Surveying Update: Last 2 Points Change Plans

[tribdog]

A while back I was saying that I didn't like the way I had been asked to layout a new road being built. I thought that they were making it too difficult on themselves. I staked it out how they wanted it (they wanted it to blend into the desert in a pretty way) all 6 miles of it (3miles on each side of the road) Then today as I was laying the last 2 points, I said the LAST 2, I was informed that they think that they are going to put curb and gutter along the edges instead of their original plan, because it will be easier.
Next time I feel like I don't know what I'm doing please remind me to go with my first instincts.

 

[russ_watters]

Heh - welcome to engineering. You are always at the mercy of what "they" want and "they" aren't always thinking clearly. It sucks, I know. At my company, we have a job right now where we are being paid extra to fix mistakes we knew we made in a system we designed. Why? Because "they" insisted the system be designed that way.

[dramatization]
They: Do it this way.
We: It won't work that way.
They: Do it anyway.
We: It won't work that way.
They: Do it anyway.
We: It won't work that way.
They: Do it anyway.
We: Ok, fine - we warned you.
[...six months later...]
They: It doesn't work.
We: We know - we told you six months ago it wouldn't.
They: No you didn't - fix it!
We: Yes we did - here it is in writing.
They: Oh...please fix it?
We: Certainly - that'll be $10,000.

So the real question is - can you profit from their tenacious stupidity?

 

[Clausius2]

And the worst thing is that "they" surely take home more money than you.

 

[tribdog]

it actually works out easier for me this way, and even with what I've already done it will be less work for me than if they didn't change. I just wish I hadn't already staked so much for nothing