There was a leak at a nuclear power plant. Fearing another Chernobyl, the plant operator called in a nuclear specialist to find the leak. He walked around the perimeter of one of the reactors and used a magic marker to make a Big Red X on the side of the reactor, and told the operator, "That's where your leak is." He handed his bill to the plant operator for $10,000. The operator of the plant was shocked and questioned the bill for what took about 5 minutes. He told the specialist to provide him with an itemized bill. OK said the specialist, and gave his itemized bill:
For making an X on the side of your reactor…...... $1.00
For knowing where to make that X………………..$9,999.00
That is so true today. We will pay more for the person who has technical know how and sometimes we'll forget about the knowledge he/she has.
This joke takes me back to when TV repairmen made house calls. Same situation; a 10 minute call, one tube changed, and a $30 bill. When asked for, the itemization looked like this: $5 for the new tube, $25 knowing which tube to change.
Howard5252 wrote:
This joke takes me back to when TV repairmen made house calls. Same situation; a 10 minute call, one tube changed, and a $30 bill. When asked for, the itemization looked like this: $5 for the new tube, $25 knowing which tube to change.
This is why when my folk's TV crapped out I would remove the tubes and take them to the store that had a tube tester and then replace the one that was bad. Saved the $25 and usually could buy the tube for less than what the repairman charged. That works the same with auto parts. If you buy a part at the repair shop they charge 30 to 50 percent more than if you bought it at AutoZone or Napa.
In 1954 my chemistry professor told the same story. Instead of a nuclear reactor, it was a oil refinery, and instead of an X, it was a $1 cork. There are no new jokes.
I heard it as the famous scientist Steinmetz who worked for GE about a century ago and was called by Henry Ford to fix one of their generators. He crawled over the giant machine and made an X on one of the steel plates and told Ford there was a bad coil underneath. The rest of the story is the same.
hookedupin2005 wrote:
What's a tube??? 🤣🤣
A device placed between lens and camera to shorten minimum focus distance.
Bill
The story is actually true, but from a different era. Henry Ford had a poorly functioning generator. An engineer by the name of Charles Steinmetz was dispensed by GE for the repair. He walked up and down the generator listening, went back to the office, made calculations for a couple of days and then climbed up on top and made an X over a panel. He told the Ford people to open the panel under the X and rewrap the coils. He sent them a $10,000 invoice. Henry Ford questioned it and asked for an itemization. The famous reply was:
Chalk $0.50
Knowing where to put the chalk $9,999.50
The engineers changed the coils and the generator worked great. Henry Ford paid the bill.
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