ChemEs are at the top of the food chain. Just ask my husband. He's never wrong.
Never.
I do feel like we need a support group for those long explanations we spouses get when we ask a simple question. The worst is when I give up and just start walking away and he follows me. BE GONE, STRANGE WIZARD!
Because engineers engineers can never give you too much information. There have been times when I've said "Okay! I get it! I understand!" and he'll say "I just need to tell you one more thing...."
When my DH explains things I mentally replay that scene from Office Space when Tom WhateverHisLastNameIs was being interviewed by the Bobs and his sole responsibility was speaking to the customers so the engineers didn't have to. Why can't the customers get the specs right from the engineers? Because the engineers aren't good at dealing with people!
Why is it impossible for him to explain things to a layperson? Why does he think I know what an SQRTF is? IS IT A TPS REPORT??? I don't even really know what he does all day because he explains it in acronyms and technical terms that have no meaning outside his company.
I am making so many faces right now at all this civil engineers don't count talk. So many.
I mean...My branch certainly is soft engineering. I dont dispute that. But you wanna tell people designing massive steel structures and dams and tunnels that they dont count? mmmmkay. You just keepn playing with your little widgets and toys over there and we'll make sure EVERYTHING ELSE keeps working. Thats fine.
I am making so many faces right now at all this civil engineers don't count talk. So many.
I mean...My branch certainly is soft engineering. I dont dispute that. But you wanna tell people designing massive steel structures and dams and tunnels that they dont count? mmmmkay. You just keepn playing with your little widgets and toys over there and we'll make sure EVERYTHING ELSE keeps working. Thats fine.
My grandfather and uncle were both civil engineers. My uncle lives in Charlottesville but found a spot in BFE Virginia and built a second home by hand. No biggie.
I am making so many faces right now at all this civil engineers don't count talk. So many.
Your faces are justified. 99.9% of the world see CivEs as REAL engineers. The other .1%...they're special. Just ask them!
When my H explains things to me, he sometimes starts WAY over my head. Many times, he starts so simplistically my 4 year old would be bored! "OK, so you know that cars have four wheels, right? And you know that they have windshields? OK, so..."
I am making so many faces right now at all this civil engineers don't count talk. So many.
I mean...My branch certainly is soft engineering. I dont dispute that. But you wanna tell people designing massive steel structures and dams and tunnels that they dont count? mmmmkay. You just keepn playing with your little widgets and toys over there and we'll make sure EVERYTHING ELSE keeps working. Thats fine.
You have my vote (real engineer), even though I do tease H that his job is to make sure water flows downhill.
I am making so many faces right now at all this civil engineers don't count talk. So many.
Your faces are justified. 99.9% of the world see CivEs as REAL engineers. The other .1%...they're special. Just ask them!
When my H explains things to me, he sometimes starts WAY over my head. Many times, he starts so simplistically my 4 year old would be bored! "OK, so you know that cars have four wheels, right? And you know that they have windshields? OK, so..."
Are MechE's and ChemE's only 1% of the pop?
I'm not offended btw...the departmental smalk starts the second we all declare a major in school. I know they think they're special. And yup, they're "special" all right. ;-)
wawa, I don't know the percentages. (My H would be ashamed of me.) I figured considering the world's population, the number of special people who feel this way is really small.
The most shade my H throws is at industrial engineers. Funnily enough, my cousin is studying industrial engineering at Georgia Tech. They were talking about it once, and he asked her what her major was and when she told him, I think he kind of made a face or something. I think she also told him it was tough/competitive. Then later he was all industrial engineering, har har har. Anyway, like a week later, one of his co workers who attending GA Tech was talking about how IE there is really tough and pretty competitive.
I think he felt bad for being so dismissive about what she said, lol. But usually he has nothing but shade for IE. He works with quite a few EEs and seems to respect them. And some of our best friends are ChemEs. I feel like he's made comments about CivE before but not enough that I remember it.
eclaires LOL, at the enginerd and the farm as the ultimate in producing a man who can do anything.
DH has a friend who's a PhD chemist, who would be insulted if someone suggested he was a chemical engineer. I have yet to find a skill the man doesn't have- he welds, cooks, sews beautifully, he makes wonderful candies, he remodels homes, builds computers, fixes cars (he has a better track record diagnostically with my quirky Passat than my mechanic) and treats most of his own ailments using veterinary medications.
The most confident engineer I know worked on both the Hubble telescope camera and helped design the Fukishima cooling tanks. The hubris is strong in this one.
eclaires LOL, at the enginerd and the farm as the ultimate in producing a man who can do anything.
DH has a friend who's a PhD chemist, who would be insulted if someone suggested he was a chemical engineer. I have yet to find a skill the man doesn't have- he welds, cooks, sews beautifully, he makes wonderful candies, he remodels homes, builds computers, fixes cars (he has a better track record diagnostically with my quirky Passat than my mechanic) and treats most of his own ailments using veterinary medications.
The most confident engineer I know worked on both the Hubble telescope camera and helped design the Fukishima cooling tanks. The hubris is strong in this one.
MH can sew too (this reminded me of how much that grates on me)! He troubleshoots EVERYTHING. and he can do anything. He drives me insane, lol, but he is quite handy to have around.
We joke that he's my FIL's greatest accomplishment because there are three kids, and MH is the only engineer and he's the one who is just like his dad when it comes to doing anything and everything around the house or with our cars or whatever you can possibly think of.
I do feel like we need a support group for those long explanations we spouses get when we ask a simple question. The worst is when I give up and just start walking away and he follows me. BE GONE, STRANGE WIZARD!
eclaires I think your H and Carl might fight. When you mentioned Ga Tech I was like "ooh that's a good program"
On the over explaining movies and stuff; Carl is forever saying something like "that's actually not right". And then he sits like a kid in a candy store with a shit-eating grin on his face until I ask him to explain it to me. Often I'll just tell him "go ahead and tell me how, even though I couldn't care less, because I know you can't keep it in"
eclaires I think your H and Carl might fight. When you mentioned Ga Tech I was like "ooh that's a good program"
On the over explaining movies and stuff; Carl is forever saying something like "that's actually not right". And then he sits like a kid in a candy store with a shit-eating grin on his face until I ask him to explain it to me. Often I'll just tell him "go ahead and tell me how, even though I couldn't care less, because I know you can't keep it in"
He knows that now, lol! He still mentions how he felt bad rolling his eyes at my cousin... Which is huge considering he's basically an emotional robot.
I think some of the attitudes towards other branches of engineering come from where you went to school, and which types were toughest at the various undergrads. At Purdue, there was sort of an attitude that IE was for people who couldn't make it in ME, or one of the other engineering departments. Because he has really shut up about IEs since that whole interaction and the info about GA Tech. IEs do get some respect at Purdue just because Drew Brees was an IE major there. And all the enginerds at Purdue can agree on loving Drew Brees.
I remember seeing lists of best schools broken down further than just engineering - but down to ME, EE, etc.
But with a special nod to Nuclear Engineering for being "the hardest."
Yup He said Nuclear is by far the coolest. Then, there's the tier of purists (MechE, ChemE, EE, etc.) Then, a tier for hybrids (Software, Systems, something about biomed vs. Pharma. Honestly, I was starting to zone out. Then, old school train/ railroad engineers from back in the day. Not current train conductors because it's computerized. Then, "engineers" in name, but in application and training have little to do with actual engineering. He had a little discomfort actually considering this group in the same frame as the others.
I truly love you bitches, because the above was like a 25 minute conversation. I was really just hoping for the facts in bullet point version.
LOL. Where did your husband go to school? Aero is much harder than mechanical. Also, I'm pretty sure everyone appreciates civils every day when they use roads, bridges, buildings. I wonder what class he is talking about considering all engineers take the same classes for the first two years.
eclaires I think your H and Carl might fight. When you mentioned Ga Tech I was like "ooh that's a good program"
On the over explaining movies and stuff; Carl is forever saying something like "that's actually not right". And then he sits like a kid in a candy store with a shit-eating grin on his face until I ask him to explain it to me. Often I'll just tell him "go ahead and tell me how, even though I couldn't care less, because I know you can't keep it in"
He knows that now, lol! He still mentions how he felt bad rolling his eyes at my cousin... Which is huge considering he's basically an emotional robot.
I think some of the attitudes towards other branches of engineering come from where you went to school, and which types were toughest at the various undergrads. At Purdue, there was sort of an attitude that IE was for people who couldn't make it in ME, or one of the other engineering departments. Because he has really shut up about IEs since that whole interaction and the info about GA Tech. IEs do get some respect at Purdue just because Drew Brees was an IE major there. And all the enginerds at Purdue can agree on loving Drew Brees.
I remember seeing lists of best schools broken down further than just engineering - but down to ME, EE, etc.
Oh definitely. We came from Cal Poly, which is where his hierarchy is rooted. Since he was kicked out of the IE program, which was low on the totem pole, I can ONLY IMAGINE how insufferable he would be if he, say, graduated from Aero there. Actually, that's probably why I didn't marry them
This morning he's putting together a see-saw MIL bought the boys. I just got a lecture on how much better he could have designed it. Lord I need this thread today.
Ladies, let's recap. The real lesson here is not to marry or be friends with or hang around or associate or even look at male engineers. Those of you fortunate enough not to find yourselves in this situation yet have been warned!
Finance nerds are annoying too, lol. Has anyone brought that one up yet?
Oh sorry, do you work in finance? I should have said "can be" annoying, lol. Because I can ditto most of these husband anecdotes in here and it kind of sucks
I do, but I know I'm annoying too The two of us are really the worst when we get into something that lights us both up. It's why we fight over spreadsheets. When we team up, we can type-A the shit out of something.