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sokoloff on Feb 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave: Inside the online-sh...

1000 robots needing just 30 minutes of preventative maintenance per week is 500 hours of PM a week. That sounds like about the amount of PM a staff of 20 engineers can supply, once you account for admin, PTO, training, travel between robots, and doing the actual work.

Engineer does not solely mean "one who creates software".

Game_Ender on Feb 28, 2012 [–]

The word you are looking for is "technician".

scarmig on Feb 28, 2012 | [–]

Well, everyone's an engineer nowadays. My company has "custom service engineers." =)

Intermernet on Feb 28, 2012 | | [–]

I may be old school, but I don't regard anyone as an engineer without a degree in engineering.

Other wise, they're a hacker ;-)

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