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The night manager told me to just slap the fryer thermostat and it would reset. He was right. Now I feel like a clown for spending 20 minutes reading the manual.
Last Tuesday during dinner rush the left fryer cut out. Temp dropped from 350 to 180 in two minutes. I'm grabbing tools, pulling the manual off the shelf, sweating bullets because we have 30 tickets hanging and the fried chicken is our top seller. Steve walks over, says "move", hits the side panel with his palm twice, and the pilot relights. Thing fired right back up. I stood there holding a screwdriver like an idiot. He's been doing this for 15 years. Guess that's why he's the night manager and I'm still on the line. Anybody else got a coworker with some janky solution that actually works better than the proper fix?
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ivanlewis3mo ago
Fifteen years of slapping things is just advanced troubleshooting by feel and pattern memory.
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jason7523mo ago
You ever had a printer that only works when you kick it just right? Got an old HP LaserJet in the shop. Been running for like 12 years. Every time it jams you gotta smack the left side panel. It's a hard smack too - right on that top corner. Does the trick every single time. My new guy asked me why I do that. Told him it's just how the printer likes to be treated.
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