work!
are you joking, the boss is a uni graduate and he is fucking things over like no tomorrow, the fucking mess he is creating is beyond description.

Graduation..fuck that..shooting them...yes.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Tue 26 May 2009, 19:52, archived)

:(

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Tue 26 May 2009, 19:54, archived)

admittedly this may not be the case for all
but most of the graduates I have had to work with have had fuck all common sense,zero work experience and crap social interaction skills.

ohh but they can do a presentation and spreadsheet no trouble.

utter cunts the shit pile I have had and continue to have to deal with at work.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Tue 26 May 2009, 19:56, archived)

I spend most of my time drinking or playing xbox,
but can do some very hardcore sums when pushed.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Tue 26 May 2009, 19:56, archived)

One of my buddies in Uni days left with a first class hons. degree in civil engineering.
The first job he got straight after was with the local council, and his first task? - To design a new Hockey Pitch for a local secondary school.
two weeks of calcs, drawings, diagrams, drainage analysis etc etc, and he ended up solving a drainage issue on the affected area by putting the Hockey pitch on a 7 degree slope...
Suffice to say it never got beyond the drawing board.

He didn't last long there.
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 26 May 2009, 19:55, archived)

just makes my blood boil
just because they have a degree in fucking media studies does not mean they know the best direction to move a department.

grrr fucking useless twats.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Tue 26 May 2009, 19:57, archived)

*clicks*

( Fluzzy namby-pamby pudding and pie, Tue 26 May 2009, 19:58, archived)

Haha! I've worked with designers like that.
One of the first jobs I worked on, the designer had two 1050dia pipes running into a 2.4m chamber at the same level and about 15 degrees from each other. Can you believe it?!

It's a laugh a minute in civil engineering.
( Druid, Tue 26 May 2009, 20:03, archived)

My grandad was a builder and had laid out all the foundations for a house
before the team realised the architect hadn't put in any stairs.
( magnum, Tue 26 May 2009, 20:10, archived)

hahaha, oh my :)
I shouldn't laugh - (due to the nature of my own work) but stories like that aren't really as uncommon as I wish they were.
We were recently called in to prepare and supervise the Building Regs. on a block of flats in slough. Clients had paid upwards of £20k on 'Architect's fees' down there for planning, and they had conveniently designed a roof that defied the laws of physics. they missed it, planners missed it, and it sailed through planning.
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 26 May 2009, 20:15, archived)

I hope you managed to build the roof
Some sort of hover pads, or the suspensers ala Dune
( magnum, Tue 26 May 2009, 20:16, archived)

I'll send you a sketch of the roof they had designed and see if you can see where the problem was...
once it 'twigs' it's quite funny, but an expensive mistake to make.
/and one reason why I'll NEVER become a full architect. I much prefer the lower lights of an Arch. technologist. We design, and we KNOW it works.
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 26 May 2009, 20:18, archived)

That's archictects all over, though.
They'd have us build a bridge out of glass. Apart from TGA, he's great and should come out more often.
( Druid, Tue 26 May 2009, 20:19, archived)

A bridge out of glass!
I could stand below and look up girl's skirts.

On the escalator in House of Fraser yesterday the girl 2 steps above grabbed the bottom of her skirt to prevent me seeing her knickers (or perhaps lack thereof). I thought if she's concerned about that she should probably just wear a longer skirt.
( magnum, Tue 26 May 2009, 20:21, archived)

"And with that, M'lud, the defence rests"

( Druid, Tue 26 May 2009, 20:26, archived)

/technologist
I in no way wish to be associated with the bow tiwe wearing, leather patches on elbows denizens of design doom that are full blown architects.
I've worked for a few of them, and the best decision I ever made was to go it alone.

But thank for the kind words, you ol' flatterer you
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 26 May 2009, 20:22, archived)

But he's definitely middle-class - surely that's the only requisite quality for a good manager!

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 26 May 2009, 20:04, archived)