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EYESORE 9001

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9. I guess I've led a sheltered life

Reply to Javaman (Reply #8)

Thu Jan 8, 2026, 10:25 AM

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I can probably count on one hand the engineers I believed were truly mentally ill. One instance involved an electrical engineer trying to get power to a welder by shoving cables into the solid copper ‘bus bars’ in the back of an electrical distribution panel. Bad as that was, this panel was on the wall of a large break area, and people were in there - running from sparks and likely droplets of molten metal. I saw it from a distance and rerouted my stroll.

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