Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[xrunner]

Email this morning from Keysight ... 

[bd139]

I’m not sure if I should cringe or not.

It’s better than the marketing crap my company comes out with though.

[xrunner]

I’m not sure if I should cringe or not.

It’s better than the marketing crap my company comes out with though.

I'm thinkin' point 'em to this thread. Maybe some of us will get included. 

[tggzzz]

Email this morning from Keysight ... 

When I worked for HP, they respected their customers.

[AVGresponding]

Well that explains the signs on the sanitiser dispensers at my local hospital

No such signs here that I've seen. I guess our drunks are smarter or perhaps they can't read. And that is surprising considering one of our favorite past times is to sue people/companies. After all, we need printed in plain sight "coffee is hot" 

And the flip side is you can buy "rust stain remover" that contains hydrofluoric acid 
www.amazon.com/Whink-1281-10OZ-Stain-Remover/product-reviews/B000LNQNM0?reviewerType=all_reviews

This is absolutely fucking insane, that such a dangerous chemical is available so easily. What's next, rat poison with ²¹⁰Po as the active ingredient? Amazon should be thoroughly pilloried for this.

[tggzzz]

I’m not sure if I should cringe or not.

It’s better than the marketing crap my company comes out with though.

A telecom equipment supplier I once worked for employed a new "world class"  female marketing executive. I decided to leave when I found out that the marketing gimmick at the Barcelona trade fair was young ladies body painted in the company colours.

Having arranged the escape route, I had to delay escaping until they paid me a nice redundancy cheque

[bd139]

Email this morning from Keysight ... 

When I worked for HP, they respected their customers.

I’m wondering if they identified that their customer base is now weebs.

[bd139]

I’m not sure if I should cringe or not.

It’s better than the marketing crap my company comes out with though.

A telecom equipment supplier I once worked for employed a new "world class"  female marketing executive. I decided to leave when I found out that the marketing gimmick at the Barcelona trade fair was young ladies body painted in the company colours.

Having arranged the escape route, I had to delay escaping until they paid me a nice redundancy cheque

Wise move. The current place I work has gone from marketing disaster to marketing disaster. I’m not going to post one of their things for obvious reasons but it is under the same scenario of “world class” marketing executive.

The finest example was buying several hundred black mugs which only display the company logo when hot. Yet at the same time turning down a purchase order for working docks for your principal engineers. Oh and the mandatory GPO enforced marketing wallpaper.

They toned down the latter when I dropped in an expenses claim for “use of my personal monitor as an advertising hoarding”. One of the joys of my position is it’s high enough up the chain to be a facetious dick and get away with it.

The marketing pack we were given had a nice double wall box which was used to ship some stuff I’d sold on eBay. That was the only win. The rest of it was basically landfill and/or made in a sweatshop and is that really the image they want. This was a point I also raised

[med6753]

Email this morning from Keysight ... 

That is fucking stupid. 

[Kosmic]

Email this morning from Keysight ... 

When I worked for HP, they respected their customers.

I’m wondering if they identified that their customer base is now weebs.

Look like the marketing team at Keysight are trying to be "cool".

This was also questionable.

[bd139]

That’s not questionable, it’s disgusting and entirely the antithesis of professionalism I’d expect from an engineering company.

Aka in local parlance, a pile of wank.

Rigid and Siglent would get my business not just on price but so I don’t have to be bombarded with that cow excrement.

[tggzzz]

I think I would rather drink the HF loaded Drain cleaner than most of the Beers mentioned above 

Seriously too  does Amazon think letting that sh1t be sold on a website to the Mass MORONS as a customer base is a reasonable thing 

Eeek!

My father, who brought conc HCl home on public transport in his overcoat pocket for me to make "rotten egg smell" in the kitchen, said HF frightened him.

For amusement and FFI, https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2004/03/03/things_i_wont_touch_1 which includes

"If you stick an ordinary gas regulator on top of an HF cylinder, you’re in for trouble, and the complete destruction of the regulator is the least of your worries."
and
"The shout “HF LEAK!” went out into the halls, and I’m told that the whole area set a never-to-be-equaled evacuation record. This was one of those drop-things-right-where-you-stand type evacuations, a real sauve qui peut moment."

The first sentence of the next paragraph also strikes a very personal chord

BTW, don't click https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-with unless you have a spare afternoon and need cheering up.

[xrunner]

Email this morning from Keysight ... 

That is fucking stupid. 

Maybe we need a comic!

"Join the EEVBlog Team on our new quest. This engineering-themed comic brings you into the fictional world of Med and Vince as they use nothing but their wit, grit, and a whole lot of vintage gear to save the world from rusting Tektronix scopes, one precision measurement at a time."

 

[Kosmic]

Email this morning from Keysight ... 

When I worked for HP, they respected their customers.

I’m wondering if they identified that their customer base is now weebs.

Look like the marketing team at Keysight are trying to be "cool".

This was also questionable.

Also this one

[med6753]

Email this morning from Keysight ... 

That is fucking stupid. 

Maybe we need a comic!

"Join the EEVBlog Team on our new quest. This engineering-themed comic brings you into the fictional world of Med and Vince as they use nothing but their wit, grit, and a whole lot of vintage gear to save the world from rusting Tektronix scopes, one precision measurement at a time."

 

I pass unless I get to empty my urine bag on a Keysight scope. 

How's THAT for a cool mod? 

[beanflying]

Character for issue Two and downward to Anime Porn Electronics in Issue 3 

[bd139]

Email this morning from Keysight ... 

When I worked for HP, they respected their customers.

I’m wondering if they identified that their customer base is now weebs.

Look like the marketing team at Keysight are trying to be "cool".

This was also questionable.

Also this one

Yep. That's somewhat cringeworthy too. The original turbo encabulator is as far as it needed to go. It was perfection. It was thoroughly done.

But rather than invent something new, clever, thought provoking or even sane, it's easier to leverage some youtube celebrities and rip off an old concept and sit back and watch them do all the work, then compile it.

Character for issue Two and downward to Anime Porn Electronics in Issue 3 

That's not even 1x10^-3 of the way to 1...

Been thoroughly done too   

[beanflying]

Just don't search Tentacle and the other thing 

[Brumby]

Email this morning from Keysight ... 

Yeah......    I got that too.

I wasn't sure what to think.  Torn between "Really? - Please save me!" to "I wonder what they've put together?", I followed the link - but stopped short of actually getting to the material.

I'd like to say it was my better judgement kicking in - but, in reality, there were some things on my "to do" list that SWMBO was expecting me to complete sooner than later.

I still hold an element of morbid curiosity as to the nature of the comic - but I'm not sure if I really want to crack that egg open.....

[Robert763]

Well that explains the signs on the sanitiser dispensers at my local hospital

No such signs here that I've seen. I guess our drunks are smarter or perhaps they can't read. And that is surprising considering one of our favorite past times is to sue people/companies. After all, we need printed in plain sight "coffee is hot" 

And the flip side is you can buy "rust stain remover" that contains hydrofluoric acid 
www.amazon.com/Whink-1281-10OZ-Stain-Remover/product-reviews/B000LNQNM0?reviewerType=all_reviews

This is absolutely fucking insane, that such a dangerous chemical is available so easily. What's next, rat poison with ²¹⁰Po as the active ingredient? Amazon should be thoroughly pilloried for this.

It's not Amazon, You can buy this stuff at hardware stores in the USA. At least that amazon review gives you some warning.

[xrunner]

I still hold an element of morbid curiosity as to the nature of the comic - but I'm not sure if I really want to crack that egg open.....

Once seen it cannot {easily} be deleted from your mind.

Hey, I dunno - I'm not a marketing person. Maybe "dry" specifications and tutorials aren't going to get the young engineers these days to like your product. If the comic is required for sales (due to research) I guess that's what they will do.

It's a different world than I grew up in. 

[AVGresponding]

Well that explains the signs on the sanitiser dispensers at my local hospital

No such signs here that I've seen. I guess our drunks are smarter or perhaps they can't read. And that is surprising considering one of our favorite past times is to sue people/companies. After all, we need printed in plain sight "coffee is hot" 

And the flip side is you can buy "rust stain remover" that contains hydrofluoric acid 
www.amazon.com/Whink-1281-10OZ-Stain-Remover/product-reviews/B000LNQNM0?reviewerType=all_reviews

This is absolutely fucking insane, that such a dangerous chemical is available so easily. What's next, rat poison with ²¹⁰Po as the active ingredient? Amazon should be thoroughly pilloried for this.

It's not Amazon, You can buy this stuff at hardware stores in the USA. At least that amazon review gives you some warning.

Good grief... though I suppose that jibes with the fact that asbestos is still widely used there too.

[BU508A]

Yep. That's somewhat cringeworthy too. The original turbo encabulator is as far as it needed to go. It was perfection. It was thoroughly done.

But rather than invent something new, clever, thought provoking or even sane, it's easier to leverage some youtube celebrities and rip off an old concept and sit back and watch them do all the work, then compile it.

Now I understand the reluctant reaction of you guys. I wasn't that familiar with this turbo encabulator and found it very funny,
watching all these people talking nonsense.

Thanks for adjusting and recalibrating my humor sensor. 

[bd139]

Yeah it’s leveraging the cheap recycling of old material really. The original is here:

https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag

There’s a trend of recycling old stuff now rather than come up with something new. Typical stuff like remakes really kill me to be honest. Battlestar Galactica is a fine example. This tends to erase the old version and the original creative effort.

This is one of the joys of series like The Expanse; it’s not recycled and they put some serious effort into it.

[Specmaster]

I had my eye on another 1905a on eBay, and so I loaded up my trust Gixen, good old reliable sniper tool that it is, with what I thought to be a slightly OTT valuation for what appeared to a dead meter, got this one in the bag thought I. How wrong could I be, massively wrong as it turned out, almost double what I valued it at, it sold for £69.99 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Thurlby-1905a-Intelligent-Digital-Multimeter-SPARES-REPAIR-/114755468784?nma=true&si=Ws0maXnZa80JKEX1Mg86iNxdPaU%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Holy Shit balls does not even begin to cover it, makes we wonder what could my fully functioning 1905a and in a good condition case  could fetch?