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JPG40504 wrote:I assume you are not about to need road building/mining/oil drilling expertise etc. so I will leave those injuneers out of this discussion.

My father is an electrical engineer (31 years and counting) and I remember when they started calling garbage men "sanitation engineers". He pissed and moaned about that for years

joshh wrote:My father is an electrical engineer (31 years and counting) and I remember when they started calling garbage men "sanitation engineers". He pissed and moaned about that for years

Maintenance engineers also!

I just consider the source, smile condescendingly, and continue my life!:D


Do realize these asinine job titles are dreamed up by individuals not accustomed to the rigors of precise thinking that is a prerequisite for becoming an engineer. Need I elaborate by revealing their job title!;)

JPG40504 wrote: Do realize these asinine job titles are dreamed up by individuals not accustomed to the rigors of precise thinking that is a prerequisite for becoming an engineer.

Implying that engineers are born, not made?

[quote="BuckeyeDennis"]Implying that engineers are born, not made? ]
No. Mental discipline is an acquired trait.

Idiots are born!

Mental dwarfs are born.

Stupidity is a sloppy thinking habit.

Some engineers are not immune.(sad to say!)

Some engineers become managers.

Get the drift?:D







Breakin several logic rules here!;) Intentionally!:p