Operator Error My Ass

I had a bad day at work today. I usually just wander around, putting plastic jugs on a conveyor belt, or throwing them in a big hopper that feeds a machine that puts them on the conveyor belt. Today I got stuck working on the Machine From Hell. It puts the labels on bottles of Old English furniture polish. I had the worse time trying to get the labels to go on right. There is basically a big crock pot that melts little chunks of hot glue, then a pump sucks the melted glue up to a glue bar that smears the glue onto the labels. The stupid labels wouldn't stick to the bottles. They kept falling off, or getting stuck on the glue bar and making the glue drip all over. All over except for on the rest of the labels, so then I had labels and puddles of glue all over.

The manager kept coming over and telling me how all I needed to do was adjust the glue bar, move it to the left or right. It was like doing the Hokey Pokey.

You move the glue bar in,
you move the glue bar out,
you move the glue bar in
and you shake it all about.

I kept thinking of what they say when there is a plane crash. They always start by blaming it on pilot error. I figured it was operator error, and it didn't bother me at all. I figured if I did a real shitty job maybe then I wouldn't get stuck on the Machine From Hell anymore. Then about lunch time they figured out somebody had grabbed a box of the wrong kind of glue chunks, so it wasn't operator error after all.