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Yeah the term "engineer" has been diluted into oblivion, and we only have ourselves to blame for not protecting it.
by glitchc 1y ago
Yeah the term "engineer" has been diluted into oblivion, and we only have ourselves to blame for not protecting it.
- _9ptr 1y agoIn German you're not even an engineer if you don't sometimes wear a hard hat or hold a screwdriver.
- tamimio 1y agoAgree 100%, even blue collar workers guard their profession. Hell, I was talking to a friend and they rejected her for a retail job because she had never worked in retail before. Engineering on the other hand has zero gatekeeping - it's a sign spinner job right now. Just do a few humiliation rituals like daily standup and you're the perfect candidate!
- glitchc 1y ago> Just do a few cleansing rituals like daily standup and you're the perfect candidate! There, FTFY
- fakedang 1y agoIn Dubai, the poor underpaid folks cleaning the roads and gutters late at night are called "Cleaning Engineers" and "Garden Engineers". It's honestly sad, almost a mockery.
- quesera 1y agoIn the US, we've had "sanitation engineer" as the euphemistic neologism for "worker paid to pick up your garbage bins" for 50(?) years.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoprotecting it? ha! we’re just the first group of greater fools who thought it applied to us in the first place (hell, i became an “engineer” with an Associates degree!). just because we benefited from the prestige doesn’t always mean we’re actually held to the classical standards of engineers.