um every now and then i open this uh i open one of these videos by saying hello beautiful nerds which
i love because roman mars uses it at the beginning of many of his 99 invisible podcasts uh and then i
came i was watching pitch perfect recently which i had not seen before it's a delightful little movie
uh and somebody says hello beautiful nerds in that film and i found myself wondering did roman get it
from the film did the film get it from roman or is it two different things just combining two words
and making meat out of them i don't know hello beautiful nerds uh i am adam savage i'm here in
my cave in san francisco it's beautiful thursday uh midday and i am taking questions submitted
by tested patrons about my shop and my shop processes um here is an interesting question and
i'm not sure how to answer it which is why i wanted to tackle it uh c2 lawson says
starting next week i will be training a new employee on some shop equipment with all the
ppe masks safety glasses hearing protection and distancing guidelines i am struggling a bit with
the best way to do this you're struggling with the best way to train a new employee
and right you've got to deal with the fact that they need to be socially distanced from their
co-workers to a proper amount that makes both them and their co-workers feel safe
you also need them to follow the shop's best practices on hearing protection eye protection
breath protection hand protection it's a lot um it is a lot
but to my mind it couches under you can couch all of that stuff under an attention headline
i.e if you are going to work well in this shop the way you are going to do that is
by working well with the others in the shop it is not just about what you make it is not just about
how fast and how well you make the stuff you make in the shop all of this stuff that you're talking
about hearing protection breath protection pan protection eye protection ppe those are all about
individual protection but they're also about being a proper person to work next to in a shop
so my suggestion actually now that i think about it is you want to walk through all the protocols
that you have for the shop yeah if you're going to use this test saw you got to put
in hearing protection right those are those are checklist things that like anybody should
get the first time you tell them that's that's like what it is to be a new employee but then
because of the requirements of both the ppe and the social distancing that adds
this extra difficulty that requires more attention that's simply what it requires
more attention to the others that are in the room with you
i have worked in rooms with people who didn't pay attention to people around them and it's tiring
it's tiring and eventually it gets insulting there was yeah there were some real doozies
at ilm in the early days couple of dudes who were not long for that shop who were real jerks to work
with they put on music that no one else liked and blare it really loudly or you know they'd
play pranks that most people didn't find funny um it is not enough i mean it's nice to make a loan
but boy do i miss people i mean i've been making a loan in this shop now for
a solid year since the lockdown and this is a solitary shop it's built for one person
but i also love it when other people are in here and working when i'm working here with simone or
laura kampf or sean charlesworth or aaron douglas and it's not just about having the company and
it's not just about having the camaraderie and the conversation a little alliteration um
it's also about being easy to work with i i i actually started a speech i gave once at a a at a
a skeptic talk saying that i want my tombstone to say he was nice to work with i i really do
i really i i and i have not always succeeded at being nice to work with not that i've you know
been an outright [ __ ] to anybody but you know we all have our rough days i've had my share of mine
my my mythbusters crew and my testing crew have seen every shade of my existence just
when you work with people you you you deal with their [ __ ] that's just that's part
of what it is but i strive to be uh i strive for equanimity and balance and uh you know
i want to be easy to work with so i pay attention to the people that are in the space that i'm in
when i'm moving around one of the best places to get this experience
is a restaurant you know as you're moving through the kitchen of a restaurant
and you're moving behind someone and you say behind you behind you you're moving behind them
we follow that in my kitchen because we have some tight corners my wife and i both did uh you know
did our stints in the food service industry which is just such an invaluable life experience um and
such a like you've got to work with people to understand people man that's just like that's
that's how you get to know people um so your question about how to train this new employee
you might tell them exactly this that here are the protocols for using safety equipment
and you shouldn't go outside of these protocols you should just follow them and in addition
you know the world's been falling apart so you're gonna have to stay six feet away and you're gonna
have to keep your ppp on and keep it above your nose not that [ __ ] just below your thing and
you know you're gonna have to be attentive and so because you talk about it in both of those if you
talk about it in both of those frames then you can you can deal with both of those frames right like
if they're not wearing a piece of safety equipment well that's something that's on the protocol list
if someone around them isn't comfortable working around them that's about the attentiveness and
that can be that's like if you bring it up at the beginning then it's a subject you can cover later
it's not some new thing of like i don't know how to be attentive i hope that is somewhat useful a
good shot practice is always about being attentive to the people around you and near you don't want
to create a dust cloud no one can breathe like we have to work together we all have to work together
i hope that was useful uh tested patrons keep submitting your questions i will keep answering
them in this format which i love so much thank you so much and i'll see you guys next time