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Project timelines are important because they show whether the project is feasible in the timescale and/or where the choke points are.
Plus stakeholders get to put in trigger points. A design review before commitment to manufacture is usually a good move.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Jay wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

You have no idea how much I would have like to use the CPM, however:

a) Between
- the small amount information the team has been drip-fed on the initial phases of the project
- The final end date
There is an ocean of blankness so using CPM would be impossible

b) Its inevitable I am implicated in every step of the critical path so whether I write it down or not my life will be hell.

At least I was complimented on it "Well done Dilbert, now we know what do do and when, this chart thing is a great idea - did you come up with it all yourself?"

Scheduling is hooey imo. It just gives people who don't do the work a club to hit you with when the unknown inevitably crops up. At best it's just a fancy to-do list with arbitrary times attached.

Project timelines are important because you have to know which stakeholders to push or wait on, which teams are working on which feature and how long that will take, how delays in the timeline affect other pieces, etc.  To say scheduling is hooey is obviously you showing a lack of experience.

In theory I think it's important. But schedules are generally compiled by schedulers, not people doing the work, and they get pressured to be overly optimistic by project managers trying to look good. It's then my job to sit across the table from a contractor and ask him why he's behind when we both know exactly why. It's good to have a goal, and a rough timeline with checkpoints along the way to reference, but at the end of the day it's just a guideline. I wish more agency types understood that.

So next school year I might move into administration and become a attendance officer. I would do investigations on families and take them to court.

Next summer I am taking the law enforcement exam since my police officer friends keep pressing me to do it and telling me the tricks to gaming the test.

Big things are happening guys.

5 interviews this year and zero contracts signed. Dammit...

I need a holiday to recover from my holiday. Maybe my manager will sign it off as sick leave.

Good luck. Hope it all works out unlike ultrafunkula

Join the army

Jay wrote:

I need a job where I can yell at clients and tell them how stupid they are. Any tips?

You can have my job, somehow I still haven't got fired.

I was talking to a young project manager at our company function, he asked me what was the most important skill I needed as a mechanical engineer managing multiple projects for multiple customers - "You need to be able to tell people to go fuck themselves"

What about this?
https://docs.jobs.gov.au/system/files/d … chsa_1.pdf

If you're prepared to take a drug test I think you could take your pick.

Employer requirements and unsuitable applicants
 Around 83 per cent of applicants were deemed unsuitable by employers.
 The main reasons for unsuitability were lack of appropriate qualifications or licensing.
 Although employers required applicants to be trade qualified, almost 60 per cent of all applicants were unqualified.
 In addition to qualifications and experience, employers required applicants to have appropriate licences (such as the ARCtick refrigerant handling licence, White Card and restricted electrical licence.)
 Other reasons for unsuitability included poor presentation, failing to present for a work trial or unwillingness to commit to drug and alcohol screening.

Actually fuck that, what kind of employer expects employees be licensed or to commit to drug or alcohol screening?

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2018-10-11 04:19:45)

How about personal trainer?
You get to yell at people and tell them they're stupid, fat and lazy.

Otherwise I'm sure there's some kind of fetishism you could get into.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Jay wrote:

I need a job where I can yell at clients and tell them how stupid they are. Any tips?

You can have my job, somehow I still haven't got fired.

I was talking to a young project manager at our company function, he asked me what was the most important skill I needed as a mechanical engineer managing multiple projects for multiple customers - "You need to be able to tell people to go fuck themselves"

What about this?
https://docs.jobs.gov.au/system/files/d … chsa_1.pdf

If you're prepared to take a drug test I think you could take your pick.

Employer requirements and unsuitable applicants
 Around 83 per cent of applicants were deemed unsuitable by employers.
 The main reasons for unsuitability were lack of appropriate qualifications or licensing.
 Although employers required applicants to be trade qualified, almost 60 per cent of all applicants were unqualified.
 In addition to qualifications and experience, employers required applicants to have appropriate licences (such as the ARCtick refrigerant handling licence, White Card and restricted electrical licence.)
 Other reasons for unsuitability included poor presentation, failing to present for a work trial or unwillingness to commit to drug and alcohol screening.

Actually fuck that, what kind of employer expects employees be licensed or to commit to drug or alcohol screening?

I'm not a mechanic

my boss knows i've done drugs. me and my colleagues have literally done drugs in front of our seniors at the afterparty to the company xmas party.

/shrug. guess that's publishing for you. what's the big deal if you're not working with vulnerable people or minors?

Last edited by uziq (2018-10-11 07:20:42)

Since I work at a school I technically have to narc on any parent or student who comes in smelling like pot despite my secret marijuana habit.