at my previous job I did something incredibly stupid hi I’m Jimmy from folks in Georgia let’s talk about that good mythical morning this episode is brought to you by catalyst calm that guy’s with the goods if you like any of the products that we’ve talked about any of them you can get a free Catullus catalog follow the link in the description and you can get this thing set to your house for free link it’s free for free and this is a brand new catalog click on the link below or go to catalyst calm thanks for joining us today you are truly mythical which is just too you know it’s just a compliment take it as a compliment take it as you will hopefully as a compliment a lot of people ask what does that mean well I don’t know maybe it means what you make it mean mythical yeah lots of questions are asked of us throughout time and eternity because the internet is full of ways to communicate with us that’s the beauty of it the beauty of the Internet is the communication it’s the give-and-take of constant conversation one of the questions that we get a lot from you people out there is is this what you do for a living make videos like this or in fact when we asked we asked yesterday again you know we’re opening it up to new sponsors and somebody commented on Facebook they said well how much does it cost them to make good mythical morning well it’s not the cost of making good mythical morning this is what we do for a living is the cost of putting the food into my mouth and putting I don’t actually put food into Link’s mouth but we also get food that goes into our children’s mouths they like to eat they like to be nutrition eyes so yes this is this is what we do we entertain you people but in past times we had other jobs yes we did believe it or not we both have engineering degrees right as it has a civil engineering degree I have an industrial engineering degree really not a joke we’d like to take this opportunity to begin telling you some stories from our time as engineers and I’m going to start I’m gonna tell mine tomorrow yeah okay unless mine goes really sure I don’t feel like and then you can share it today disk these can be content gained in one episode so we’re going to give them their own episode now as an industrial engineer graduated from NC State I was taught how to not make things but to design and optimize how things are made specifically I got a job at IBM that’s which is very consistent with your personality it is it really is I like to know or figure out the best way to do every single thing and he tries to tell me all the time if I if he sees me like doing something in this office here yeah but you know what let me tell me do that for you’re not throwing away the trash correctly you’re not holding the bag correctly you’re not walking with the right posture you know I’m used to it it’s okay I die I say it because because I care okay that I only do it because I care IBM paid me to do it and I began to care that their production line was as most efficient as it possibly could be International Business Machines International Business Machines at the particular plant that I worked at the sprawling location warehouse all in doors because computers don’t like to get wet they would bring in it was a refurbishing facility so they would bring in old computers desktops laptops and monitors that had been used and I you know they would either come in I don’t care how they came in but they came in they’d be repaired fixed up polished and then resold as a refurbished polished anyway at the end one of the final stages was polishing there’s like a shoe shot a guy took it at the end of the lines like up right up is it what except it was a computer or a computer screen not a shoe shoes were not involved except that the people who work there wore them I’m just trying to put it in layman’s terms so you don’t lose the people at the end of the process they would put the computer or the computer monitor into a box and then take the Box shut and then they ship it out to someone who wanted to buy a cheaper refurbished unit it’s very like a spot online to buy these refurbished computers probably that’s not my point though my point is well I got this job fresh you know fresh out of college I was a greenhorn as they say and that’s what they call it no not really engineers who don’t know anything my first assignment was to redesign a particular portion of the manufacturing line where they would box up the unit and then and then put it on a pallet to ship out make it more efficient so I redesigned the conveyor belts and okay the conveyors used to come in through this door and then they would hang a hard right and in order to package it up you’d have to crawl over the conveyer and it wasn’t safe and it wasn’t efficient bla bla bla bla bla needless to say I redesigned the whole conveyer system and then one night you’re like the mastermind I was the mastermind of the probably the least important part of the why’d you quit doing that and start working with me I don’t know I asked myself that multiple times a day so I’m wondering sometimes out loud if you ever heard me it was like a consistent paycheck that you could count on but one night we had to stop production and everybody went home except for the people working on the conveyor belts and they were gonna reconfigure them and I had to come in and okay I’m an engineer I’m gonna be here I’m gonna supervise this thing make sure they do it how I say what are you wearing it this time I’m wearing like a golf shirt I could I could have left and gone golfing when I talked in like the shirt is tucked in this shirt was tucked I want to be able to picture this yeah and so you know it’s like 3 o’clock in the morning they’re fixing the conveyor belts and everything I’m getting bored meanwhile there’s a whole rest of the facility that’s not even working nobody’s in there and I took it as my opportunity to go and do what I always wanted to do the maintenance men had these bicycles with three wheels I guess you call them tricycles yeah yeah usually they would take parts around and it was a big facility so they could take him around really quickly ride the bikes zoom zoom zoom taking parts different places fixing things are you wearing khakis and I’m wearing khakis and a golf shirt short a jockey shorts or khaki field khaki pants and shoes I decided to get on one of these bikes and I was bored you know it’s 3:00 a.m. that everyone’s was in another room where they were fixing my design so I go to the other parts of the facility and I just start riding it by and it’s got pedals it’s not a it’s not like a throttle yeah it’s it’s a just a normal bicycle except it’s got three wheels it’s an adult tricycle yes with a big basket on the back on the back and I see that these meanest men they just zum-zum going everywhere on this thing so I decide I’m gonna do that and I’m I’m just having a ball for about an hour just yeah no one is in there nobody is anywhere that I’m going through the warehouse I’m going through the manufacturing facility you got your shirt tucked in you got on khakis and I’m going around all these things no I’m just having a blast and then I get to this sounds like it I’m going around where they bring in the monitors off of off of the trucks these are the broken ones the one that aren’t totally fixed yet the portal and they they put them on pallets right you got this big 4×4 about as big as this table wooden pallet but this far you seen a wooden pallet cement pallets well depending on the size of monitors they put four or six monitors on a on a pallet and I’m zooming around everywhere room having a blast that’s yeah I mentioned we’ve established that you’re having fun yeah and and all of a sudden I Carine around this corner and I’m and I realized that there is this massive pallet of monitors right in my path does it have brakes does this thing have brakes and so then I’m kind of I’m going so fast I start to panic and and I start I try to do the brakes by pedaling backwards but that is how tricycles work when you’re a kid right but this would it had handbrake you went hack but I didn’t know we went back by the child on tricycle mode so just picture me in my in what I was wearing which is fully established and I’m pedaling backwards as hard as I can and nothing is habit I am careening towards this palette of computer model your night are you skidding is the wheel going backwards in a show now not all groan oh there that the braking mechanism had nothing to do with pedaling backwards I was I was increasing speed I must been going downhill he was a failing to stop yeah and I was just panicking I never realized that I could get this handbrake I don’t know what is this contraption I had an engineering degree but it had nothing to do with writing a two-wheeled tricycle or three will or vy0 I didn’t even know how to identify the mechanism see the problem here i blast directly into this pallet going full-speed now these are boxing have monitors in them these no these are not boxed monitors these are open to air monitors or on a pallet but they’re already kind of broken a little bit and when they’re all together they’re just old yeah they don’t work right and I go through them like a bowling ball through bowling pins to go that way to go that way and I’m like boom that the palette is you know it’s probably five inches tall so I hit that thing and I go and I fall off of the bike tip and this makes a noise I assume oh yeah a huge huge sound and of course it’s one of those things where you I immediately got up you know you know no one was in it I immediately got up looking around sure no one’s looking for me and I get back on the bike running I scramble and I put all the monitors back up there and I start running I realized the front wheel is totally it’s totally flat oh so you know no one saw me but I was faced with a dilemma should I tell the maintenance guy who was in the other room helping with the construction so I just left the bike there I put the monitors back and you know I would love to see the security footage I know somewhere out there there exists security footage because the place is just covered in cameras so you wouldn’t steal monitors I would love to see that foot but but you’d okay so you leave the bike somewhere so I leave the bike and I go back there not you know and I go up to this maintenance guy who’s helping with the produce a thank you I think your must have run over something because the tire is flat I must have run over for monitor stuff I mean they had to refurbish the monitors anyway you know it’s not like they were at the end of the line and about to be bother you it’s you at least admit gamers have been riding it because you could have said hey man I caught a glimpse of your trike and it looks like the front wheels out yeah yeah you know I didn’t want to and so but it was stupid of me I mean Here I am a college graduate I mean I have an engineering degree I’m in charge of this thing and here I’m riding a bike around like a kid destroying property well apart from what an idiot apart from the wreck I feel like you’re completely justified because I mean you’re doing this job that I assume got old after a while and you just letting off some steam yes three o’clock in the morning Icicle get on it yeah it around run into some computers with it Thanks right it makes me feel better and you were it listen if you had on shorts it would be one thing but yeah don’t you look perfect yeah you look semi-professional I’d love to see the security if you weren’t like in a suit you look like a guy that’s a little bit serious a little bit fun you know tucked in shirt khaki pants let’s spin the wheel and see how we’re gonna end this thing what an idiot I’m gonna start dressing like that tucking in your shirt wearing the khakis you got a collared shirt no but eyes not tucked in I’m gonna start tucking it in oh I almost got Rhett dies sportscaster ending well link this has been one heck of an episode yes it has look at the field of play it’s just in shambles you know this this link Neal guy you know he’s just an amateur you wouldn’t think he would be so amazing on one of these trucks but you know and every P at the evening every once in a while things get out of control it happens to the best of us he didn’t have his best day today that’s okay it’s a little bit fun I’m giving him the MVP a little bit serious and if you’re a little bit fun and a little bit serious we’re hoping you’ll come back tomorrow same time same place well well I don’t know where that place is but it is somewhere on the Internet hopefully it won’t be rained out