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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: JamesV6CDX on 15 November 2007, 11:14:30
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We've had a lift engineer out for regular maintenance today.
The alarm is going off, and the lift engineer is stuck in the lift - classic ;D
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We've had a lift engineer out for regular maintenance today.
The alarm is going off, and the lift engineer is stuck in the lift - classic ;D
You do of course mean technician......I doubt hes capable of taking responsability for the design.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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We've had a lift engineer out for regular maintenance today.
The alarm is going off, and the lift engineer is stuck in the lift - classic ;D
You do of course mean technician......I doubt hes capable of taking responsability for the design.
You have a passion for incorrect the use of that word, don't you Mark!
I also have the word "engineer" in my job title.. I agree it's too commonly used.
My gramp used to design aircraft engines - now That's an engineer!
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Exactly, an engineer is design responsible.....not a plumbing and heating fitter or lift technician.
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[size=14]Excerpt taken from Wikipedia:[/size]
In Britain, the term 'engineer' is often mistakenly used to describe a technician or a person that mends and operates machinery. A notable example was on Page 8 of the 2001 UK Census Form, where one of the example job titles listed was "Television Service Engineer" (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pdfs/engh1.pdf). (This is in contrast to mainland Europe, where engineering is seen as comparable to other professions such as medicine and architecture - see above.) Professional engineers registered with the Engineering Council UK have the exclusive right to the titles Chartered Engineer and Incorporated Engineer. These titles are only awarded after a rigorous formation including higher education, training and experience.
In the United States, the term "engineer" is also used to denote an operator of an engine of some sort, e.g., a railroad engineer denotes the operator of a locomotive, a ship's engineer denotes the operator of the steam engine on a steamship, and a stationary engineer is normally responsible for a stationary steam engine. Occasionally "title inflation" results in non-engineers holding jobs with "engineer" in the job title. For example, the term "field engineer" is often used to describe manufacturers' (or third party) supplied installers and/or maintainers of (complex) equipment at a user's site. However, they are not commonly degreed engineers.
In firefighting, the term "engineer" refers to a firefighter whose job is to drive the fire apparatus and, if it has an onboard water supply, to stay with the engine and operate the pumps so that the firefighters on the hose can have enough water to put out the fire.
The term "engineer" may also be used to describe holders of some forms of professional certification other than university degrees, such as (but not limited to) Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Certified Novell Engineer, Red Hat Certified Engineer and so on.
In Canada, the usage of the term "engineer" to describe holders of professional certification is not legally permitted. The Canadian Council of Professional Engineers mounted an extended campaign to get Microsoft to renounce use of the word "engineer" in the title of their certification. A 2001 reader survey by Microsoft Certified Professional magazine found that over half of respondents supported changing the name of the MCSE to remove the word "engineer".
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Someone gets stuck in one of our lifts on an almost weekly basis, never fails to raise a smile ;D
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I design bomb disposal robots...I think that counts ;)
I agree...the title Engineer is dished out far too readily.
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They need a lift like ours....a paternoster.
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What's wrong with the stairs?
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What's wrong with the stairs?
I am on the top floor of a tower block....to many stairs!
The Paternoster is great, if it stops, you just jump /climb out of the cubicle.
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I am a bullsh*t engineer. I design it, fabricate it and post it on here for your dilection. ;D
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I am a bullsh*t engineer. I design it, fabricate it and post it on here for your dilection. ;D
Well I hope you've got a Degree in that... ;D
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I am a bullsh*t engineer. I design it, fabricate it and post it on here for your dilection. ;D
I'll second that! :D
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38 years ago I couldn't even spell ingunear .. then they made me one ... :)
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They need a lift like ours....a paternoster.
This is a knot also used in climbing :y
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I am a bullsh*t engineer. I design it, fabricate it and post it on here for your dilection. ;D
So correctly interpreted ::).....your a Domestic engineer ;D ;D