Aspiring to become an electrician. How many young people do?

mapj1:

That is not as silly as you think - if a library has some priceless manuscript that has been around for 1000 years , then at some point in the next 1000 years a flask of coffee or even a tea stained thumb print  could be  the end of it.

It is far easier to ban all liquids, including bottles of ink, water milk etc. than to have some odd mix and match rules -it's not that hard to go outside for a drink. I suspect your local county library is the same.

In Oxford the Bodlean also bans candles matches and flints, but I presume that date back to the same time as the rules, still current as far as I know, about not wearing your sword withing the buildings that border the the quadrangle or your spurs to dinner in hall. (That was Christ Church but I imagine other colleges and other aged establishments are similar.)


Some academics may not be safe to be let out unaccompanied, and probably could never hold down a job at the post office, but speaking from personal experience, the same is true at many commercial R and D places too. In many ways this is no sillier than not expecting the cleaner to be able to solve differential equations, they may or may not be able to, but it is not a requirement for that role, but I'd like at least one person in the board room to be able to, as I'd expect a  director of facilities to know what a circuit breaker is, and what the sewerage arrangements are.

 

mapj1:

That is not as silly as you think - if a library has some priceless manuscript that has been around for 1000 years , then at some point in the next 1000 years a flask of coffee or even a tea stained thumb print  could be  the end of it.

It is far easier to ban all liquids, including bottles of ink, water milk etc. than to have some odd mix and match rules -it's not that hard to go outside for a drink. I suspect your local county library is the same.

In Oxford the Bodlean also bans candles matches and flints, but I presume that date back to the same time as the rules, still current as far as I know, about not wearing your sword withing the buildings that border the the quadrangle or your spurs to dinner in hall. (That was Christ Church but I imagine other colleges and other aged establishments are similar.)


Some academics may not be safe to be let out unaccompanied, and probably could never hold down a job at the post office, but speaking from personal experience, the same is true at many commercial R and D places too. In many ways this is no sillier than not expecting the cleaner to be able to solve differential equations, they may or may not be able to, but it is not a requirement for that role, but I'd like at least one person in the board room to be able to, as I'd expect a  director of facilities to know what a circuit breaker is, and what the sewerage arrangements are.