Well begun is half done.
Its just like eating______. Once you get by the smell you've got it licked.
It is either right or its wrong, there is no inbetween.
Pack snow around the tripod feet during the winter.
Stop spraying so much paint everywhere!
We’re building an anvil, not a watch!
SET YOUR PINS!
''Your Survey Is Not Good, Just Gross Errors Canceling Out''
From a Survey professor, 41 years ago.
From an engineering supervisor;
"We learn from our mistakes."
pause,
"But you are learning too much."
Paul in PA
You are always advertising. Wearing trashy clothes, acting like a punk in public, throwing a can out the window, no matter what you do, you are advertising for me when you are driving my vehicle or working in public.
Don't you dare bring me a problem! If you have a problem you can't resolve, you better come to me with a recommendation for an answer. If not, you lose out on the right to participate in the resolution and it might not be to your liking.
You boys are getting better and better at measuring between two points...but worse and worse and finding them two points...
A.J. Robinson, Arkansas #192
(He was talking about EDM and not GPS)
DDSM:beer:
"I expect you to review the evidence, formulate solutions, decide on one and then defend it to me!" R-Olson
"You do realize that "0.10 off line" is still on the G-damn 3-1/2" pipe right." 35 year Party Chief to me when I was a green survey tech.
If it was easy, they wouldn't be paying us to do it.
I worked for a Land Surveyor as a Draftsman in High School. He chewed me out for making out my timecard sloppily. He wasn't nice about it either (old school). I made out my timecards very neatly for at least 20 years after that until we started doing them in Excel worksheets.
A typical high schooler, I asked my Dad why that old guy was so nuts about my stupid timesheet. Dad explained that sometimes clients ask to see timesheets and a Draftsman's timesheet should be neat because a Draftsman should be neat. That made sense to me.
Missing Fingers
" Never take advice from people with missing fingers."
That is classically true and FUNNY.
Kind of reminds me of Nelson Algren's three rules:
Never eat at a place called "Mom's,"
Never play cards with a man named "Doc," and
Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.
I believe I'm guilty of two out of three, well, four now, but I've somehow survived it.
🙂
Don
"Get a haircut."
Bruce C. was a great mentor. Here are a couple of his.
1. When I was a rodman, Jim the I'man and he were discussing the way to go about the days task on the way to the job site one morning. Jim made a statement like "You know we could do this and then that" to which Bruce said "Yes, we COULD do it that way." Jim, being the perceptive cookie, follows with "But we aren't going to are we?" Bruce always had us thinking about the job and how to do it the best way.
2. There are two reasons. (What are they you ask?) The second one is I said so.
[sarcasm]and get a real job.[/sarcasm]
you're not a hand, you're barely four fingers and a thumb. JDB
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Can't remember where I got it from but I have to make this point to young engineers, designers and surveyors every now and then.
"You can design it to the millimeter, and the field crew can lay it out to within a centimeter, but it's going to get built to plus or minus the width of the excavator bucket."
"You can get in a lot more trouble making mistakes than you can by being slow."
> My version is " We are not building a piano out here!!"
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> Funny thing though the next 4 or 5 jobs boundaries had a striking resemblence to the shape of a grand piano.
LOL! The universe strikes back!
"Boy, don't stand so close to the spitoon. I can't see that well anymore."
Clarence G. Anderson