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Oh, man. That's amazing. I wish I'd thought of it.
Long prior to ISO being a thing. Bell Labs had an extremely comprehensive set of standards call the Bell System Practices, for all AT&T offices to follow. It makes a lot of sense for COs to be standardized in how wires are labeled and routed, how racks are arranged, how switches are configured, etc., so that an engineer from any office can walk into any other office (such as during emergency repairs), and instantly be completely familiar with everything.
However, it also led to a lot of... unnecessary documentation. Such as what is considered by many to be the definitive treatise on sweeping the floor:
Yeah we are. We have tons and tons of ISO documents. Shockingly, none about the creation of an ISO approved document. We do have an issue change form which is used to create new documents. We also have SPLs which are instructions for stupid **** that doesn't need to be ISO approved. (Wipe until you don't see any brown) or how to make coffee.
Edit* you have to audit that stuff yearly. Somebody had to of seen it by now, Joe.
When I worked for L3, we built power distribution systems for naval ships and submarines. I literally had to write safety information that alerted the crew that they could cut themselves on the sharp edges of the cabinet. Or they could injure their hand if the closed a door or drawer with their hand in the way. This was required by some dipshit in the defense department.
I would have to be paid much more than I am now to ever go back to working in defense again.
Now I can't stop thinking about the drain valve...
I got really bored during an overnight service period at our transmitter room at Sears last year. Basically, they were doing a shutdown of the electrical power on the floor, so my job for that night was:
1: Turn off the main transmitter, and remotely turn on the backup transmitter at Hancock simultaneously.
2: Do absolutely nothing for six hours, and hope that the UPS keeps everything else running. (It did not. Lasted about five hours.)
3: When the lights come back on, restart everything that went down when the UPS died, then flip the transmitters back to normal.
4: Triage the repairs on the stuff that didn't come back up, because it's been powered on continuously for 19 years, and the power supplies decided that they were done.
Anyway, I had a lot of time on my hands. So I made this sign, and posted it on the door to the transmitter room:
I was so tired by morning that I forgot to remove it. It stayed there for two weeks until my next visit.
Also, interesting tidbit: I didn't have that photo close at hand. I went to https://photos.google.com/ , and was going to manually search for it based on the date, when I noticed for the first time a "Search" window at the top. So I typed "velociraptor" into it, and this photo (as well as several other photos of dinosaurs and dinosaur skeletons which I've taken over the years, and also a Chihuahua skeleton) came up.
So, yeah. Google is doing both OCR and image-recognition on everything we upload to their cloud. Scary, yet convenient.
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