I started my working career as an electronic repair technician at 19. Our company made printers, data concentrators and microfilm readers. One day I cut my hand while working on a printer and my boss gave me this very valuable advice that I still use today:
“Don’t bleed on the equipment!”
Such fond memories of a very caring man.
More wisdom next week,
Andrew
Andrew's View of the Week 
I never thought I liked modern art, but my 16-year-old son has an eye for it, and he’s gotten us to go to a couple modern art museums. I found it more interesting than I thought I would, not because I thought any work was particularly amazing, but because we had such a good time comparing what we thought about the different pieces. Who says we can’t learn from our kids? 🙂
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Modern art is best when you talk it, argue with it and try to understand it.
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Ha!
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🙂
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I hate it when I cut myself.
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I hate it when you cut yourself too.
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Lol…. Reminds me of my boss where I did my mechanics apprenticeship ,I’d skinned my knuckles when the monkey wrench I’d been told not to use slipped and my boss just said “I see you’ve contracted idiots rash “.😃
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I love it, ‘idiots rash’ 🙂
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Oh, what a good one. I wish I had heard this one long ago so I could have used it t few dozen times.
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I use to use it all the time, but now that I am in software it doesn’t happen as much.
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I think that will be my new life mantra…. But of course, being a massage therapist, I’d have to change it to “Don’t bleed on clients”.
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That I can agree with, bleeding on other people is bad.
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That boss would have hated me because I find new ways to make myself bleed. I’m a klutz and when u add sharp objects it’s a bloody mess waiting to happen.
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No, he just would have made you pay for the band-aids… 😉
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That is actually a fair reflection of the relationship between boss and worker. People are just a means to a profit.
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and bleeding on the equipment will incur clean up costs, reducing profit.
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No, no, no I never had a boss with that attitude but responses like that make a point that is not forgotten.
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Unless the equipment is a scalpel. Then it’s probably all right. 😉
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Unless, of course, the blood is coming from the surgeon…
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My general rule is to avoid surgeons – with or without a scalpel… 😉
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Good rule!
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Is that the employer’s version of ‘Keep your eye on the ball’. I will keep this good advice in mind, Andrew.
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It could of been, but just as likely it was also, “Do you know how much paperwork I have to do because of this?”
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My husband always says, “Don’t cut your d### off with that thing. Now I can add, “but if you do, don’t bleed on the equipment”. Thank you Andrew for another classic quote !
Beth
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You’re welcome, I’ve got one or two more of those…
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