Put The Dunce Cap On, Young Man! in Hello

Today I did some sawing at work for the first few hours until I was finally put on two CNC Lathes. Basically running production as in putting a part into the chuck, press a button, let the process go, and do a little quality control and test the part when it is finished.

Well...a little while into it I loaded one part wrong. Scrap number one. Later in the day I accidentally dropped a finished part and put a dent on it which was throwing off my measurements. Scrap number two. Eventually got up to scrap number three for another job and...I really don't remember how that one happened. Then as I was trying to screw off a Go thread gage the damn thing got stuck. Putting all my might into it the knurled edge of the gage I tore a good layer of skin off my left hand.

I felt awfully dumb today. All that shit I've, "learned," in school, I keep thinking, hasn't prepared me for this.

I'll live...