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 Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject: metric salvation |
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At 12:02 PM 11/17/2006 -0800, you wrote:
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> Bob--Really? Fear? Ignorance? Please support this
> assertion. There's not a person I know that wouldn't
> rather work in metric but we have $deca-millions$ (there's
> a metric for you) tied up in machine tools and
> untold investments in familiarization hours for
> the folks that design, build and maintain our products.
Thanks for the slow pitch Bob. I'll swing at it.
Pow!...You bet. FEAR and IGNORANCE--the opposite of courage and
understanding. You may ascribe different emotions to engineers whose
internal psyches make them more comfortable STILL designing in inches and
then converting to metric--sometimes by pushing a button on their CAD
system-- (the tolerances especially become a nightmare), but I've seen
these guys turn white with fear when facing the task of completely
abandoning their cozy conversion-filled measurement nests. Okay, call it
crazy and stupid--or shortsighted and provincial. I tried being
reasonable...I didn't like it.
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Hmmm . . . I'm amazed at what appears to be a simple,
free-market, economic phenomenon being morphed into a diagnosed
pandemic of personality disorders. How do you do it?
Telekinetic psychoanalysis? "White with fear"? . . . I
work with about 800 other folks in engineering at RAC.
If any of them are suffering from your diagnosed malady,
they hide it well. Haven't seen a face go white since
I've worked there and we've faced problems a whole lot
more challenging than deciding which units the CAD system
runs in.
Assume our ignorance and fear of adopting an alternative
language by which we conduct the business of our craft
is as pervasive as you suggest. May we then be excused
for our failure to acknowledge and embrace your diagnosis?
Obviously, persons afflicted with such selective personality
disorders cannot be expected to respond to a therapy
of simple revelation of our wretched condition. What
is your prescription? Presidential decree? Congressional
legislation? A court decision that brands all transgressors
criminal?
Do you think it would help me to at least throw off
the shackles of cowardice? Perhaps I could email my
CEO and explain, "I have it on good authority that
we're all screwing over ourselves, customers, country and
perhaps even the planet by not rising above our collective
ignorant cowardice." I could suggest a ceremonial burning of the
yardsticks out in the parking lot to signal our corporate
salvation and rebirth.
But alas, I must confess that I cannot rise to that simple
act of redemption. I'm afraid I must seek solace in
the distorted understanding of a craft by which I and my
ignorant (and cowardly) companions have delivered product for
all these years. I AM trying. I've had customers request
that my work product be delivered in metric, and you're
right, it's no big deal. Fortunately for me, AutoCAD is
neither ignorant or cowardly. I humbly beg your indulgence
and forgiveness as I struggle with existence in my slightly
deranged professional haze.
Bob . . .
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