Re: Just a thought

I was a member of a corporate committee to review and issue engineering standards, till I was given permission to take early retirement. Well now everybody on the committee has retired or been promoted and it has been disbanded. The company, a large multi-national chemical oufit, has downsized so much that they had delegated the standards issues to a engineering consulting firm. This one man group was never very helpful except for trivial questions. Since then they changed consulting firms and have not assigned anyone to address standards issues. The people now just follow the old standards, which will become outdated, or just flounder or ignore the need to adhere to standards, so I've been told. So yes this format gives an opportunity for people to brainstorm problems and ask technical questions where they maynot have any other resource.

• Original Message ----- From: Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> To: ? <PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] Just a thought

> >I think it has to do with an overall trend to out source
> Speaking as a consultant, I think it comes from an overall trend for
> corporate America to fill middle management slots with 'generalists' who
> continue learning less and less about more and more until they end up
> knowing nothing about everything.
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Received on Thu Jul 19 16:18:00 2001