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Engineer caused data loss by cleaning PCs with welding tools (www.theregister.com)

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Crossposted from https://beehaw.org/post/24258253

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Wilson" who once worked as the boss of a welding shop attached to an engineering consultancy.

Wilson set the scene by telling us this story came from the early 1980s, when AutoCAD was replacing drawing boards.

"We had a new structural engineer who those of us in the shop quickly identified as an idiot with a degree," Wilson wrote.

One day, said idiot decided that the computers used to run AutoCAD needed to be cleaned and that the welding shop was the place to do the job.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Thank you for this. I agree 100% with this analysis. Working with an experienced engineer who understands that copy and paste doesn’t make sense in the real world is a game changer. A engineer who understands the intricacies of assembly, local code, maintenance and customization we deal with in the field are complex and require feedback from the people who do this job for a living are so much better to work with. I do understand there’s a lot of dumb traders as we have a lot of nepotism and ignorance in the trades but there’s a pool of smarter people who absolutely appreciate a competent engineer