So Today...

[magicaddict]

...was my first solo site visit. This was me doing my actual job (installation and service engineer) for the first time. A chance to show off precisely how professional and capable I was.

Yeah, real professional.

After driving for an hour and a quarter and arriving at the site, I found I'd left behind the nitrogen hoses that are essential to the running of the system. Cue driving back to work, picking up the hoses and driving half way back to the site.

Then I woke up to the sound of a horn.

Looking down at my dashboard, I realised I had been doing a fair clip down the fast lane of the M40. Asleep.

Cue driving the rest of the way extremely alertly, followed by finding out that I'd left behind the gas shroud tubing (you guessed it) essential to the running of the system. I set it up and fired it up to show the customer it was working, called the office to get them to send out the tubing by post (it's an extremely simple part of the kit so they can do it themselves), and dropped the diffractometer housing on my middle finger as I was putting it back together.

Cue driving back to work extremely gingerly, followed by realising as Enterprise drove the hire car away that I'd left my work mobile inside.

These people hired me for my professional attitude and attention to detail. Glad they can see it.

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[magicaddict.livejournal.com]

It's fine to make mistakes if they don't cost the company thousands of pounds or good clients. I'm sure it's less okay to make them if I do that. Haven't done so so far, but if I can make them with cheap stuff, I can do it with expensive stuff too.