Once a crew was working and the iman asked what to call the object (evidently he'd asked a bunch that day) and the chief said "CAll it whatever the f*&k you want!". So, the next 100 descriptions were "whatever the f&*k" since "you want" wouldn't fit.
That was funny, but we had a talk about it also. He fixed the codes himself.
"FNCMISS"
Give the guy a break. He went beyond the call of duty and even tried to give a description and clarification in one code.
He obviously -
"Found No Corner" but decided to take a measurement anyway.
Then to make it very clear that the measurement was to a corner not found, he clarifies by pointing out that it was-
"MISSing"
😉
Was not in a DC
Before data collectors came along and everything was written in a field book a crew chief wrote this one:
"BMFYJNITW"
He had been stung repeatedly by yellow jackets from the same nest and located it with the note.
Biggest M^*&^$* F^)*&&^& Yellow Jacket Nest In The World
After the draftsman quit laughing it showed up on the plat (temporarily anyway).
Andy
Was not in a DC
Back in the day, an abandoned power pole was called a "Bobbit" as in cut-off PP.
This doesn't really fall into the 'butchering' category, more humor, and the resultant was one surprised office staffer: fieldcode 'CRACKHEAD' in a dodgy part of town, and 'STARFISH' for no explanation I could ever come up with (both shot in the middle of a conc walk). Made me laugh though, and that's always worth something!
I knew a draftsman who labeled a building "Two Story Concrete Block Whorehouse" instead of "Two Story Concrete Warehouse." He had meant for the LS to see it and laugh about it, but he forgot about it. Then the client called....
We had a PC that used an abbreviation of "bculv" which he identified in the field notes as a "box colbert". I guess that must have been Claudet's brother. (If you are under 40 you won't get that one.)
Not spelling it correctly does not bother me as much as using a here to fore unseen code and not defining it in the field book. We had a crew out of town and they faxed in their field books daily and sent in the .raw files to our server daily. One code was "VBN". In the field book it said Pt 118=VBN. Got that file late Friday. Spen all weekend wondering what the hey a "VBN" was. Drove me nuts. Monday I learned that was a "volley ball net". 😛
One of my favorites was a note about some trouble with the "Tribe rack"
HANDHOLD instead of HAND HOLE
What's worse? The drafter used it as a label.
FLOOD PLANE instead of FLOOD PLAIN
I'm prone to overdoing it with things like BOULDER-3'N-SX2'E-WX3'HIGH . The drafter came to me and told me just to code it BFR.
GRND PIZZA BOX is the best I've seen by a coworker.
> I see rifraf quite often too.
I worked under a party chief who said he'd been at a construction company once when a guy came in looking for work on rip rap job they had been doing. They asked if he had any experience and he said "I've been working around rifraf all my life". They said "I bet you have".
New PC found a PROPAIN today, aka propane tank
A CAD tech at a former job labeled a propane tank "profane tank" sadly when the boss red-lined it for correction she had no clue why it was wrong. She had a similar issue with "arial photo" vs "aerial photo".