Interesting Development . . .

[tombogan03884]

I once watched a "Boot" engineer tighten a hex head bolt with a vernier caliper.....same guy needed a calculator to make change of a dollar.

Must have majored in Beer Bongs.....thirty years of teaching college kids how NOT to get fired.....I'm tired!

Today, I'm working on a part, designed in 1963 for a small steam turbine for General Electric.  It will probably cost us twice the price  the asshat GM sold it for.....

I'm surrounded by incompetence.......imbeciles, morons and ego-maniacal narcissists......

Sigh....any one got any "Pisco"?


 

I REALLY hope they were HIS calipers 

[deepwater]

I once watched a "Boot" engineer tighten a hex head bolt with a vernier caliper.....same guy needed a calculator to make change of a dollar.

Must have majored in Beer Bongs.....thirty years of teaching college kids how NOT to get fired.....I'm tired!

Today, I'm working on a part, designed in 1963 for a small steam turbine for General Electric.  It will probably cost us twice the price  the asshat GM sold it for.....

I'm surrounded by incompetence.......imbeciles, morons and ego-maniacal narcissists......

Sigh....any one got any "Pisco"?


 

uuuhhhhhh.. runnin' a little short man.. but we can find some I'm sure, god bless google!

[Timothy]

I REALLY hope they were HIS calipers 

Unfortunately not.....cost me about $125.00 bucks to replace them (Starrett) and they were my fathers so I spent some money sending them back to get them repaired, re-calibrated and cleaned up.  They've been locked in my Kennedy box for the last fifteen years in their little oak case all wrapped to keep the humidity away.  They were circa 1961 or so.......

That was the last time I brought any of my own precision tools to work.  I have to read the directions now to remember how to use them.  Spoiled with the dial type and digital.....

Same guy hit my spring actuated Starrett center punch with a hammer.......managed to wreck every jobber split point bit we had in our little shop and the dimwit is now the VP of the company I left.....

[tombogan03884]

Unfortunately not.....cost me about $125.00 bucks to replace them (Starrett) and they were my fathers so I spent some money sending them back to get them repaired, re-calibrated and cleaned up.  They've been locked in my Kennedy box for the last fifteen years in their little oak case all wrapped to keep the humidity away.  They were circa 1961 or so.......

That was the last time I brought any of my own precision tools to work.  I have to read the directions now to remember how to use them.  Spoiled with the dial type and digital.....

Same guy hit my spring actuated Starrett center punch with a hammer.......managed to wreck every jobber split point bit we had in our little shop and the dimwit is now the VP of the company I left.....

I would have been leaving sooner, with a police escort.

[Timothy]

I would have been leaving sooner, with a police escort.

My wife wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do.  I decided to leave after 14 years working alongside the POS while he was promoted over me because of the little piece of paper from Clarkson he had.....He's one of the reasons I have such utter disdain for MOST engineers.  He probably owes his career to my tutelage and guidance but I ain't gonna lose any sleep waiting for a thank you.

I'm feeling much better now!         

I saw him during a wake for a mutual friend and he inquired if I would be willing to come work for him.  I told him he could no longer afford me!

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[tombogan03884]

 Wages would be reasonable enough, but the aggravation surcharge would be what made you to expensive.

[deepwater]

I work with a couple of  uhhhhhh    .. guys.. that don't know how to use the proper tools. and instead of fabricating tools they will take existing tools (of which we have no spares and are very useful) and cut them, weld them or whatever and render them useless for their intended use. all for some chickenshit job.  

[tombogan03884]

 Those type of people should be clubbed like Harp seals.

[Timothy]

Yea, I've had a few modifiers in my experience too.

Fortunately, I was on dry land and not floating around off the coast of Somalia looking for an all night Home Depot to replace the tool....

Deepwater, outside of 200 miles, you can't be charged for an unfortunate incident if they never find a body....

[deepwater]

Yea, I've had a few modifiers in my experience too.

Fortunately, I was on dry land and not floating around off the coast of Somalia looking for an all night Home Depot to replace the tool....

Deepwater, outside of 200 miles, you can't be charged for an unfortunate incident if they never find a body....

whuh?

yeah, one wrap around 'em with a length of chain and they don't come up for a long time.  but, I do keep my own tools hidden from the retards. and the few times they've found my tools I tell them, never again!

some people need to be weeded out of the population