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Skriven 2006-06-13 10:30:08 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ardith Hinton
Ärende: Second Thoughts...  3.
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Ardith Hinton wrote James Bradley on 06-04-06 16:42


 JB>  I guess after being on the other side of the bench,
 JB>  I can better understand their 'incomplete' processes.

 AH>           I see how some jobs could be
 AH> stultifying after awhile.  When a person gets to
 AH> such a point it may be time to change jobs, as
 AH> your friend did....  :-)

Here we go again. My friend, who?

I'd never been a bench tech, but I can get through a few problems with
electronics, but mostly mechanics. As such, I can't attest to the stifling
conditions, but how reasonable it would be to assume an empty device should
fail in a similar manner to a full machine. Sure there's an extra load on the
device, and obviously a stress condition was indicated. I too, would first try
to repeat the failure with an empty dryer. I can't say for sure if I'd try it
with a wet load, or not, but the reason I mentioned the typical troubleshooter
in any given house, would be to presume they forgot they turned it off, or that
the timer wasn't turned far enough to keep it on for a length... ... ...

 JB>  You, had a pretty good handle on the first stages of
 JB>  troubleshooting, but that is *very* much an exception.

 AH>           Thanks!  As an NT (representing 12% of
 AH> the population) I'm a trouble- shooter by
 AH> nature.  Thus I enjoyed learning assistance, in
 AH> which I could figure out how a child's mind
 AH> worked & find ways to get through to him or her
 AH> when the standard methods had failed.  Sometimes
 AH> the SJ teachers drove me crazy, though. SJ's
 AH> like drill & repetition, they like to be told
 AH> what to do, and they tend to assume everybody
 AH> else feels the same way... so if they found
 AH> drill unsuccessful they thought the solution was
 AH> more drill (which they expected me to carry
 AH> out). IMHO that's a waste of my talents.  An
 AH> aide could have done the same... (sigh).

Maybe that's what SJ wanted, and belying you to the chore, satisfied their
equilibrium.


 JB>  Usually, a customer just says it stops, or it doesn't
 JB>  work, and then they play stupid.

 AH>           Well... there may be various reasons
 AH> for that.  Many people go into a panic when
 AH> their computer doesn't work, so they're unable
 AH> to think clearly even though they're bright
 AH> enough in other ways.  Some may have had a bad
 AH> experience with a techie who didn't want to know
 AH> what they were doing on the computer just before
 AH> it locked up, for example, or who retorted "That
 AH> can't happen!" and made no attempt to help.  And
 AH> if women "play stupid", in the sense that they
 AH> pretend to be less bright & capable than they
 AH> really are, I can understand that too.  I did
 AH> the same on occasion in my younger days when gas
 AH> station attendants offered to check my oil in
 AH> hope of making another sale.  I found the
 AH> easiest way to get the persistent ones off my
 AH> back was to say, with an air of wide-eyed
 AH> innocence, "My husband looks after that."
 AH> They'd probably feel threatened if I admitted I
 AH> often did it myself, but they wouldn't intrude
 AH> on another man's territory.  ;-)

Maybe, a lot of mechanics, and gas jockeys are sensory driven, judgmental
individuals, that believe the one place for a woman in a shop is on a calender
on the wall. When a Shirley Muldowney, or Danica Patrick come along, they are
seen as flukes, and they return to their protective little shells they have
erected for their egos. I wonder how many service techs would let them drive if
they had to get someone to a hospital in a hurry.


 AH>           I have some difficulty with the word
 AH> "wishy-washy" because my mother- in-law... who
 AH> was very SJ... described me the same way.

Now, there's a rub, isn't it? The perception of others, and how we can write
off others without understanding their motivations, or why they perceive others
like they do.

 AH> However, I believe I'm starting to understand
 AH> more about what makes "perception addicts" tick.
 AH>  Awhile ago Dallas & I were shopping in a
 AH> department store, for example, where we found a
 AH> cashier behind a sign indicating the till was
 AH> closed.  When we enquired as to the cashier's
 AH> intentions she replied (with some irritation)
 AH> "It's only a sign!" Now that we've been talking
 AH> about what goes on in the minds of various SP's
 AH> the penny has dropped.  The cashier may not have
 AH> to work very hard if her customers think she's
 AH> unavailable... I saw that immediately.  There
 AH> may be another reason for her behaviour too,
 AH> though.  SJ's thrive on rules, policies, and
 AH> procedures. They love posting signs with rules
 AH> like "No pickup or dropoff of students here" or
 AH> "Staff Only -- no exceptions!"  But when others
 AH> put these rules to the test, they may find the
 AH> signs don't quite mean what they say.  So if an
 AH> SP thinks the sign saying "DANGER -- KEEP OUT!"
 AH> is irrelevant, I can understand that....  :-)

Because they are more apt to look for proof?

Even though I'm associating the letter designations alright, I still doubt I
could pick one out in a crowd. I have a twelve hour day ahead of me today, and
two appointments tomorrow, so I'll have to keep this brief. (I won't mention
the yard cleaning yesterday. Opps! |-)


 AH>           Exactly.  Dallas has the same problem
 AH> sometimes with a computer which runs perfectly
 AH> on the bench but not in the customer's home.
 AH> When a variable is introduced the results may be
 AH> different.  The textbooks don't mention people
 AH> in the real world, for example, with timed
 AH> outlets they didn't know about....  :-)

"Timed outlets"?

I would suspect erratic power supply, or operator error. Those *never* happen
here. O-8*


... James
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