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Right0hio 109 points ago +110 / -1

You mean like the "All Woman Designed" bridge in Florida that collapsed minutes after it was completed? That type of worrying?

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TAIWANNUMBERONE 71 points ago +71 / -0

It lasted 5 days you bigot!

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bangbus 49 points ago +50 / -1

It only lasted five days because no one walked on it and no birds landed on it.

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DontArkancideMeBro 25 points ago +25 / -0

And it was PRETTY! Reeeeeeeeeereeee

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GarudaDarkblack 2 points ago +2 / -0

Art is a bang!

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Coprolite 15 points ago +15 / -0

It didn't even last long enough to get a heartbeat

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OPsMom 12 points ago +12 / -0

That's basically minutes in bridge years

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Equality72521 18 points ago +18 / -0

I feel like you didn't really appreciate the beauty of it's design or it's historical importance.

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LazySusan 9 points ago +9 / -0

Could someone please send me an article celebrating the female design team, before it collapsed? These articles seem to be scrubbed from the internet. I collect evidence like this to show leftists. Thanks.

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Kavvfefe 8 points ago +8 / -0

Came here to say this!

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basedvirginian 5 points ago +5 / -0

Wait what? I work in transportation so that shit is funny as hell in a warped way

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DudePlayingaDude 41 points ago +41 / -0

With the quality of the average American citizen, I am worried about the quality of the workforce. (And I agree with you completely!)

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Viewer01 39 points ago +39 / -0

I actually left a chemical company because identity politics made it where dangerously incompetent technicians were allowed to keep their jobs because people were scared of what HR would do to them. When you can't identify safety issues, its time for a desk job outside the fence line, or one right next to the exit.

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mintyfresh 8 points ago +8 / -0

Ya, can you imagine the people working in the explosion-proof labs, say, at an oil company R&D center?

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jubyeonin 38 points ago +38 / -0

Had to take two engineering ethics classes at the start where we barely touched upon this. I feel like this is extremely important and we should have examples like the diversity bridge that collapsed and could have killed a lot of people. Articles were praising the "engineer" who designed it and the ones following its collapse didn't mention her at all.

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Watermelons 17 points ago +17 / -0

Hyatt Regency Collapse is one of the major ones they usually detail.

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jubyeonin 15 points ago +15 / -0

Yeah, but it was mostly about this one: https://youtu.be/3mclp9QmCGs

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It was a clear failure.

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Watermelons 9 points ago +9 / -0

Ah. We covered that in differential equations.

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InsideMan 24 points ago +26 / -2

I have work for C+ tech talent (at a place that would curve your spine). But you're all holding out for $200K+ a year. All I can get are crappy consultants that hardly speak Engalish don't know I'm very happy to meet you sir. We need a jobs.win community.

Edit: By C+, I mean C+ grade, not the language. It's really that hard to find people.

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BurtMcGirt 28 points ago +28 / -0

No one is holding out for $200k per year. We just don't want to work for well below market rates, with shitty benefits, to compete with H1Bs. The lack of hiring pool for US STEM talent is a bigger lie than the COVID-1984 Plandemic.

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InsideMan 14 points ago +14 / -0

They aren’t billing for well below market though. Seriously: Learn Identity and Access Management (IAM) - requires a combination of technical skills, but I’d take a hard charging vet who can barely code any day of the week over the garbage I get to interview.

Challenge: I’m about to post a devops manager position, but basically it’s a QA manager position. DM me your interest and I will point you to the job post when it’s there and we can discuss this thread on the interview.

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CampinAndBam 6 points ago +6 / -0

Applied to 30 jobs in the past month with only 1 call back and I graduated #1 in my college of engineering class. The talent pool is slim for junior engineers, but vast for engineers with 15+ years of experience. H1Bs ruin companies.

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Wolverine 7 points ago +7 / -0

I will volunteer to provide free course material in C++ and Python based Machine Vision and Learning to all patriots. Let's make this happen.

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CampinAndBam 5 points ago +5 / -0

Better be some TinyML in there. This country would have amazing AI engineers if schools forced their students to go through the process of: collecting data, designing the model’s architecture, coding it, training it, and then running the trained model on hardware that isn’t a GPU.

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Whoopies_tds 1 point ago +1 / -0

You lost me at "if schools"

Have you noticed the teachers are spending 95% of their time virtue signaling and pushing social agendas they support because they are incompetent and can't teach anything beyond countless genders and feelings?

The root cause of the failure of our country points straight back to the teachers Union.

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Wolverine 1 point ago +1 / -0

Do you want to get an FPGA course with VHDL, because that's how you get an FPGA course.

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Equality72521 5 points ago +5 / -0

I work at a place with A+ tech talent but the bureaucracy is so dense that no one ever utilizes that talent.

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theblackprince 21 points ago +21 / -0

Just wait until subpar candidates are flying the planes.

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BananaRepublicUSA 17 points ago +17 / -0

Wait until they are responsible for designing and programming the autopilot.

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Whoopies_tds 3 points ago +3 / -0

Boeing Max has entered the chat ✈️ 💥

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TAIWANNUMBERONE 12 points ago +12 / -0

They're already making them and running the hospitals that treats the injured.

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LowKeyPede 5 points ago +5 / -0

And performing surgeries.

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TAIWANNUMBERONE 5 points ago +5 / -0

Their treatment of religion as a get out of jail free card always sickens me.

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RoosterHeadBad 3 points ago +3 / -0

That has been going on since the late 1980s through employment quotas. Put it this way, a white male would need an average of 4000 total flight hour experience to get an interview with a major airline in the US in 1990. If a candidate was female or black, they only needed 300 hours. A white male could not have a DUI on record or multiple speeding tickets. Black or female candidates didn’t have this restriction at all. I know a female pilot that landed a job flying for United Airlines in 1991 with 320 total hours and she received a DUI 3 months before her interview. Oh, when she got her DUI, she had slammed into the back of a police car. Yup.

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brie_cheese 19 points ago +19 / -0

It's already happening. Had numerous engineering classes (probably like a third of them) where many of the students were known to be cheating and got caught in various ways. I watched other students cheat in classes with my own eyes. I could tell so many stories about cheating in engineering school, and that's just what I happened to know about or see.

Most of those students went on the graduate and work for medical companies making implants and other medical devices. Doesn't that make you feel safe?

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MAUSGA 13 points ago +13 / -0

I'm close with someone who's a very skilled and dedicated engineer, a really solid professional. He tells the same story of at least 50% of his classmates in school blatantly and constantly cheating, paying to have their assignments written for them, and/or not speaking functional English. They still graduated right alongside the serious students. It's scary stuff.

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GODwins76 10 points ago +10 / -0

They end up working at national laboratories.

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buckfoomers 15 points ago +17 / -2

Don't worry, the capitalists will just outsource some more or import more people (who'll work for less money) to replace us.

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TAIWANNUMBERONE 12 points ago +12 / -0

They'd do it even at a loss. Hell, they probably already do.

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Miztivin 1 point ago +1 / -0

You mean like they do with doctors?

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Coprolite 14 points ago +14 / -0

I have seen the type of engineers the current collages produce. It's not good, I had a bachelor of engineering (4year degree) ask me what was wrong with a custom turnbuckle she had had made and it wasnt working right. Both threads were right hand so it couldn't pull. I tried to explain to her why it wasn't working, but she couldn't understand. I eventually told her that I could only explain it to her and I can't understand it for her.

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refresco 5 points ago +5 / -0

That being said, good young engineers are commanding a great salary. A few years of experience showing you are worth something can get you a lot of money. I know my company is constantly throwing money at EEs and MEs trying to get them to stay for a bit.

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sentient-potato 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's terrifying.

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Johnny108 6 points ago +6 / -0

“What do you do when nobody needs your cheap unskilled laborers and you don’t have the resources to build a good education system and teach them new skills?” -Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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TAIWANNUMBERONE 11 points ago +11 / -0

No amount of education will teach someone who doesn't want to learn.

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refresco 5 points ago +5 / -0

Or work. The shit work ethic makes it hard to want to keep hiring young lazy fucks. But if we are being real, there are a lot of old lazy fucks too. It's just the people hiring are used to dealing with their type of bullshit.

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LordKuroTheGreat 5 points ago +5 / -0

If the diversity hires knew how to read, this sign would make them very upset.

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fjzappa 5 points ago +5 / -0

Boeing 737 Max?

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RoosterHeadBad 4 points ago +4 / -0

Exactly. Outsourcing and diversity hires.

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2016TrumpMAGA 4 points ago +4 / -0

I cannot speak to the workforce, but I can speak to the university freshmen I get in my history classes. Most of these idiots can't even write a coherent sentence, let alone a freshman history paper. If there are grammar mistakes, I give them a chance to rewrite, and most of them still fuck it up. Spell checkers, grammar checkers, rewrite with no grade penalty, and the little fucks still can't pull it off. Half the little bastards I am forced to pass should be failing.

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KeithF250 4 points ago +4 / -0

How many classes can there possibly be to learn train driving?

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azn_gay_conservative 4 points ago +4 / -0

not only diversity is killing it, engineering in the public sector is also destroying this profession.

i am an engineer with a state dept of transportation in the ne. i got my eit and passed my pe (professional engineer) exam last year. it'll take me another 4 years of working under a pe to earn my professional engineer designation.

HOWEVER, in government where i work, my boss, the 2nd-in-command in traffic for the 12-county region area, is NOT an engineer. he came up thru the rank from a foreman into an assistant area traffic engineer with NO training nor experience in traffic/signal timing, crash analysis, warrant, and many more. he's the kiss ass type.

sadly, hes not the only one, i estimate about 1/4th to 1/3rd of those with "engineer" in the job title at my dept are NOT engineer but those who got promoted due to seniority. some actually knows their stuff, but the majority does not, and relies on newly grad or eit to do the grunt work, yet they themselves are responsible for making important decision (my boss, who doesn't have any signal timing experiences, doesn't know how to do warrant analysis, doesn't have anything formal past his hs diploma, is responsible for deciding whether to install a signal at an intersection, whether to switch from loop detection to radio or video detection etc.)

on the other hand, private firm cannot and will not put anyone in any "engineer" position without formal education nor licensing, unlike the public sector.

so yea, gov is corrupt and rotten af.

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Magatonin 4 points ago +4 / -0

I finally found my fellow engineer Frenzs!

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Elvathelion 4 points ago +4 / -0

The same is true about cheating in elections.

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GODwins76 3 points ago +3 / -0

pretty sure people will die no matter who runs what government.

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Elvathelion 3 points ago +3 / -0

It really all comes down to whether the right people die.

That's the tricky bit.

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Seruna_Kanus 3 points ago +3 / -0

This... this is why I'm not an engineer, I couldn't honestly handle the math and knew from that that I could never be an engineer, and so found a different line of work. I'm glad the school I went to had classes that made people aware of engineering failures and what such failures can mean, to help us know what academic dishonesty could eventually result in.

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refresco 2 points ago +2 / -0

I work with a lot of engineers and I think I'm better off making a little less money and loving my job. I would not be happy being a Solidworks cubicle slave. Having access to all the software is nice though.

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consumptiveballerina 2 points ago +2 / -0

We don't all have to use Solidworks.

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refresco 1 point ago +1 / -0

Of course. I'm sure not all EEs do the same work as they do at my employer. But I really like where I am in my career. I'm a "fake engineer" and I'm happier now than I have been in my adult life. Getting an EE or ME would get me more cash for sure, but I'm not sure I'd find work that I enjoy as much as what I'm currently doing.

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refresco 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's more the cubicle I'm trying to avoid than the Solidworks.

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consumptiveballerina 1 point ago +1 / -0

You don't like your own little padded room?

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refresco 1 point ago +1 / -0

I like moving. I walk 3-5 miles on a normal day.

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RDDPro 3 points ago +3 / -0

Know how we teach math to the homies in the prison GED prep classes?

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RoosterHeadBad 2 points ago +2 / -0

How?

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doug2 3 points ago +3 / -0

I agree with this sign tho

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utfanx2 2 points ago +2 / -0

Knew several foreign visa students in my engineering class who cheated on absolutely everything. Snake had the gall to ask me for my lab test file with the professor staring right at us.

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Peachykeen74 2 points ago +2 / -0

We are legit going to end up forming Galt’s Gulches everywhere...

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itsdangerous 2 points ago +2 / -0

the quality is shit lol. hiring has become harder and harder. best ppl always come from hiring remote locations rather than suburbs and there's just less of them.

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BreadPitt 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think its real, that's certainly an engineers handwriting. I would know

EDIT: Full disclosure I am NOT a PE. just a guy that had engineer on his business card before i got out of building commissioning and into IT

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consumptiveballerina 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nah. Too legible.

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BreadPitt 2 points ago +2 / -0

at 2nd glance, youre right. they dont make their lowercase T's the way an engineer would either....true eng's put the curl at the bottom you see in the physics books...

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Red_Hibiscus 2 points ago +2 / -0

Someone always graduates at the bottom of the class. Pair that with unqualified students being accepted into programs with help, and you’ve got a disaster brewing.

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TheTelltaleFly 2 points ago +2 / -0

You know the old saying... what do they call the guy who graduates last in his class in medical school: doctor.

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horsefacestorm 2 points ago +3 / -1

Bill Gates was able to drop out and somehow still be an engineer. Oh wait!

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BreadPitt 1 point ago +1 / -0

eh, engineer is a loose term. you can be titled an engineer without an engineering degree or certification. and a lot of 'engineers' actually prefer not to get their PE for liability concerns

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horsefacestorm 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah just saying, he didn't get to an engineering title through hard work in the classroom (cheating if you will), and how many has his shit vaccines killed?

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StrongIsland 2 points ago +2 / -0

All the diversity hires go into middle management because they can’t problem solve, can’t diagnose, and can’t fix anything, they can’t be bothered to learn on the job either.

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LazySusan 2 points ago +2 / -0

As an engineer, this worries me a lot. How can our society improve technologically, or even remain the same, if calculus is deemed racist? The woke mob has no idea what they're going to do to our professions. These people are on school boards, city councils, and are a growing population in places like congress. We meme and mock them, but our entire way of life could very well collapse.

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White-tailed_Eagle 1 point ago +1 / -0

As an engineering student this hits home. There is no room for diversity hires in the job I am training for, either you constantly conform to high standards or people will die.

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dougkeenan 1 point ago +1 / -0

good on you Kappa Phi Lambda

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GarudaDarkblack 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not killing people is racist.

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RPOZ28 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'm far less worried that someone gets into Med/Engineering/Law/Pharma school because of their sex/color/religion, rather than merit, than I am what happens after they are "graduated" and become a doctor/engineer/lawyer/druggist.

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sentient-potato 1 point ago +1 / -0

This applies to the medical community as well.