times deuce. As usual I work directly with engineers. Well, I am an engineer but more in line with "train engineer" than "process engineer", haha! I love going into their offices to update them on things and shaking the dust and mung off my shoulders while I do. It's taken skill to learn to keep a straight face and keep talking while watching them cringe. I also like asking them for "engineer" things that todays engineers don't use. "Can I borrow some graph paper?", "Do you have a french curve?", "My TI96 crapped out, can use yours while mine charges in your window?". In the end though, if my actual day didn't involve sore muscles from man handling iron and busting rusty bolts that just won't turn, I wouldn't much feel like I earned my pay.Southern Gorilla wrote:
To go off on a bit of a tangent... I find myself giggling about this. I know the world needs cubicle dwellers, IT folks, and all the other types who work clean, comfy 9-5 jobs. But I'm just demented enough to be glad I'm not one of them. There's something about slinging chains in a 40* rain that speaks to my inner neanderthal.
This! Yes!REDONE wrote: In the end though, if my actual day didn't involve sore muscles from man handling iron and busting rusty bolts that just won't turn, I wouldn't much feel like I earned my pay.
LOL as a cube-dweller engineer-type myself, came up through the ranks from drafting using all that stuff and much more on an actual *gasp* drawing board! Blast from the past.REDONE wrote:times deuce. As usual I work directly with engineers. Well, I am an engineer but more in line with "train engineer" than "process engineer", haha! I love going into their offices to update them on things and shaking the dust and mung off my shoulders while I do. It's taken skill to learn to keep a straight face and keep talking while watching them cringe. I also like asking them for "engineer" things that todays engineers don't use. "Can I borrow some graph paper?", "Do you have a french curve?", "My TI96 crapped out, can use yours while mine charges in your window?". In the end though, if my actual day didn't involve sore muscles from man handling iron and busting rusty bolts that just won't turn, I wouldn't much feel like I earned my pay.Southern Gorilla wrote:
To go off on a bit of a tangent... I find myself giggling about this. I know the world needs cubicle dwellers, IT folks, and all the other types who work clean, comfy 9-5 jobs. But I'm just demented enough to be glad I'm not one of them. There's something about slinging chains in a 40* rain that speaks to my inner neanderthal.
Never heard of them. But I see that Grainger carries it.Dirtmonkey wrote:Work King out of Canada is even better than Carharrt but hard to get in the US.
I bought a pair of their insulated bibs based on a cheap sale price about 7-8 years ago - I'm wearing them for graveyards tonight. Still holding up like they were new.Southern Gorilla wrote:Never heard of them. But I see that Grainger carries it.Dirtmonkey wrote:Work King out of Canada is even better than Carharrt but hard to get in the US.
Considering the conditions you work in, that's a pretty serious endorsement. I'll be looking into them more.Dirtmonkey wrote:I bought a pair of their insulated bibs based on a cheap sale price about 7-8 years ago - I'm wearing them for graveyards tonight. Still holding up like they were new.Southern Gorilla wrote:Never heard of them. But I see that Grainger carries it.Dirtmonkey wrote:Work King out of Canada is even better than Carharrt but hard to get in the US.
I got wrote up at work because I hurt an engineers pride one day. After 3 failed attempts at making a beer machine run and customers in the next day for their test/performance run to accept the equipment, I asked the boss to let me wave my magic wand on the machine over night. I'm not an engineer but have had drawing classes and I've stayed in quite a few Holiday Inn's fixing said equipment over the years. That night I drew up on graph paper and fabricated all the parts with the help of another long time veteran. The design was simple but very effective and worked like a charm. When the engineer got there the next day his latest non-working contraction was laying in the floor and mine was installed. Customers arrived 2 hours later and approved the machine , and bought 2 more. My design is now standard on over wrap beer machines. It took one cross remark from the engineer when I arrived at work that afternoon for me to lash out on him. In front of a crowd of my people and one of his elder engineers I informed him I could do better with my graph paper and pencil than he could do with his computer and degrees. So I got wrote up for not being politically correct and hurting his feelings.. Big Wup was my reply. They fired him a year or so later.REDONE wrote:times deuce. As usual I work directly with engineers. Well, I am an engineer but more in line with "train engineer" than "process engineer", haha! I love going into their offices to update them on things and shaking the dust and mung off my shoulders while I do. It's taken skill to learn to keep a straight face and keep talking while watching them cringe. I also like asking them for "engineer" things that todays engineers don't use. "Can I borrow some graph paper?", "Do you have a french curve?", "My TI96 crapped out, can use yours while mine charges in your window?". In the end though, if my actual day didn't involve sore muscles from man handling iron and busting rusty bolts that just won't turn, I wouldn't much feel like I earned my pay.Southern Gorilla wrote:
To go off on a bit of a tangent... I find myself giggling about this. I know the world needs cubicle dwellers, IT folks, and all the other types who work clean, comfy 9-5 jobs. But I'm just demented enough to be glad I'm not one of them. There's something about slinging chains in a 40* rain that speaks to my inner neanderthal.
I've been losing weight actually. My old Carhartt jeans still fit fine. They are just too worn to wear.SJTD wrote:Let's see, computer driver, sitting all day. Maybe your ass has grown?