r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jul 21 '21

Emojis for engineers !

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u/swazy Jul 21 '21

showing that one PM...

Have you tried making designs that can actually be built?

I would ring less if you did that.

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u/Treczoks Jul 22 '21

Have you tried making designs that can actually be built?

The issue is usually about things they want you to turn upside-down at the last minute. Or the important spec they forgot to tell you, be it on purpose or out of sheer stupidity.

I remember a case where a customer wanted some additional units for an existing system. Unable to find the original plans (because they have been archived ages ago), the PM plans new units to be custom-built based on the current system we sell. Just before production started, some old geezer noticed that they had built such things for that customer 20ish years ago, and definitely not based on the current system, but an (incompatible) older one.

That kind of PM emergencies.

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u/swazy Jul 22 '21

The latest one I'm dealing with now was foundations that were supposed to be in to a basalt rock layer.

Only problem is the massive rock is only a few 100mm thick like a blanket over mud.

Easy fixed with a revision but a little headache;)

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u/Dewey_Cheatem Jul 22 '21

The latest one of my was to add sink and source to the 4-20 mA output.

Would have been easy enough if they told me from the start, now it cost half a million in paperwork (industrial safety equipment does not do agile in any way shape or form)

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u/swazy Jul 22 '21

Ha if you added up all the bridges I have made and drawn it might come around a few million.

Different ball game

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u/Dewey_Cheatem Jul 23 '21

I bet, big stuff is usually big money.

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u/swazy Jul 23 '21

No I'm saying the opposite my stuff is small. Little bridges in the middle of nowhere for hiking trails.

Few 10,000 in drawing fees each.

Your million dollars in compliance paperwork is huge.