Crossposted from https://beehaw.org/post/24258253
This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Wilson” who once worked as the boss of a welding shop attached to an engineering consultancy.
Wilson set the scene by telling us this story came from the early 1980s, when AutoCAD was replacing drawing boards.
“We had a new structural engineer who those of us in the shop quickly identified as an idiot with a degree,” Wilson wrote.
One day, said idiot decided that the computers used to run AutoCAD needed to be cleaned and that the welding shop was the place to do the job.
Last Wilson heard, he was employed by a large US-based aircraft company.
I’m guessing it starts with a “B” and ends in “oeing”
Cmon. It could be the other large manufacturer, Boein G.
The company let the idiotic engineer go a couple of months later for deleting AutoCAD from his computer to make room on its hard drive for a game.
So destroying five PCs, and losing a lot of project files, is a-okay 👍. But deleting AutoCAD for a video game is where the line gets drawn? 🤦♂️ 😂
The corporate mantra is “look like you’re doing work, even if that display is negatively impacting productivity” with the corrallary “Never look like you’re not doing work even when by not working you’re increasing productivity”
Besides being expensive, AutoCAD in the 80s needed a lot of floppies to install it, and hard drives at the time were very large but have small space, like about 20mb.
Which PC had a 2mb hard drive? Smallest 286 PCs I can remember already had 20MB, and a floppy disk would hold 720kb or 1.44MB.
Engineers do a lot of dumb stuff ask anyone who works in the trades
Being an engineer just means you have a degree. It’s almost like everyone is different, and its just a piece of paper…
What a goddamn motherfucker with a bought degree from a diploma mill. The kind you want to hit with a keyboard.
Equally dumb are the owners who hired him straight off the street and have no fucking idea either what better to do with what they bought: thousands of greenbacks in computer hardware and AutoCAD.
Yeah, but… were they clean?
Fire cleans all!
“It’s at 90 PSI and is 80 percent air, 15 percent water, and 5 percent oil,” Wilson said. “When he hit the boxes with this mess, he blew memory chips and any other loose bits completely out of the motherboards.”
I’ll have to try that to get gunk out of my laptop keyboard.
