AAAARRRRGGHHH!
Sorry, gotta rant for a minute here.

I'm an engineer. I work with other engineers. Supposedly we're all responsible professionals.

I arranged to take a week off to go to England. My boss said it was fine as long as my work was covered while I was gone.

I had two projects that needed to go out. One was waiting on some calculations from the structural engineer, the other was waiting on drawings from a designer and documents from the electrical engineer.

In my absence they were asked to take their info to my supervisor. I had all of my documents printed, the things marked on them that needed to be marked, and the transmittal ready to go. All my supervisor needed to do was fill in the last couple of lines of the transmittal, put the documents together with mine and hand them to the mail room and all would fly out the door.

I came in yesterday to find the documents still on my desk.

I went to my supervisor. He told me that the others never brought him anything.

Well, the designer had sent out an email that he had finished his drawings. No prob- I got them and printed them, so they're ready to go.

The electrical engineer was out yesterday. The structural engineer said he would have them for me by the end of the day. (Never mind that he said he'd have them a week ago...)

This morning? The structural engineer is still working on the calcs, and the electrical engineer still has a few hours to put in on his stuff.

Both of these guys have been here for ten years or more. I've been here for seven months.

WHAT THE FUCK! I was not here to nag them, so they couldn't meet the deadline?!? I already have three kids- why do I need to babysit two men who are both substantially older than I am?

And better yet- I got back a submittal stamped "Revise & Resubmit". Why? Because I didn't provide tabs for them to flip to for the motor, for the proximity switch, for the gear reducer. I included a table of contents that showed the order of the documents- are they unable to flip the pages themselves? They say that the maximum load is shown incorrectly, yet when I flip to the page in question, they are wrong- it shows 650, not 830 as they claim it does. Are these assholes unable to read?!?

If you read reports of a man running around naked but for a coating of blood, wielding a chainsaw and screaming and leaving a trail of dismembered engineers behind him, you'll know that you're hearing news of the Loon...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 30 Sep 2008, 15:16, 12 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Naked and screaming eh!
Okay, you now have my attention.
( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 15:25, Reply)

Ah...
The best kind of screaming lunatic is one covered in blood, and naked :D
( Cawl, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 15:36, Reply)

Knowing you, Loony....
you'll cut yourself with the chainsaw before you hurt anyone else!
(The Stig, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 15:50, Reply)

You may be right.
Okay then, I have a double-bitted axe with a 36" handle, a six foot Masai spear and a large serving spoon that I will use instead. And a Jack Russell terrorist that I can thrown at them.

On the returned submittal it seems that the girl in the printroom that they just fired merely resent the old submittal instead of copying the new documents I handed her. FECK! I hope I still have the hard copies of what I sent...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 30 Sep 2008, 16:03, Reply)

What Stig said...
It is an impressive scar though, Mr Loon.

And you have my sympathies for fucking useless workmates.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 16:36, Reply)

Re: the chainsaw-wielding
you shouldn't really move about with the chainsaw moving, it's very dangerous.
( Malaka omdz, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 16:40, Reply)

sigh
do you know nothing about going postal in the 21st century?

Where is the whiney emo blog?

Where is the youtube video of you shooting tin cans?

where are the photos of you doing poses from nasty films so the parents can blame the media instead of the fact their son is a fucking fruit cake?

where are the machine guns?

3/10 must try harder, and a body count of less than 8 is frankly a disgrace to all former crazed maniacs
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 16:44, Reply)

Loony....
I wholeheartedly recommend you go absolutely, flipping postal. Take as many people as you can down.

The more you kill, the less Americans there are in the world!

If the people you kill, vote Republican, that would be a bonus.....
(The Stig, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 16:47, Reply)

Love that last line, Stig!
Loony - remember, workmates can never be relied upon.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 17:08, Reply)

*sigh* Yeah, I know.
Well, the structural guy got me his calcs, so that can go out. Two out of three ready to launch...

If the third guy can't get me his stuff, he'll have to send it out separately.

ARSE! FECK! DRINK!

EDIT: and regarding the knee scar- actually, it balances me out, as I have an equally large scar on my right elbow from when I broke it as a child. Or at least that's how I'm choosing to look at it...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 30 Sep 2008, 17:24, Reply)

This sounds like
every day at work for me. I spend a good 70% of my time chasing people for stuff.

50% of those people are engineers and we only use them occasionally for load bearing tests on mezz floors or if load bearing walls have been reversed into by a HGV.

One said "calm down bird" the other day I told him to shove that pathetic attitude up his fucking ass and get me my goddamn report.

In my inbox within 10 minutes... strange.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 17:47, Reply)

Engineers....
It irks me that I studied 4 years to work as an engineer and some nonce arrives in the office to fix the photocopier and has the audacity to call himself an engineer.
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Wed 1 Oct 2008, 11:41, Reply)