The Expert - an accurate and precise depiction of Engineers at work.
This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!!
The Expert - an accurate and precise depiction of Engineers at work.
This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!!
an Engineer? 
Thankfully you guys make crummy writers so I have a job. 
Many years ago, there used to be one person at my office who made me feel like "the expert." The IT department still talks about what a nightmare she was. I couldn't imagine working with a whole group of them 
have to tried turning it off and back on again?
The wrote: have to tried turning it off and back on again?
Funny thing about that line, for anyone who's not good with computers...
It will often fix the problem but it does nothing to address the condition that caused the problem, so it will very likely happen again. So when they gave this as their first answer they were just trying to kick the can down the road and avoid doing the work of diagnosing the problem.
Flight Service wrote: The Expert - an accurate and precise depiction of Engineers at work. This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!!
I saw that earlier today and the whole engineering department has been laughing about it the rest of the day.
Flight Service wrote: The Expert - an accurate and precise depiction of Engineers at work. This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!!
But it's a hoot seeing how other people think, isn't it? Especially as long as you don't take it all too seriously.
I just came from that meeting.
I'm organizing the business trip as we speak.
First, the person requesting something isn't asking for what they want. They don't know.
Second, when you try to educate them so you can get the information to perform the task they want to argue every little point, even the people on your team. Even though you are the expert!
Third, You see his soul die and the end which is every engineer every meeting.
but if you have to explain the joke...but wait this was a documentary.
Every damn day
I think this way (engineer). I work in retail, however. People that work with me hate me because I say, think and do as an engineer. And I (barely) tolerate them.
Oh, you're an Engineer? How big is your train?
Flight Service wrote: The Expert - an accurate and precise depiction of Engineers at work. This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!!
This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!! This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!! This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!! This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!! This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!! This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!! This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!! This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!! This is my life. EVERY. BEREKLEYING. DAY!!
Only 38 more years till retirement. Or ~5 until I show a dry erase board marker somewhere it does not belong and I am forced out.
Of course, there could also be a video that shows how engineers design things that in THEORY work great, until you have to work on them, or start them up, or in general make them work in the real world.
So, being in a position that splits the duties between full-on engineering, and full-on hands-on, I get where the engineers are coming from.
What this says to me, more than anything, is that business/marketing/finance/managerial people should all DIAF.
How'd they get a spy cam in to my meetings? Except I'm not Asian...
The follow-up clip will show the customer requesting a change, the engineer kicking-off the change-traffic for the change, the customer rejecting the change, and then asking two weeks later why the change wasn't made and telling the engineer's boss.
I mean..what? That never happens!
My father once told me. "Never say you are an expert."
Every time i'm referred to as a "Subject Matter Expert" at my job, my butthole puckers a little.
I almost didn't take a good job because the title included the word "Specialist"
Hah! Try Marketing. We don't get the benefit of a meeting...we just get an email asking for the impossible, with an impossible deadline, and no backstory or anything to let us know how idiotic the request is.
Of course, unlike engineering, it doesn't matter. Solid numbers, proof, logic...all things we have no use for and that do not let affect our performance or compensation
Not a true engineering meeting; those have one or two people reading from something that could have been shared easier with email, and everyone else staring at the table or the opposite wall, avoiding eye contact.
I also didn't hear anything about bizarre, purposeless time crunches involved, or layoffs/firings during the process.
pres589 wrote: Not a true engineering meeting; those have one or two people reading from something that could have been shared easier with email, and everyone else staring at the table or the opposite wall, avoiding eye contact. I also didn't hear anything about bizarre, purposeless time crunches involved, or layoffs/firings during the process.
This was the new client meeting, not the internal one
JohnRW1621 wrote: Oh, you're an Engineer? How big is your train?
About 200 tons. And that's just the locomotive.
It's always a hoot when you tell people you're an Engineer, and they ask you what you work on, and you say "trains", and the next thing out of their mouths is, "oh, so you drive them?"
I couldn't make it through the whole video. It was too painful and accurate.
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