on some of the most expensive video games in the world. Thankfully none of that hardware ever saw its intended use.