April 2019 15k SPAM Thread

[Kevo_303 P.E.]

Morning of a Friday Spam

 

[JayKay PE]

Guys.  I have the stupid McDonalds, "Give me back the filet-o-fish"-song stuck in my head.  It's a never-ending cycle.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

spam to 7500?

 

[JayKay PE]

Never.  Only courteous conversation here, it seems?

 

[RBHeadge PE]

Most people, self included, may be a bit busy with work atm. I keep getting pulled into emergencies this morning. Who knows when I'll be free

 

[squibbyfish]

Spam

 

[txjennah PE]

I hate project management, I am such a noooooooob.

Good morning all!

 

[Kevo_303 P.E.]

Good Morning Spam!

 

[JayKay PE]

I hate project management, I am such a noooooooob.

Good morning all!

I only appear to be doing project management lately.  No engineering for me!

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

Go back to sleep

I wanted to, but sometimes when you love someone, you do crazy things.

Like clean up their puke.

 

[ashmur90]

Oooooo, are you going anywhere fun?  I have a ton of weddings this year, so not too many 'vacations' this year.  But next year is chock full with Hawaii and then a transatlantic from NY to London!

We're going to Nashville for CMA Festival activities! Next year we'll likely go somewhere else. Getting too expensive and dad is retiring in April with 40 years of service at his company.

 

[txjennah PE]

Ooo where in Hawaii @JayKay0914? I went to Maui for my honeymoon and it was so much fun.

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

I hate noooooooobing, I am such a project manager.

Fixt 

 

[RBHeadge PE]

I hate project management,

I only appear to be doing project management lately.  No engineering for me!

Wait, you mean engineering and project management aren't nearly the same thing?

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

Wait, you mean engineering and project management aren't nearly the same thing?

There’s no “/s”....

 

[JayKay PE]

We're going to Nashville for CMA Festival activities! Next year we'll likely go somewhere else. Getting too expensive and dad is retiring in April with 40 years of service at his company.

Oooooo, I've never gone to a country music festival, much less CMA!  unless you count me seeing FGL at Jones Beach a few years ago.  And totally agree with music festivals getting too expensive.  I have a bunch of friends who just can't do it because either the concert sells out within minutes of it opening, or tickets are way $$$$$$ and it also requires travel.  Cruising is always a nice, cheap, family trip that my family usually does.

 

[JayKay PE]

@txjennah PE I think Kauai?  My parents usually go to an island or two during their (now annual) Hawaii visits.  I think 2020 was supposed to be 2-weeks, but I think it's 3.5 weeks now?  My dad has an international/Hawaii timeshare, so he uses his points and I only have to pay for my ticket and food (which is kinda expensive).  It'll be my first time there!  My brother really wants to show me the Jurassic Park sets, and the raptor nest, and I've also been informed I have to take surfing lessons...because he's always wanted to do it, but my parents wouldn't let him do it alone/they didn't want to do it.  So.  Yeah.  I'll probably lose my top.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

That's because even I'm not sure if I was being sarcastic.

There's a lot of overlap between the two. There are certainly times where it's pure engineering, and where it would be denigrating to the profession to think that a generic PMP office worker could handle the task, and there are things that are pure PM that don't involved any kind of engineering or STEM knowledge and is basically budgeting. Some of the intersection or hybridization arrives where doing systems engineering or engineering management.

I've mostly been in the management side of things, so nearly all of my experience could be confused for project or program management by PMI.

 

[JayKay PE]

^^^Ditto.

Sometimes I'm doing stuff that I don't think a normal PMP/PM would know if I didn't have the engineering background (this includes some of the report I've been writing), but then other times...I am def doing work that is pure management and has nothing to do with engineering.

 

[txjennah PE]

I'm sure I'll get used to it.  Besides the obvious noob budgeting mistakes, my company makes their PMs deal with a lot of administrative items and, realistically, it'd be difficult to charge all this time we're expected to the spend to the project if we got a good margin.  I tend to be an anxious type so trying to learn to accept what I cannot change...but one of my clients has gone completely MIA (won't answer emails or calls), so I'm starting to get very nervous.