Re: Fixed Price Quote for Engineering - Thoughts

From: <Paul>
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 23:38:00 EST

No worries. By then we'll all have the ever-elusive "design process piping facility" button incorporated onto the Windows desktop and we'll all have flying cars to fly to our jobs that we'll only have to work 2 hours per day (if that!) at and we'll all be so rich from the wonders of 21st century technology that we'll actually have the time to enjoy all the new stuff we can buy and play with while we tell our children how bad it was "in the old days".

Paul

From: "Hawco, Paul R."

I really like what I do – the potential is incredible but the politics …

It’s just not worth the headache - 5 years from now I bet I’m a math teacher.

From: Christopher Wright

>The politics of most companies and projects ultimately kill this process.
I'm not surprised. Every idiot move, safety violation and cut corner is also in there. Plus you have to keep up with it for a period of years through layoffs and resignations. Not likely, when you think of how many facilities doon't even have a reliable set of as-built drawings, let alone a record of modifications.

>There was a joke about the Space Shuttle being designed and built by the
>lowest cost bidder - I haven't heard it in years.
No doubt akin to 'an amateur built the ark; the Titanic was built by experts' which is every bit as hilarious. In fact the Titanic was built by experts; the number of lifeboats was a management call. Management also decided against reducing speed through the ice. Received on Thu Jan 15 23:38:00 2004

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