"light will go red and a machine operator will come an poke it for a bit until it works again"
This was exactly what I remember, and literally the guy will take a tool that is not a hammer, a screw-wrench, and hit the shit out of the machine like it was a hammer, and then loose some screw, and then bang-bang again, and then tighten some other screw...
Even the young, like 26 y.o. guy , from faraway Sichuan Province thats works doing this will receive a respectul title...
... and will be called a "Gong" (engineer) For example, if the guy's name is Zhao, he will be called with respect even by the bilionaire owner of the factory with the name and title: "Zhao Gong".
Some old Eletric/industrial design like 66 years old are making good bucks still kicking, no one is at Key West drinking margheritas...
This was exactly what I remember, and literally the guy will take a tool that is not a hammer, a screw-wrench, and hit the shit out of the machine like it was a hammer, and then loose some screw, and then bang-bang again, and then tighten some other screw...
Even the young, like 26 y.o. guy , from faraway Sichuan Province thats works doing this will receive a respectul title...
... and will be called a "Gong" (engineer) For example, if the guy's name is Zhao, he will be called with respect even by the bilionaire owner of the factory with the name and title: "Zhao Gong".
Some old Eletric/industrial design like 66 years old are making good bucks still kicking, no one is at Key West drinking margheritas...