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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (46009)	2/7/1999 5:42:00 PM
From: Bonnie Bear	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Mary: the average engineer is still a wage slave because they are incapable of telling a lie...people go into engineering because there are comforting truths, you can be ugly or speak lousy english or be "different" and still be a damned good engineer because you tell the truth and follow the discipline and ethics of the profession. It's an engineer that tells you that your car is safe to drive, that food is safe to eat. Engineers are brought up this way, the educational process actually starts around age 14 in college-prep courses. And it's really, really tough in this society to be the person that stands up and tells the truth. ..And sadly, engineers all know that at some point in their career, they may lose their job because they told the truth, and politics and money prevailed. I worked a project to be launched on the space shuttle...watched in horror the morning before the teacher-in-space explosion as the news media showed foot-long fat icicles hanging from structural interfaces. Every single engineer working on that launch knew the huge risk in launching it...the decision was a political one made by a bureaucrat worried about his budget overexpenditures. Delays cost money to the accountants, you see. So if an engineer hesitates to tell you what he will tell you without hesitation, go through this simple checklist.. 1) is he talking about my car? 2) is he talking about that thing the surgeon is using on me? 3) if he tells me, will he lose his job? 4) if he tells me, will his boss lose his job (see #3) 5) if he tells me, will an attorney sue his company and spend so much money in litigation that #3 and #4 happen because the company is in debt to excessive legal fees? I'm sure the thread can add a few more... Think Dilbert..would Dilbert lie to you?