" SO TRUE "

[Roadman]

 

[Chryco Psycho]

Wow that is clean 

[Roadman]

 

[70/6chall]

Enuff said!..........   Thanks,   Al

[Roadman]

   Hey @ToxicWolf                        

[RUNCHARGER]

"I'm an Engineer" they always start with, then you know it's pointless to reason with them. I have meet a few good ones though but it seems rare.

[1 Wild R/T]

I realize this doesn't belong here but I had a very good friend who was a great engineer..I'd heard of him before I met him & having worked with a few engineers through the years I already didn't like him...Then I got to know him & he was nothing like I'd expected... He'd been a hands on tech for years, he made serviceability a priority on everything he built, he was a genius & I've missed him since the day he passed away.... And even more so now that we have been through a few idiots who barely grasp what it is we do, never mind build equipment that raises the bar for the entire industry...

[Brads70]

I agree good engineers are pretty rare I've found. I was a moldmaker for 25 years and in that time I'd say 1-2 were any good. I actually had one that drew up blueprints for some tooling that actually tried to get me to weld stainless steel to aluminum.  Sure they are ok drawing stuff on cad cam ( computers)  but I think they should have to be a moldmaker ( or what ever) get there papers , THEN go to school to be an engineer. One place I worked they were so bad the foreman would just give be the part to make a mold for , tell me to make drawings/ sketches, then the engineers would make the drawings after I was finished.     It drove me nuts as they made 3 times what I did. Never worked overtime and weekends. But they all had those nice rings they give mechanical engineers to remind them not to screw up!  I think about half the shop floor was employed fixing the screw ups they made.

[Chryco Psycho]

 
Engineers should have hands on experience
I have met some great engineers but I showed a few up too

[YellowThumper]

Same here. I have found it to be very fine line between confidence and arrogance. Many don't get it...

"I'm an Engineer" they always start with, then you know it's pointless to reason with them. I have meet a few good ones though but it seems rare.

[Roadman]

           Supposed to be a true story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06TBU9BLtcI

[Chryco Psycho]

LOL

[blown motor]

 
NOW  SHE IS A TEACHER!!!

In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher at Valley Heights High School in Port Rowan, Ontario , did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.   'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'

She  replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'
    They  thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'  'No,' she  said.
    'Maybe it's our behaviour.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behaviour.'
    And so,  they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The  final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'
At this  point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened  it. Twenty-seven (27)  Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that  classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha  said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom  to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'
    By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Veterans of  Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year in 2006. She is the daughter of a  WWII POW.


Let us  always remember the men and women of our military and the rights they  have won for us.

[Roadman]

        

[Chryco Psycho]

I disagree , you play golf & you spend a ton of $$ & nothing to sell at the end , as with most hobbies they cost $$ but at least you have something to sell typically !