Understanding Engineers

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[BlackSwampPiper]

All you engineers are funny! As a business owner and a machinist, the most difficult task I’ve ever had is teaching an engineer that giving the customer what they ask for or want AND being nice about it matters. On a daily basis, machining parts to the prints some engineers put out and finding out that a .0001” tolerance on a surface fits AIR is frustrating. What only the accountants and project managers seem to understand is that the tolerance decimal point and the price decimal point are inversely correlated!

 

[OzPiper]

All you engineers are funny! As a business owner and a machinist, the most difficult task I’ve ever had is teaching an engineer that giving the customer what they ask for or want AND being nice about it matters. On a daily basis, machining parts to the prints some engineers put out and finding out that a .0001” tolerance on a surface fits AIR is frustrating. What only the accountants and project managers seem to understand is that the tolerance decimal point and the price decimal point are inversely correlated!

Now, accountants ARE different.
My brother is an accountant, and my sister and I often look at one another and ask "you sure he shares the same parents as us ?" ?