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Re: Frustrations with Minor Technicalities

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Originally Posted by Molten View Post
But that just wouldn't be life. In the real world, the rules are always changing and never clear. Sometimes the location is almost impossible to find. I've seen production stopped over things that people out on the line consider "minor" or wasn't aware of the problem. Often the engineers think its minor too. Until one person sees it and notifies everyone. Then they have no choice but to fix it immediately. That is exactly what happened in your case. It got overlooked until it was made apparent. Then it needed fixed immediately. I guess that's just something we all have to learn to deal with.
Normally I am all for the "In The Real World" comments. In this particular case I have to disagree. FRC should emulate the real world but not be exact. Remember, our job is to inspire. I know that one of the most frustrating things to me is when some minor technicality means that my hard work is null and void. The single most irritating thing ever to happen to me at work was when a customer said, "We decided we don't want this anymore" after the last 2 months of my life had been dedicated to it. Yeah we got paid for the work but it hurt me personally because of all the effort I had put into something that would never get used. (That was a year ago and it has never been used) Do we really want to show our students that side of engineering? IMHO that can't be too inspiring. Imagine if we couldn't have fixed these seemingly insignificant issues. How would our students have felt if their hard work had been sat on a shelf never to be used again?

Not saying the rules are wrong or that teams should be allowed to compete with illegal robots but merely remarking on something bouncing around inside my head.
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