So, I’m leaving my office and the phone rings...
Yeah, “What’s new,” right?
This guy on the other end is looking at the 3D model of a gas distribution box I designed at the beginning of this year, and he’s asking me where this transducer is.
So, I go look for the transducer, because I have a PDF of the model where it is clearly shown, and I find that two of the three pieces of solid geometry used in the model of the transducer are gone.
There WAS the body of the part, two gland fittngs and two female VCR nuts — on for each gland. But, now, the body and FVCR nuts are missing.
It SEEMS, that someone edited them out of existence without any consideration for the “where used” impact their work would have.
So, instead of leaving my office, I hung up the phone and lodged a ticket with the Helpdesk informing them of rampant idiocy, informing them of the particular nature and impact of said idiocy, admonishing them to considere the potential ability of such idiocy to compromise the ENTIRE solid model database if left unchecked, insisting that the damage be repaired without my babysitting or phone support, that the repaired part model be precise, that it fit exactly into every assembly wherein it was used WITHOUT disrupting adjacent components or breaking existing assembly constraints, and that I be notified by very polite email when all of this was completed.
I suppose that I may as well have included a demand for a solar-heated, kidney-shaped swimming pool, and a beautifully restored Third Reich swizzle stick, but I figured I’d let ‘em off easy.
You handled that better than me. I would’ve chewed ‘em out.
Is that supposed to be a "swagger stick"?
Like the kind Mel Brooks smacks himself in the leg with, and then waits for the other person to turn away before he grimaces in pain?