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Me: So how much was it?
Student: 82
Me: say again!?!?
Student: 82 pounds

When we tried out our elevator I asked the kids to give me a few totes and a little extra weight to simulate a full stack and a can, about 55 pounds, they missed by a bit. it worked though:)

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*I walk into the shop and see 4 guys crowded around the drill press*
James *turning*: "Don't worry about it! I swear its fine"

Further context, they had been trying to attach a warped shaft to a wheel hub and instead of fixing the shaft had decided to mill out the hub

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Mechanical Mentor - "Some teams human players are going to get good at throwing noodles across the field."

Last Years HP - "Oh so you mean like me!"

Me - "He said 'good' human players. ;)"

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Paulson: Now we need to update the RoboRio.
David: Great... go get it Arron.
Arron: Ok...(starts walking away)... wait... whats the RoboRio thing?

Ugh... it's gonna be a long night...

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CS: "When did they change the design of 80/20?"
Me: "That's not 80/20." (it's REV extrusion)

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Senior Programmer to rookie programmer - "Hey that's working!!...... Why is it working? It shouldn't be working"

It's working, that is all that matters right

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Programming yesterday:

Me (trying to program encoder stuff): Wait, why isn't this working? This should output 45 degrees, not 1...

Mentor 1 then does the calculations, gets 45.

Me: Coach! We broke math!

Mentor 2: Wait... Is that value in radians?

Me: -_- Coach, we didn't break math.

Mentor 2: It's ok, radians happen.

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A new mentor, during his first day:

'You are all developers and you are all stupid!'

'So having a good first day in the team?'

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Mechanical student: can I use this light wire to test a motor direct from the battery?

Electrical student: you can but you shouldn't.

lucky that the school didn't burn down and thankfully the mechanical student's fingers healed.

That one never gets old telling. Thanks, you know who you are.

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To any rookie on the team who looks bored:

"Go get me the metric crescent wrench"
"Go get me the wood welder"
"Go get me the un-crimpers. Careful they're quite rare"
"Go get me the hammer-through tap"
"Go get me the wireless LAN cable"
"Go get me the porcelain drill bit"
"Go get me some programmer fluid"
"Go get me the solid state drive lubricant"
"Go get me the wire stretchers"
"Go get me the octane fire suppressant"


We are evil people....:)

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So next question is, how many fall for that? Especially the metric crescent wrench. I know a few rookies on my team that would go for it. :D

"I thought a dynamo was a species of pig..."

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*grins* Reminds me of the time when my then-lead at work asked myself and another new trainee to go get a *wood* stretcher from a particular person. I started laughing. The other trainee asked the person... who naturally had no idea what was being asked about.

Also add to the list:
--nonferrous magnet (preferably brass, BTW)
--aluminum PVC
--headlight fluid
--canned magic smoke, we need to refill some of our electronics.


(It wasn't wood, just substituting that.)

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*upon losing the pin for a #25 half-link*
Me: I've scoured the entire floor with the magnet sweeper, I can't find it!
Mentor: Have you tried crawling on your hands and knees yet?
Me: *drops to commando crawl position*
Mentor: because if you haven't crawled around you haven't exhausted all your resources yet
Within the first five seconds of him saying that
Me: *magnet sweeper grabs something* Found it.