Lick and stick out lawed in Singapore

Started by CalLabSolutions, 03-03-2011 -- 01:29:08

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CalLabSolutions

03-03-2011 -- 01:29:08

This is what we need in the U.S.  Jail time for lying about the calibration work you did not actually do..

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Michael L. Schwartz
Automation Engineer
Cal Lab Solutions
  Web -  http://www.callabsolutions.com
Phone - 303.317.6670

USMCPMEL

#1
03-03-2011 -- 12:41:58
Wow what a tricky man.. Ultimatly though it says he did calibrate them he just lied about who did the calibration??

Hawaii596

#2
03-04-2011 -- 08:39:34
I'm glad that never happens in this country - except for a particular lab I used many years ago in NE Massachusetts (no names here) that I sent a broken instrument to for repair.  It came back with all the knobs in the same place and with the same problem as when I sent it in, only with a fresh cal sticker and certificate, and a bill for the "services."  Maybe the lab had a Singapore connection - yeah, that's what it was.
"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."
Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
from lecture to the Institute of Civil Engineers, 3 May 1883

Ronin

#3
05-05-2011 -- 23:40:21
         Reminds me of a time I was gallavanting around the country working 19-hour shifts with a cocaine-addict supervisor bouncing from remote to remote.   I lasted a few months until finally, after 4 hours one day, I looked over and noticed that this fool had hot-stickered more than 20 HP Spec-Ans that he claimed to have done manually for a Seattle customer.   I was like, "Oh no. . . the Shroud of the Dark Side has fallen".   I promptly removed myself from the situation and begged the Air Force to let me come home.   I was rewarded with a fresh assignment to the middle of no where and a loss of 1 year time in grade for my sin of separation.   
          Seriously. . . the Res BW on one of those things takes quite a while manually.  Plus, there were no LP filters in the kit and the N-type cable had a kink in it that would have made the flatness sweep in the 15-18GHz band fall down to Antarctica.  The nerve of that guy to look at me with a straight face and exclaim, "what?!"
If you are not interested in the science, then you have mistaken me for someone who is content to work next to the demon called indifference.  Get thee hence back to your hell, you greedy and heartless devil, and leave my people free to feel good about the instruments they study.  They are your mothers and fathers, not your mindless subjects.

Hawaii596

#4
05-06-2011 -- 08:14:56
Point of contention (not with the previous poster)... I don't believe any calbration labels are of the type that you have to "lick" before they stick.  I'd better go take my Ritalin (legally prescribed, of course).
"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."
Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
from lecture to the Institute of Civil Engineers, 3 May 1883

WestCoastCal

#5
05-06-2011 -- 09:08:54
you're kidding me right?  You don't lick the label, you lick the instrument.

Hawaii596

#6
05-06-2011 -- 09:59:19
OOOOOOoooooooohhhhh!  I'm going out to the lab now and try it.
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Okay, I tried it.  Tastes like chicken.
"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."
Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
from lecture to the Institute of Civil Engineers, 3 May 1883

Foghorn1776

#7
05-06-2011 -- 21:35:10
I left my last employer in northern NJ because of stuff like that.   I knew a tech there that would certify 8-10 HP 8563E's a day.    :-o
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