Europe My car has made it to Switzerland!!!

[beg]

Keys for the Grenadier

 

[analogvernon]

Key to the V door.

 

[Mitchell300]

Diamond headed socket set, seemed plausible to me at 17. This was followed by a long wait as the storeman “went to look for it”.

 

[DaveB]

Hi Dave sending an apprentice in a factory to the store for a long wait is something we do to new guys it's like spotted paint , elbow grease or sparks for the grinder.

Lefthanded screwdriver

 

[marko]

Key to the V door.

Oilfield humour

 

[Shaky]

A tin of spur lash

 

[ECrider]

have we had elbow grease yet?

 

[CountyV8]

have we had elbow grease yet?

Yes but. not blinker fluid

 

[emax]

Don’t forget the ‘bag of sky hooks’

We call them "Siemens Lufthaken". But they have to be Siemens ones.

Usually, the salesperson then tells the apprentice, "Tell your boss that we currently only have some from Bosch."

 

[klarie]

I remember my dad sending my sister to a company in same place - about half a mile away in pouring rain .. with a plastic bucket to fill it with "compression".
Was 1st of April.. She was about 15 and grew up like me in a car workshop / garage.. she was (and still is ) a "know it all better" person.
She was really pissed off when she found out to be the April's fool. (At that time I was just 8.. but I learned to monitor my dad quite carefully at any time - and so somewhat later not to get into his footsteps) - but in IT there are similar jokes around software, users and operators. Considering the software bug.. in Grenadier.. we had a litte love bug / plush bug.. in a large office were a lot of programmers were working.. The plush bug was attached to the lad's monitor, who made the last error in an application / or failed proper testing. .. Perhaps some idea for Ineos.. when doing their testing.. (Nasty finger pointing.. this is the poor lad.. don't do that that is discrimination of person) ...
But sometimes it is motivating people not to get it.. - but bugs are. And I understand there is pressure on quality . but also the customers demanding their cars.

 

[emax]

We had a t-shirt hanging in the office ...



Or a pasteboard like this:

 

[emax]

And some wallpapers for the monitor - to be installed for a day on the culprits PC. At least, he/she had a choice:

 

[emax]

I used to have this one:

 

[emax]

About the "build", for the non-IT people: the build is the process of translating the source code into machine-readable material. My last project was a collection of 5.5 million lines of source code written by dozens of developers.

Even though it's automated, it's still a pretty complicated process. And in the end, it should result in something testable. But it happens that the 'build' simply fails with an error - because someone wasn't careful enough and didn't check in some important changes. That was then a 'broken build', the most embarrassing mistake a developer can make.

Edit: typo

 

[MilesD]

Skyhooks? a useful tool on building sites to lift anything anywhere anytime

 

[MileHigh]

Sooooo… our back to basics 4x4 is being held up by software issues…. Not confidence inspiring..

Has anyone turned it on and off and back on?

 

[Eric]

Sooooo… our back to basics 4x4 is being held up by software issues…. Not confidence inspiring..

Has anyone turned it on and off and back on?

Control, Alt, Del works every time

 

[Hannes01]

Control, Alt, Del works every time

the combination is too dangerous for me at my age

Alt = age in German

 

[Tazzieman]

Skyhooks? a useful tool on building sites to lift anything anywhere anytime

Skyhooks? Legendary Aussie band!

Went down to the bank to make a deposit yesterday
The system just went haywire began to overpay
Ten too many zeros on my sixty dollars cash
There I was like Howard Hughes a tycoon in a flash

Trouble with the computer perhaps a faulty switch
Maybe it just likes me and wants to make me rich

Gas bill came this morning I was making toast
I like the odd hot shower and sometimes Sunday roast
But we'd all sell our houses and go and live in tents
If the gas bill came to four grand and ninety seven cents

Trouble with the computer its' memories gone blank
Lucky I refused to pay I've got myself to thank
Trouble with the computer happens every day
So much for brainpower IBM is here to stay

So if you take that plane to Sydney and end up in Taiwan
The automatic pilot he's done something wrong
If your ice cream tastes like tooth paste
And a milk horse wins the race
Computer's lost its logic and it's started to erase

Trouble...Trouble...Trouble...Trouble...

Somewhere someday some smart guy
Will turn around and shout
Give me a pen and paper and I can work it out

But till then we are stuck
With computers going wrong
And if this verse sounds out of tune
A computer wrote this song

Trouble with the computer that's what the man said
Some kind of random error the light is glowin' red
Trouble with the computer the machine will not obey
So much for brainpower IBM is here to stay

View: https://youtu.be/13evW7Zr_Rc


View: https://youtu.be/9vfc-avfni8

 

[Eric]

the combination is too dangerous for me at my age

Alt = age in German

Didn't know that, it is the term used in the UK for re-booting a computer