Post by gobbit on Mar 9, 2007 8:56:41 GMT -5
As we were recalling the brilliiant engineer we had, named Megawatt. One day he was down in the control room, EOS. Now the engineer usually stayed in his office up on the main deck, he was rarely ever seen down in the engineering spaces. Obviously he never watched Star Trek. Anyway, one day he was in EOS and for those of you who haven't been in one, there is the officer incharge there with 3 operators on their control panels, a mechanic, electrician, and reactor operator. So, a minor problem arrives and the EO, electrical operator goes to do his thing (follow procedure). when our illustrious engineer points to a switch and says, "THROW THAT SWITCH", well, of course it is our critical training of 'obey' so he does.
Now when one generator goes down it isn't so bad because we have a back up. but this time it was the back up generator that the engineer pointed to and the guy just killed all the electricy to the reactor so it SCRAMMED. ie, shut down in a bad way.
So then the operator got in trouble for not doing what he knew he should have and merely followed orders so he had to have extra training.
Now when one generator goes down it isn't so bad because we have a back up. but this time it was the back up generator that the engineer pointed to and the guy just killed all the electricy to the reactor so it SCRAMMED. ie, shut down in a bad way.
So then the operator got in trouble for not doing what he knew he should have and merely followed orders so he had to have extra training.
