"think outside of the box" and other horrible office stuff

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@drvnkd

lol
At my last job, we had weekly meetings to discuss our most important engineering projects. All the managers were there, Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales, Market, and
Shipping. (small company and the meeting was ~12 people.)

The list had ~30 active projects and the top 5 were URGENT.
At the close of the meeting, the sales guys would pitch new product ideas
and suggestions.

Toward the end my favorite comments were" How much more money can we get
after we design/build/fix it?"

If it could be profitable, I asked " which project are we to stop working on?"
That usually involved getting another project added to the list as the top 6 most important.

For some strange reason, our product design cycle would take over a year.

My new job is much better. All I have to do is convince a 71 y/o engineer that
my $2500 +/- 1% instrument is more accurate than his instrument of choice that will
require him reading gages and running calculations that should get him to +/- 5%.
Although, if he gets as close to the gages as he does to the control system PC’s monitor (1") he should really get a good reading.

Hows that for a rant?
Do I need to work on my synergism?

Honestly, your post was a little too long for me. Cliffs would be a nice addition, however I will just generally agree with you and give you the generic reply:
“Yeah, shit like that sucks.”