22 Nov 11 08:25, Roger Nelson wrote to TOM WALKER:   
      
    TW>> They thought they would have some fun and run the old guy into the   
    TW>> grounde on one big job at a new hospital. Well I dazzled them by   
    TW>> not only keeping up with them but sometimes working Harder than   
    TW>> they did.   
      
    RN> When I went to work in a car dealership back in 1963, I was put in a   
    RN> stock receiving room where I "helped" a man much older than me who   
    RN> could outwork everybody in the building.   
      
                   How to teach an old dog new tricks!   
      
   C1963, I was a Tool & Die Apprentice in a tool room that had an old man to   
   run the tool crib. He didn't know what half of the tools in that crib   
   were and I usually just let myself in and got what I needed on my own.   
      
   One of his other jobs was to cut material, sometimes having to use the   
   shop's band-saw. When that happened, someone had to R&R the blade to match   
   the material he was cutting.   
      
   I soon tired of that requirement and one day when I needed that saw. I   
   changed the blade to suit the material I was cutting and then left the   
   machine with that blade in it.   
      
   He resumed cutting the material he was supposed to be cutting, but the   
   blade was now incorrect for that material and was also running at a much   
   faster speed. He stripped every tooth off that blade because he didn't   
   know what he was supposed to be using.   
      
   The forman was really mad about that and shouted for all to hear: Who used   
   this saw and didn't change the blade back? I replied (at the same level of   
   voice from across the shop) that I did and that he should teach the old   
   man what blade is used for which material and how to check that the saw   
   has the correct one in it.   
      
   The forman wasn't very happy about that, but the old man did learn his   
   lesson from that experience and we never again had to change the blade   
   for him.   
      
                   R\%/itt   
      
      
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