OT: What it's like to be an engineer....

Jeev said:
I've seen so many projects fall victim to horrendous re-work and re-design costs to meet the promises made to clients. On a few occasions requests have been ok'd without consulting the technical side with the attitude that it'll be fine, and a solution will somehow appear without added time or resources.

I was on site last year and one of the Engineering Managers of our clients told me "Your company needs to say no sometimes. This should have been 2 machines. It's too much for one machine to do, and we should have been fine with that."

If only...
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Your company sounds a lot like my company Jeev, funny that...
 

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