If At First You Dont Succeed

Quote the customer another $80k

[mech-eng-official]

This blog acts as a sort of pressure relief valve for the daily insane neurotica which sustains a career engineer in the safety-critical, maximum-profit design world. Imagine this pin to be an osha-compliant piece of safety signage requiring sanity protection equipment to be worn if venturing past this point.

Ground rules: If I ever make an Engineering Recommendation here, 1) i’m an engineer but not Your engineer 2) don’t do it, i’m smart but not That smart 3) unless you’ve issued a Statement of Work and I’ve accepted your PO, i dont have to listen to you.

(that’s how the lawyers say it on legal forums right?)

I imagine someday I’ll have some handy dandy tags listed here but for now the content will all just be a mystery

[mech-eng-official]

If you think about it, making a to-do list with detail and need-by dates is basically just as good as getting the work done

[track-maniac]

I am absolutely serious when I say this I need motorised cat ears I can control with subtle movements to show emotions

[ayxasma]

Girl you're literally an engineer in 2 years and the smartest person I know ! You're talented enough to make it yourself

[track-maniac]

oh I am aware. I am also aware I can be graded on a personal project such as this one

[mech-eng-official]

This sounds fun

[mech-eng-official]

Wtf is studyblr

Are you telling me people are on this site to learn things

[mech-eng-official]

I’ve been watching our PM email back and forth with the customer team for like an hour trying to figure out when the SMEs from both sides are available so we can move the placeholder meeting. Day-of. So now I don’t know if I have a meeting in three minutes or in four hours

[mech-eng-official]

Update: the options were 10am or 2pm. Customer states later in the day is better for their SME. Our SME confirms 30min availability at 10am.

Customer moves the meeting invite to 1pm.

[mech-eng-official]

I’ve been watching our PM email back and forth with the customer team for like an hour trying to figure out when the SMEs from both sides are available so we can move the placeholder meeting. Day-of. So now I don’t know if I have a meeting in three minutes or in four hours

[aromantic-diaries]

Tryin to prove a point to my homophobic mom

Reblog if you think it's perfectly fine and maybe even great to put coins in the blender

[mech-eng-official]

Depends on the coin, depends on the blender. Is your blender secured to your workstation? What material is the pitcher made from? Are you wearing eye and ear protection? Do you have an accessible emergency stop for the blender? Are you filming? Did you say ‘that oughtta do it’ when you put the lid on? Are you recording your setup and results for traceability?

I think it has merit I just would like to see a more formalized test procedure review process.

[mech-eng-official]

Catching supply chain asking about cheaper material o-rings than the drawing specifies, like a dog with something in their mouth they know they can’t have

No we Cannot try a new o-ring with the wrong fluid compatibilities and working temperature envelope and fail re-qualification of the product prompting a 2 year RCCA where the outcome is Supply Chain Cheaped Out to save twelve bucks each on thirty units for the year. Stop asking design engineering, and don’t go ask the EE’s because you think they’ll say yes.

[ashenmind]

I would argue that the most metally metal is silver

it’s got the highest electrical and thermal conductivity and actually does chemistry

[mech-eng-official]

Is this like, an elemental competition or are good (alloyed) metals allowed

[ashenmind]

alloys are always allowed with me but I can’t think of many that are more metally than silver

[mech-eng-official]

Okay so i am willing to accept that metals are weirdly obsessed with shininess and conductivity, so yeah by definition i can’t really argue with silver.

BUT, I think quality as a metal can be practically weighed by some other metrics as well, like: strength, weldability/formability, availability of heat treatment etc.

I would propose Beryllium Copper as a People’s Choice, for its balance of shiny-and-conductive properties and mechanical properties. You can pick a specific alloy to get better strength or conductivity, as well as heat treatment. It is ~5x stronger than silver by tensile strength and can be used in hand tools. It also gets bonus points for being toxic which is a hallmark of many cool and baller metals.

[ashenmind]

I would argue that the most metally metal is silver

it’s got the highest electrical and thermal conductivity and actually does chemistry

[mech-eng-official]

Is this like, an elemental competition or are good (alloyed) metals allowed

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

taking a shit on the clock at work and posting on tumblr

[mech-eng-official]

I could Never, I Respect my project timelines Too Much

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

I know I can get my timelines done while shitting on the clock :)

[mech-eng-official]

Can you get your PM to talk to mine

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

taking a shit on the clock at work and posting on tumblr

[mech-eng-official]

I could Never, I Respect my project timelines Too Much

[jabberding0]

a lot of machine use

[mech-eng-official]

Bad news: I have a 2hr drawing review today

Good news: it’s not my drawing review

Bad news: I had to put a lot of red ink on the drawing package

Good news: My new fountain pen + red ink came on Monday and it has a smiley face on the nib

[mech-eng-official]

I bet it feels good as fuck to get crimped onto a wire if you’re a M39029 pin receptacle

Sadly I am not, so the four deliciously crushing jaws of crimping fulfillment are forbidden to me

[cutecipher]

the average person is 5 minutes of serious research from their whole ideology falling apart

[mech-eng-official]

Yeah like today I thought I was totally locked in on the strain relief for the connector on my test cable, then when I realized I needed a smaller size rubber bushing, i did the 5 Minutes of Research. It turns out the package of bushings we use All the Time is not just the wrong size, but also only originally intended for use with a different style of cable clamp. AND the spec was superseded :c so tomorrow I’ll have to get someone to buy the right spec so i can relearn the proper cable accessory system and get the right parts on order

[boringkate]

Happy birthday to all the girls named May! I hope you get your maypole danced around!

[mech-eng-official]

Did someone say Maypole? Look at those bobbins dancing around, indeed