Anyone else fluent in ID-10-T codes?

In theater, we often all speak ID-10-T codes pretty fluently.

Like this ID-10-T code for "ultra high impedance air gap"

List some of your ID-10-T errors

Best one is when I was called up into a board meeting to urgently deal with a serious malfunction, the room was silent but packed with bigwigs, and one tells me in a rather demanding tone that the screen has stopped working. I look at the screen and the laptop running it and immediately see the problem. I raise one finger and then place it on the mouse, waking the display from sleep mode. Most bust out laughing. Being able to take risks like that is one of the few perks of having a dead-end job you don't really care about.

PEBKAC

Problem

Exists

Between

Keyboard

And

Chair

Shared this with my wife, who has a theater production degree and work history. 

Her comment: "brilliant!"

In veterinary medicine, there is a presenting complaint known as an ADR.

It is a holdover from farm call days, when you would ask the farmer what was wrong with his cow. This is an important question when you're standing in a barn at 4 in the morning wishing you were still in bed.

"I don't know doc, she just ain't doing right."

The other version is, "You tell me, you're the vet!"

In small animal medicine, we still use ADR as an introduction to any case where the history is vague, incomprehensible, incompatible with reality, or the frequent combination of all three.

Back in the electronic component biz, we got a call from a customer asking for a D10 DE. After some head shaking we finally understood the buyer was looking for a diode...

Loose nut behind the wheel

High Impedance air gap is my usual go to.

we have a couple of others.. when things grind to a halt... "stand by to stand by"

and at the end of the day.. "time to do an idiot check" and everyone raises their hands

mad_machine said:

.. when things grind to a halt... "stand by to stand by"

 

that reminds me of my one year of practicing and living in Western NC. I would say that I was "Fixin to get ready to..."  

None of my ID-10-T coworkers figured out what I was saying. Translation: "getting ready to get ready."

My apprenticeship instructor called it "Excessive spinal curvature." So much so, that the head goes right up their bum.

Grtechguy said:

PEBKAC

Problem

Exists

Between

Keyboard

And

Chair

Or it's variant:

PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer.

I've always preferred the simple "OE". Operator Error.

Floating Doc said:

Shared this with my wife, who has a theater production degree and work history. 

Her comment: "brilliant!"

In veterinary medicine, there is a presenting complaint known as an ADR.

It is a holdover from farm call days, when you would ask the farmer what was wrong with his cow. This is an important question when you're standing in a barn at 4 in the morning wishing you were still in bed.

"I don't know doc, she just ain't doing right."

The other version is, "You tell me, you're the vet!"

In small animal medicine, we still use ADR as an introduction to any case where the history is vague, incomprehensible, incompatible with reality, or the frequent combination of all three.

YESSSS.... my ex wife is a vet tech.  There is also V-circle and D-circle (a circled letter) which stands for vomiting and diarrhea.

Is this like 'BBBTH'?  Baseball Bat To Head?

Dr. Hess said:

Is this like 'BBBTH'?  Baseball Bat To Head?

That's called percussive maintenance.

Is it a thing to give people Italian tune up? Beat em til they work better?

Mndsm said:

Is it a thing to give people Italian tune up? Beat em til they work better?

Sounds like military boot camp

Bluetooth [insert name of missing connective component here]

ultraclyde said:

Dr. Hess said:

Is this like 'BBBTH'?  Baseball Bat To Head?

That's called percussive maintenance.

Reminds me of "Rapid unplanned disassembly".

In reply to Tom_Spangler :

Curtis said:

Floating Doc said:

Shared this with my wife, who has a theater production degree and work history. 

Her comment: "brilliant!"

In veterinary medicine, there is a presenting complaint known as an ADR.

It is a holdover from farm call days, when you would ask the farmer what was wrong with his cow. This is an important question when you're standing in a barn at 4 in the morning wishing you were still in bed.

"I don't know doc, she just ain't doing right."

The other version is, "You tell me, you're the vet!"

In small animal medicine, we still use ADR as an introduction to any case where the history is vague, incomprehensible, incompatible with reality, or the frequent combination of all three.

YESSSS.... my ex wife is a vet tech.  There is also V-circle and D-circle (a circled letter) which stands for vomiting and diarrhea.

I remember a hilarious story out of one of my wife's veterinary journals (probably by Baxter Black) about a dairy farmer who was running a herd of nearly 80 cows with just one bull.  The term of art used to describe the bull's condition (which the story teller had not heard before that time) was "tired out the eyes."

If I recall how the story went, after they fenced him up for a couple of days, he recovered, kicked the fence down and went back to work!

I was scolded at my first internship for using the word "fire"  in a conversation about a questionable casting pour.  My boss told me, "We don't use the berkeleying F-word here, we use "Unscheduled Thermal Event".

I knew a software developer who referred to a massive bug sent to production as a "Significant Learning Opportunity."  

Pediatric therapists frequently mention their FLKs to one another. Funky Looking Kids.

Disney terms include things like, code v, or a protein spill, 724's (bedbugs) 101- rides are down for either mechanical or weather, Pluto's are the sniffer dogs in the park- the occasional Code Pooh..... there are many. Be warned, you don't want a magic file. 

Borked = broken beyond what could be reasonably expected; not just boken, truly Borked

I'm sure most places have something like this:

There was a guy at work, let's call him Bob. Bob did a lot of creative and time consuming things that didn't work. So, if you put a lot of time and energy into a solution only to have it fall flat, you would've "Bobbed it up."

 

In the AF working A-10s in Korea I got called out for an inop Radar Altimeter with the pilot waiting to take off. I cussed a little hearing that because everything for that system was accessed through a tiny ass hole in the tail of the plane. I climbed up the ladder to the cockpit just to see the indicator and talked to the pilot over headsets.  Cursed a little more seeing no indication. Was about to climb down and prepare to enter that little hole when I glanced over to the pilot's right side.  I reached over and switched the Rad Alt on. The pilot looked at me, I asked if it was written up yet in the aircraft forms.  He said no, I asked if we were good and he replied yep I'll see you tomorrow. Next day he showed up with a case of beer for me cause otherwise I'd have to sign the aircraft forms with "System inop in OFF mode".