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He was probably just giving an example, right, not literally requiring someone to know the difference amp/v, he was saying that the guy was bad at electronics.

I find surprising that this was hard to understand.

Logic and common sense on text comprehension are at it's historic lows, it seems.

The wiring of PLC control panels with servo motors, vacum-pumps (AIR-TACs) and All the moving parts of big machinery is the Slowest job at a chinese machinery assembling factory.

It looks complicated at first, then you see it everyday a lot and it starting to look easy.

Then you try do do it by yourself in a PLC that you have programmed yourself in the simplest and smallest model of the machine and you see that is actually very hard job to do.

Its actually like programming, because if you wire the wrong little cable among hundreds of little cables then you have to "debug" the wiring to see where was the damn little cable miswired...

In this place she was a 16 old girl, who had a son at 14 or so, from GuangXi province, very beautiful mountains but also has poor areas , but she was so nice and so patient and so good-hearted, it was unbelievable.

And she would wire cables all day, but not fast, slowly...slowly...because is hard.

And she learnt everyday from the 60 or 70 years old Shifu (Master, like in the kungfu movies)

I never met a better human being in my life, 100% sure, like this little girl from guangxi.

probably made around 350 USD a month. Poor child. I still have her wechat contact, I will rescue her someday...




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