Engineer's comments

Wow

Almost as good as the engineer produced plans for which the curve tables show the Delta as: 85?25'21.2356". Surprising how many I come across that way.

Bank lady told to write a new description using a survey map for a new loan of a tract already having a perfectly good description. She was writing the calls as North 21 degrees, 21 feet and 21 inches a distance of 200.01 feet. They sent her over to me for some instruction, which she got along with a warning about them writing descriptions in the first place which probably was ignored.
jud

WENDELL!, I'm tellin ya, we need a 'face in palm' smiley face thingy!

I'll never ask for anything else. I promise!....:-)

Well, he was checking the the map check print-out against the plat and the computer printout said 73^21'60"

I took my daughter's 20 year old boyfriend out surveying a couple of weeks ago and had him run the gun and notes. He's a civil engineering student and had been bugging me to take him out on a job.
I showed him how to set up and level the gun and then how to backsight, foresight and shoot the distance. When I had him read me the first set of angles to put into the book, he said 179 degrees, 32 feet, 26 inches.

I didn't laugh as I didn't want to make him feel bad as he was already kinda intimidated by everything, but it did catch my funny bone. Kinda nice to share the story here with someone who understand the humor in it.

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Who cares?

I'm just waitin' for the clock to say 4:60 so I can go home for the weekend...

😉

Mine will say 16:60 thank you, kind of like 17:00 but different.
jud

Did you give him the KMA statement, or educate the sucker?

By the way.

That reminds me, it's 5 0'clock somewhere.

And I do believe I have opportunity to collect on a couple of beer leg set ups this week. I think its time.

KMA - ? Kris Morgan Attitude? Effective but yet not very tactful.

LOL! It is as you say, but I was referring to Kiss my a$$ treatment.

🙂

Kris Morgan Attitude, that's great!

Yeah,
I kinda got the feeling they're synonymous.

Ryan,
A subtle smile is in order. Engineers have been struggling for years to admit that they need Surveyors to do what they do for their end product. Sadly, 99.9% won't admit so they offer ridiculous comments that seem to reflect their inner most fear of need.

A classic case of the fact that the engineers that build the survey instruments, only know how to use them in a limited fashion, and then they have strayed beyond their abilities.

Kinda funny!

Nate

> Yeah,
> I kinda got the feeling they're synonymous.

rotflmao

quite accurate:-P

On the whole, this discussion is quite ironic. A bunch of Surveyors, that on the average, have less education than the average Engineer, talking about stupiity.

Also a bunch of Surveyors degrading clients instead of seeing it as an opportunity to build an relationship by demonstrating value.

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Unfortunately, education has little bearing on common sense... but the two can go very well together when it happens (which is not often enough)

John

Just how does someone GET common sense without being EDUCATED in common sense?

In reality many of the described instances are not lack of common sense. They are descriptions of limited education NOT teamed with experience.