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Things not to say to an engineer

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December 15, 2010
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If you work in an office, you are no doubt subject to office cliches. The movie Office Space immediately comes to mind.

As an engineer, are there things that are said that especially irks you?

"Can you make this tiny tweak?"

"What would it look like if we added this?"

"Can we take this offline?"

"Someone has a case of the Monday's."

These are just a few of my guesses. I'm not a design engineer, so I would love to hear your perspective.

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AdamJuntunen

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My worst was from a sales guy.

We just sold your prototype to a company in Korea, it needs to ship by the end of the week. Teach the tech how to install it, he leaves with it.

It was a complicated six figure piece of semiconductor manufacturing equipment that we had spent a 1/2 year building/tweaking. We had to rip it out of the lab and ship it.

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DanMarotta

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12-Amethyst

Adam Juntunen wrote:
My worst was from a sales guy.
We just sold your prototype to a company in Korea, it needs to ship by the end of the week. Teach the tech how to install it, he leaves with it.
It was a complicated six figure piece of semiconductor manufacturing equipment that we had spent a 1/2 year building/tweaking. We had to rip it out of the lab and ship it.

It's a testament to the quality of your work Adam and not a bad problem to have. Haha!

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s.iyer

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I wanted it Yesterday!!!

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A Sales guy telling a Designer:

Ah!! I know you guys can do it. After all it is for Customer Delight!!!

Don't you want to delight the customer???

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A Sales guy: I am your internal customer and you must delight the customer.

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The Manager: What is the use of such expensive CAD when you cannot do it in 50% of the time?

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An old hand cribbing: Oh! The Drawing board was faster. We could just take a photocopy change the dimensions and that is it.

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2D is better than 3D

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Mr.E

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I'm not an engineer but I've got this idea I'd like to patent and thought maybe you could help me.

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KrisR

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"How much would it be....."

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ChrisCollinson

12-Amethyst

Can I have it by Friday??

Usually said on Thursday

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Wavegigger

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My boss always pulls a "Bill Lumbergh"...he knows what time I leave everyday, but like clock work, as I'm packing my gear for the day..."hey, I know you're about to leave for the day, but could you do me this quick favor?"...that usually means I'll be stuck at work for another hour at least!

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SylvainA.

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My favorite one is : "Draw it first, you'll study it later..."

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TomE

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NOT SURE WHAT ALL OF YOU PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT, MY NEW DESKTOP HAS THE "EASY BUTTON" AND NOW LIFE IS EASY. LOOK AT YOUR SYSTEM IT IS NEAR THE STRETCH COMMAND.

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BPapp