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I picked up my box of nicely organised screws by the handle and discovered lid wasn’t shut properly.

Well, that sucks! Fun day ahead

We had a lad start working for us a few years ago. He did this on his first day he was told “well you best get to sorting then”

Chuck the whole lot in a bin and buy a new set.

Ascender wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 11:56 am Chuck the whole lot in a bin and buy a new set.

Never!

Ascender wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 11:56 am Chuck the whole lot in a bin and buy a new set.

...Making sure you pick up every single one from the drive, failing which you *will* get one in a tyre

A lass I know did it with gel nails that were slightly different sizes and unpainted (or whatever they do to gel nails) hundreds of the buggers!

Got a big magnet?

Sundayjumper wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 10:57 am I picked up my box of nicely organised screws by the handle and discovered lid wasn’t shut properly.


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That's painful

My partner makes jewellery and they have loads of little compartmentalised storage boxes for the bits. They must drop at least one a week

ZedLeg wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 1:00 pm Got a big magnet?

in all seriousness, you can get little wheeled magnet bars for exactly this purpose - fucking invaluable in the Apple place I worked at, as many of those screws were tiny and liked to go walkies....

here we go, shit like this.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetic-Sweep ... 1938934031

if it picks up one screw from the drive that you'd missed, it's probably paid for itself.

I was kind of joking but I got little magnetised dishes with my bike’s toolkit and they’re incredibly useful.

Oh, I'm not joking - the number of times I got distracted taking a laptop apart and swept a screw the size of a bluebottles nutsack onto the (dark, carpet tiled) floor - and then found it again using the magnetic sweeper - was significant enough for me to value them a lot

Surprised they're £50 or more though, thought they'd be cheaper than that!

I firmly live by the philosophy that if my day starts off a bit shit I’m just going to do the bare minimum to get by and survive that day because experience tells me that in those situations whatever I touch goes to shit

Mito Man wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 6:09 pm I firmly live by the philosophy that if my day starts off a bit shit I’m just going to do the bare minimum to get by and survive that day because experience tells me that in those situations whatever I touch goes to shit

They be some top quality fasteners, they screwed your whole day.

Gavster wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 8:20 pm

Mito Man wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 6:09 pm I firmly live by the philosophy that if my day starts off a bit shit I’m just going to do the bare minimum to get by and survive that day because experience tells me that in those situations whatever I touch goes to shit

Amen, brother. Have a break. (Obvs setup is obvs, obvs).
I'll add Self-help Singh to the https://inspirobot.me/mindfulnessmode list

Ha wise words.