Tell us something really trivial about your life (Catch 22)
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Morning. I've lost what day we are.
Four days off after today. Yay.
ali_kat said:
Morning!
I go home today
Much as I love sleeping like a starfish in the centre of the bed; it's just not as good as sleeping cramped up on the edge of the bed next to my love & both cats!
Good luck today Engineer & Pad!
Mine slept on the backs of my knees last night. She has very rarely done that. Saves my roof though!I go home today
Much as I love sleeping like a starfish in the centre of the bed; it's just not as good as sleeping cramped up on the edge of the bed next to my love & both cats!
Good luck today Engineer & Pad!
Four days off after today. Yay.
Morning campers, I see we are setting the scene for our two erstwhile adventures, good luck to you both. Q just dropped me a line though, he has prepared a few cunning toys for your journey and has asked if you could pop round to pick them up before you set off. On the whole they look useful, I would avoid the the super magnetic underpants though, Q is really excited about them but I have heard of some teething problems. In fact Agent M is still laid up after his accidentally triggered while walking passed a building site, the doctors managed to remove most of the 6 inch nails from his balls but the scaffolding pole lodged up his butt is proving a little tricky.
Gretchen said:
Morning. I've lost what day we are.
Four days off after today. Yay.
I've got a black goldfish with one big eye. It's sleeps underwater.ali_kat said:
Morning!
I go home today
Much as I love sleeping like a starfish in the centre of the bed; it's just not as good as sleeping cramped up on the edge of the bed next to my love & both cats!
Good luck today Engineer & Pad!
Mine slept on the backs of my knees last night. She has very rarely done that. Saves my roof though!I go home today
Much as I love sleeping like a starfish in the centre of the bed; it's just not as good as sleeping cramped up on the edge of the bed next to my love & both cats!
Good luck today Engineer & Pad!
Four days off after today. Yay.
The Beaver King said:
Anyone else having a downer about work today?
A bit. There is so much to do at the fag end of the project that we should be busy from early until late but panic has set in to such an extent that the people who require the drawings aren't giving us the information. Apart from a few small, desperate, late-in-the-day jobs we are all sitting around doing nothing and costing someone a fortune. We have been asked to come in over Easter to handle this elusive rush.Tea and hot cross buns, anyone? We have plenty of time.
DickyC said:
A bit. There is so much to do at the fag end of the project that we should be busy from early until late but panic has set in to such an extent that the people who require the drawings aren't giving us the information. Apart from a few small, desperate, late-in-the-day jobs we are all sitting around doing nothing and costing someone a fortune. We have been asked to come in over Easter to handle this elusive rush.
Tea and hot cross buns, anyone? We have plenty of time.
Snap.Tea and hot cross buns, anyone? We have plenty of time.
We're going through some serious peaks and troughs at the minute. I'm busy, but I'm seeing very little results due to the half arsed nature of others.
Plus we're handling a very big project worth a lot of money. The higher ups were pissing themselves with excitement when they saw the potential nett profits, but are now s
tting themselves due to the risk. This project could be a big step in my career, yet those above seem determined to fk it up.This is why money men should never been allowed to call the shots in engineering....
What rofo said^^^^^^^^
The Beaver King said:
Snap.
We're going through some serious peaks and troughs at the minute. I'm busy, but I'm seeing very little results due to the half arsed nature of others.
Plus we're handling a very big project worth a lot of money. The higher ups were pissing themselves with excitement when they saw the potential nett profits, but are now stting themselves due to the risk. This project could be a big step in my career, yet those above seem determined to fk it up.
This is why money men should never been allowed to call the shots in engineering....
But if you let engineers do it deadlines and financial restrictions can start to slip as the perfect solution is sought.We're going through some serious peaks and troughs at the minute. I'm busy, but I'm seeing very little results due to the half arsed nature of others.
Plus we're handling a very big project worth a lot of money. The higher ups were pissing themselves with excitement when they saw the potential nett profits, but are now s
tting themselves due to the risk. This project could be a big step in my career, yet those above seem determined to fk it up.This is why money men should never been allowed to call the shots in engineering....
The Beaver King said:
... yet those above seem determined to fk it up.
This is why money men should never been allowed to call the shots in engineering....
One of the most fascinating things on this job is one of the directors who promises things with no knowledge of what he's promising. I recently spent a week with one of the instrument designers producing a set of interconnection drawings to match a set of vendor drawings for a huge instrument cabinet on the platform. It's as big as a double door wardrobe and rammed with equipment. He flew up to site on Monday and immediately received a phone call from this director asking if the drawings would be ready by Friday. His, "I don't know, I haven't seen the cabinet yet. Why?" wasn't well received. When he looked at the cabinet, the client had found a different vendor, so the drawings we had worked to were useless. Plus, not only were individual items in the cabinet not labelled, the cabinet wasn't wired; there was nothing there yet to connect to. He phoned the director to explain and said he was about to start the laborious task of making sense of it all and would be making umpteen sketches and notes to supply us to recommence the drawings. On the Friday he had another phone call from the director, "So, are the drawings done?"k it up.This is why money men should never been allowed to call the shots in engineering....
Not a clue. Not one single solitary clue between them.
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