Tell us something really trivial about your life (Catch 22)
Discussion
Engineer1 said:
But if you let engineers do it deadlines and financial restrictions can start to slip as the perfect solution is sought.
True, but the final product would be beautiful 
DickyC said:
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?"
Not a clue. Not one single solitary clue between them.
This is pretty much our problem. We can do the job, we can make a lot of money, we have a great relationship with the client; but the directors don't like some of the wording in the contract (6 months they've been arguing over this...), it's a joke.Not a clue. Not one single solitary clue between them.
I'm seriously considering jacking it all in and moving to Australia. More money, better weather, better prospects; but it means leaving my family behind...
DickyC said:
KaraK said:
Morning all.. I'm in a s
tty fking mood this morning. Might just bite someone's head off at some point if I can't control it.
Wander over to the Creation thread, read what ChrisGB has to say and then vent your spleen.tty fking mood this morning. Might just bite someone's head off at some point if I can't control it.
KaraK said:
DickyC said:
KaraK said:
Morning all.. I'm in a stty fking mood this morning. Might just bite someone's head off at some point if I can't control it.
Wander over to the Creation thread, read what ChrisGB has to say and then vent your spleen.tty fking mood this morning. Might just bite someone's head off at some point if I can't control it.Adenauer said:
It's like being in the classroom, without the teacher
You transported me back then to the classroom of Miss Weir when I was eight at Broadmoor County Primary School in the shadow of the hospital and within ear-splitting distance of the siren.Twas there I reached the pinnacle of responsibility of my whole school career. For half of one term I was Window Monitor.
No enamel badge, just the reponsibility of the role and the use of the long handled device I would later recognise as a boat hook.
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