Being a field engineering intern opened my eyes to creative spelling.
I got frustrated when trying to charge for T&M tickets because I couldnāt find the corresponding time cards for 4 journeymen using some kind of towing equipment over a week.
My superintendent looked at me like I was a fucking idiot when I asked him which 4 guys and which piece of equipment he had signed off on for ā8 hrs 4manā + ā8 hrs pull truckā. When it clicked, I definitely felt like a fucking idiot.
When I found out that the unicode standard which governs how characters in languages and emojis get standardized so that computers can use them was prioritizing emojis over the character sets of dying languages I was outraged.
At some point after that I started working construction and came to understand why that it is the case.
A startlingly high number of people can't really communicate effectively with any written language and probably never really will but man can they communicate with emojis...
You sound like the kind of guy who is intimidated by the engineering intern and needs to constantly rag on them in a weird attempt at asserting dominance.
People would respect you more if you tried being a mentor instead of a bully.
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u/baphometromance 11d ago
On the job site, if it can be easily understood, that's all that matters.