The Metrologists Lament

Al_Kahol · 08-26-2004 -- 13:41:06

The Metrologist's Lament

After all those years of training
And work of vast import
I find my patience slowly draining
With each request for a weather report !

Stolen from Agilents MetrologyForum

Tom_Hathaway · 08-26-2004 -- 13:48:05

Ha Ha!

Good one!

flew-da-coup · 01-04-2006 -- 05:28:57

I love it !!!

Thraxas · 01-04-2006 -- 16:52:23

I wonder how many people chose the PMEL job at MEPS thinking it was a weather job. I've met at least one.

flew-da-coup · 01-05-2006 -- 17:57:16

you mean it's not about weather? 16 years and all this time I thought I was forcasting the weather. are you sure?

Thraxas · 01-05-2006 -- 20:43:48

Quote from: flew-da-coup on 01-05-2006 -- 17:57:16
you mean it's not about weather? 16 years and all this time I thought I was forcasting the weather. are you sure?

Oh, I'm fairly sure.

docbyers · 01-06-2006 -- 08:23:10

The only time I had that weatherman feeling was when I calibrated thermohumidographs; I figured monitoring temperature and humidity was a weather kind of thing...

When explaining the metrology career field to "civilians," you always have to relate it to their lives, like flowmeters in gas pumps, weight scales at the market, KvA meters on their house. Everything they buy gets weighed or measured in some way, and some metrologist checked that stuff out somewhere along the line to make sure that 5lb. bag of sugar really weighs 5lb., +/- a certain range... They usually get it after that.