Play time is over!

[Solus]

12 TONS!!  You got a big lap. 

Sounds like they have a lot of faith in  you...

You're gonna love it and do great.

[Timothy]

The document package from GE makes the Affordable Care Act bill from congress look like a short story!  It's thousands of pages of specs and hundreds of drawings.

Massive....but we've been building them for years.  Just start with the little problem and eventually you solve the bigger problem!

[Magoo541]

Finishing up a .gov project right now, ~$2.5 million range, and the spec is their bible.  Ours is only about an inch and a half thick and covers about 7-8 truck loads worth of conveyors, airlocks and turntables but its been a pain, a headache, and almost made my manager cry today    NO it wasn't me-my buddy though- I was busy with the customer, the quality rep and the contract operator going over the first 6 Quality books...  almost done... just keep thinking-almost done...

[jaybet]

That's why they call them specs, boys! Nothing like .gov to turn a mountain into all the mountain ranges combines. They know specs.
My day job is writing architectural specs, and therre's a huge difference between .gov and non-.gov projects. More paper = bigger budget.

[MikeBjerum]

Congrats Timothy!  If you are going to come out of retirement this is the way to do it 

On to the stacks of papers and specs.  I look at the number of products that have been produced over the years with nothing more than sketches and dimensions on a coffee shop napkin, and wonder how we got here.  When I was on our utilities commission I had to sign the documents.  I honestly spent more time arguing with engineers and attorneys about the crap they required than the time it took to do the stuff.  Our City Engineer speced out a project that required a gravel road; the construction phase required that a truck have a driveway approach 65' wide for their two special trailers that would arrive in the morning and depart before evening; so the engineer required a 14 ton road, and the day after the delivery the extra 45 feet of approach was removed.  The engineer called me a liar when I pulled out my building moving experience and explained that that load could be planked the 200 yards from the road to the sight.  $75k later I am trying to explain to real people that it wasn't my idea, but I was the one that had to endure the broken glass enema.

Enjoy your 6" think spec books, and remember it is just a bunch of overpaid college type proving their value to those that measure value by the ream.

[Sponsor]

[Magoo541]

Enjoy your 6" think spec books, and remember it is just a bunch of overpaid college type proving their value to those that measure value by the ream.

We have a winner.  The Purchasing Specialist on my project has been out of the University of Kentucky for two years.  This is the 5th site they have built and we are fighting the same fight they had 20 years ago because nobody wants to revise their spec.

[Timothy]

Well, I took a glance at the drawing set this afternoon.  Only 566 pages for the explosion proof version.

Most of the mechanical parts I've touch when I worked here from 2008-2010.    Gotta get with the mechanic and review the BOM and methods next week and dive in...much reading on the H2 system, liquid level detection and other stuff...

[Timothy]

Well kids, my twelve weeks probation is over on Friday and I've just received the official offer of employment from HR department in Tulsa!

I'm officially employed on Monday!

I know there are lot of us that are or were in the same boat and I want you all to know that it matters when people you don't know or will probably never meet are pulling for you to succeed!

Thanks for all the well wishes and continued hope for those of us still trying!

Tim

[MikeBjerum]

Congrats Timmy!!!

[tombogan03884]

I'm hoping the my good luck will be like the bad was.
When Obama won I lost my OT, when he was sworn in I lost my job.
I'm hoping that when he loses I'll get a job, and when Romney's sworn in I'll start getting OT.