Oh man, we got one of those at my local hardware place last year. Honestly it worked out fine, the robot handles the boring aisle runs and the guys up front actually help you figure out which part you need. The old timers still know way more than the robot ever will, so nobody got canned over it.

That "little hiss that nobody ever wants to hear" is the worst sound on a job site, but I have to push back on the reroll being the right call here. A weeping rolled tube two days before hydro usually means the hole itself is out of round or the sheet has some wall loss at that spot, and rerolling just buys you time until it leaks again on startup. I have seen guys chase a seeping tube with a reroll three or four times and burn a full shift every time, when pulling the tube and welding in a new one would have been one and done. The wire brush and new ferrule trick works great on a fresh rollout that just did not seat right the first time, but on an old sheet you are rolling into a hole that has already given up. Four hours feels fast in the moment, but if that tube lets go during the hydro walkdown you are the guy who has to explain it. Pulling the tube is more work up front, but it saves you the second trip and the second hiss.