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"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 05/17/2017 at 10:15 • Filed to: None

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Projects assembled with wrong versions of parts (also not made right), random changes to other parts, mid-stream hacks for fit of new things, substitutions, fabricating errors, parts designed years apart... Get this - some of these things don’t fit.

Apparently that’s my fault somehow. “Eeesh.”

Nibby > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 10:16

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unrelated but my sister texted me that GIF when he won the election

LOREM IPSUM > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 10:19

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 05/17/2017 at 10:21

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It *is* a good gif.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > LOREM IPSUM 05/17/2017 at 10:28

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My boss is about the furthest thing from a Lumbergh you could imagine - competent, not conniving, pleasant, genuine - except in some aspects of management communication. Clarity of intent and/or objective often absent. Tends to ask me to come up with something, then when it’s come up with, takes a drastically different tack on design or asks for a sudden change, either of which sends me scrambling to find out whether it will work, what I will have to *break* to make it happen, and whether (coming as it does from a more superficial understanding of the parts fit) it’s something I already rejected for a very good reason. And then, when the pileups *do* happen, *I’m* the dunce for not making it all come together.

Repeated phrase “check your drawings”. Okay, something is clearly amiss which I did not notice on my drawings - do I need to re-draw everything and test fit all things one at a time, or did something go fucky while it was being made that fucked up everything? And what is amiss? CAD IS NOT A MAGIC WAND AND I AM NOT THIS PROJECT’S FAIRY GODMOTHER. Ahem.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 10:41

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Sounds to me like your boss has either a) never done your job or b) has, but has forgotten and/or wasn’t very good at it. My money is on a)...

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 10:48

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 05/17/2017 at 10:55

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He dashes off one-and-done pencil sketch parts all the time, but has never worked in CAD. The exponential scaling of parts stepping on each other is not something he’s necessarily ever had to deal with. There’s also a dichotomy in that he designs by brute force while requesting designs that are optimized for look or compact. That... makes it harder.

Nibby > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 11:12

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http://caltingey.com/?page_id=98

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 05/17/2017 at 11:24

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I was rereading a Let’s Play of DarkSeed yesterday and thought of you, because retro games *and* H.R. Giger.

Nibby > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 11:25

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Excellent. What a great combination.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 11:35

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Ah, a boss who knows just enough to grossly underestimate the amount of effort required! Perfect! :)

TorqueToYield > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/17/2017 at 11:54

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Engineering is such a fun field:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 05/17/2017 at 12:09

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To generate the drawings for something which exists or fills a gap, easy. To do forensics to determine exactly where things got fucky or to alter things suddenly when hard limits are set by externalities... much harder.