What Was the Most Interesting Place You've Ever Worked in?

[JustManuals]

Back in the day when I was working for Unisys, I once replaced a monitor in the control tower at LaGuardia Airport in NY. I hung around for an hour or so looking at stuff. Quite interesting.

Paul

[blackcat4866]

In my first year as a tech, one of my first regular accounts was Macomb Oakland Center. This was my first visit.

The copier was in the intake department, right off the lobby. Three feet away there is a room with wooden benches, and metal locked door, and corrugated steel over the window openings.

So I'm turning the screwdriver, and I hear a voice from behind me say, "Hey pal, got a cigarette?" I turn to tell this guy in the room "Sorry, no, I don't smoke."

A few minutes later he speaks up again, "Hey man, I need a cigarette!" I say "Sorry, I can't help you."

I go back to turning the screwdriver. Then I notice the guy is shaking the door as hard as he can. Remember I'm only three feet away. I remember thinking (I hope that door is well constructed...).

Then he's blubbering and making a hell of a racket, and beating his face up against the corrugated steel, and his blood is running down the outside of the door. There is another door across the room, and two huge guys in white lab coats burst through the door, cross the lobby, and open up the cage.

After some scuffling the two big guys subdue the smaller bleeding guy, and man-handle him across the lobby and down the hall. The little guy is still making a tremendous racket, and squirming like a weasel. All this just a few feet from me.

That is when I figured out that Macomb Oakland Center is the 'nuthouse'. =^..^=

[DadO]

Best experience was in Toyota car saloon. Imagine this : Copier with desk cabinet was placed on the grass! I was standing on the grass!Lots of plants and even trees!Everything smell so natural .I even saw few birds flaying inside saloon! Every time I look forward servicing their machine

[Robert Sveinson]

Back in the day when I was working for Unisys, I once replaced a monitor in the control tower at LaGuardia Airport in NY. I hung around for an hour or so looking at stuff. Quite interesting.

Paul

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In the mid 60s I installed 3 Vari Typer branding machines.
These m/cs had very high temperature character fonts.
The operater would stretch moderately some plastic tubing into
the machine. The hot type fonts burned numbers and characters
onto the plastic tubing, then the tubing was ready a wiring
tech would slip the printed piece of plastic over all the wires
to enable them to be identified.
These machines were in a nuclear reactor, and we could not leave
the reactor until we had been tested for any nuclear on us
or our parts cars.
I still believe that these tests were being done only to tease us.
And we never did glow in the dark.

[RRodgers]

We use to do Goldstone, the place that controls the Mars Rover.
Enough said.

I win!!!

[Eric1968]

I've met Freddie Heineken, the beer tycoon, (installed a small fax in his office) and I've installed some faxes at the office of the queen of the Netherlands.

[fixthecopier]

Inside the Delta Force compound.

[Lbcoaster]

One of the cool places I as able to work in and there have been many, was a place called Angles in Long Beach, Ca. Angles was a topless bar.

You would make sure they were towards the end of the day and some of the other techs would show up. no cover and they always were good for a pitcher or 3...

[fixthecopier]

We have some cash registers at a topless truck stop on I-95. It is the kind of place where you would give the girls money to put their clothes back on.

[fixthecopier]

We have some cash registers at a topless truck stop on I-95. It is the kind of place where you would give the girls money to put their clothes back on.

[Lbcoaster]

There has been several times having to take a water taxi outside the breakwater of Long Beach Harbor to a oil super tanker.

We would come along side in 4 to 6 foot swells trying to step onto a rope jacobs ladder then climb 4 to 5 stories up the side of this tanker. It was bad enough sucking wind when you got to the top you still had 4 stories to climb to the bridge.

They put your tools in a bag and rope them up.

Then you had to climb back down this rope ladder and time it just right to step off onto the water taxi.

Don't think i have it in me to do this anymore...

[kuby]

I used to service machines at a place that made explosives for hand gernades and rockets. The plant blew up a couple of times, so I would get in there and fix the machine and get out ASAP. Do you blame me?

[Shadow1]

Not sure if this is interesting or not - I certainly didn't want to know...

I was working backup for another tech at a one of the major hospitals in the area when I got lost and discovered the morgue sitting right next to "food services"

That's right, the kitchen shares a wall with the dead. I was still staring at the doors when a pair of (orderlies?) (interns??) (BodySnatchers???) thumped the morgue door open and just about made me change my underwear.

SmartAss me just couldn't keep my mouth shut, I motioned to the doors standing right next to eachother and babbled something like "This is so when hospital food kills somebody they don't have far to go, right? Or did I just discover the source of the mystery meat they serve here. A continuous cycle maybe?"

As bad as I was, their answer was worse. "It was designed that way intentionally. In case of an epidemic and the morgue is overloaded they can use the food service freezers to keep the dead from rotting and spreading infection until they arrange disposal."

Speechless.

Totally Speechless.

And darn near had to scrape me off the floor. I certainly wanted to melt down into my shoes and shuffle off... Someplace private so I could bang my head against the wall until amnesia set in.

Now, either they had heard this before and came up with a snappy answer they were just -uh- dying to use, or its really true.

Did anybody else know this??? I still have nitemares, only just before I wake up screaming one of the orderlies says something like "Tastes Just Like Chicken"

[Lagonda]

If you wanted any incentive to stay on the straight and narrow try spending an hour or two locked up with a bunch of murderers and rapists. Strangely enough it was never the crims that broke the copier but the screws that beat the crap out of it!

[kuby]

Yea I service machines at a jail, still get the willys when the doors go clang behind me.