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2015-09-02 03:04:00

#2576

uziq: Member; +496|3701

at least with academia the time wasters you are dealing with are 18-21 year old succulent jeune filles. I can think of worse customer service roles.

"my office hours are 1-3pm... call by for a chat".

2015-09-02 03:04:54

#2577

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5607|London, England

uziq wrote:
Jay wrote:
I kinda always wanted PhD, PE, MD, esquire after my name
shame you're never going to get any of them now.

my dad uses esquire. I bet it kills you. why would an American use that, though? surely it's an affectation of all that old world pomp you guys tried to escape from. do you want to be a Boston brahmin jay?

I'm a year from PE.

Currently the alphabet soup after my name professionally is EIT, CEM, LEED AP

Last edited by Jay (2015-09-02 03:09:33)

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2015-09-02 03:10:23

#2578

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,815|6355|eXtreme to the maX

Not even sure what mine are

CEng MSc ACGI DLUT MIMECHE MIMMM

I think

Possibly the CEng makes the MIMECHE redundant, I think it does.

Fuck Israel

2015-09-02 03:15:38

#2579

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5607|London, England

Dilbert_X wrote:
Not even sure what mine are

CEng MSc ACGI DLUT MIMECHE MIMMM

I think

Possibly the CEng makes the MIMECHE redundant, I think it does.

I have a whole list I wanted to gain somewhere. I'm just happy my firm pays for the tests and the upkeep.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2015-09-02 03:19:09

#2580

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5607|London, England

And uzi, this was the joke you missed. The business cards of engineers are ridiculous due to all the professional organizations. My boss' card reads PE, CEM, CFPS, CBCS, LEED AP.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2015-09-02 03:28:30

#2581

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,815|6355|eXtreme to the maX

Its actually considered very crass to have all your letters on your card, its bad enough that people hang their certificates behind their desks.

Fuck Israel

2015-09-02 03:35:38

#2582

uziq: Member; +496|3701

jay are you that guy that puts his degree in his email signature?

regards,
Jay (BSc).

also it's not unique to engineering – hardly an 'in joke'. do you know how many professional bodies, societies, organisations etc. An academic can belong (or be nominated for at the more prestigious end)? FRSA, FRSL, Royal academy, RSL...

2015-09-02 03:45:29

#2583

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,815|6355|eXtreme to the maX

One thing I do enjoy is telling CAD designers not to put 'Engineer' in their signoff, its nice to tread on someone now and then.

Fuck Israel

2015-09-02 03:55:54

#2584

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5607|London, England

Dilbert_X wrote:
Its actually considered very crass to have all your letters on your card, its bad enough that people hang their certificates behind their desks.

https://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb139/winterkiss42/Mobile%20Uploads/20150902_065151.jpg

Nice and clean

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2015-09-02 04:27:09

#2585

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,815|6355|eXtreme to the maX

That's not a business card, this is a business card.

https://www.expresscards.com.au/print-blog/wp-content/uploads/business-card-printing-american-psycho.jpg

Just look at the quality of the paper.

Fuck Israel

2015-09-02 04:30:52

#2586

uziq: Member; +496|3701

when you think about it, it's quite impressive that a few paragraphs in a novel from two decades ago have pilloried business cards forever. you can't produce a card without a reference.

2015-09-02 04:30:57

#2587

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5607|London, England

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2015-09-02 04:35:58

#2588

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5607|London, England

There's usually a business insider article about the style and importance of business cards once every six months or so. Always reminds me of the movie

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2015-09-02 11:21:12

#2589

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,979|6881|949

my parent company in taiwan has the best business cards i've ever seen. Mandarin on front/english on back, braille on the Mandarin side.

From my experience anyone that references American Psycho when talking about business cards is >25. I've never once heard it in any business capacity. I exchange business cards with people frequently and no one's ever mentioned it.

2015-09-02 11:31:42

#2590

uziq: Member; +496|3701

maybe you mean < 25.

2015-09-02 11:38:56

#2591

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,979|6881|949

haha i totally did. Funny because i've been writing excel formulas all morning and i've probably used the <> sign a good dozen times.

2015-09-02 11:43:50

#2592

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5607|London, England

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
haha i totally did. Funny because i've been writing excel formulas all morning and i've probably used the <> sign a good dozen times.

Now you'll know why when you get fired

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2015-09-02 12:12:16

#2593

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,979|6881|949

oh i check my work thoroughly. Especially because i don't have any one else that understands excel enough to know whether the formulas are correct or not

2015-09-02 12:14:06

#2594

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5607|London, England

What a strange world you work in. Aside from the ancients, I believe everyone in my office knows how to use VLOOKUP()

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2015-09-02 12:16:45

#2595

uziq: Member; +496|3701

what a strange world I live in. when someone uses the term 'the ancients' i wonder if they're talking about the socratics or eleatics.

2015-09-02 12:18:12

#2596

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5607|London, England

uziq wrote:
what a strange world I live in. when someone uses the term 'the ancients' i wonder if they're talking about the socratics or eleatics.

People over 50 who didn't grow up with a computer at home

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2015-09-02 12:20:35

#2597

uziq: Member; +496|3701

we call those silver surfers

2015-09-02 12:24:22

#2598

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,979|6881|949

Jay wrote:
What a strange world you work in. Aside from the ancients, I believe everyone in my office knows how to use VLOOKUP()

...yeah the formulas i use are a little more advanced than simply vlookups haha. I do a lot of stat analysis and developing business intel so there's a lot of making raw data look pretty. I like to add color to my spreadsheets too so obvious things pop out and/or are color coded.

Definitely what i saw myself doing when i was sitting in comparative government classes in college.

2015-09-02 12:26:00

#2599

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5607|London, England

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Jay wrote:
What a strange world you work in. Aside from the ancients, I believe everyone in my office knows how to use VLOOKUP()
...yeah the formulas i use are a little more advanced than simply vlookups haha. I do a lot of stat analysis and developing business intel so there's a lot of making raw data look pretty. I like to add color to my spreadsheets too so obvious things pop out and/or are color coded.

Definitely what i saw myself doing when i was sitting in comparative government classes in college.

I actually became an engineer because I was making super elaborate excel spreadsheets for fantasy baseball and figured I could do it for a living. It's now like 2/3 of what I do at work.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2015-09-02 12:29:49

#2600

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,979|6881|949

oh i stopped doing statistical analysis for fantasy sports. It's such a fucking crapshoot.

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