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I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
- Jack Handey

From Evernote:

Top 25 Engineering Expressions Clipped from: http://www.robwoolley.com/2006/07/24/engineering-secrets-revealed/

Top 25 Engineer's Terms and Expressions

1. A number of different approaches are being tried.
   (We are still guessing at this point.)
2. Close project coordination
   (We sat down and had coffee together.)
3. An extensive report is being prepared on a fresh approach.
   (We just hired three punk kids out of school.)
4. Major technological breakthrough!
   (We don't know how it works ourselves!)
5. Customer satisfaction is believed assured.
   (We are so far behind schedule, that the customer will take anything.)
6. Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive.
   (The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.)
7. Test results were extremely gratifying!
   (Unbelievablely, it actually worked!)
8. The entire concept will have to be abandoned.
   (The only guy who understood the thing quit.)
9. It is in process.
   (It is so wrapped in red tape that the situation is completely hopeless.)
10. We will look into it.
    (Forget it! We have enough problems already.)
11. Please note and initial.
    (Let's spread the responsibility for this.)
12. Give us the benefit of your thinking.
    (We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't interfere with what we have already done or with what we are going to do.)
13. Give us your interpretation.
    (We needed a good laugh anyway.)
14. See me or let's discuss.
    (Come to my office, I've screwed up again.)
15. All new.
    (Parts are not interchangeable with previous design.)
16. Rugged.
    (Don't plan to lift it without major equipment.)
17. Robust!
    (Rugged, but more so)
18. Light weight.
    (Slightly lighter than rugged)
19. Years of development.
    (One finally worked)
20. Energy saving.
    (Shuts down without warning.)
21. No maintenance.
    (Impossible to fix)
22. Low maintenance.
    (Nearly impossible to fix)
23. E-mail me the data.
    (I'm too lazy to write it down.)
24. We are following the standard!
    (That's the way we have always done it!)
25. I didn't get your e-mail.
    (I was hoping that if I didn't respond, you'd forget.)

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Anger, Origins Of

We become angry* because of fear. We are afraid that the person we must correct will bridle at our correcting them. So we become angry as a way of cowing them into submission, because we are afraid.

The solution? Come to the situation prepared. Reflect on the inevitability of the instruction that must be imparted - by someone - to the hapless soul who has done something incorrectly. How they react is their business, but there is no way out for us giving the necessary instruction if it is out duty.

A pill of chill: We do our duty and let the chips fall where they may. We don't need to become angry or fearful. Take it as an adventure.

Cheers!


* There are varieties of anger experience, this post addresses a particular kind of angry expression, and does not address all of the varieties of anger.