Posted on 09/24/2008 3:23:57 PM PDT by normy
Roor cause? ;-D
Oh yeah, send your controlled process out of house and fail to monitor it outside.
Save a buck, loose 10.
Root cause, cause and corrective action? all based on cost, screw the customer/schedule.
Unbelievable.
For sure....but I didn't want that cheap 'add-on' look; and since we're in the blazing hot desert, I think I made the right choice, insulating characteristics-wise. The wood door doesn't get blistering to the touch, and allows the garage to stay a moderate 105 to 108 all summer.
Remember.Thomas Edison was a high school dropout.
“Seeing as she is an engineer, you should not be surprised. ;^)”
uuuuum....I don’t get it. Is it because engineers think ahead and aren’t surprised by anything?
“WWII was basically German engineers in Germany designing weapons to be used against weapons built in the USA that were designed by engineers of German ancestry.”
And we won the “Space Race” because our German scientists were better than the Russians German scientists.
Well put...well put indeed, 31CTYankee...
I have dealt with these PHD geniuses also...for over 10 years I was a service rep for a large “BLUE” computer co., get an emergency call, server down, 2 hr response, emergency...walk in the door and see immediately that the damn thing is unplugged..instead of embarassing them, I would secretly plug it in, then do a “laying of the hands’ on the monitor yelling “HEAL! I SAY HEAL! OUT DEMON!” ...and the server starts rebooting...their eyes are as big as pie plates..it was great fun.
I have a son-in-law that has no “education” but he can build a house from scratch, weld anything, if you can name it he can fix it or build it,remodel it, draw the plans, wire it, plumb it— from scratch. And yes I am very impressed with him. Oh yeah- and the sizable pond he built when my daughter and he built their home a few years ago, does not leak. The neighbors do leak.
Mark
An Electrical Engineer wired up your cubes?
I’m impressed with your HR department.
Most companies would have hired electricians for any wiring not built in.
I know a group of EEs that were left on an empty (of people) floor of a major west coast power companies building.
They had a month until the project started to staff up.
They built a labyrinth out of cube parts, then denied everything.
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission... I work as a network admin, and the company I work for has a "no streaming" policy, and there's simply no AM radio reception where I work. But I'm in charge of setting up VPN routers and shipping them to our remote sites, and I've got a big stack of routers to check over... So, I patched one of my cubicle ports into the 10/100 switch on one of our DS3 routers, and I use that open line directly to the Internet to test and "burn in" the VPN routers, and of course, I hook my laptop into it, so I can listen to Neal and Rush and anyone else I want to listen to, since they don't monitor traffic on the DS3 routers, just the internal routers and PIX firewall.
Of course, I want to be sure that these routers are working properly, so I run them for about a week each before declaring them "OK."
Mark
There are days when I wish all the Palin detractors would go on the Iron Dog Race.
You oughta send this story in to your newspaper. It’s hilarious, and would be a good humorous piece for them.
About 6 years ago I was working as a systems engineer and network troubleshooter, and my company billed me at $150/hr. We got an emergency call from this company, and the pain in the a$$ boss was just constantly hovering over me. Anyway, the problem they were having was due to a cabling problem (they had their telecom guys do some network premises cabling for them, and they wired the jacks wrong. I got together with their lead telecom guy and showed him how to rewire the jacks, and told the boss that the problem was going to be easy for their telecom guys to fix, and since they were paying them anyway, they could do it without having to pay me for the 3 to 4 hours it was going to take. He agreed, but when I presented him the bill for $150 for the 30 minutes I was there, he looked at the bill, got all angry, and stated "I don't even pay my lawyer $150/hr!" So I replied, "OK, so next time you've got a network problem that takes your server room down, call your lawyer to fix it!"
Mark
I’m impressed with your HR department.
Most companies would have hired electricians for any wiring not built in.
No, it was a client of mine. I was setting up the network at a client site's new location, and to cut costs, they just had one of the EEs on staff wire up the cubicles - how hard could it be for an engineer, right? Well, the guy wired up a hot ground. To this day, I don't know how he kept from tripping the breakers, but it really shocked the crap out of me!
But, we also got to sell them a nice, replacement computer too!
Mark
Actually, I do know one EE who I trust with tools. The guy couldn't find a job after graduating with a BSEE, but a relative of his was in the electrical workers union, so (keeping his mouth shut about his degree) he went into an apprenticeship program. So now he's both an EE, specializing in power systems, AND a journeyman electrician. That's a handy combination of skills and education to have.
Mark
Some of the stupidest people I have EVER met, by far, are college graduates.
“Education is by no means a measure of one’s common sense.”
I know quite a few people who are “educated beyond their intelligence.”
I spent 9 hrs today examining potential non-conforming product, we have 3,000 parts that need 100% inspection.
Schedule is shot, customers will be unhappy when the units don't show on time.
Looks like they finally figured it out, stop work order and examination of all possible units that may have a problem.
It's going to cost millions after already costing millions.
Glad it's not my money.
I can pick out a couple people that are educated beyond their intelligence.
Ugh. Good luck with that...
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