I’ve always thought this method was hilarious, but it’s a very specific type of work that requires it. There’s not much automation to be done since it’s different every time. I also had a previous job where some days you’d have to count product in boxes all day long, and hand write the numbers (this was about 3 years ago).
What outdated things at your work do you find amusing?
Eh. When I do markups at work, I still do them by hand. I find myself more critical with a pen instead of a mouse.
I test and do QA on impossibly huge industrial electrical systems for things like steel mills. Some of them are 100 feet long, with individual cabinets all bayed together and fed from buswork which we fabricate ourselves. I also do some field work installing, repairing, etc.
However, the most boring part of my job by far is verifying bills of material during my QA portion. This involves physically looking at every part number of every part in the system (sometimes thousands of parts), and verifying it is the same number. Sometimes it takes days
I entertain men for money. You could say it’s the oldest gig in the book…
Far from outdated, tbough
In my mind, “outdated” means something that hasn’t changed in a long time. I’m not a native English speaker, so I could be wrong.
That’s one possible interpretation, yes. But in this context it’s more like “there are better ways of doing it these days”
I see. Thanks for the clarification. 😊
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I took a drafting class in high school many years ago (late 80s) and for the first half of the year we did all of our drawing on drafting tables with pencil and paper. It was crazy. Fortunately they had computers too, so once we had the basics down we transitioned to using AutoCAD.
But work-related specifically, my dad repaired fax machines until he died in 2014. So many places still use fax machines, especially related to medical and banking records, because it’s secure point-to-point transmission of sensitive information with very little chance of someone snooping on the line or otherwise intercepting it.
I took a drafting class in high school many years ago (late 80s) and for the first half of the year we did all of our drawing on drafting tables with pencil and paper. It was crazy. Fortunately they had computers too, so once we had the basics down we transitioned to using AutoCAD.
I took one in uni, because at one time I wanted to be a civil engineer. We had a drafting class, and we started off on paper, because “you’re here to learn drafting, not computers!”
One day, when dutifully following instructions the teacher said something “oh, did I say 10cm between these two (huge and complex) parts? I meant 6cm. Move them closer together”.
So we all stared, and he said “and this why tomorrow we’re moving onto AutoCAD, bring your laptops”.
Up until recently ish, for 3D art I would export UV maps, do my editing, then reimport them to view the changes on my model.
I did this up until it got brought up in a meeting, and a senior guy from a publisher basically called me out saying “Why in the world do you still do that? We moved on from that like 15 years ago!”
So I quietly had to reevaluate my process and learn something new.
In my defense I am not an artist, and despise giving Adobe money.
Most paperwork at my job is still hand written on paper. Logbooks, hourly reading sheets, energy isolation, water tank additive logsheets, medical grade forms, blah blah blah all paper. Binders everywhere. Dusty filing cabinets everywhere.
But we’re in the middle of moving to digital only finally, so for now I have to do the same work twice every shift for the half finished digital infra.
It’s a manufacturing plant that’s survived since 1940’s and those who’d be resistant to change are mostly all retired or dead now.
I recently installed a brand new e-signature system at our company, which HR doesn’t use. They want me to print it out, sign it, and fax it back. This was last week. Like… WTF. I said no and just e-signed it.
Not sure if it’s outdated, but in a time where everyone seem to be running nginx combined with a language that sounds like the name of a Pokémon, I’m over here writing stuff in mod_perl for apache.
On that note, my LAMP probably means something different than your LAMP: Linux, apache, mod_perl, postgresql.
Mod_perl. Now there is a name I haven’t heard in a long time. My paralysis demon appreciates your triggering my PTSD.
Well, with such a good start I might as well feed your paralysis demon with…
- The Inuit kiss operator:
perl -lne '}{ print $.' file- The goatse operator:
my $count =()= $str =~ /\d/g;
I have a windows xp tower pc hooked up in the basement for large scale printing, because the drivers, let alone the port just dont exist anymore.
