- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Crossposted from https://beehaw.org/post/24258253
This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Wilson” who once worked as the boss of a welding shop attached to an engineering consultancy.
Wilson set the scene by telling us this story came from the early 1980s, when AutoCAD was replacing drawing boards.
“We had a new structural engineer who those of us in the shop quickly identified as an idiot with a degree,” Wilson wrote.
One day, said idiot decided that the computers used to run AutoCAD needed to be cleaned and that the welding shop was the place to do the job.
Nah mate, there’s good engineers and there’s bad ones.
The best ones I’ve worked with have been hands on in the field so they know what is happening.
The worst are desk jockies making lift plans etc and going way over with safety factors
50t lift rather then use 4 30t soft sings they will go with some stupid sized chain because they’re not the one who’s lugging the things around.
How about mechanical engineers who design a machine as tight and compact as possible with no regard to servicing after resulting in work having the ba carried out in a confined space in a chassis tunnel to replace a filter.
No shit, Sherlock. Ive been an engineer for more than ten minutes. Appreciate the pep talk though.