How to bleed for your customers
Yep, working on computers can be dangerous ๐
While working inside a case, you can get electrocuted with a deadly amount of 12 Volts and 10,000 Ohms ๐
Or you can do what I do: I keep cutting my hands on these @$#! sharp case edges!
Until now, its only happened in my office (ie no public embarrassment).
But the other day, I was replacing a damagedย front panel in front of a customer, when I noticed a dark red smear on my hand…
No pain, but a fair amount of blood.
I ask the customer to get me some tissues, while I try to figure out where I’m bleeding from…
B*gger! I see I’ve dropped about 6 – 8 drops of blood on their carpet! I hope they don’t try to charge me for cleaning costs!
Anyway, using about 10 or 15 paper tissues, I discover that the tip of a finger has a deep cut.
I try a band aid (adhesive bandage for you non-Aussies), but blood leaks through the bandage.
I use a second band aid, and the bleeding slows a lot.
So I also wrap my finger with a wad of tissues, apologise for the mess, wipe some blood from the PC (and my shirt and pants), and finish fixing the PC.
I never realised how difficult it is to work with a heavily bandaged left index finger… and I’m right-handed!
Seriously: I think I was more embarrassed than hurt, but I’d like to know if anyone else out there has had embarrassing “accidents” at work?
Ouch!
As for embarrasing accidents at work, I keep catching my pockets (usually my right hand one) on the door latches in the office. They seem to have been installed wrongly and so the rounded catch sleeve is exposed. Gets me every time, sometimes enough to cause a loud rip noise and it stops me dead like someone grabbing me with one of those grapple hooks they use to take out bad comedians who doesn’t realise his stage time is up.
Have also walked around with a broken zipper fly for an entire day without realising it was broken until after getting home. It’s hard to know if people around me realised and just didn’t say anything or not ๐
So, in the military we do a lot of marching (obviously.) My problem, and a lot of people have this problem too, trip over invisible ledges. LOL.