So I had an amusing experience at work today and figured I’d share (that and I’m bored). I’d say it’s on of the more pointless things I’ve been asked to do, and wanted to know what some things are that you’ve all had to do that are really just a waste of your time. Now I can be extremely anal about some things, but even this is beyond my level of anal-ness.
The story:
So my company has this project where we’re working on with another architecture firm rather than the architects in the office. It’s not uncommon. So yesterday we had to have half size drawings to them by 4pm. Not full size- this we knew from experience. So we plot out their 36x24 plots and bring them by.
Then this morning a guy I work with has a nasty phone call from the architects. Apparently our plotter wasn’t functioning properly and, heaven help us, instead of making the plots 24” tall, they were in fact 24 3/16”. And seeing as how it’s only 3/16” off, no one here noticed. Oh, but Mr. Architect caught us trying to pull a fast one on him and noticed the extra length. How he did this, I’m not entirely sure, unless he got his scale out just to have something to bitch about, but the drawings were wrong. So we were asked to come down to their company and pick up the drawings since our poor little plotter still can’t manage to make the prints EXACTLY 24”. And then I got to spend 2 ½ hours, measuring and cutting off 3/16” from every plot. It was amazingly fun.
But really, who complains about a paper being less than a ¼” off when the plots are a bloody DRAFT that they’re going to need another copy of in about a week. It’s not even anywhere near being a final set.
The Clifs:
An architecture firm my company is working with had me cut off 3/16” from the bottom of about 200 plots because the drawings (which were a DRAFT) had to be exactly 36”x24” for him to be able to comprehend them and our plotter cut them at 24 3/16”.
I have a bunch of similar stories about this guy, but this was my first actual encounter with him.
Happy Thursday Everyone!
The story:
So my company has this project where we’re working on with another architecture firm rather than the architects in the office. It’s not uncommon. So yesterday we had to have half size drawings to them by 4pm. Not full size- this we knew from experience. So we plot out their 36x24 plots and bring them by.
Then this morning a guy I work with has a nasty phone call from the architects. Apparently our plotter wasn’t functioning properly and, heaven help us, instead of making the plots 24” tall, they were in fact 24 3/16”. And seeing as how it’s only 3/16” off, no one here noticed. Oh, but Mr. Architect caught us trying to pull a fast one on him and noticed the extra length. How he did this, I’m not entirely sure, unless he got his scale out just to have something to bitch about, but the drawings were wrong. So we were asked to come down to their company and pick up the drawings since our poor little plotter still can’t manage to make the prints EXACTLY 24”. And then I got to spend 2 ½ hours, measuring and cutting off 3/16” from every plot. It was amazingly fun.
But really, who complains about a paper being less than a ¼” off when the plots are a bloody DRAFT that they’re going to need another copy of in about a week. It’s not even anywhere near being a final set.
The Clifs:
An architecture firm my company is working with had me cut off 3/16” from the bottom of about 200 plots because the drawings (which were a DRAFT) had to be exactly 36”x24” for him to be able to comprehend them and our plotter cut them at 24 3/16”.
I have a bunch of similar stories about this guy, but this was my first actual encounter with him.
Happy Thursday Everyone!
