A Lesson to All Engineers (733 hits)
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Submitted by Anthony Locascio (View user info) at 2007-03-22 10:18:30 EDT
Most engineers here on uber are smart enough to figure this out on their own, but just to be safe, here's a good rule for you to follow: NEVER EVER EVER go into your boss' office and say the following phrase:
"I'm done with all that other stuff. Do you have anything else for me?"
Statements like that yield "review" copies, namely the one below. Not impressed? It's 1 of 7.
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Submitted by jimbo (user info) at 2007-04-10 07:04:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
HAHAHA! Sucker!
Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2007-03-23 23:50:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
thatll learn ya
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-03-23 08:37:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-03-22 17:16:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I'm a Forensic Engineer. I have to write binders like that on many cases, and then other people have to read them. I also have to read binders like that that other experts have generated on a lot of cases. It gets easier the more you do.
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Forensic Engineer? No shit? Boy oh boy do I feel for YOU...
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-03-22 22:46:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-03-22 20:22:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Electrical Engineering motto:
"Admit nothing, deny everything, never volunteer."
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You left out:
"Destroy all the evidence."
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-03-22 22:44:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sweet baby jesus!
Never. NEVER. EVER. E.V.E.R. ask for work!
What you need to do now:
1)Open that damn bider up and scatter the pages all over every bare surface in your office/cube.
2)If you go for a coffee (or smoke, if that's your thing), carry a few pages around in your empty hand. Walk brisky, with intent.
3)Complain a lot about how swamped with work you are to anyone that would listen, especially if they are higher up on the office's food chain.
4)Uber like a motherfucker.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-03-22 20:22:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Electrical Engineering motto:
"Admit nothing, deny everything, never volunteer."
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-03-22 17:16:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I'm a Forensic Engineer. I have to write binders like that on many cases, and then other people have to read them. I also have to read binders like that that other experts have generated on a lot of cases. It gets easier the more you do.
Submitted by Comfortably_Numb (user info) at 2007-03-22 16:30:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Being an engineering Intern was how I found Uber 3 years ago. I knew better than to ask for more work.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2007-03-22 15:20:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good luck with all that.
Submitted by ampersand (user info) at 2007-03-22 12:42:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Try being an engineering intern and walking into your bosses office with nothing to do.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-03-22 12:23:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-03-22 11:55:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
ugh...and I thought my posts were depressing
Submitted by nitty34 (user info) at 2007-03-22 11:43:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
So now you have to make copies?
B@W
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-03-22 11:42:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Um, yeah...NEVER ask your boss for "something else to do."
That's how I managed to get into my current predicament of working on six concurrent IT projects, and of course everybody on the receiving end thinks that THEIR particular project is top priority.
Submitted by Saeki (user info) at 2007-03-22 11:26:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm guessing you're either an electrical or mechanical engineer.
Submitted by Comfortably_Numb (user info) at 2007-03-22 11:24:13 EDT (#)
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I have seen plenty of files that thick at my engineering job.
Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2007-03-22 11:17:45 EDT (#)
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I sympathize.
Who's working on the 11 yr project at the Pentagon Renovation? This girl, that's who. I don't even blink at manuals like that anymore.
Submitted by rorrim (user info) at 2007-03-22 11:07:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That's why i quitted electronics... Every week some phoney enters the office with 'some additional datasheets'.... Fucking technology !
Fuck the life outside of uber! (OK, i'll handle the sex,drugs and booze..)
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-03-22 11:05:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I don't feel for you, if you could see my desk, you'd be happy.
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:59:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
you have my sympthies...
but who i really feel for are all the staff members for congressmen/women who have to read ALL the legislation.
its ridiculous how much they have to do.
ps: whats up eh?
Submitted by FlakMonkey (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:48:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
boo hoo
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/default.asp
every link in there contains another hundred links to every piece of legislation proposed in illinois this year. guess who has to read, analyze, and write a position piece on each and every one of them in the space of a month or a month and a half?
this guy, that's who.
now we've moved on to amending them all. guess who gets to take care of all of those?
Submitted by sideshow (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:45:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yeah, I've learnt that lesson that hard way too. Now I choose to sit at my desk bored, reading uber and stuff like that, until my boss realizes I'm not so busy and gives me a few small tasks to do...
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:43:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by STIXS (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:40:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
What the hell could possibly be written about in that thing that it's so thick?! Oh, right, engineer stuff that I wouldn't understand.
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It's an instruction manual to help fat people find their genitals.
Submitted by STIXS (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:40:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
What the hell could possibly be written about in that thing that it's so thick?! Oh, right, engineer stuff that I wouldn't understand.
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:39:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
silly silly man
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:29:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
try decorating them with lead based paint next time
Submitted by particle_man58 (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:29:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
OWNED
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:27:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:21:26 EDT (#)
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go suck george bush's dick with warhammer pieces shoved up both your assholes
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No, no. I did that last weekend. I got lead poisoning from the pewter in my rectum.
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2007-03-22 10:21:26 EDT (#)
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go suck george bush's dick with warhammer pieces shoved up both your assholes