Tales from the Engineering Floor – Exorcism


Jabba must have been on fine form the past few days. He contributed the following story as a comment, but I just have to promote it to article status:

Does anyone know how to perform an exorcism. I was wondering what would happen if we try to perform an exorcism on some of the engineers in the office. It’d be a good movie to make…

Here’s a possible dialog-

Exorcist: “I command you, leave this body.”
Possessed Engineer: “Sorry sir, it’s after 5pm, come back tomorrow.”

Exorcist: “I command you, leave this body.”
Possessed Engineer: “Sorry, need to wait for the datasheet from the Process Department before we can do anything.”

Exorcist: “I command you, leave this body, you Spawn of Satan.”
Possessed Engineer: “Don’t know how, it is not in the PETRONAS Technical Standards.”

Exorcist: “I command you, leave this body.”
Possessed Engineer: “Not part of deliverables.”

This could go on forever, until you give in and accept every piece of crap the possessed engineer throws at you.

Definitely going into the ‘Anecdotes of the Engineer.’

6 Responses to Tales from the Engineering Floor – Exorcism

  1. jabbathehutt says:

    For those who seen “exorcist”, the best the possessed engineer could do is shake his head. i am still waiting for one that can turn the head 360degress.

    I will gladly twist the engineer’s head if given a chance though…..

  2. raven says:

    Hallo mr wata, i wanna ask u something, have u heard about the company named OFFSHOREWORKS sdn bhd. I just got an offer for the position of survey engineer. I wanna ask u about the job prospect for this position. thanks mr wata.

  3. Wata says:

    Raven: no idea about Offshoreworks.

  4. boba fett says:

    possessed engineer….. or process engineer?

  5. Wata says:

    Ah, since when does a project differentiate between the two?

  6. jabbathehutt says:

    if you are over worked and underpaid, you are a possessed engineer, irrespective of what discipline.

    If you are over worked, underpaid and HAZOPed (so client can screw you), then you’re a process engineer!

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