Other than the title to the thread?

The fact of the matter is that an a-hole is an a-hole, regardless of what his or her occupations is.

 

Believe it, don't believe it, it makes no difference to me. I do side work all the time and that is my rate - less than that and it just isn't worth doing, especially if I have to turn down overtime at my regular job to do it. The work I do is very specialized and I am very good and very efficient at it. It's a bargain for my clients and they must know it since they keep calling me.

Not once have I put down someone else for their occupation but here you are calling us engine rears. Why is that? Maybe it is you that are difficult to work with.

I deal with contractors all the time and you know what, there are many that aren't very impressive. They all want to redo the plans and ignore specifications THAT THEY BID ON! They lowball a bid and then think they can make up the money left on the table with change orders and by cutting corners. Sometimes there are unknowns such as hazmat where you weren't expecting it or solid rock where you were expecting clay and those are legit extras. But I get sick and tired of contractors who want to eliminate items that are in their CONTRACT simply to pad their pockets. You bid it, you own it. Don't like the design or the specification? Bring that up in the prebid conference or better yet, don't bid the job. But don't blame the engineer when you bite off more than you can chew.

 

That's quite the opinion. Remember that the next time you hear someone murder another human being, or worse yet a child and plead the tested and true insanity plea or get hardly any jail time at all. Or the next time you hear a drunk driver kill a family and this driver has been caught numerous times before.

This is a whole new thread topic in itself, but I'm willing to bet you that many of the luxuries in life you enjoy today you can thank Engineers for.

 

That's a bargain. My company bills the customer $165 an hour for my time. The firm across the street clears $200 an hour by a fair amount. 'Course, my field is a bit different. I'm in the electronics trade. Sustaining and support engineering.

 

Why don't we just pull our peckers out and see who's is bigger...

Tim

 

Hey, you can't say pecker in the GNAC forum. You want to get this thread bumped into the members only area?

But what the hell, I'm in. I'm hung like an infant....7 pounds, 18 inches!

 

Yeah but I am billing that myself as a sole-proprietor of my own company. What I bill, I keep. Granted I have to pay my own Medicare and taxes out of that and there aren't any benefits. I do it for fun money since the work isn't consistent. It's nice when I do get it though.

 

God i love Tim! that was perfect. ok maybe saying i hate engineers was a little harsh, not like i havent ever been there and been chastised for it. I do agree this guy was overstepping (the C.E.)his authority and his personal rights. If i buy the lot next to your mansion and pull a mobile home on it with my f250, guess what, as long as it passes code and the association, Enjoy the view! He was a tool and shoulda kept his big nose off the site, i would have been the same way, yet i probably would have been right on him. Nitramjr, i drive a truck! hahaha, sorry brother actually you have been cracking me up, and i love ya! how about we all get together and have a few beers and then down to Mcdonalds to tell them how to cook french fries. so to sum up my opinion, if i buy the property, and you dont like something, well until you start paying for it, keep it to yourself.!!!! Hey ya dork you are burning the fries!!! Oh and for the record i am hung like a Bull..... Bullfrog! BWhahahahahaha! Dan

 

Matt is going to win

 

I told the wife i'm metric not going to fit.

 

Go ahead. First liar always loses.

 

You should try building a house for an engineer

 

Probably not nearly as bad as doing engineering work for a contractor....

 

I know we've got some engineers in this thread (no, I did NOT join in the bashing)....

Good job opportunities for the field.....

http://www.charlotte.com/171/story/261641.html

 

And pretty good pay although this site seems low - especially for my part of the country.


http://www.indeed.com/salary/Civil-Engineer.html