Overly Anal People?
- Thread starter meggs521
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Meggs, I completely understand. I used to work at this company right out of highschool. Wasn't bad, nice cush office job, but had crappy stuff happen to me all the time.
Long story short, little sh!t like this would happen to me all the time.
Boss: "Jon. Come to my office. " (Would page me over the p/a, and Im 10 steps from his office door.)
Me: "Yes, you wanted to see me?"
Boss: "Fax this for me."
Me: "Um, ok????"
Now mind you, I was in the middle of something, and THE F'ING FAX MACHINE IN THE BUILDING WAS IN HIS OFFICE. WTF?
Yeah that job didn't last too long.
Long story short, little sh!t like this would happen to me all the time.
Boss: "Jon. Come to my office. " (Would page me over the p/a, and Im 10 steps from his office door.)
Me: "Yes, you wanted to see me?"
Boss: "Fax this for me."
Me: "Um, ok????"
Now mind you, I was in the middle of something, and THE F'ING FAX MACHINE IN THE BUILDING WAS IN HIS OFFICE. WTF?
Yeah that job didn't last too long.
LOL, meggs, I work at a Plumbing,Elect. and Mech. engineering firm.
Most arch. are anal about EVERYTHING. sad thing is they dont care for how functional it is, but just how pretty it looks.
Just like the time, we continually told one of the arch. that the elect. room for the 3rd floor was way to small for all the panels we needed to put in there, this is a hospital mind you. this means LOTS of poured concrete.
Well, we eventually got feed up with asking the guy to change it, and he never did, so we submitted it with 12' panels stacked on each other.
We even put a note on there, saying that the arch. refused to make a larger room. So they poured the room, and pretty much had the hospital dryed in and was ready to put in these panels. the dumb arch. comes bitching to us saying that it was our fault and we had to pay for it. To bad we put that note on there and had countless emails to the idiot tellin him it was to small.
They had to tear it out, and tear out a storage room that was next to it to create a new elect. room.
was kinda funny.
Most arch. are anal about EVERYTHING. sad thing is they dont care for how functional it is, but just how pretty it looks.
Just like the time, we continually told one of the arch. that the elect. room for the 3rd floor was way to small for all the panels we needed to put in there, this is a hospital mind you. this means LOTS of poured concrete.
Well, we eventually got feed up with asking the guy to change it, and he never did, so we submitted it with 12' panels stacked on each other.
We even put a note on there, saying that the arch. refused to make a larger room. So they poured the room, and pretty much had the hospital dryed in and was ready to put in these panels. the dumb arch. comes bitching to us saying that it was our fault and we had to pay for it. To bad we put that note on there and had countless emails to the idiot tellin him it was to small.
They had to tear it out, and tear out a storage room that was next to it to create a new elect. room.
was kinda funny.
haha, thanks!
D34DC311- I know exactly what you're talking about! That's the type of thing most of the drawings were addressing- not having enough room for mechanical systems. I work at a similar firm- electrical, civil, plumbing, and mechanical engineers, but then we also have an architectural section. But for whatever reason the architecture and engineering departments bid a receive different jobs so we rarely work together. But for the job with the drawings, the architecture firm left just about ZERO room for any sort of substantial mechanical/ electrical system, so ya... either keep it super pretty and don't have any type of AC in a facility just outside of Las Vegas or make bigger mechanical/ electrical rooms. Not to mention we’re on the 5th redesign with this guy because he can’t seem to cut out enough of the “pretty stuff” to get anywhere near the budget. I think his first try was like 3.5x what the budget was suppose to be.
I do understand wanting things to look good, I can be SUPER picky about things like that, but this one just kind of threw me through a loop when there are much bigger things to be worrying abut with the project. Worry about the big picture first and then sort out the details.
D34DC311- I know exactly what you're talking about! That's the type of thing most of the drawings were addressing- not having enough room for mechanical systems. I work at a similar firm- electrical, civil, plumbing, and mechanical engineers, but then we also have an architectural section. But for whatever reason the architecture and engineering departments bid a receive different jobs so we rarely work together. But for the job with the drawings, the architecture firm left just about ZERO room for any sort of substantial mechanical/ electrical system, so ya... either keep it super pretty and don't have any type of AC in a facility just outside of Las Vegas or make bigger mechanical/ electrical rooms. Not to mention we’re on the 5th redesign with this guy because he can’t seem to cut out enough of the “pretty stuff” to get anywhere near the budget. I think his first try was like 3.5x what the budget was suppose to be.
I do understand wanting things to look good, I can be SUPER picky about things like that, but this one just kind of threw me through a loop when there are much bigger things to be worrying abut with the project. Worry about the big picture first and then sort out the details.
D34DC311 said:
Ha- like the guy at my office that yelled at me because apparently I was suppose to know that he had been sitting at his desk waiting for me to stop using the copier. Which, for the record, I was using to make copies of portions of his report that he hadn’t finished up early enough to send out to the printers. So instead of coming over to the copier and waiting (so that I would know someone else needed it) or asking if he could squeeze in a make a copy, he sat at his desk, then came over and started yelling at me about how inconsiderate I was being and that I really needed to stop “wasting” paper and let someone else use the machine. Uhhh… lets see how happy I am to help you out next time buddy. Unfortunately when I can back to work this summer he was no longer here. I was super bumbed out about that one.
But I don’t really have anything against architects, some of my really good friends are going to school for architecture… they just do things different than me. And the only mean people at my office seem to be architects... I haven't figured that one out yet.
meggs521 said:
Its the way they think, most think that THEY built the building and that all the elec. mech. plumb. stuff that goes in it are extras.
Similar story happened with the contractor and the arch. cept it was with a MRI machine for a hospital, they built the room, then figured out it wouldnt fit threw the door.
And for you gettin yelled at, LOL, what an ass. I would have told him to go fuck himself if someone would have talked to me like that. I'm not rude or impolite at my job, but if anyone pulled that shit, on me, and they were in the wrong like that guy. His ass would have been grass, no reason for crap like that.
If only the Supra community was this dedicated. But then, we wouldn't have the forum to explain what went wrong.
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