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So the last two days were considered a weekend?
Went home to Yakima; in short here is everything that I did, sorry mostly in a list format.
Saturday: Turned reckless driver into state patrol while driving to Yakima on I 90. Discovered driver/car pulled over a short way up the freeway…
Worked on Backhoe and D7 clearing, digging, and moving stuff around the property. Cooked dinner for my parents; BBQ ribs, broccoli, Kuettufel and Kloss, and Apple Streudel for dessert. Drank a bottle of Burgundy wine with my mom, never had it before and really liked it :-)…
Sunday: went for a ride. Discovered that my horse is deathly afraid of sheep. Eventually she bucked me off, but I certainly put in a good fight to stay on. Visited with family for the rest of the day and then went home.
Some time last night: Car was broken into.
Today: Had a good lunch with Lance at Denny’s. Overall very stressed out, I have way too much work to do.
Today I faced two interesting challenges. Through GU, it was required that all engineers take “Engineering Ethics”; today I have been faced with two issues that slightly violate the ethical rules for engineers. They are in a gray area and can be looked at either way:
1. A courier named Monte who I have become friends with asked me to do some work (on the side) for one of his friends. The work is kinda shady to begin with. His “friend” is looking into buying a building for a commercial business and Monte wanted me to look into the lot and building and see if basically there is anything wrong with it. I told him that I would see what I could do. Here is what he wanted:
A. He wanted to know if the building is a worthwhile purchase, which he thought meant that I would have to look up through work records and then come up with a conclusion.
B. He wanted to know about the current owner, if he is an ethical person.
Here is how I handled it. I told Monte that I could not offer my opinion because I am not a licensed engineer. Plus if I do look extensively into this situation, it will result in a conflict of interest for me and the company since I am providing services that the company doesn’t know about. I told him that I can look into the lot details. This information is public anyway so I didn’t see too much fault in that, however I do feel that it is in a gray area as far as the Cannon for Engineering Ethics is concerned. I don’t know, we will see what happens.
The second situation happened just recently this afternoon involving me and a planner. The planner Paul, hands me a lot of work to do mostly because he works hand-in-hand with my boss, Larry. Paul came up to me today and wanted me to prepare some exhibits for a job that he had been working on. To make a long story short I had been trying to keep Larry in the loop for most of the day on what Paul was having me do since he is the guy that I have to report to. Larry left at around 3:30 saying that we would finish this tomorrow. Paul came and found me at around 4:00 wanting to know how things were going. I told him that there were a few issues to work out and told him what there were. He told me to do this and this and this…etc. and that he would then send it out. I was reluctant to do so, and he told me just to do it “slightly raised voice” so I said ok. I did what he wanted me to do. Technically he is above me on the scale of things however he is not an engineer. I feel that I should have waited for Larry since he is my direct boss. On the exhibit I did make sure that Larry’s name wasn’t on any approval areas and that his stamp was not on the drawing; so only Paul’s name is on the drawing. I don’t know about this one, we’ll just have to see how things turn out.
Lance, I feel very bad for you right now. Hopefully your return trip won’t be as bad.
So that is really about it, I am ready to go home and I think that I will do so. I haven’t finished all of my work for the day, but I plan on coming in very early tomorrow to get it finished. GRRRR. I will set my phone for ***** AM. : P
Went home to Yakima; in short here is everything that I did, sorry mostly in a list format.
Saturday: Turned reckless driver into state patrol while driving to Yakima on I 90. Discovered driver/car pulled over a short way up the freeway…
Worked on Backhoe and D7 clearing, digging, and moving stuff around the property. Cooked dinner for my parents; BBQ ribs, broccoli, Kuettufel and Kloss, and Apple Streudel for dessert. Drank a bottle of Burgundy wine with my mom, never had it before and really liked it :-)…
Sunday: went for a ride. Discovered that my horse is deathly afraid of sheep. Eventually she bucked me off, but I certainly put in a good fight to stay on. Visited with family for the rest of the day and then went home.
Some time last night: Car was broken into.
Today: Had a good lunch with Lance at Denny’s. Overall very stressed out, I have way too much work to do.
Today I faced two interesting challenges. Through GU, it was required that all engineers take “Engineering Ethics”; today I have been faced with two issues that slightly violate the ethical rules for engineers. They are in a gray area and can be looked at either way:
1. A courier named Monte who I have become friends with asked me to do some work (on the side) for one of his friends. The work is kinda shady to begin with. His “friend” is looking into buying a building for a commercial business and Monte wanted me to look into the lot and building and see if basically there is anything wrong with it. I told him that I would see what I could do. Here is what he wanted:
A. He wanted to know if the building is a worthwhile purchase, which he thought meant that I would have to look up through work records and then come up with a conclusion.
B. He wanted to know about the current owner, if he is an ethical person.
Here is how I handled it. I told Monte that I could not offer my opinion because I am not a licensed engineer. Plus if I do look extensively into this situation, it will result in a conflict of interest for me and the company since I am providing services that the company doesn’t know about. I told him that I can look into the lot details. This information is public anyway so I didn’t see too much fault in that, however I do feel that it is in a gray area as far as the Cannon for Engineering Ethics is concerned. I don’t know, we will see what happens.
The second situation happened just recently this afternoon involving me and a planner. The planner Paul, hands me a lot of work to do mostly because he works hand-in-hand with my boss, Larry. Paul came up to me today and wanted me to prepare some exhibits for a job that he had been working on. To make a long story short I had been trying to keep Larry in the loop for most of the day on what Paul was having me do since he is the guy that I have to report to. Larry left at around 3:30 saying that we would finish this tomorrow. Paul came and found me at around 4:00 wanting to know how things were going. I told him that there were a few issues to work out and told him what there were. He told me to do this and this and this…etc. and that he would then send it out. I was reluctant to do so, and he told me just to do it “slightly raised voice” so I said ok. I did what he wanted me to do. Technically he is above me on the scale of things however he is not an engineer. I feel that I should have waited for Larry since he is my direct boss. On the exhibit I did make sure that Larry’s name wasn’t on any approval areas and that his stamp was not on the drawing; so only Paul’s name is on the drawing. I don’t know about this one, we’ll just have to see how things turn out.
Lance, I feel very bad for you right now. Hopefully your return trip won’t be as bad.
So that is really about it, I am ready to go home and I think that I will do so. I haven’t finished all of my work for the day, but I plan on coming in very early tomorrow to get it finished. GRRRR. I will set my phone for ***** AM. : P