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Originally posted by RobDeCotiis
we used our school's tech lab to build our bot.. worse than the messiness is when someone would clean up... when it was a disaster area, the builders knew where all the tools were.. "oh, the 1/4 20 tap is on the table over here, the 1/8" hex key i remember i sat it down on the drill press before,...."
then someone would clean and we'd be like "[expletive deleted], i left the [expletive deleted] tap on the table over there and someone moved it!" or "who took the 1/8" hex? i left it on the drill press, where the hell is it?!", only to find out that it's in our tool cart... :-/ looking for newly organized tools cost us hours of build time..
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Exactly the same with us. We try to maintain "orderly messiness," meaning it's a mess, but at least 85% of the student members know where everything is within the mess. Unfortunately, some of the adults don't agree with this philosophy, and clean up behind the student's backs. I lost count of the amount of time spent trying to find papers with schematics, dimensions, pinouts, software code, etc. when most students knew it should have been in a specific pile of stuff. The adults, of course, merely say "what? we were just trying to make the place look nice." Yeah, it may look nice, but it's impossible to find anything =P

Sounds very familiar. When people clean up we lose stuff.