National engineers week passed by - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2014, 12:38:18 pm
content: And what did we do? absolutley nothing. No party, no all night keggers in the lab, not setting the boss potted plastic plant on fire (or trying to smoke the pot that came with the plastic plant)We really are a bunch of dull nerds.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Engineers_Week_(U.S.)At least at lockheed the rocket engineers did something.http://sploid.gizmodo.com/these-lockheed-engineers-stuck-themselves-to-walls-usin-1527951213/@caseychan

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2014, 01:25:03 pm
content: Why should I observe a foreign engineers week? Esp. from a country where every Tom, Dick and Harry can call himself an engineer for being capable of carrying a mop around?

author: TerminalJack505
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2014, 01:27:36 pm
content: We got cookies where I work.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2014, 01:46:58 pm
content: Quote from: TerminalJack505 on February 22, 2014, 01:27:36 pmBetter than bananas.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2014, 03:26:16 pm
content: Quote from: Bored@Work on February 22, 2014, 01:25:03 pmYou are really boring.Any sane person would take any chance he got to party. Even of it is from a foreign country or if he had to fake some credentials.Sigh...

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 22, 2014, 03:45:38 pm
content: I'm only a field service technician. I wasn't invited.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2014, 05:06:30 pm
content: ah that's why i missed it too! i don't have the paper-and-ribbon.bloody bunch of stiff upper lip taffy nosed good for nothings. think they're better than the rest. well they can keep their engineer week. i declare the rest of the year Technician party time. there.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2014, 06:08:10 pm
content: Still waiting for IT guy appreciation day.

author: ah ffs
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 24, 2014, 08:30:24 am
content: Quote from: free_electron on February 22, 2014, 05:06:30 pmI'll mention that to the guys in the service department. The miserable sods could do with some cheering up.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 24, 2014, 08:38:41 am
content: Quote from: Stonent on February 22, 2014, 06:08:10 pmYour wish is granted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Administrator_Appreciation_Day

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 24, 2014, 09:30:42 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on February 24, 2014, 08:38:41 amThere's supposed to be cake and ice cream. I never got cake and ice cream when I was a system administrator.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2014, 08:34:58 pm
content: All you got was grief!

author: Phaedrus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2014, 09:15:15 pm
content: I got to do PowerPoint all week.But we did order a higher-wattage power meter for the lab. Yaaaaay.

author: Excavatoree
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2014, 09:24:49 pm
content: Quote from: TerminalJack505 on February 22, 2014, 01:27:36 pmUs, too.The plant manager told a stale joke. We got buttons to wear saying "I'm proud to be an excavatoree-co engineer."

author: photonpunk
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2014, 09:55:19 pm
content: Waiting for "Programmer's Day" personally.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmers'_Day

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 24, 2014, 10:13:18 pm
content: Quote from: free_electron on February 22, 2014, 05:06:30 pmQuote from: Stonent on February 22, 2014, 06:08:10 pmSorry Stonent, IT guys are even less appreciated than field service techs. We are all remote technicians working from home. There is never any cake and ice cream unless SWMBO takes pity on me, which isn't very often. Now, the 5 yr old granddaughter that lives with us, whole different story.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2014, 10:36:15 pm
content: If engineers are the brains and technicians the arms and legs of the company , IT is the snot holding it together.