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[erunamiryene.livejournal.com]

"Hi, we need [structural engineering program designed by the DoD, so you know it's high quality, amirite?] installed."
"Okay." *installs program*

Twenty minutes later:
"OMG OMG OMG, we have a report that HAS to be submitted today, that we've known about for months, and we have no idea how to work this program. Damn you, tech support, for making it complicated. Did you mess with it?"
"I'm sorry, you knew about this report a MONTH ago, only requested the software YESTERDAY, and are now asking me if I *sabotaged* it? Seriously? Yeah, you're now at the bottom of my priority list."

I hate engineers.

Comments

[melstav]

Hey! I know a lot of engineers who are quite intelligent! One of them married me. (okay, maybe that's not the best example)

But seriously, every profession has its little special snowlakes who believe that a failure to plan on their part constitutes an emergency on yours.

[tanetris.livejournal.com]

Check Amazon for "[structural engineering program designed by the DoD, so you know it's high quality, amirite?] for Dummies" and advise engineer of shipping options.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there are lots of engineers out there who are wonderful people, but I worked for a communications company for a year or so, a while back, and every one of *their* engineers was a freakish creep with no common sense whatsoever.

[tauren-wardrums.livejournal.com]

Things like this make me want to be an engineer. That way when they don't listen to my suggestion that we need [structural engineering program designed by the DoD, so you know it's high quality, amirite?] at the start of the project, I get to say "Told you so" to my peers at the end when they find out they needed it.

[tuba-man.livejournal.com]

I worked with an Architectural engineering firm for a while. They had one jerkwad who constantly badgered our tech team and regularly sent out emails to their entire staff detailing how worthless we supposedly were. They fired him after 6 months.

The week before last Halloween, I was notified of a down server, so I drove over to their office. Everyone was out on the building's front lawn, drinking beer and carving pumpkins. I really wish I didn't have to drive after that, it would have been glorious.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

He doesn't work for a communications company (mecanical/marine engineer) And does have a *little* common sense, other than that, you just described my hubby. *cracks up*

(it's ok, I knew him for roughly 10 years before we married, so it's not like I had no clue. *G*)

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thing is, I'm reading this, and wondering if maybe you installed Version+1 of this program, when they were use to using Version, and the interface or something had majorly changed between the two... still not *your* fault you tried to provide them with the latest version, if so...

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

"Dear engineer, allow me to introduce you to a phrase known by many names, including '7P'..."

[pixilated-serra.livejournal.com]

OMGOMGOMG


i worked tech support for mining / civil / structural / environmental engineers for like three years.

I FEEL UR PAIN

also pretty much all [[engineering program designed by ---- so you know it's high quality, amirite?]] software can DIAF if u ask me

[cthulu-for-pm.livejournal.com]

Don't remind me...

My wife is studying Building Design this year, and as such needed AutoCAD on her PC at home. However, the student versions you can download from Autodesk are newer than what they have at uni, and the interface is different, and... By all the gods and goddesses in the world, I'm sick of AutoCAD.

(Yeah, I can understand adding new features, and improving existing ones, but for crying out loud don't keep changing the interface between versions for no reason other than because you can. MS, I'm looking at you, too.)

This rant was brought to you by the letters F and U, and the number 2.

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhmen to that. I just installed Win7 after using XP...and I'm boggled by the sheer amount of third-party software I'm having to install to get the same features and capabilities XP had. :-/

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

-A good mail program, for starters. (I'm using Thunderbird now, but that still has some...deficiencies).
-A good start menu that properly cascades directories out, letting me organize my files like I want, as opposed to cramming it all into a little cell-phone-style window.
-Autologin--picked up Ultimate Tweak, but while that gets rid of the Shortcut arrow overlays like I want, it doesn't provide Autologin like TweakUI used to.
-A decent file browser--the latest version of Windows Explorer is badly visually cluttered, doesn't provide access to settings, and even though the classic version restores the simple 'plus' signs for opening and closing folders, it keeps flickering them in and out when you hover over the listing, which gives me a headache.
-A way to whitelist programs for UAC, so that EVGA Precision (which I use to put a GPU temp monitor in the systray) doesn't cause a pop-up *every single time I boot*...*without* having to turn the whole UAC system off.
-Quick Launch bar that you can enable with a simple checkbox, rather than having to go to the MS site to learn you have to create a new toolbar (kind of sad when it's asked-about enough that they put a FAQ up about it, but don't actually put it in as a feature...)
-(Not really going to go into IE8 and how it's trying to copy Firefox poorly, since I switched over to FF as my browser back under XP anyway)
-Control over what I can and can't do with my *own* system (I nearly raged the first time I got an 'Access denied' response when trying to check app-data files on my own machine while using an admin-enabled account. Fortunately, I found that the files I was looking for were moved to 'roaming' under the user dir. :-/ )

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

I love how "no idea how it works" automatically goes to "you made it complicated".

Yes, I took this off the shelf software package you should have installed months ago when you should have started using it, invested days of work coding an entirely new skin for it that looks exactly like the one off the shelf but is "complicated" where the original one "isn't", just to jack with you for my own amusement. Yeah, that's it exactly.

It wouldn't have anything to do with you Piled Higher and Deepers never bothering to take the time to learn how to use the software, or at the very least, crack open a manual. Oh no. It's all my fault because I touched it. ::headdesk:: Yeah, been there, done that ..