-Warehouse night shift supervisor (the races with the forklifts were exciting... around age of 18 or 19)
yikes... that's kinda unsettling to hear... i'm into heavy equipment and deal with operators, where safety is one of our top concerns... guess it would be kind of hard to explain (not to mention quite embarrassing) how and why a forklift is laying on its side to the boss...
but i guess heck you're only 18 or 19 once...
just hope you guys didn't have any accidents...
Yeah I was around 18 when I had that job, but I'll explain what I meant by races.
There was a hall around 60m long, at around 5am when work was done, we would do a drag race with what battery charge was left from the empty forklifts.
I'd never think about letting those things go into dangerous cornering cause it would be a certain flip.
We never had a single accident and we also managed to do the safest and fastest moving in that warehouse, even a few company prizes got involved.
yikes... that's kinda unsettling to hear... i'm into heavy equipment and deal with operators, where safety is one of our top concerns... guess it would be kind of hard to explain (not to mention quite embarrassing) how and why a forklift is laying on its side to the boss...
but i guess heck you're only 18 or 19 once...
just hope you guys didn't have any accidents...
If one ends up on it's side you use the other one to get it back in it's wheels again. I don't see any problem there.
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We'll be hosting a big Mini-Z race at our upcoming web developer conference in Las Vegas this April. We'll be geeking it out with some .NET goodness. Kyosho is sponsoring the activity. I spoke with @mini-z today and he's also going to help us out. Turns out he's a .NET developer too (a man of many talents, it appears).
Nice to get to know all of you. This seems like a really tight, friendly community. Glad to be a part of it. Hopefully the Mini-Z stuff we'll be doing at Microsoft will benefit the community in the future.
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Wow! Sounds exciting! I have a feeling you are going to fit in well here!
You are absolutely right about this community it is very tight knit. I have had the opportunity to put many of the screen names to a live face and have met nothing but quality folks.
Welcome to the forum. Hope to meet you at an event some time. Maybe you could make it to one of our Carolina CUP events some time.
From the sounds of your enthusiasm sounds like you will be adding Mini-z evangilist to your job description soon!
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