Working with an audience

[Peter.]

People tend to leave me alone when I'm in the workshop. My wife will bring be a cup of tea and put it just inside the door, says 'tea, love' and takes away the empty cup (or the cold one I didn't drink). Bless her for her understanding

[dalee100]

Hi,

It's never bothered me to have somebody watch me work. I've spend a fair amount of time over my lifetime performing and working in front of others to be much bothered.

From having played in dance bands in bars in my much younger days to current days where I mostly work in EMS. I have to be able to deal with anything that can wrong front of the public quickly and efficiently. I have to be able to deal with emergencies on a patient while handling panicked family. So you want to watch me drill a hole or turn a shaft? Pffft! Simple stuff that requires little effort on my part. Go ahead and tell me how to do it. It won't matter because we're going to do it my way anyway.

Ain't much of what goes on in a shop rocket surgery.

dalee

[kd4gij]

Back when I was turning wrenches for a living. I had a sign it the front of the shop that read. " Labor rate $ 50.00 per Hour, $75.00 if you watch and $100.00 if you help " That prity much kept people out of my shop

[lbhsbz]

I don't mind people watching me...I generally end up making a bit more money becuase it takes longer, and it makes the customer understand why it costs what it does.

[DATo]

Doesn't bother me at all, in fact it happens almost every day. The bigger problem is getting called away from the job I'm working on to help someone else with their machining / engineering problems. When I return to the machine I was working on I have to shift gears to remember where I was at on my own project. If I am running more than one machine (sometimes 3) I shake my head and wave people off ... they usually take the hint and leave me alone and get help from someone else.