OT: Engineers

#11 09-15-2007, 03:39 PM

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:43:45 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Rich Grise
<rich@example.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:27:22 -0700, HardySpicer wrote:
>
>> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
>> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
>> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
>> line you serve on?
>>
>
>If you should happen to meet a train-driving engineer, I'm sure he will
>make it clear, because I can't imagine one not being rather proud of
>his job. "I'm a Train Driver!" ;-)
>
>I got the job title, "Systems Engineer" once, but that was a place
>where the owner wasn't impressed with titles anyway. He'd say, "You
>want a job title? How about President?" and I'd say, "Nah, then I'd
>have to make decisions like where to put the bookshelves an' shit."
>
>Today, I'm "Engineering Director". ;-) (not at the same company.)
>
>Cheers!
>Rich

"Head of everything that goes wrong" was in the letter that offered
me my best job evar

Martin

#12 09-15-2007, 03:46 PM

On Sep 15, 1:27 am, HardySpicer <gyansor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
> line you serve on?

Or someone that operates heavy construction equipment.

When I say I am an engineer, they change the subject.

#13 09-15-2007, 03:49 PM

On Sep 15, 12:39 pm, Martin Griffith <mart_in_medina@ya___.es> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:43:45 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Rich Grise
>
>
>
>
>
> <r...@example.net> wrote:
> >On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:27:22 -0700, HardySpicer wrote:
>
> >> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
> >> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
> >> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
> >> line you serve on?
>
> >If you should happen to meet a train-driving engineer, I'm sure he will
> >make it clear, because I can't imagine one not being rather proud of
> >his job. "I'm a Train Driver!" ;-)
>
> >I got the job title, "Systems Engineer" once, but that was a place
> >where the owner wasn't impressed with titles anyway. He'd say, "You
> >want a job title? How about President?" and I'd say, "Nah, then I'd
> >have to make decisions like where to put the bookshelves an' shit."
>
> >Today, I'm "Engineering Director". ;-) (not at the same company.)
>
> >Cheers!
> >Rich
>
> "Head of everything that goes wrong" was in the letter that offered
> me my best job evar
>
> Martin- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

When our devision's Chief Engineer was kicked upstairs to be Regional
VP of Engineering, we bought him a box of busines cards that read
"Emperor".

#14 09-15-2007, 03:50 PM

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:01:17 GMT, Gary Tait <classicsat@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>HardySpicer <gyansorova@gmail.com> wrote in news:1189844842.826135.277220@
>19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:
>
>> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
>> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
>> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
>> line you serve on?
>>
>> Hardy
>>
>
>One would prepend or append the title "engineer" with the sort of engineer
>one is.
>
>I call myself an engineering techinician.

An Engineer would be a good name for an engine designer..
"The crank shaft has metric and standard units mixed up...Call the
Engineer!.."

Others in the car design team would be:
The Seateneer
The Windoweneer
The Differentialeneer
The Brakeneer
The Dashboardeneer
The Rimeneer
The Exhausteneer
The Autobodyeneer
:P

Reverse Engineering Engineers could be Buccaneer Engineers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccaneer
D from BC

#15 09-15-2007, 04:47 PM

Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:49:14 -0700, the renowned mpm
> <mpmillard@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >On Sep 15, 4:27?am, HardySpicer <gyansor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
> >> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
> >> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
> >> line you serve on?
> >>
> >> Hardy
> >
> >Easy...
> >Train engineers have greasy fingernails.
> >The other ones have pocket protectors.
>
> Sanitary engineers have mops.

While unsanitary engineers need mops.

--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

#16 09-15-2007, 05:01 PM

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:19:01 -0700, in sci.electronics.design John
Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:27:22 -0700, HardySpicer <gyansorova@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
>>How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
>>occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
>>line you serve on?
>>
>>Hardy
>
>Around here, if you tell someone that you're an engineer, they usually
>assume that you're the tech kind, not a train driver. They will often
>ask "what kind", meaning mechanical, electrical, electronic, computer.
>I answer "I design electronics" and they usually look impressed.
>
>There are also "stationary engineers", people who operate power
>plants, boilers, HVAC systems in buildings.
>
>Does a stationery engineer design paper products?
>
>John
>
>
>
I've had a few occasions when I have had to put "I design
electronics"(sort of) on forms, for banks and other slave traders, and
the sheeple assumed that that everything comes "designed", they had no
idea that people actually do it.

Martin

#17 09-15-2007, 05:11 PM

In article <1189844842.826135.277220@19g2000hsx.googlegroups. com>,
gyansorova@gmail.com says...
> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
> line you serve on?

You don't. Tell them "HO".

--
Keith

#18 09-15-2007, 05:12 PM

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:01:12 +0200, Martin Griffith
<mart_in_medina@ya___.es> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:19:01 -0700, in sci.electronics.design John
>Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:27:22 -0700, HardySpicer <gyansorova@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
>>>How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
>>>occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
>>>line you serve on?
>>>
>>>Hardy
>>
>>Around here, if you tell someone that you're an engineer, they usually
>>assume that you're the tech kind, not a train driver. They will often
>>ask "what kind", meaning mechanical, electrical, electronic, computer.
>>I answer "I design electronics" and they usually look impressed.
>>
>>There are also "stationary engineers", people who operate power
>>plants, boilers, HVAC systems in buildings.
>>
>>Does a stationery engineer design paper products?
>>
>>John
>>
>>
>>
>I've had a few occasions when I have had to put "I design
>electronics"(sort of) on forms, for banks and other slave traders, and
>the sheeple assumed that that everything comes "designed", they had no
>idea that people actually do it.
>

Yeah, I never could get my mother to understand what I did.

>
>
>
>Martin

Does a staff engineer design flagpoles?

John

#19 09-15-2007, 05:22 PM

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:12:54 -0700, in sci.electronics.design John
Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:01:12 +0200, Martin Griffith
><mart_in_medina@ya___.es> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:19:01 -0700, in sci.electronics.design John
>>Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:27:22 -0700, HardySpicer <gyansorova@gmail.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
>>>>How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
>>>>occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
>>>>line you serve on?
>>>>
>>>>Hardy
>>>
>>>Around here, if you tell someone that you're an engineer, they usually
>>>assume that you're the tech kind, not a train driver. They will often
>>>ask "what kind", meaning mechanical, electrical, electronic, computer.
>>>I answer "I design electronics" and they usually look impressed.
>>>
>>>There are also "stationary engineers", people who operate power
>>>plants, boilers, HVAC systems in buildings.
>>>
>>>Does a stationery engineer design paper products?
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>I've had a few occasions when I have had to put "I design
>>electronics"(sort of) on forms, for banks and other slave traders, and
>>the sheeple assumed that that everything comes "designed", they had no
>>idea that people actually do it.
>>
>
>Yeah, I never could get my mother to understand what I did.
>
>>
>>
>>
>>Martin
>
>Does a staff engineer design flagpoles?
>
>John
No, MRSA

Martin

#20 09-15-2007, 05:23 PM

"HardySpicer" <gyansorova@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1189844842.826135.277220@19g2000hsx.googlegro ups.com...
> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
> line you serve on?
>
> Hardy

An engineer is someone who works on engines.

Sometime back, in the U.K. 'Computer programmers' called themselves
'Software Engineers,' simply, and only because, it sounded less nerdy!

; )

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