Re: A french product design student is looking for an internship

From: Jim Thompson (thegreatone_at_example.com)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:34:49 -0700

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:16:33 -0500, Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net>
wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:07:47 +1300, Terry Given wrote:
>
>> Active8 wrote:
><snip>
>>>
>>> Like the jackasses that installed their crane at Bethlem Steel,
>>> Sparrows Pt., MD. Low grade bolts broke and f'd up my stepdad. Beth
>>> Steel dicked him around. The contractor from OH wasn't required to
>>> carry insurance at the time they did the work (or maybe never) and
>>> they filed bankruptcy to get out of paying him the 4.2 M he was
>>> finally awarded.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry to hear about your stepdad Mike.
>>
>> That sort of *** is all too common, and is unacceptable. Hopefully it
>> was people who just didnt know what they were doing; it would be
>> downright evil if done deliberately to reduce cost.
>
>I've seen that crap on the tube. Remember the Czech
>project/production mgr on 60-minutes that had his test tech tweak
>the pressure transducers ( one end-use was for military helicopter
>altimeters ) with dental instruments to get them to pass? There's
>others that have been caught using cheap parts to get over on costs.
>60-min in NZ back then?
>
[snip]

There can be delightful end results.

When my grandfather (my father's father) worked for the West Virginia
State Road Commission, he advised a highway design engineer that the
banking on a particular curve was not correct.

The engineer said, "Nonsense", and proceeded to drive the curve at
such a speed that he skidded off the side of the mountain and died.

Such poetic justice is all too uncommon ;-)

                                        ...Jim Thompson 

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