Weird Science
Back from tech school! I was #1 in the class with an overall score of 97%. My two Cheyenne coworkers came in second and third, much to the annoyance of the Bakersfield crew.
Today I went in to the shop to work on some edumacational modules. You have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get anywhere in this company, and modules and tech schools are among those hoops. A mechanic in our shop had been having a hard time with some of the higher tech stuff and wanted my help.
During our studies, my not-too-entirely-bright study partner told me about this super smart guy he met when HE went to tech school a couple of months before I did. The guy had given him a bunch of files containing all the answers to the modules he'd done. This guy was billed as potentially even smarter than ME, as the words used in the answers were HUGE and practically incomprehensible! They were super detailed and scientific!
Wait.... someone in this company smarter than ME? Okay, I just had to hear more. He provided me an example. The question asked how the temperature of the fuel affects the efficiency of combustion in a diesel engine. True to his words, the answer provided was super scientific, bordering on multisyllabic technobabble.
My response of course was, "WHAT!!!???"
"Yeah, I know! Isn't that amazing? I hardly understand it myself!"
"Read that back to me again..." He did so.
"Lemme see that..." and I spun his laptop computer around to read it for myself without all the mispronunciations. "You're right. This hardly makes sense. In fact, the only way it would make any sense was if the question had the slightest bit of anything to do with the temperature of the fuel rods in a nuclear reactor."
"Crazy, isn't it?"
"It's not crazy -- it's butt stupid! This guy literally did a Google search for the words 'fuel', 'temperature' and 'efficiency' and then copied and pasted the first thing he found into this document."
"Serious??"
"Yup!"
"Well, maybe I can change it a little..."
He deleted half a sentence, removing reference to reactors. "Is this better?"
"What about 'fission'"?
"That too?"
"Yes. I doubt you are going to be able to salvage this answer."
"How about now?"
"How about all that stuff about neutrons? Ever hear much about neutrons in the shop?"
"I guess not..." More editing. "How about now?"
"You think that looks good to you?"
"Hell yeah!"
"You sure about that?"
"You don't think that sounds good?"
"Uranium 235."
"If I took that out there would be nothing left!"
"Get rid of it along with everything else that clown gave you. Oh, and the answer he gives for the next question is about refinery operations -- not anti-corrosion agents used in diesel fuel systems..."
Welcome to me life...
Today I went in to the shop to work on some edumacational modules. You have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get anywhere in this company, and modules and tech schools are among those hoops. A mechanic in our shop had been having a hard time with some of the higher tech stuff and wanted my help.
During our studies, my not-too-entirely-bright study partner told me about this super smart guy he met when HE went to tech school a couple of months before I did. The guy had given him a bunch of files containing all the answers to the modules he'd done. This guy was billed as potentially even smarter than ME, as the words used in the answers were HUGE and practically incomprehensible! They were super detailed and scientific!
Wait.... someone in this company smarter than ME? Okay, I just had to hear more. He provided me an example. The question asked how the temperature of the fuel affects the efficiency of combustion in a diesel engine. True to his words, the answer provided was super scientific, bordering on multisyllabic technobabble.
My response of course was, "WHAT!!!???"
"Yeah, I know! Isn't that amazing? I hardly understand it myself!"
"Read that back to me again..." He did so.
"Lemme see that..." and I spun his laptop computer around to read it for myself without all the mispronunciations. "You're right. This hardly makes sense. In fact, the only way it would make any sense was if the question had the slightest bit of anything to do with the temperature of the fuel rods in a nuclear reactor."
"Crazy, isn't it?"
"It's not crazy -- it's butt stupid! This guy literally did a Google search for the words 'fuel', 'temperature' and 'efficiency' and then copied and pasted the first thing he found into this document."
"Serious??"
"Yup!"
"Well, maybe I can change it a little..."
He deleted half a sentence, removing reference to reactors. "Is this better?"
"What about 'fission'"?
"That too?"
"Yes. I doubt you are going to be able to salvage this answer."
"How about now?"
"How about all that stuff about neutrons? Ever hear much about neutrons in the shop?"
"I guess not..." More editing. "How about now?"
"You think that looks good to you?"
"Hell yeah!"
"You sure about that?"
"You don't think that sounds good?"
"Uranium 235."
"If I took that out there would be nothing left!"
"Get rid of it along with everything else that clown gave you. Oh, and the answer he gives for the next question is about refinery operations -- not anti-corrosion agents used in diesel fuel systems..."
Welcome to me life...