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Does anyone in your office really screw up your world?
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I don't like certain engineers. I'm glad that this certain one and I are not working on the same project anymore. At one point, I was ready to run back screaming and begging for my old job at the city.
nerudite
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During our very short construction season (the old joke about Alberta having 10 months of winter and two months of road construction isn't that far off 
), our engineering department is very overloaded, and isn't terribly reliable. We only had one item on the agenda for the next MPC meeting, and we just pulled it because engineering couldn't get their comments in on time. Most of the time we take a verbal okay, if it looks good and wing it... we know they're busy. But this time their verbal comment was "hmm... looks like they need a street redesign." I don't mind pulling agenda items, but since we've had this plan for two months, I would have preferred to solve this little problem *much* earlier! The rest of the year goes pretty darn smooth though...
), our engineering department is very overloaded, and isn't terribly reliable. We only had one item on the agenda for the next MPC meeting, and we just pulled it because engineering couldn't get their comments in on time. Most of the time we take a verbal okay, if it looks good and wing it... we know they're busy. But this time their verbal comment was "hmm... looks like they need a street redesign." I don't mind pulling agenda items, but since we've had this plan for two months, I would have preferred to solve this little problem *much* earlier! The rest of the year goes pretty darn smooth though...Tranplanner
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Planderella said:
This wouldn't be the same certain engineer that you had your eye on last week, would it?
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Tranplanner said:
Oh no!! Refer to my last posting in this thread http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1582 for THAT engineer!!! :angry
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Planderella said:
I feel a haiku coming on!!!
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I only have myself to blame...
plannerkat
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Another department is fond of taking credit for our work and one of their ilk once set a public participation process back several months by initiating a meeting on the topic without consulting me. They're jealous...
