Astonishingly accurate. :tup:
Mike and Fry
sooo i gotta ask, do you have experience doing systems work (like this programming)? Depending on the answer I have a follow up comment 
lol I’ve been doing control systems and ladder logic for a couple of years. HTML and other uber nerd ascii based programming? I try to stay as far away as possible, and have been pretty successful to that end for most of my life.
Comments?
DO YOU LOVE ME ANY MORE?
well, you’re kinda 50/50 on what i wanted to flip out about 
so basically you understand control systems but you don’t program them? if so, that is typically what drives me up the fucking wall about engineers. I realize this was probably not common place for you to go off and do your own programming, but engineers do this ALL the time. Not programming in particular, but just doing stuff they don’t know anything about, instead of finding someone that could knock out a task in an hour they will spend days fumbling through it themselves. I run into this all the time, and it really makes me understand why R&D costs are astronomical, because I can only assume that it happens across the board.
For example, the other day 3 engineers decided to take it upon themselves to try and setup some computers to work with test equipment, they likely spent the bulk of the day prior working on this “project” and when I arrived to set it up properly for them I find the two computers setup like this:
A pole attached to the desk with an extension cord running along it which then went overhead of where you would sit/stand to work at the workstations to another pole connected to another table. One of the computers with a wireless adapter on it (with a manually assigned IP address, likely trying to communicate with the equipment they were trying to setup, bare in mind this equipment is not wireless), and then to top it off, I see an Ethernet cable running from the NIC on one computer into the NIC on the other. I think to myself wow these guys must assume that the computers will just up and figure out routing themselves and crossover cables are for dummies anyways. Upon further inspection it appears they tried to pull two of the pairs of cable out (arbitrarily and incorrectly) and tried to stuff them back in the connector to make their own crossover cable without a crimp tool. I don’t even know what the hell they were trying to accomplish but that is three people for a day cobbling something together, and they all make more money than I do.
fuck. engineers can be the smartest and dumbest motherfuckers all at the same time.
anyways, this may not apply directly to you and this situation, and congrats for an off the cuff solution that panned out. just often times it doesn’t and it ends up costing the company a shit ton in the process.
/rant
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LOL I feel your pain, but I do all the programming. All the shit I’ve been working on is the very core of my job function. We’ve just never had an html-based human-machine-interface before, so figuring out how to do a few things has been challenging.
ok cool i don’t hate you then :mamoru:
LOL
I take on a lot of things I have no business doing?
I also agree. But, thats also how engineers build skills.
I also noticed that engineers always work to thwart the efforts of IT guys…
building skills and wasting company resources are not the same thing… if it’s related to what you do and there is a positive ROI to the time you wasted that is perfectly fine.
Also, lol @ engineers thinking they thwart IT… a huge group of our engineers think they’ve bested the system and have all of their work compartmentalized and “off the servers/backups” because they are paranoid nutjobs and refuse to follow company policy and store it on the file servers. we clone their workstations regularly and they haven’t the slightest clue, basically the only thing that happens is when they get fired/quit and they attempt to destroy their data the only thing that happens is we pull it from the day before and then throw the Intellectual Property policy in their face and hand it over to legal.
we got your shit and you’re in legal trouble trying to destroy company property 
They just need to rock the snky flash drive.
solutions for that too… you’d be surprised how much is available to ensure data security
They gave us some stupid Sanctuary programm that’s supposed to kill our USB ports for file storage. Needless to say, it’s no longer running on my PC.
Why do a lot of IT guys seem to actually take joy in being a buzzkill for everything people do to make work less boring? Those are the ones it makes me happy to defeat.
p.s.
Fry, I bet I could have solved your problem with perl/php in no-time
Classy.
I just delivered a balanced balance sheet, as always, to regulatory reporting an hour ahead of my deadline at noon, with $224,922,858,000 each in assets and liabilities/equity. It is a clusterfuck of a quarter end with the regulators requiring all kinds of new details and it will still be a challenge for Reg reporting to meet the deadline. Even the Fed got their sample implementation wrong and they built the damn rules.
As of the 2nd when I got the data, I was off by 30 billion dollars. As of 11PM last night, I was still missing 2 billion. I’m dead on within $100. I rule. I need to get hammered tonight.
how the hell does $30 billion go missing and no one notices?
Our general ledger system was still dead on, but it’s built to populate the regulatory reports directly. When the regulatory reports change, it goes to places that are no longer there. I have to find said changes, find said money that disappeared, and figure out how to make it re-appear, and in the right places, by the deadline. The largest chunk of it was the 22 billion that cut short my visit to your BBQ last Fri.
I’ll bet he cuts the check for the billion dollar executive toilets.
I beat myself up trying to make a real time data logging spredsheet last week, only to discover its extremely simple. And I did not even have to use a Basic module… I only needed 5 rungs of code 
After all of that, they re-opened the books today to put more entries in. I have to re-load everything tonight. 