"...rely on people like us to fix their screwups..." LOL, this reminds me of what we called a PEBKAC, Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.

I am a Tech myself and know the situation well. Electronics is my game and computers is a specialty. Amazingly, most people are clueless and rely on people like us to fix their screwups and make everything better than it was designed to be.

Welcome.......we have only one rule.......do not allow us to coerce you. Anyone who disagrees.....is a mutton head. XD

Every long once in a while I'll go to YouTube to watch the charge in Flynn's Charge Of The Light Brigade.
It thrilled me as a teenager the first time I saw it during the Sixties on the Educational TV channel where I also first saw Monty Python And The Holy Grail in Dothan, Alabama, believe it or not.
This video's charge twice pauses to self-restart a few seconds due to having three parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2It...
From the get-go teeny-bopper dino figured out a lot of the movie is historically inaccurate and there was no Surat Khan, having read the poem in school.
Same goes for his Robin Hood but I can't think of a Flynn flick that wasn't fun to watch.

Uh oh... forgot that one! In color, too!!

The Adventures Of Robin Hood is Flynn's best movie without pirate ships in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpqR6...

Holy smokes, dino! That brings back memories. Errol Flynn not swashbuckling on a tall ship!

HAD to +1 that, DriveTrain. I know the situation well, LOL! Stories this old guy could tell...

"Or do you drive a train?"

Interesting thought! My husband, to my knowledge, has never been inside the locomotive of a train, but he drove a LOT of them while working for BNSF. Because that's one of his particular specialties, making things go from his computer. We were disappointed when a prospective deal with a railroad in Perth fell through, because we were hoping to spend a year or two in a new and different place. In retrospect, though, I am not sure we would have been "done" with the assignment before the gates came down in 2020 (probably would have been, though). Still the thought of being in Australia during the pandemic makes being in the US in even the strictest of states seem like a picnic. (And we ended up in Oklahoma during that time, which was not at all strict, thank goodness.)

When the system fails, blame the software. "'Gotta be the problem, 'cause it ain't my system." Serious respect for the line of work I abuse maybe more than any other. 8^D

Welcome to the Gulch, SF.

And no, train affinity notwithstanding, I am not an engineer, merely a Technician (there's a pun in there somewhere.) You know, one of the guys whose tools you engineers borrow and never bring back. 8^]

Also one of the guys whom managers consider to be engineers anyway, and give us crap when the system breaks down:

"Why can't it be perfect and work flawlessly forever and free us all from the need to work like the Star Trek 'replicator,' so we can have a GloriousMoney-FreeSocialistUtopia? You incompetent ass!"

"But... I'm a tech. I didn't design it."

"No back talk. Why won't it last forever without breaking?!? You fool!"

"!#%&! yadayada whatever, I'll fix it."

"Good. And don't let it happen again!"

8^D

Welcome, SantaFe, to the hub of diversity. We take great flights of fantasy and keep our feet planted firmly in reality. We are wild and crazy, thoughtful and deep. We agree, disagree, toss ideas out for discussion and share fond memories of a world that was. In short, welcome to the Gulch!.
Retired. Full-charge bookkeeper, OTR trucker, mom, wife, bonsai enthusiast, novice dressage, artist, writer and so much more.

c'mon, tell him, tell!

So what sort of Engineer are you? A civil engineer?
Some sort of machinist?
Or do you drive a train?
Anyway, welcome. One more added to us.

Welcome to The Gurlch, Santa Fe. You just made me think of one of those old Errol Flynn flicks old dino always enjoyed watching on TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SposG...
No, Errol, you don't sling lead like that even on a galloping horse. At least the other actors are taking a split second to take aim. Not that they would in real life hit anything except by accident.

Welcome...

Happy to see you here, SantaFe! I'm not an engineer, but does it count if I'm married to one? He is a software engineer that manipulates things like airplane parts, etc. I'm a CPA, but retired, so now I do exciting things like digital photomanipulation and soap making (non-digital). In other words, pretty much whatever the heck I wanna do. It's a good life.

Welcome

Lots of Engineers here in The Gulch.
A propensity of members have a penchant for building things.
Software Engineering is my background.
Lower-case r "retired" at this time; still building things / being productive.
Welcome aboard -- looking forward to your commentary.

Welcome!
I am a piping designer and was John Galt before I ever heard of him.

Awesome and welcome!

Lot of us engineers as conservatives and libertarians, and several here.

I am educated as the mechanical flavor, but do mostly electrical flavor now ... when I actually do anything vs managing.

Welcome, SantaFe!

Welcome to the fray.

Welcome aboard. What flavor of Engineer?