You can edit your original post in the thread and replace the text with “OOPS. I was wrong” or something to that effect.
Bullshit. If you know of any thieving let me know and I’ll call the police personally like I’ve done in the past. I take this very seriously and it’s absolutely not acceptable.
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Again you are correct. I do not accept theivry nor do many at makerspace. It was a pessamistic view I heard of a few and nothing more. I made a premature false accusation late at night while working on several projects. I was wrong. If I find something missing and I can afford to replace it for makerspace… then I will.
That was me and I was referring to thievery of the accidental kind as opposed to the literal kind.
Specifically, what I said was that if you bring your own tools into the elab, you need to keep a tight watch over them at all times because people will come in and grab tools off of benches without checking whether they belong to DMS or a member.
I’ve lost a few tools in this way (I assume that’s how it happened) including a multimeter which I also fortunately found in the drawer the next day, albeit with a blown fuse. I don’t believe any of this was intentional. I think events have shown that DMS is good at rooting out the bad apples when it comes to thieves.
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So as to exhonorate the innocent and to be less of a bad example. (because false accusation hurt the community and its members.) Four pizza from domino to be delivered at 5:30 pm tonight… Already paid for as well as tip.
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If there are any other thoughts please mention them.
I think that the pizza was an excellent idea. Sure quieted things down. I might even say thanks, and hope to enjoy a slice with you as this was a very nice gesture and I think its time to let this one go. You are not the first to make an embarrassing mistake like this.
I had once angrily fussed to some folks nearby as I worked on a car, believing that a sinister crimimaker had attempted to sabotage my efforts by throwing a piece of heavy gauge wire inside my engine block. I later discovered, after naming the perpetrator my extraordinary spider sense had so cleverly arrived at having a 100% probability of guiltiness, that I was quite mistaken. The true perpetrator of the crime was in fact myself, and the object was no wire, but the end of a paintbrush I had broken the previous day when attempting to use it as a tool. to remove a valve.
The mistakes go both ways, though, because for several weeks, I worked on this car (which I now drive) that was just a beater beyond much hope of redemption initially. I wore essentially rags and worked on the thing for days/weeks on end, and in so doing had the personal hygiene of PIgPen, hogged the lift night after night, and argued important engine points to myself rather loudly. Onlookers became convinced I was completely off my rocker. Rumors floated alongside obvious concern that I was stealing stuff and the car was just a ploy to be in the shop so I could do so.
This made me feel pretty crappy even though I knew I looked/smelled awful. And despite my appearance, members at DMS are expected to take care to remain excellent, never judging a book by its cover. This issue occurred months ago, and we are still managing the aftermath. I certainly hope I can count on everybody to recognize the reality that I positively have no interest in stealing or any form of impropriety that would damage the business ideas I would like to incubate at DMS. My past successes as electrical engineer at the very best companies in electronics industry contributes to my riding quite comfortably at the very top of DMS makers in the category of funds availability. Don’t let my “starving hacker” membership fool you. I come from back to back generations of unusually successful families, with my generation as the hopefully third. To help matters as much as I can, I now take care to wear nicer extreme engineering casualwear (T-shirts less than 2 years old that have not yet been used to sop up engine oil), and I am working hard to get out of myself and talk to fellow makers rather than myself.
Most of those affected by the misundersatnding in my case have chilled, and I hope I am able to get all pointed in a much more positive direction. In fact, I have a lot of way excellent experience and training that I would like to use to help aspiring DMS business owner hopefuls reach their goals. In fact, I’d like to make a business of it, and have enough electronics and software experience to really make an impact in that direction for those willing to let go of their past concern and move forward.
So we all benefit from putting suspicion aside, and focusing on the technical assets of the often socially awkward fellows/fellowettes around us. If a concern comes up, handle it quietly with committee char or board member, gather the facts until it is undeniable, then act only if it is clear. The truth is that for each of us, there is TREMENDOUS financial benefit available to the hardworking and clever, provided that they don’t stoop their standards across the line of impropriety. The quick buck isn’t, but instead is how to fail. Which is inexcusable because the large opportunities really are there as long as you don’t go overboard cutting corners.
I’m looking forward to that pizza now that I have worked up a serious filibuster post writing appetite.
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Now this part sucks, but I am in the lab right now, and I am a little bit late for pizza, but I managed to find a few slices left (I got stuck in rush hour traffic).
Hree is the sad part: The Fluke is not in the lab right now. Please tell me someone knows whats up with this?
I do. Thankfully he had already retrieved the meter from the tool drawer the day after someone accidentally borrowed it from him.
The whole episode (the loss and the recovery) happened one year ago. This is coming up now because he just now discovered this thread and was unaware of the prolific and ubiquitous nature of this particular make and model of multimeter, and further was lead up the garden path by the incredibly coincidental timing of the loss of the meter and the date of the opening post of this thread.
Well, so I thought they were missing like tonight, now, But I located them in the incorrect drawer, So I see 2 of them inhere right now.
The world can now return to spinning as usual.
Those are just Fluke 117’s. I think we used to have a couple of 87V’s but they might have been among the things stolen by the elab thief who was caught and charged a while back?
That is a sad tale on numerous fronts. You are right, they are 117s. They are still flukes, tho. And yellow too. Good enough for me…lol…