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TdC

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...someone at work tips you for a project because you're an "old school engineer" and they need someone to keep the "young pups" in check. I'm a young god ffs! Old school engineer is someone who smells of scotch and slide-rules and mumbles about pivots and forces and densities and stuff :eek:



Dude. Dude :(
 

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Isn't everyone on FH over 30 already, which makes this the saddest forum alive...or the most excellent :D
 

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Isn't everyone on FH over 30 already, which makes this the saddest forum alive...or the most excellent :D

Still got 1 1/2 years left before I reach the 3 0.

Though I do look at anyone under 21 as kids. Saying things like 'I was never that stupid at that age' or 'you have so much to learn of the world'
 

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TdC said:
Dude. Dude :(

Look out for slippers this christmas and large print porn in secret santa.

Or being asked to dress as santa...
 

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Anyone who compares me to Scotty is a winner.

Also:

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Look, Mr. Scott, I'd love to explain everything to you, but the Captain wants this spectrographic analysis done by 1300 hours.
[La Forge goes back to work; Scotty follows slowly]
Scotty: Do you mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, well, I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
Scotty: How long will it really take?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: An hour!
Scotty: Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would *really* take, did ya?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, of course I did.
Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.
 

old.Tohtori

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I use that in design work all the time, learned it from the same man too :p

"How long is that design going to take?"
"About a day."
*hour later*
"Here you go."
"Oh that was really fast!"
 

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old.Tohtori said:
I use that in design work all the time, learned it from the same man too :p

"How long is that design going to take?"
"About a day."
*hour later*
"Here you go."
"Oh that was really fast!"

And that's your mistake cos the next time you say a day they will expect it in an hour!

If you say it's a day. Deliver it in a day or just slightly under even though it only took you an hour.
 

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And that's your mistake cos the next time you say a day they will expect it in an hour!

Never happens ;)

And if you never deliver stuff before time, you're just a regular worker with over-exaggerated time schedules.
 

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I'd rather be someone who others think is realistic with time-keeping and reliable at estimating how long something will take tbh.
 

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I'd rather be someone who others think is realistic with time-keeping and reliable at estimating how long something will take tbh.

The problem is, if you're too realistic, you get boned when something unexpected happens and you fall behind.
 

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I'd rather be someone who others think is realistic with time-keeping and reliable at estimating how long something will take tbh.

Oh but the magic comes from keeping that image and still delivering things before they are due ;)
 

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