As if sound engineering isn't hard enough, imagine what happens when corporate marketing types commandeer the production meeting!
Dude you're really not getting me hot. ...and I'm honestly not bothered
The irony is, then, that they are not really standards.
???. That is what it is like having a meeting with marketing when you’re from Compliance.
Feck Project Management, this is like having a meeting with Engineering when your a bike customer with only one spanner set.Fuck Marketing. This is like having a meeting with Project Management when you're from Engineering
Feck Project Management, this is like having a meeting with Engineering when your a bike customer with only one spanner set.
I think many of us have been through it.. Most of us have had time to heal and forget... Though the video did bring back many of those horrible memories and then the memories of watching the very same people head out, drink coffee, congratulate each other of their magnificence before heading off to waste more time and money not creating something else impossible. It was like a parallel universe.
I jacked my whole life in when I hit that point in a conference call. So in a way, you're taking it all rather well !
I bet you've milked that story over the years. ...I have a slightly opposite tale to tell. Many years ago, I had to select a dairy to produce a milk product that required a very specific temperature/time profile during sterilisation of the milk. It was quite a bit different to the standard UHT milk temp/time profile. The requirement was for a top secret new product that I was not allowed to reveal to the dairy. Anyway, I sorted that despite never having been in a dairy before. In the presentation to the marketing director. He listened and then asked me what he thought was his killer question. "Tell me Mr Sordy, how do you know the dairy can produce the required temperature/time UHT profile without asking them and breaching the confidentiality agreement that you signed?" I just said "I'm an engineer and I know stuff like that!" He just said OK and moved on. Maybe I should have just said "Oh , I'm an expert"
It's weird, because I've always thought you'd have fitted straight in working at a circus ?
This is the problem with today's society, we're never grateful for what we have ! Take the bloke who had that job after you. Health and Safety got involved and decided that unless the broom handle had a diameter of at least 150mm, there was a risk it could snap whilst sweeping and become two very nasty lethal spikes. He had to do the job with his hands. ?
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I did pose a warning about the video. It was actually brought to our attention by a marketing guy who thought it was funny (not seeing where he stood in the drama. What drama?). The engineers in the room laughed nervously... some of them having flashbacks from previous jobs and were getting bouts of anxiety. One of whom shared with us an incident at his former place of work where possibly the most gifted engineer started putting the contents of his desk into a cardboard box while some fish-head was up front congratulating himself to the rest of the production team to supposedly raise their morale. Without a word, he walked out to the parking lot, put his things in his car and drove off. Now that's incredible self-restraint! Other 'meeting' stories just ended up in fisty-cuffs.
I remember contracting many many years ago for one mainstream IT outsourcing company. The main boss, who was new, had pulled his secretary up to say he had two computers and he didn't need two computers so could someone please come and take one of them away.
Had that happen a couple years ago. Said, well if I am that stupid you don't need me here and went home.
