I’ve always thought this method was hilarious, but it’s a very specific type of work that requires it. There’s not much automation to be done since it’s different every time. I also had a previous job where some days you’d have to count product in boxes all day long, and hand write the numbers (this was about 3 years ago).
What outdated things at your work do you find amusing?
I took a drafting class in high school many years ago (late 80s) and for the first half of the year we did all of our drawing on drafting tables with pencil and paper. It was crazy. Fortunately they had computers too, so once we had the basics down we transitioned to using AutoCAD.
But work-related specifically, my dad repaired fax machines until he died in 2014. So many places still use fax machines, especially related to medical and banking records, because it’s secure point-to-point transmission of sensitive information with very little chance of someone snooping on the line or otherwise intercepting it.
In university I took CAD and was chastised for drawing and dimensioning items at the same time. To me, it makes more sense to draw a circle and tell the CAD system that it’s 10 mm in one fail swoop than to do it the way I was told to (draw it by “hand” approximately 10 mm then come back later and actually size it to 10 mm).
I asked why their way was better and got the answer I expected (just do it that way) :-( ).
Yeah, same. I never used much CAD outside of that drafting class, but I got into 3D modeling for a bit starting with Sketchup and it was super nice to just go ‘alright create a plane starting here, but make it 10’x6"’ or whatever, then use push/pull to extrude it 3’, etc, so I’m also used to specifying dimensions as I draw.
Just saw a friend that is currently at Uni and asked them how they do it now (draw and dimension all at the same time). Small victories.
I took one in uni, because at one time I wanted to be a civil engineer. We had a drafting class, and we started off on paper, because “you’re here to learn drafting, not computers!”
One day, when dutifully following instructions the teacher said something “oh, did I say 10cm between these two (huge and complex) parts? I meant 6cm. Move them closer together”.
So we all stared, and he said “and this why tomorrow we’re moving onto AutoCAD, bring your laptops”.
Removes 4 cm of paper between them; touché.
Oh yeah, drafting included a lot of sticky tape in the actual draft phase.