Anyone Work for a Living?

[nodiddley]

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted,
"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don' t know where I am."

The woman below replied, "You are in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You are between 40 and 41
degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."

"You must be an engineer," said the balloonist.

"I am," replied the woman, "how did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and
the fact is I am still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help so far."

The woman below responded, "You must be in Management."

"I am," replied the balloonist, but how did you know?"

"Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of
hot air. You made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault"

[Bovon]

Cute, but this is the General Tech Discussion forum. This needed to be posted in the SysOpt Community forum.

[Strawbs]

It's a headline grabber though! :D :D

[Ammok]

Well it does have an engineer in it, in fact i was in a car once that broke down with an electronics engineer, a software engineer and and a car mechanic,


the mechanic said he could not get it working again for less than 300 bucks, the electronics engineer gave up when his multimeter packed in but the software guy got us running again by closing all the windows and restarting.:D

[skuz]

Heheh

Reminds me of a factory I once worked in.

The engineers were looking at their most recent baby (machine that put some metal clips onto a platic part), wondering what was the problem. They were only talking, none of them actually checking inside the machine.

Our old mechanic passed by, noticed them, took a hammer and hit the machine. Everything then worked fine.

:D :D :D

[Ammok]

I luv it. LOL.

[mentat_void]

Originally posted by skuz
Heheh

Reminds me of a factory I once worked in.

The engineers were looking at their most recent baby (machine that put some metal clips onto a platic part), wondering what was the problem. They were only talking, none of them actually checking inside the machine.

Our old mechanic passed by, noticed them, took a hammer and hit the machine. Everything then worked fine.

:D :D :D

Hehe. reminds me of place I'm in now. I am a machine operator making brooms and brushes--11.64 an hour but boring as ****. I just hope when I go for A+ that I can get a job with it--I plan on quitting and taking my $8000 after penalty tax from 401(k). But I am 30 years old with no job experience except this--got stuck taking care of sick mother and schizophrenic brother. But I see total idiots with no real computer skills with better jobs and I'm sitting here listening to idiots at work with there convoluted politics and general stupidity! ARRRGGHHH!!!!

[me4get]

I once watched three people work on a machine for 3 hours. After they gave up, I looked at it and told the operator to put a .020 shim on the right side of the die. All that was wrong was the die wasn't square to the table,.