I was wondering if I was the only one that saw the humor in that.

When Telex hired me in 1971 as a final test technician, I convinced the guy in personnel that I knew a lot about logic design because I had read a few books. I aced the test and started the next day. My new supervisor told me that my oscilloscope was on order. I told him, essentially, that i did not need no stinking scope; I could see ones and zeros with a meter, if he just told me how many volts a zero was and how many volts a one was. He went over to his office, pulled a few hairs out, and came back and asked me if the guy that hired me had told me about the 90 day probation period. He suggested that if I really did not know how to use a scope, I had better learn pretty D**N quick.

From that point on, I have always been willing to add any new tool to my toolbox and learn how to use it. All the people that I worked for initially and that I supervised later were stuck in the same groove of "I don't need anything that I did not have 20 years ago."

I can look at a box and tell you how much it weighs, but the post office prefers that I use a "stinkin" scale as a cross-check!

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