The horse is dead
Have you ever dealt with a doctor or an engineer? Sometimes they get really rude if you question them. That arrogance is something that I refuse to tolerate.
Yes, I have dealt with many engineers... :rolleyes: :D
I hated the engineers that tried to act like they were above everybody else... I hate the "I'm better than you" attitude...
I liked the ones who treated others with respect...
We had an engineer at work named Wally, he had a master's degree and took every opportunity to tell you... He thought he was above everybody else because of his master's degree and looked down on them... Everyone hated his pompous *** and laughed at him behind his back...
We had a female engineer in our group, Mary Z., who used to say, "You can wipe your *** with that master's diploma"... She was a very smart competent engineer who treated others with respect and didn't look down on them... (Mary was also a certified black belt and could kick all of our asses too...)
We had a layout room that would measure parts for us so we could find out if they were within spec or not... We needed the layout room to support us to get our job done...
There was a guy that worked in the layout room named Jerry, he was your common UAW worker... Jerry was a good guy and was good at what he did, he would go out of his way to help you when he could and would tell you if there was a better way too measure the part and get the information you were looking for...
One day Wally needed a part measured and was talking with Jerry... Jerry told him that what he was asking him to measure would not going to work... Jerry told him that there was not a way to get the measurement that Wally was asking for... Wally told him to measure it and he would trig (trigonometry) it out, (you know - do the math)... Jerry knew trigonometry very well, and could calculate it himself probably better than Wally, but Wally treated him as if he was just a "dumb UAW worker" and gave him the I'm better than you attitude...
Jerry measured the part for Wally and Wally didn't get the information that he wanted because Jerry was right...
But after that, Jerry would always put off Wally's requests and do ours first because of Wally's attitude... And if Wally didn't request the layout to get the information he wanted, Jerry wouldn't tell him the correct way to measure the part for what Wally wanted and just measured what he asked for, then Wally would have to fill out another layout request and have Jerry do it again, the right way... This took more time for Wally to get the information he needed to do his job, making him more ineffective...
You had to treat Jerry right, with respect to earn his respect... If you didn't give him respect he would just do what he was required to do... Jerry may not have gone to college and get a degree, but he was not stupid and knew what he was doing...
Another Wally dumbass story...
Wally got a job at another company and put in his two weeks notice before the two week Christmas holiday break...
Someone told him, "Why did you quit before Christmas, if you turned in your notice to quit on the first day back after Christmas/New Year break, you would get the holiday pay and profit sharing bonus..."
Wally then went to HR and tried to modify his notice to quit after the break... The HR guy said that he would allow it if the manager would vouch that Wally was a "critical employee"... When Wally asked our manager to vouch for him, the manager looked at Wally and said, "I guess you are not that critical..." And Wally screwed himself out of two week's vacation pay and profit sharing bonus... :rofl:
We were all laughing about that... :lol:
Mary was right, the only thing Wally's master's diploma was good for was wiping his ***...