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I admire you. I had enough just learning what I needed to pass a FCC test and it was aggravating enough.

Guess I do. I only deal with civil engineers mostly in the petro chemical or power plant industry. Most of them don't have to fill out a time "sheet" for billiable hours because they are getting paid to be at work and not billed per job. Very few of them are consulting engineers. They are...

I got no time for that lol. I was lucky the boss at my company was an engineer (we only had 40 people total and that included the shop) and we had the contract to provide all maintenance in reference to structural and plate work (non mechanical) at the Exxon refinery, chem plant, plastics plant...

I have zero patience for anything. I guess it works out in the end. I gravitated to the ultra quick turnaround work in this sectory for that reason I guess. Get it done now at any cost seems to be the motton. I can see it has a lot of pluses tho. For a lot of people I would guess it would be...

Mine do as well. When we approve the already filled in time sheet we also approve anything we charged on the company card and any reimbursements. But like I said 90% or more of the people who use it are on hourly pay and have to OK their time sheet. I like seeing ahead of time, just me but...

I think at one time I did more pipe supports than anyone in the nation. The shop next to ours was IPS (internatioanal piping supply) which did piping for the petro chemical and nuclear industry. All their pipe supports they farmed out to me. A subsidarary of Jacobs. which in itslef is huge...

We do the same thing, it takes 30 seconds. It could be set automatically but you see how much vacation time you have and personal time. Plus it shows you which week your insurance is taken out etc... Like I said for 30 seconds, whatever. Everyone in the company is on the same system and only...

Best part of our schedule is I get off at 11 on Fridays and we typically take an hour or more even tho we "technically" get 30 minutes. FIrst day on job the president and his son (VP of operations) took me to lunch and they said you get 30 minutes for lunch. Ok. We got back after an hour and I...

Same, mine says that and we get off at 11 on Fridays lol.

In my previous job we had to put hours on each job since we did multiple a day. The secretary did it for everyone and just made shit up. Nope never worked on contract with the government. I love doing contract for companies that literally when they say "Money is no object" they mean it. And...

I'm working at a part time job starting next Sunday for $10/hour. Moving up in the world. If things work out I might really be onto something lol.

Saw last week that Boston still had snow piled up in giant deals they had pushed up last winter.

What kind of engineer? I've never met an engineer that had a time card to fill out? OK we have time cards but they are already filled out and we ok them on Friday morning lol.

She probably got more excercise in that short vid than 3/4 of the people on the internet do in a week.

Yeah I mix both. Thru the years I was doing drafting and design work I used my personal computer as my work computer. Doens't help I was tied to a LISP program in AutoCad that was written to run on AutoCad 12 (not 2012) and paying someone to fix it just wasn't worth it. Cheaper to just keep a...

We are very low BS, which keeps me in this part of the sector. It's about go to work, do your job, and at the end of the day (so to speak) have something on a truck out of the shop to the customer. I'm upper management here. If I want to know how much we have gotten paid on a job I walk down...

Put me in the camp of if it ain't broke don't fix it. I still haven't seen a well defined answer why someone "needs" to upgrade. What is the major improvement other than it's new. Lots of people use a computer everyday without a lot of the stuff mentioned here, social media etc... I have it...

I zip tied mine to the bottom of the regular drive cages. I'm sure one of them is upside down.

I bought a key to office 2013 pro plus. I put it on my personal computer and I'll ask around what people want/need and see if it addresses it. Our IT guy is out of town at our MS shop so when he gets back I'll basially ask him what he wants to do and the tell the boss. When interviewing...

Problem here is none of the stores really sell much of a choice. Article the other day said they account for 80% of the ice cream sales minus the store brands which apparently don't use sugar. Love blue bell. Banana pudding flavor being my favorite. That's good shit right here.

I don't make what Cad makes, but I live on about 20% of my pay. The rest goes into retirement and buying more land. I don't get people that make tons of money like millions per year and keep doing it and at age 70 want more. Fuck that. I'm doing this long enough so I can get out and get out...

The crisis is over. They started making blue bell ice cream again today.

CAD has a new friend.

Voice has a certain something to it when you are "motivating" someone who fucked up a giant part of a project. Now to people in the office I'll email. But to the field when they delay a billion dollar project for something stupid me yelling is much more effective I have found. I only yell at...

I think you should hire secreatries and put their picture up here and we vote on them. I mean C'com get with the program it's 2015. Automatic hire if we get tits of course.

There's a lot of people doens't matter what minimum wage is are never going to work their ass off. Look at minimum wage now they'll put X number of people in a house rather rather than work harder or get a skill to increase their pay. A couple making $15/hour full time make $62k a year which...

We call them designers. They do the work and the engineers stamps it. If I had a dollar for every engineer I talked to that had his stamp on something and he said "I never looked at it" and had to call the designer or draftsman/detailer to find out something.

It does seem to come with a lot of stuff that we never use, like powerpoint. From the people I've talked to so far they use outlook obviously, excel a lot, word and that's all I've found so far. Our data entry folks work on our software and then when they are done it's exported straight to...

I owned a company. Pay was all over the board. It's kind of hard to describe. For example in the shop, some fitters worked all day every day and never had an issue come back from the field, never complained etc..They were paid more than the guy who took too many smoke breaks, had to take off for...

Our engineers are dealing with lots of other engineers outside the comapny on a hourly basis, they need a secretary. She is also part document control and various other things, she doesn't just answer the phone and schedule meetings. She makes travel arrangements and makes sure documents get...

I don't make the money you will be making but here they just gave you a budget and told you to tell the secretary to make it happen. I didn't decorate much. The only visitors I get are other types like myself who are pretty much no BS, if they come here something didn't go right. I bought an...

I'm VP of engineering (I'm not an engineer) and I have a secretary and the department (we have 2-1/2 engineers) has one just for them. Go on strike or something. Most engineers I work with/against have a secretary.

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

I could live the rest of my life with tiles. I learned to read at an early age so I didn't have to communicate with pictures.

Just for Japan today.

Saw this immediatly after posting here. An Unintended Consequence of Wal-Mart Pay Raise: Unhappy Workers - Bloomberg Business

I liked my 1-1/2 hour commute. I got more stuff done on they way to work than at work some days. Just getting mentally prepared and work out problems and such.

No I haven't seen the new escalade. To be honest in my area if you drive one you look to be an aspiring rapper if you catch my drift. I'm not a real big social guy and everyone at work drives a truck except a few people, the controller drives a toyota car of some sort. I don't even notice stuff...

Just what every diabetic needs, 300 freeze pops haha. Oh we ate the shit out of ice cream, just not otter pops. They had freeze pops but it was kind of considered the ghetto treat to be honest.

I think it was 5 cents or a dime when I went, an OJ was a quarter. Lunch was .75 to .90 if I remember right. I loved lunch in middle school. It was before all the health stuff they have now. We had shrimp creole every Wed. Real honest to god shrimp creole, not pre packaged crap. I still know...