Re: Space Shuttle Syndrome!

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:41:53 -0400, the infamous "Buerste"
<knotbrush@xxxxxxxxxx> scrawled the following:


"Larry Jaques" <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote in message
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On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:55:48 -0400, the infamous "Buerste"
<knotbrush@xxxxxxxxxx> scrawled the following:

I've been out of the shop for quite a number of weeks now due to
experimenting with drugs. (Kaiser's idea, not mine) Anyway, I've handled
most everything I need to at home with a phone and a laptop. However, one
of my engineers working on a long-term project that is really a bunch of
short-term projects bolted together, has gone off the deep end. A simple
mechanism that's supposed to have 3 limit switches bolted on some PVC pipe
mounted in plywood. It will have a wire coming from a spool pass through
it
and the switches will turn on and off a feed unit as the wire gets tight
or
loose. The third switch turns everything off if the wire jams up. I
penciled on a *** of paper what I wanted not thinking it wasn't worth
CAD
drawings.

In my absence, the engineer has created the most complicated Rube Goldberg
monster that he possibly could. I was in the shop yesterday to review
everything and was shown the CAD drawings of all 20 of the precision
parts.
Since we need three of these mechanisms and there's more than one each of
the parts needed for each mechanism, the machining time has run into
weeks.
( I planned an afternoon for the PVC/Plywood version.)

I don't want to stifle creativity or initiative but WTF! Is there an
official name for this or have I coined the phrase?

Dad used to have Retired Colonel's Syndrome. What you're looking at is
BES, or Bored Engineer's Syndrome. He was thinking "I could whip
something out in a couple hours, but I have all this time to kill, so
let's see what I can dream up...'

Don't you teach your workers the KISS principle, Druggie Tawm?

Get well soon.
xox

I try. Roger excels in our technology but he operates best when we have
frequent interaction. But, I'm still waiting for my product photographs
from one of the other departments....ARGH!

Hey, fly me out. I'll take the photos myself. ;)

--
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the
thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power
to revoke at any moment. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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