Monday, April 8, 2013

You might be in an Aerospace Stress Office if...

1.  You plan your escape every day and make lists...
2.  You yearn for a hardbound copy of Roark's fourth edition.
3.  Someone asks you what you do for a living and they think you're a psychologist.
4.  You get really excited about an unknown lookup feature you've discovered in Excel.
5.  You sit in a cubicle that wasn't yours six months ago and has less reference and drawer space.
6.  The fun really starts when the "bad monkey" is someone else.
7.  Communication is something your "group" is having problems with.
8.  You see a good looking woman in the office and know for sure she's not in your group.
9.  You're happy that the component that failed on test was analysed by someone else.
10.  You don't know what you're doing, even so, you think you know more than anyone else.
11. Your bosses favorite lines are...
"We've lost another guy to the competition, so we have to work smarter..."
"My Hands are Tied"
"I'll get back to you on that"
"If anyone else is thinking about leaving, let me know"
12. You think that thread undercut related jokes are funny.
13. You think that weights engineers are very silly and only need simple math skills.
14. Manipulating numbers to satisfy someone else's needs is considered a living.
15. The report you were working on four years ago is sitting, unreleased, in a box at Iron Mountain.
16. You reply to design engineers questions confidently, without knowing the real answer.
17. The guy who sits in front of you makes odd peeps and pops all day. Smells of cabbage.
18. You make assumptions that are good sometimes, other times they're very, very bad.
19. You know at least ten people who don't work in your group any more, and several are still in it.
20. You have a posture problem, yearn to ring bells and douse invaders with boiling oil.
21. You laugh hysterically when someone says that Tim O'Shenko was an Irish guy.
22. You've heard of, or maybe even understand RPN and know someone with a HP calculator.
23. One of your colleagues has only one eyebrow.
24. You know at least one person (besides yourself) who has plotted the death of the chief of stress.
25. Jokes about hoop stress, column stability and internal pressure are hilarious in relation to sex acts.
26. At least one other person in your group has lost the will to live.
27. You read this entire list and understand it.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Unfortunately, I understand it.