a Funny story
The Story
My dad told me a funny story this weekend. My dad deals with Generator Sets which provide power to a building in the case of electricity supply failure. So he has this one customer, I can’t say who it is but I will say it’s a large grocery retailer whose primary business function is financial services, they grabbed a generator from my dad’s company and rented it for the duration of a power shortage.
About two hours after it being installed and started to run their fridges, that my dad gets a call that the thing has failed and they need immediate assistance. Immediately my dad asks what the controller says on its screen. Now the controller is a clever little thing that kind of hints at the problem rather than be direct, so the error message says “Uncontrolled Shutdown! Fuel?”. A subtle hint that you should maybe check the fuel guage. My dad tells the person on the other side that all the technicians are busy so cannot bring fuel to fill the generator. So the guy must find a drum, drive it to the filling station and bring back some diesel for the thing, he says ok and hung up.
A couple of hours later they phone again, after putting 400 odd litres of diesel in the thing it still won’t start. My dad is a little curious as to how they filled the 200 litre tank with 400 litres. They said they just filled until it would not take any more. My dad asks them to describe where they put the fuel. After there explanation he asks, “Right so above the fuel cap, the one that has Diesel printed on it, you opened the one with the stick thing and filled there?”, “Right” they said proudly. They had just filled the engine with diesel by putting the diesel into the cap with the dip stick to measure the oil level in the engine. 
They were pretty annoyed that the controller was still insisting “Fuel?” and didn’t realise that the fuel tank was actually still empty and the engine was now flooded, really flooded. R2000 later the technician had drained the fuel (and now contaminated oil) out of the engine filled the tank with fresh diesel and started up the generator. They wanted to know what they must now do with the three or four barrels of ‘two stroke diesel’ that the technician had left behind. He told them whatever they wanted but advised them not to put it into the truck engines.
A funny video
I was sent this video yesterday by a friend, I was literally crying it was so funny.
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July 5th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Now that is nice. Tell us about the funny clip but don’t share it.
July 5th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
The video is a You Tube video. Your company firewall must be blocking it
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July 7th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
See the original version in the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie “Modern Times”