I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Steve Smith
wrote back on Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:59:37 -0500 in
rec.crafts.metalworking :


Dave Hinz wrote:

I've scored a number of free beers by opening locks for co-workers.


One summer job at a tiny company the bosses were out of town with the
keys to the rack the assemblers had to get into. It wasn't hard to open.
I overheard a comment "he didn't learn that in college"...but I did.

Friend of mine went to CalTech. The attitude there was "due by 5 pm,
means 5 p.m., and doesn't matter if the building was locked up at 4:30."

Think of it as an exercise in applied engineering and problem solving
....

Steve

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."