Machinists, engineers and people of common sense unite !

Wow! That's a creative way to use a caliper.
That's why teaching children about metrology basics is so important.

I remember when I first applied for a job in a fabrication/machine shop. One of the questions in the interview was "Do you know how to read a tape measure‽" followed by "demonstrate that you can use a tape measure" along with some other fun ones like "what is the difference between these two pieces of material" (one was aluminum, the other stainless) and other such things. I remember being surprised/disappointed that there were grown people who couldn't read a tape measure.

I've worked in machine shops and drafting offices for years now, and I'm no longer surprised by people who can't use basic measuring tools. Still disappointed though.

I want to wholeheartedly believe the caliper has the size the customer wants and the pipe is bigger, therefore inappropriate. I've never met anyone who would use a caliper this way, I've seen people trying to eyeball it or use it as a ruler but not like this

Oh jeebus fucking christ. Sometimes the dumb hurts and then you get the existential dread knowing you're about to have to call this moron. And, even better, they usually make more money than you.

So these guys are smart enough to read Vernier calipers, but dumb enough to measure like this?

Anyone who works with clients can appreciate this one

please close and reverse the tool, then grip it tightly and drive it into the skull of the complaining customer

I am a certified blithering idiot and even I feel like a high society intellectual compared to this picture.

Next time, chose a smarter client.

Two of them did this.

Judging by this, even if it's the right size, they'll probably install it wrong anyway, so why bother?

Showed this pic to my co workers (steelworkers/blacksmiths) and only the old guys knew what was funny about the pic... Gen z think that calipers are toy guns.....

A normal set of calipers has 3 basic modes of measuring things: inside, outside, and depth. It is amazing to me how many people in this thread don't know at least one of those or use them wrong.

They were trying to design a caliper holder that fits the jaws in that orientation, obviously. They need to fix this, send it back.

Looks like that hole chamfer is wrong. Doesn't properly fit the measuring device.

Calipers are strictly for measuring the brainpan of undesirables.

Idiots suck

breaks out calipers

This just tells me calipers should have 2 measuring bars on them, so gaps and other inside edges can be measured like this (maybe this already exists, idak)