I few things that strike me about the workplace is that its a lot more laid back than I imagined. The teams here a pretty small so it doesn't feel crowed and loud. It makes it a lot easier to get your work done when you're in a nice quiet place and have everyone close by if you need them. So far my main work has been setting up and testing check scanners from around the office to make sure they work. For one of the devices I ended up spending an entire day trying to figure how to connect it to the scan software. I went through numerous user manuals, changing Ethernet settings, and configuring IP addresses to try to make the thing work, to no avail. (UPDATE: That scanner was actually broken anyway so now it makes sense) After all of that I switched to an identical model of the scanner and got it to work immediately, meaning the one I spent so much time one would never have even worked because it was defective.
While testing another device, I had a pretty brainless moment. Some devices have a small bar to extend to fit the checks when they come out of the machine. I forgot to pull it out and ran a batch through, causing it to jam up badly. I stopped to take a picture to show me doing it wrong, reset the checks, and immediately repeated my mistake having completely forgetting what I had just done seconds ago. I hope I can avoid doing that in the future since that might be one of my stupidest moments.
While testing another device, I had a pretty brainless moment. Some devices have a small bar to extend to fit the checks when they come out of the machine. I forgot to pull it out and ran a batch through, causing it to jam up badly. I stopped to take a picture to show me doing it wrong, reset the checks, and immediately repeated my mistake having completely forgetting what I had just done seconds ago. I hope I can avoid doing that in the future since that might be one of my stupidest moments.