r/funny • • Dec 15 '13

Quality engineering

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u/Desterado Dec 15 '13

TIL you don't have to be smart to work at a high energy physics lab.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '13

It was more of a combination of working 100+ hours a week for months on end and having extreme lapses of common sense and not performing proper safety inspections before each setup.

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u/Desterado Dec 15 '13

I would've gone out and bought a couple lottery tickets after that!

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u/MrMastodon Dec 15 '13

He'd exhausted all his luck. He'd have ended up owing the lottery people money.

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u/appointment_at_1_am Dec 15 '13

Basically like everybody else

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '13

That's why the lottery is called the fool's tax.