> Ken Roff Wrote:
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> > Born to be WillD Wrote:
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> > right? it's so fucking bad. Its proportions are every single way
> totally
>
> > fucked all off. and not even in a weird oh that's kinda interesting
> way,
>
> > just in a pure what the fuck those don't belong together the fuck were
>
> > they thinking kinda way.
>
> To me the only engineers that mattered was the ones who operated
> d locomotives!
>
> Yeah when them damn engineers who just came out of college/construction
> n management school were in tower city mall in Cleveland when was being
> built around the first gulf war era early 1990s,
>
> The engineers were laying out 150K+ square-foot of flooring with orders
> and everything to be 1to 3 ft but there’s a difference between what
> they want and is “as built”
>
> So a 12 foot room that measured 12 foot 3 1/2/2 x 4 stud size x 24’ 7 in
> and carpet or flooring comes in at 6, 9 or 12 foot at the time and the
> repeat pattern of pattern goods flooring or carpet was every 3 feet, you
> only could have 3, 6, 9 or 12, 24 foot etc. not 1‘3‘ 3’ 3” whatever,
>
> So you had to either cheat the field pattern goods or increase or
> decrease the size of the border to get either one size but not both! ,
>
> These college physical engineers had no clue!
>
> So right in front of all the bosses, owners, investors at a construction
> meeting I took a 24-year-old, dumb ass engineer and asked for his
> pencil, (it was a mechanical pencil) then I broke right in half
> (actually hurting/cutting my hand and threw it at him)
>
> I told everybody including the several millionaires/investors that had
> all the investments in the project “you wouldn’t know a tape measure if
> one hit you on the head” (I didn’t get fired for my comments but I was
> laid off for two days but rehired because there was no one to replace me
> that would kiss ass!
>
> These engineers though knew how to do math problems (pretty quick in
> n their head) were as dumb as a box of rocks to us artisan
> craft/construction workers/persons who were building stuff when they
> were crapping in their diapers!
>
> 4 years of Construction experience equals 100 times what they learn from
> some dumb college professors who only became a professor because they
> got something published!
>
> That makes no sense whatsoever!
>
> You get published and then you could become a College professor? Not
> t to mention most of them are nut cases with the exception of a few
> including one of my friends who teaches in a upstate New York collage is
> a great teacher, heck I could’ve published 500 things in my life,
Used to fight em all the time when I did concrete work,Ken. No common sense. Believed everything they read in a book.