Most undervalued job

[Romeo1351]

The custodian who has to wait until we finish our late night workings to be able to clean the Physics Lab and go home.

Half the team probably doesn't know his name, but no job is less appreciated.

[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by Romeo1351

The custodian who has to wait until we finish our late night workings to be able to clean the Physics Lab and go home.

Half the team probably doesn't know his name, but no job is less appreciated.

We know our janitor, BILL!!! We love Bill, we give him a team shirt, a set of dog tags, give him food, drinks, and invite him to the competitions because his job seems small but he lets us into the school to work on the bot, and turns on the heat during snowstorms. Plus he loves hanging out with us during the build days. "Watching what you kids do is amazing." That was cool, Bill's awesome.

[AdamHeard]

I'd have to say the guy who makes friends with other teams and deals with all the relations.

During my first year we had a good kid by the name of George Chen who spent about 90% of his time on the team communicating with other teams. We all, including myself, called him a traitor and so on. But now I realize that we were entirely wrong, George was doing great things for our team (and now 812 down at UCSD) and the students at the time were too close-minded to see it. As the captain this year, I tried to teach the kids on the team that being an "isolationist" team is pointless. Hopefully it will carry on in my absence. And George, if you're reading this, we're sorry.

[CyberWolf_22]

I definitely think the compliance officer is the most undervalued job on a first team, especially new teams. There are so many small rules that a lot of rookie and some veteran teams forget about and when they get to competition they have to spend valuable practice time or even match time fixing these problems. It requires that some times the whole team gets mad at you but it is always better to have to redesign to fit the rules at your shop then when the inspector makes you at competition.

Another job I noticed that I don't think has a title on many teams but I think is really important is a Quality Control person. A member of the team that periodically makes sures that all parts of the robot are being built to the correct specs. Even if the robot is not fully designed if two different subgroups are using different specs it causes a big problem later.