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Originally Posted by Philips210
... The 'repairer' finds that XXX is faulty, replaces it and doesn't fully resolve the problem. Surely he should've thought to himself could the replacement be faulty or in this case be completely the wrong type? Instead, he undertakes an elaborate bodge ...
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This seems to be characteristic of a particular mindset, reflecting some people's entire attitude to life. I used to work with a technician like that. When something went wrong he rarely just replaced whatever had failed. That would have been too uninteresting. Instead he would create a work-around, the more imaginative the better. Sometimes the work-around worked better than the original design (we were a research facility so few pieces of kit were 'off the shelf') but sometimes it failed too. If it did then our tech would get the setup going again, usually with another work-around. In a large system the work-arounds might be quite remote from the original source of the problem. Needless to say this induced responses ranging from bemusement to utter fury in his colleagues who sometimes had to step in and make repairs when the chap behind all this was away on leave.
Cheers,
GJ