[AusNOG] Junior techs

[Sean K. Finn]

This is a self-inflicted one about 15 years ago.

In my junior years I used to strip telephone wires with my teeth before (re)terminating them. (Don't Ask, I now have a filling in that same place).

Trouble is This one day I did it and both wires touched my tounge.

That wasn't so bad, except at that instant a call came in and I got 50v across my tounge.

I have used appropriate tools ever eince.

S.

-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Curtis Bayne
Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 12:25 PM
To: Paul Jones; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Junior techs

LOL! I had a similar incident with an SCR the other day (been building custom power control circuits for our HVAC). Turns out reactive loads require snubber circuits. No boom but lots of pain :(

Any other electronics nerds on list?

Sent from my HTC Touch Pro

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Jones <paul at pauljones.id.au>
Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 12:18 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net <ausnog at ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Junior techs

The best one I know of is a junior tech who started a job repairing high
power amplifiers(+2kw). One of the senior techs found a good specimen unit
that was beyond repair and took it apart and reversed the polarity on all
the filter capacitors in the power unit. He then gave it to the junior to
diagnose, with the instructions "BEFORE removing the case it is necessary to
troubleshoot as far as possible, both as a safety precaution and to save
time." - You can imagine what happened when the poor guy turned it on -
KABOOM!! Needless to say it became a lifelong safety lesson as well as a
funny story!

 

 

Paul.

 

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Hood
Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 11:32 AM
To: 'Jacob Gardiner'; 'Skeeve Stevens'
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone else experiencing high latency, low speeds
through internode?

 

Best one we always used to do to juniors, was take them out on a phone
system installation or somewhere that required patching (or that we could
make require patching)... Then get them to "hold these two bare telephone
cables and be a  "marker", and tell them "don't drop them or lose them no
matter what happens". Then the rest of the boys would head into the other
room and call that phone line or extension... Was a great prank. Till one of
the juniors packed a sad and called in Workplace Safety... Boo!

 

Dan

 

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Jacob Gardiner
Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 10:27 AM
To: Skeeve Stevens
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone else experiencing high latency, low speeds
through internode?

 

I'd like to hear more of these induction ceremonies. 

 

Any funny junior stories floating around?

 

JG

 

On 05/07/2010, at 10:21 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:

 

Indeed... all part of the initiation to the industry.

 

...Skeeve

 

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Hooper
Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 10:16 AM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone else experiencing high latency, low speeds
through internode?

 

And part of every junior tech/network engineers training is to cop a good
flaming on a few mailing list.

 

-Dan

 

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