You have to love interns.....

Currently working out of town at a client, and I had an experience that blew my mind/blew my boogers all over my monitor from laughing.

So the admin lady comes up to the intern that sits at the desk caddy corner to me and asks about a recent service request he put in. I guess the door to our floor had been shocking him so he put in a request with the help desk which then proceeded to send an electrician up to take a look. When the admin explained the concept of static electricity to him I couldn't help but laugh. She even asked if he was ok/if it hurt. I don't know that if I should laugh or be concerned with the future of our planet if a 21 year old doesn't know about static electricity.

I work with the best and brightest apparently!

Any 5 year old would know that. In fact, that is prolly where the first "hey watch this" originated.

Said intern maybe led a sheltered life.

Here they promote the interns to execs to run the place - all pretty much like yours in the life experience department.

fasted58 wrote: Any 5 year old would know that. In fact, that is prolly where the first "hey watch this" originated. Said intern maybe led a sheltered life.

Its amazing how sheltered some lives are. When I was doing FSAE in college 15 years ago, the team spent a lot of time in the "student" machine shop. We could usually figure out in a couple of minutes exactly who had been given "Safe" toys to play with their entire lives. They were oblivous to sharp objects and hazards. I was so glad I was not the grad student supervising the place.

Type Q wrote:

fasted58 wrote: Any 5 year old would know that. In fact, that is prolly where the first "hey watch this" originated. Said intern maybe led a sheltered life.

Its amazing how sheltered some lives are. When I was doing FSAE in college 15 yeards ago, the team spent a lot of time in the "student" machine shop. We could usually figure out in a couple of minutes exactly who had been given "Safe" toys to play with their entire lives. They were oblivous to sharp objects and hazards. I was so glad I was not the grad student supervising the place.

Took my son to meet the UT FSAE team last year and he started chatting up with the professor. He asked what the hardest part was and the professor told him most of the year is spent learning how to weld.

On the way home, my son asked where he could take welding classes (I am currently without a welder to teach him) and has now decided to get his welding certificates while in high school to earn extra money and be one step ahead when he goes to college.

-Rob

Type Q wrote:

fasted58 wrote: Any 5 year old would know that. In fact, that is prolly where the first "hey watch this" originated. Said intern maybe led a sheltered life.

Its amazing how sheltered some lives are. When I was doing FSAE in college 15 yeards ago, the team spent a lot of time in the "student" machine shop. We could usually figure out in a couple of minutes exactly who had been given "Safe" toys to play with their entire lives. They were oblivous to sharp objects and hazards. I was so glad I was not the grad student supervising the place.

I had the same experience in the machine shop too.

When I was 7-8 YO I would shuffle my feet across the carpet at the bowling Alley in Orangeburg, SC and then go touch the ball polisher. That caused one heck of a pop.

A few yrs ago a new hire (full time, not an intern) and myself are headed to a site in brooklyn in the work truck for a all-day job. We get to the site and as the subcontractors are setting up he tell me he has an islanders game tha afternoon, and has to leave the site at 1pm at the latest. ...the absolute outrage when I told him we will in fact NOT be ending work & leaving the site 4-5hrs early so he can make it to the game with his buddies haha!

I told him to call the site's project manager at our office (which at the time was one of the vice presidents of the company) "just to make sure we couldn't leave early"; and he did.

I took a technologist program (similiar to your associates degrees) that has large amounts of "hands on" work in labs. First time in a lab (and understand, 95% of my classmates were over the age of 20), instructor asks "Who here knows what a crescent wrench is?"

About 8 hands out of 30 go up. I shake my head.

In reply to paul:

As a construction worker, and the son of a construction worker, I know, intimately, the conversation that transpired.

Enyar wrote: You have to love interns.....

....especially if you're David Letterman. [rimshot]

Thanks, guys. I'll be here all week.

Ahhhh, yes, interns. We have a new crop of them every few months at the courthouse. Most of the doors here are security doors and you have to wave your badge in front of them. I, however, am tall enough just to walk past and have it scan from my wallet in my back pocket. Bewildered Intern (having seen the above happen): "How did you open that door?" Me: "I've been here long enough that they just decided to implant a chip in my butt." Her: "Oh . . . "

As far as I know, she's still standing by the door trying to figure out if I'm serious.

Maybe the guy grew up in a humid area and just moved to a dry area. If it's humid you can't build up static no matter what.

kazoospec wrote: Ahhhh, yes, interns. We have a new crop of them every few months at the courthouse. Most of the doors here are security doors and you have to wave your badge in front of them. I, however, am tall enough just to walk past and have it scan from my wallet in my back pocket. Bewildered Intern (having seen the above happen): "How did you open that door?" Me: "I've been here long enough that they just decided to implant a chip in my butt." Her: "Oh . . . " As far as I know, she's still standing by the door trying to figure out if I'm serious.

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

We haven't had interns here in years because of budget cuts. That is most unfortunate, because they are so much fun to mess with.

That's crazy. When I was 7, I used to hide in the dark closet and shake my angora sweater, just to watch the static sparks fly.

Don't have any interns here, but at least 3 or 4 times a week in the winter months some yoyo complains their car is defective because it shocks them all the time.

fasted58 wrote: Any 5 year old would know that. In fact, that is prolly where the first "hey watch this" originated. Said intern maybe led a sheltered life.

Without carpet.

rob_lewis wrote: Took my son to meet the UT FSAE team last year and he started chatting up with the professor. He asked what the hardest part was and the professor told him most of the year is spent learning how to weld. On the way home, my son asked where he could take welding classes (I am currently without a welder to teach him) and has now decided to get his welding certificates while in high school to earn extra money and be one step ahead when he goes to college. -Rob

Lol at some of the FSAE guys. You have to learn somewhere but some of those guys are sheltered. Duke of Understeer was telling me about the Data Analyst/Engineer that is working on the Trans Am team this year.

The kid was in the race seat ready to pull data while Duke was under the car removing the trans. FSAE kid asks Duke if its okay if he turns the main power on. Duke tells him the battery is disconnected. FSAE kid asks him if he can go connect it. Duke is in the middle of bench pressing a gearbox, connecting battery leads is not something he is interested in doing at the moment. lol.

After their first race weekend with the kid, he asked if they were going to have a post race debriefing. Lol. This isn't F1 dude, it's Trans Am, load the E36 M3 up, drink a couple of beers and head home.

Anti-stance wrote:

rob_lewis wrote: Took my son to meet the UT FSAE team last year and he started chatting up with the professor. He asked what the hardest part was and the professor told him most of the year is spent learning how to weld. On the way home, my son asked where he could take welding classes (I am currently without a welder to teach him) and has now decided to get his welding certificates while in high school to earn extra money and be one step ahead when he goes to college. -Rob

Lol at some of the FSAE guys. You have to learn somewhere but some of those guys are sheltered. Duke of Understeer was telling me about the Data Analyst/Engineer that is working on the Trans Am team this year. The kid was in the race seat ready to pull data while Duke was under the car removing the trans. FSAE kid asks Duke if its okay if he turns the main power on. Duke tells him the battery is disconnected. FSAE kid asks him if he can go connect it. Duke is in the middle of bench pressing a gearbox, connecting battery leads is not something he is interested in doing at the moment. lol. After their first race weekend with the kid, he asked if they were going to have a post race debriefing. Lol. This isn't F1 dude, it's Trans Am, load the E36 M3 up, drink a couple of beers and head home.

I'll give the kid credit for asking, as opposed to blindly turning things on or reconnecting the power. I have had to stop people from doing both.

In reply to Type Q:

But this kid seemed to be incapable of hooking the leads up. Its a typical race engineer mentality but with almost no experience. It's the worst of both worlds. I have worked with race engineers before, they can be some weird people for sure. I had to room with one on a race weekend once. I was terrified that I might wake up with the smell of cloroforom in my nose or not at all.

The kid had never been to a real race weekend. At one point he was just riding around in the paddock on the 4 wheeler/pit cart for fun because he had never ridden one before. Not a good idea when there is work to be done. Long story short, like alot of race engineers, he was just there to plug in, download data, and give commands. He wasn't very good at that even from what I understand.

Gimp wrote:

I always thought she was cute....

so did slick Willie

you were always wrong.

AngryCorvair wrote: you were always wrong.

I've been told that before....usually when commenting in the Good Gawd Almighty thread about the need for sandwiches.