Learned that one the hard way. Dropped a tiny screw last week because my thumb just stopped working. Now I take the tingling as a sign to stretch.

You mentioning the CEO nod thing is spot on. I see this all the time where people in charge just roll with the chaos to save face. It's like a survival tactic in modern work life. Like when a server crashes during a big client meeting and the IT guy calmly says 'just as expected' while sweating bullets. Or in school, when a projector fails and the professor starts lecturing from memory like it's a test of attention. We've all learned to pretend confusion is part of the plan, but it just makes everything more awkward.

Cross-country for nothing? Classic.

My buddy tried mesh tape on his ceiling patch last year. The whole section fell down two days later, just crashed onto his sofa. He went back to paper tape after that.

Yeah, you gotta weigh them. My crew tried skipping it once and the data was useless. Just suck it up and start weighing again, sort the old log later.