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Sometimes you need to be more clever than the bean counters to get financing for your project....


Accountants and the Shrewd Engineers on a Train


Three engineers and three accountants are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three accountants each buy tickets and watch as the three engineers buy only a single ticket.

"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks an accountant. "Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer. They all board the train. The accountants take their respective seats but all three engineers cram into a restroom and close the door behind them.

Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.

The accountants saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all). When they get to the station they buy a single ticket for the return trip.

To their astonishment, the engineers don't buy a ticket at all. "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" says one perplexed accountant. "Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer. When they board the train the three accountants cram into a restroom and the three engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs.

Shortly afterward, one of the engineers leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the accountants are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please."
 
at my old place, only office staff were allowed to buy a laptop since "workers need tools, not computers'! So the solution was to order the laptop from a tool supplier and ask them to put "tools" on the invoice... sad but true.
 
That sounds like a place I was working a few years ago. I could only have the old laptops that the office staff no longer wanted. The bosses attitude was "What the hell do the maintenance guys need computers for?"
 
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"
The man below says, "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field. "
"You must be an engineer", says the balloonist.
"I am", replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well", says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's of no use to anyone."

The man below says, "You must be in management."
"I am", replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well", says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."
 
Common Sense is a Virtue.

I was called in a meeting a couple of years ago. I was asked by our new Human Resources/Accountant/Chief Operating Officier what would solve some of the Electrical/Controls area problems. Also sitting in the meeting was our Road Manager.
I replied standardize our PLC/HMI/DRIVES to one or at the best two brands. If the customer wants a different brand a surcharge should be tack on to the selling price. If the standard is used a discount is issued.
I was defiantly told this was a bad idea by the COO. In addition the Road Manager was asked what he thought and he also said the same thing.
The COO is no longer with us and our Road Manager is constantly on the road for 3-6 month startups and complaining. If fact he is in the U.K. right now be blackmailed by the controls guy. No one else there no how to program thr PLC/HMI devices.....
 

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