I passed my color vision test with flying colors. Technically, that's the only way to pass it.
New Year, New Recert
Recertification, eye exams and resolutions that last until the first cold job. For every industry. 14 jokes.
The new edition of the code book is a real page turner. Every page number changed.
Why does every inspector's New Year's resolution start with 'find my certification card'?
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It lives in a different truck every January.
What's the first thing a Level III checks in the new edition?
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What they moved, so they can tell you your old answer is wrong.
What do you get when you cross a New Year's resolution with a calibration due date?
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A promise to do it early, kept in month eleven.
My eye exam is renewed, my hours are logged, and the year is eleven days old. I have peaked.
The new edition is the old edition with one paragraph moved and nobody telling the paragraph.
You might be an NDT tech if your New Year's resolution is to find your certification card, and you have made it every year since you got it.
Dana resolved to renew her certification early this year. On January 2nd she opened the folder and found her eye exam record, her hours log, and a sticky note in her own handwriting: 'Do this in January.' She stared at it for a minute, then picked up the phone and booked the exam. The sticky note, for the first time in its life, went in the trash.
The new edition
arrived with moved page numbers.
My notes are wrong now.
Resolution (n.): A January promise to read the whole new edition, renewed every year without opening it.
Nobody warns you that the new edition changes exactly the table you just memorized.
Ever notice that the recertification deadline is a year away until it's three weeks away, and then it's the only thing anyone talks about?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Edition.
Edition who?
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Edition to the old code book, you need the new one. Check your shelf.