"your lucky to have a job"
adnauseum at anyone who dares to question the stupidity thats going on.....
*oilfield*
so you end up with a bunch of people who sit back and watch Rome burn while management fiddle away like Nero. *
"You don't need to read this just sign it.."
Translation:
I need you to put your name to this appallingly bad idea and accept all the responsibility when it goes wrong but I don't want you look at the details and tell me how bad an idea it is.
Definitely this:
“it will be good experience/for your development/for your competencies”.
Usually followed by “You should be grasping these opportunities/challenging yourself/stepping up” etc.
'That'll require a change control'
‘That’ll require a change control’
Hah! You'd ****ing hate me then as I'm QA. We have to say this all the time to the lab and manufacturing monkeys. I reckon if I just started saying it as soon as someone walks into the office to ask a question, half the time I'd be right. But wait, I don't have an office anymore because is now bloody hotdesking.
I know you're not on call... But
Casual racism. Rife in construction unfortunately 🙄
There isn't any money for this.
"Can you do [optional feature of software we decided wasn't worth paying extra for last year]"
"When can you do this by?" (I'm about to tell you the deadline but I want you to guess first)
"When will they meet their target grade?" It used to be "when will they pass" but we've progressed.
Used to get "it's only a 5min job" till we added all the 5min jobs then asked for a demonstration of doing it in said 5mins.
JFDI....
Can we just get to site and see “what the art of the possible” is ...
****
I’m an engineer
Makes me laugh when I recall a neighbour some years ago who was forever saying “oh, I’m an engineer” or his wife kept referring to him as an engineer (we both worked in the electricity supply industry).
Anyway, I needed a passport form signing so knocked on his door and asked him to witness. Embarrassed apologies from him followed as he could not sign as he “wasn’t technically an engineer” 🤦♂️
