Sometimes you just need to scream!!!

[snickerd3]

first group of folks made the migration last night...they started their computers and found lots of surprises. The directions they sent out to everyone were wrong (not surprising) and people lost all the music files in their MS media player libraries.

 

[FLBuff PE]

first group of folks made the migration last night...they started their computers and found lots of surprises. The directions they sent out to everyone were wrong (not surprising) and people lost all the music files in their MS media player libraries.

Contraband!

 

[Sschell]

Contraband!

mmmmm.... contraband.

 

[CbusPaul]

Contraband??? Is that like the up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a game from days of yore?

 

[roadwreck]

Contraband??? Is that like the up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a game from days of yore?

you forgot select-start, you wouldn't get any extra lives. <_<

 

[Supe]

BLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Why do some ASME codes have to be so antiquated? They will make a common sense kind of change in one code that could easily apply to all of the others, but none of the code committees ever have any parity in their revisions. So, a repair on a given material of the same wall thickness seeing the same service conditions has completely different, and astronomically expensive requirements than the material that's 3/4" away from it.

 

[Bean PE]

I was looking through the system here trying to find the list of upcoming openings (there's one in particular that I know is coming but it hasn't been announced yet), and found that a program that would have increased my pay by 10% was suspended August 2009. I met the requirements July 2009 and met with my boss, who told me to wait a couple months. I'm nearly certain he knew about the then-forthcoming suspension of the program.

 

[Dleg]

I hear you. I am, at present, totally screwed due to my boss delayinga critical decision, which then pushed me into a new situation which he didn't antiicipate, but which nonetheless has resulted in me losing out big-time.

 

[snickerd3]

ugh...dear coworker...you keep telling me , for the past 2 weeks, that you are too busy to look through your files for recent document for me but you have the time to stand around and chit chat with people for an hour or so everyday for the past two weeks.

 

[Dleg]

OK, do any of you "design engineers" do this?

I freaking HATE IT when engineers who are supposedly working for me, belittle my comments and requests on their designs and lecture me endlessly about how much more money it is going to cost and yada yada yada.

I am the freaking OWNER and I am also a P.E. I am well aware of the fact that an anti-skid overlay is going to add cost to the project, and that adding culvert cross drains will, too. But since I have to live with the project and the criticisms of the project, I am going to have to insist on anti-skid pavement for a road with a 20% slope along a 100 foot drop, and I am also going to reject any design that outslopes said road without a guard rail, simply to save money on the drainage features.

No, I am NOT a road designer. I am also NOT an idiot - we all knew this was going to be an expensive road.

 

[Supe]

Put them on CAD/error checking duty until they're blue in the face.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

OK, do any of you "design engineers" do this?
I freaking HATE IT when engineers who are supposedly working for me, belittle my comments and requests on their designs and lecture me endlessly about how much more money it is going to cost and yada yada yada.

Oh, I absolutely hate it when I point out a code violation and they respond with, "but it will cost blah, blah, blah."

Still got to be designed per code, hombre.

 

[Dleg]

I had the last laugh (I think) on this.

I had tried to be nice by prefacing a few of my comments (via conference call) with "I'm not a road designer, but...."

Of course the road designers then laughed and said "well, you say you're not a road designer, and then you tell us what to do! Do you mind if we check with the [department of public works] highway engineer to verify your concerns?"

"But of course!"

The DPW guy, with no communications from me, sent an e-mail to them yesterday saying "I echo all of Dleg's concerns."

HA!

 

[Master slacker]

Ok, so I'm in the maintenance group and work with a sh*t ton of turbines. I'm moving into a reliability role and will no longer be fire fighting daily or emergency issues. I sent out a notification to my work groups weeks ago, but the God forsaken planning group still calls me.

"No, MF, I told you to contact the new guy instead of me for repairs. Call him. If he can't answer it, HE will come to ME."

I wish I would have actually had the nuts to drop in the "MF". This d-bag deserves it... can't plan his way out of his chair...

 

[roadwreck]

Balls!!! :smileyballs:

The check engine light came on in my wifes car yesterday so we dropped it off at the mechanics last night. This morning the mechanic calls me up and reports that the check engine light is not on and the computer has no error codes in it. While it's nice to learn that I seemingly don't have to deal with an expensive car repair bill (today) it is a pain to have to go through the rigmarole of dealing with only having one car for 24 hours. If I go through that PITA I want it to be for a reason. I'm also assuming that whatever tripped the light to begin with will occur again and I'll be taking the car back soon.

 

[FLBuff PE]

Mine does this periodically. I've had my mechanic buddy check and clear the codes before. Could be an O2 sensor going bad. That's what it is with my ride.

 

[Master slacker]

Get the Creader!!! I bought one for $50 from Harbor Freight back in 2002 and it has saved me countless dollars. Of course, this is assuming your car is a '96 or newer.

 

[roadwreck]

Get the Creader!!! I bought one for $50 from Harbor Freight back in 2002 and it has saved me countless dollars. Of course, this is assuming your car is a '96 or newer.

Good thinking. I wonder if I can convince my wife that's what she wants for Christmas.

 

[Master slacker]

I say get it. If she can't find a way to use her present, maybe you could take it off her hands.

 

[roadwreck]

that is how I acquired a bowling ball with my name on it.