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Started by The Good Reverend Roger, September 10, 2014, 09:49:54 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

September 10, 2014, 09:49:54 PM
To be added to:

1.  The earlier an engineer shows up for a meeting, the longer he will drag the meeting out.

For example, Mike has been sitting in the conference room for 10 minutes, for a meeting that starts in 5 minutes.  The 30 minute meeting will therefore last 60 minutes.
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"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
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Junkenstein

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September 10, 2014, 10:32:23 PM
I'd amend that rule to any meeting, personally. Many QS's are fuckers for that kind of behaviour. And finance directors. And Auditors. And Salesfolk(unless you kick them out). And clients. And any consultant on a billable hour rate. And so on.

1b - This applies regardless of if things are going well or not.


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The Good Reverend Roger

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September 10, 2014, 10:36:24 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 10, 2014, 10:32:23 PM
I'd amend that rule to any meeting, personally. Many QS's are fuckers for that kind of behaviour. And finance directors. And Auditors. And Salesfolk(unless you kick them out). And clients. And any consultant on a billable hour rate. And so on.

1b - This applies regardless of if things are going well or not.

All of the above may have actual motives.

I postulate that engineers simply enjoy meetings, which classifies them with flatworms and spirochetes.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Junkenstein

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September 10, 2014, 10:43:38 PM
Are you implying that auditors are not worms? Finance directors above the level of slime?

QS's are notorious for being very lonely, very sad obsessive people who take on the work mainly to get human contact to inflict their presence upon.

Let's be blunt here, in any meeting involving 5 people or more, at least two will be obnoxious and at least one of them will be socially maladjusted enough to confuse the meeting for some kind of impromptu attention seeking ceremony. Gods help you if the meeting involves 12 or more. Box off the day, shit will not be getting done.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

The Good Reverend Roger

#4
September 11, 2014, 01:14:42 AM
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 10, 2014, 10:43:38 PM
Are you implying that auditors are not worms? Finance directors above the level of slime?

QS's are notorious for being very lonely, very sad obsessive people who take on the work mainly to get human contact to inflict their presence upon.

Let's be blunt here, in any meeting involving 5 people or more, at least two will be obnoxious and at least one of them will be socially maladjusted enough to confuse the meeting for some kind of impromptu attention seeking ceremony. Gods help you if the meeting involves 12 or more. Box off the day, shit will not be getting done.

8 seems to be the magic number.

Or "any number plus Mike", who today managed to get off on a tangent that "jury pools don't like engineers, because we base all of our decisions on logic", immediately after trying to suggest that the general contractor should reprogram the jet mill despite the fact that I have a programmer on staff.

I'm so alone.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

tyrannosaurus vex

#5
September 11, 2014, 03:42:56 AM
# The Law of Exponential Effort states that for every task assigned, an equal and opposite volume of excuses will arise, such that the amount of energy required to complete a task is equal to the number of times it has been assigned multiplied by the total number of years of "relevant experience" held by the people it has been assigned to. The result is that if you want anything done, you have to do it yourself.

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LMNO

#6
September 11, 2014, 11:41:53 AM
Well, now I have something new to put on the walls around the office.
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